Portfolio Task 4

Mass Media

The mass media can make great influence in shaping people’s ideas and some people agree whereas others disagree with this statement. In this essay I will write about agreement and disagreement with the statement.

I agree with the statement because nowadays mass media like television, radio and newspaper has become something they can’t live without and it makes a big difference in people’s ideas. Many people change they ideas because of an actor they saw on TV or a singer the love to listen to, for example some people may watch an action movie and at the future they can be very dangerous to the people around or the society they are living on, that’s because the way they think has been changed and the ideas has become a part of that movie they saw.

 On the other hand, I disagree with the statement because family, school and college stand against changing in people’s ideas. Parents’ plays big part in keeping their children under control and school also can keep the ideas as the parents want by teaching. On the other hand I think it is hard to change an idea or a behavior from mass media because when someone grows up with specific idea or behavior it take a long time to get rid of the old behave.

In conclusion, I think mass media can affect people’s ideas only if the power of family, school and college was poor.

Charts

Charts

The charts show 2 line graphs. The first line graph illustrates films shown in Britain and Australia in the year 2000. US films took the highest percentage as it can be seen in the chart and they took 75% in Britain and 68% in Australia. It is clear from the graph the British films came second with 20% in the UK and 5% in Australia. Australian films were only shown in Australia with a percentage of 10% while other films took 3% in Britain and 15% in Australia as it shown in the graph. The second graph shows the cinema attendance in Britain and Australia from the period 1980 to 2000. Britain had a big number of cinema attendance which reached to 100 million people whereas Australia had a number of 40 million people in 1980. A dramatic fail shows in the graph which happened in both UK and Australia to 50 million people in the UK and 20 million people in Australia in 1982. UK showed an increase and decrease in the period 1982 to 1990 but the number in Australia was stable on 40 million people at the same period. From 1990 to 2000 the number was increasing slowly in both UK and Australia. The graph showed how numbers and type of films changes with time.