Cause/Effect Essay – Writing #1/2
Written Communication Skills IV
Elva Ma
July 16, 2013
Denise Redmond, Conestoga College
Why People Have Celebrity Worship Syndrome Do you have your favorite star? How often do you focus on her? Is this kind of worship influence your daily life? If so, be careful, you may have celebrity worship syndrome. “Celebrity worship” is not uncommon these days. General speaking it is an obsessive and addictive disorder in which a person becomes overly involved with the details of a celebrity’s personal life. Also, celebrity worship syndrome is more likely to spread around the world. Some people suffer celebrity worship syndrome because of the following three reasons: the power of media, the type of upbringing, and the personality of individuals. In the first place, it is apparent that media leads people pay more attention to celebrities. Since media plays an important role in people’s lives, many kinds of media, such as magazines, newspapers, Internet, all help people to focus on celebrity news. Individuals, especially young people, are curious about celebrities’ gossips, and the more they realize, the more topics that young people can talk about. These gossips are more fun than some boring ones, like the weather today. Moreover, celebrity worship syndrome happens on young girls as well. Why is so specific on girls? This is because not only gossips are attractive to people, but also some fashion tips, and the latest hair trends have a huge impact on young girls. This kind of fashionable information can be easily found on the Internet, magazines. Girls are crazy about how to make up to look beautiful, but all this fashionable things are accompanied with super stars. So, in order to copy these stars, girls start to focus every day. It can obviously cause celebrity worship syndrome. Therefore, people who often look for gossips and fashionable information will suffer