Task 4

Media’s influence impacts on people and can change their attitude and thoughts. As we have a large variety of media, its influence gets larger all the time. A normal person can be influenced by many things as he is getting older. In this essay I am going to write whether I agree or disagree with this issue.

Living in an Islamic culture has a massive influence in shaping people’s ideas and beliefs. For me, religion and culture are the main cause of shaping my ideas and behavior. For example, saying the truth and not lying is something we learned from our religion, not something we catch in TV or newspaper. It’s like you had some rules and instructions to follow which will guide you forever. However, we learned many things from our parents and friends, but it’s all based on our religion. For example, respecting people and other religions and how to how to be successful in everything you do. If we are going to put this in fewer words, I would say religion and culture are every man’s foundation and everything else is based on this.

I do disagree with the fact that mass media have a great influence on our personal thoughts and ideas. It might have a small effect somehow, although this depends on the issue. On the other hand, we all can live and shape our ideas without media and all this kind of stuff.

In conclusion, what I would like to say is that everything can have an effect on influencing our ideas, but there are things which have a massive effect on you.