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IELTS Essay: Nowadays, young people admire media and sports stars though they often do not...

Prompt

Nowadays, young people admire media and sports stars though they often do not set a good example. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

#celebrity culture#role models#moral standards#youth values#media consumption

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Band 7 → 9 — Band 7 acknowledges both the appeal of celebrity status and concern about moral modeling with real examples; Band 9 explores whether 'good example' is an unreasonable burden on public figures and whether admiration itself is inherently negative.

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Key concepts in this essay

Parasocial relationships and hero worship
Moral development and ethical exemplar models
Media curation and scandal amplification
Distinction between talent and character

Pitfalls the model essay avoids

Assuming admiration requires moral perfection; failing to differentiate between admiring performance/talent and endorsing personal behavior
Oversimplifying causality ('young people admire stars therefore they copy bad behavior') without evidence or mechanism
Missing opportunities to explore whether the problem is celebrity behavior, media amplification of behavior, or youthful criteria for admiration

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