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I am fairly certain we have all been affected by some form of entertainment at one point in our lives, whether it's the disturbing truth from a report on the news, or a show we watched everyday in our childhood. But truly, we can all look at our lives and find that it has somehow been influenced by entertainment in some form.

Photographs in magazines, depicting a number of things, from severely thin super models to starving children in 3rd world countries, are an example. I see these seemingly perfect people, displaying an ideal, something that society supposedly wants people to be like, and then I see a starving child. Personally, that puts life into perspective for me. What is more important, the beautiful, flawless shoes the super model advertises, or feeding that child?

The media is another great example of entertainment that affects us everyday. We can get up in the morning and see an uplifting story about a kitten who has been rescued from a bleak and abusive world, and have a good day simply thinking about that hopeful story. Other days, we will wake to find the world in a dismal state, with war and killing flashing before our eyes on a news report, and we just can't get it out of our heads.

Music is another influential thing that we hear everyday-holiday music, for example, is a weird little thing in our lives. Some of us simply can't wait for the holidays, to hear cheery carols and feel the holiday spirit. Others just want the holidays to go away, for several reasons, from not having anyone to share the joy with, or just to get some peace from all the relatives and holiday marketing hype around them.

Ultimately entertainment is aimed at affecting us, whether it be a in a good way or a bad way. Fashion magazines are aimed at getting people to follow certain trends and styles, and ultimately buying products that they advertise. News reports are a matter of opinion-you may think they are simply reporting facts, or simply throwing propaganda at you, or trying to get ratings. These days you'll notice that many companies, bands, governments, etc. are taking advantage of the internet to get messages into the world. With entertainment websites like You Tube, they hope to convey their objectives through entertainment, because it's what people pay attention to now.

Entertainment does and continues to affect us, whether we want it to or not.

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