Marketing is All Around Us

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Marketing is all around us some we notice some don’t .On average its is estimated that we see of an average of about 3000 ads a day we are constantly exposed to marketing we just don’t realise how much of it is around us.
In our day to day life marketing we are bombarded with images of what should and shouldn’t look like every day putting pressure on young people to live up these expectations. This expectations have of what they should look like are becoming harder to achieve if not impossible .This is because the images we see are have been edited photo shopped and enhanced to make the person in the picture look out of this world .When young see these images they believe this is how they should look even if it is impossible to look an over photo shopped from Russia. A result of this media image of the perfect person is extremely high increase in the amount of people getting plastic surgery in order to look like the ideal image they to see all the time. According to many blogs news feeds and different websites on the internet there is outrage over how im...

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