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people with different interests and personalities cannot be good friends.
Some conclude that good friends should have same interests and personalities and that if they do not, their friendship do not have stable basis. we cannot deny that same interests and personalities could lead to friendship and help people to develop a deeper relationship. Still, built on such fact alone, the statement remains questionable while more aspects are taken into account.
the whole statement based on the assumption that interests and personalities are prerequisites of good friendship and that good friends should have exactly the matching hobbies while share the same characteristics. however, such statement is totally biased and the assumption is fallacious.
to begin with, friendship is based not on similar interests and personalities but on attraction. mutual attraction could sometimes happen between two who share the same personalities, whereas it happens more frequently between two who have distinct characteristics. according to a research, people tend to attract by the ones who could do something that themselves could not, in other words, attraction always go along with admiration. imagine two people who meet each other for the first time, they appreciate the distinct abilities that the other one have but they do not possess, then the chemistry produced by admiration would work its magic— the two could have a great deals of topics and want to deepen their relationship. that is the picture of how friendship begins without same characteristics.
also, matching interests and personalities are not essential for a solid friendship, though they may be essential for play partners. actually, what critical for good friends are more about honesty, trust, attraction, etc. we emotionally want to rely on friend who is faithful and supportive which have nothing to do with interests.
moreover, if we could compare one’s interests and personalities to a distinct arc, then it always turn out that we are not searching our twin arcs but searching the arc that could fill the other part of a whole circle. that is to say, genetically, we want a friend who could benefit us from aspects that we are lack of. as for me, I have a friend called Keanu who is a hockey player and very gregarious, while I am not interest in hockey and fairly shy. However, we have know each other for over thirteen years and are still good friends. When we are together, he always talks a lot more than me, but I am always a good listener and advisor. When I am down, the first one I want to talk with is him; when I am happy, he is also the first one I want to share my pleasure with. Usually, he could find peace mind on me while I could find passion on him. We respect and admire each other all through thirteen years.
to sum up, good friendship do not require same interests and personalities. Instead, the key factor for good friendship should be trust and understanding. unlike the speaker, I believe that distinct interests and personalities sometimes are advantages for a lifelong friendship that could be proved by my personal experiences. __________________________________________________________________
07-12-8 Do you agree or disagree: Advertisements are a waste of company’s money and energy because consumers know what they want to buy.
Some argue that companies should not spend money and energy in advertising since consumers already know what they want to buy. we cannot deny that money and energy companies devoted in advertising sometimes is stunning and consumers are smart in choosing merchandise. Still, built on such fact alone, we cannot conclude that advertisements are a waste of money.
the statement rest on the assumption that companies could not earn back the money and labor costs from invests in advertisements, and that consumers could know every details of every products on the market and rational enough to make most economical choices. However, the assumptions oppose common senses and basic economic theories.
to begin with, consumers are neither fully informed nor rational enough. Actually, perfect informed consumer could only live in utopia instead of in reality. that is to say, consumers will never know whole information on the market and compare every product based on solid reasons. in contrast, consumer is always buy things with a sudden impulse and get information from the convenient sources such as media promotions, friends recommendations, etc. A movie called “shopping addiction” has completely depicted the consumers who are obsessed by irrational shopping. They do not care about the utility, the price, the durability, etc. The only thing they concern is if the products could satisfy their appetites of unreasonable desires. in summary, some of the consumers totally do not understand what they want, their decisions are affected by external information, especially by the advertisements.
in addition, advertisements have huge impacts on the consumers. people simply do not have enough time to investigate every property of the products they need. The most easy way to get product information is from glut amount of advertisements that full filled the medias. Before we go to the market, we have already know answers to the questions such as what toothpaste could whiten teeth, what beverage could supply vitamins and minerals after sports—all from handy media promotions.
Admittedly, it is common for a company that, in short-term run, the cost-effective analysis indicates no increase in the income or even a great deficit while the advertisements have already been launched. However, what companies concern most is the long-term effect. moreover, goodwill and intangible property could not be measured exactly and showed on the balance sheets. Usually, matured process of today’s marketing could ensure a regular amount of profits: before the advertisement promotion, a company should already have their marketing department do researches on the market, thus their costs on advertising and labor force should have already been compared with the future income, which should have been forecasted through financial models and industry experiences. In fact, thorough marketing researches and investment always bring out prosperous results, results that highly outweigh the costs of advertisements.
In conclusion, the idea that advertisement is a waste is false because it overestimates consumer’s abilities to obtain information and underestimates the effects of advertisement. Moreover, real world practices demonstrate that advertisement could benefit a company from time to time. |
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