The media nowadays plays a big role in our lives. Whether printed or broadcasted it is present in everyone's life, regardless of their social class. Examples of media are things such as TV, Internet, periodicals, music, and periodicals. A common assumption is that an individual have the power to choose, but are we really making our own choices? Or are we being influenced by the media to make our choices without even knowing. To what extent does media influence the way we live? Are the rules society impose on us being reinforced and applied to us by the mass media?
             The television certainly was the greatest invention from the past century. With it, we were able to watch and witness various important moments of our history, such as the first American man on the moon.
             In the western world, millions of people watch television everyday. It became part of our cultural habits. We use television to inform, entertain, and sometimes even learn as schools and teachers adopted it, as part of their teaching techniques.
             Every person regardless of age has its own favorite show or movie they can not miss. Children usually enjoy cartoons, adults have a big variety of shows to choose from. Incidentally is our taste, influenced by who we are? Do we identify ourselves with the characters of our favorite shows? Certainly many of us do. Most people at least a few times, were interested in a certain clothing style or a movie soundtrack they saw or heard on TV and in the movies. We all do that, it is natural in our society to get inspired by what we see on TV. Therefore it becomes a fashion tendency due to the accessibility television has to spread its words.
             Some Psychologists believe that Television determines our behavior, positively and negatively sometimes. These negatives sides of television affects more children and teenagers than adults. Parents and teachers, have noticed that kids nowadays, who watches television everyday are far ...