So i made it to the 2nd round of speechs and i was wondering if there were any advice anything to change??
How Media Affects Teenagers
The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”-Malcom X

The media has brainwashed today’s Canadians into believing what THEY want you to believe. Whether it be politics, what to buy, or what to wear – the media effects everything you do whether you are aware or not. Everything on television is brainwashing. Your favorite cartoon, and especially commercials. Buy this, buy that. Just because this cheese is in a prettier package than this one doesn’t mean I’m going to buy it. Just because a more attractive person is eating it doesn’t mean it’s better for you. Ever notice how if you see it on TV you automatically think it must be good?

Girls are surrounded by images of female beauty that are unrealistic and unattainable. And yet two out of three girls who participated in their national media survey said they “Wanted to look like a character on TV.” One out of three said they had “Changed something about their appearance to resemble that character.” researchers at Flinders University in South Australia studied 400 teenagers regarding how they relate to advertising. They found that girls who watched TV commercials featuring underweight models lost self-confidence and became more dissatisfied with their own bodies. Girls who spent the most time and effort on their appearance suffered the greatest loss in confidence. Leading to unhealthy habits like anorexia or bulimia.

Since 2000 BC violence has always played a role in entertainment from the Ancient Egyptians re-enacting the murder of their god Orsis to James Bond movies we watch in the present day. Does media violence affect the way children act? Physiologist Leonard Eron discovered that children who watch media violence tend become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others, children may be more fearful of the world around them , children may be more likely to behave in aggressive or harmful ways toward others . Children who watched many hours of TV are likely to become more aggressive when they are teenagers and have a higher chance of being arrested for criminal acts when they are older. Young children do not know the difference from what they see on TV to what they dream to what is really happening for example if you asked a six year old watching a commercial about pop corn, if you asked if the television fell would the popcorn spill they almost always will say yes, meaning they think cartoon acts of violence are real, this starts to shape society for them.
The average two to six year old watches two hours of television a day and the average 7-18 year old watches 4 hours of television each day this would mean at the age of thirteen the average child has spent over ten thousand hours watching television which is more than 425 days watching television. That is equivalent to a year and two months of watching television non-stop.

The average Canadian sees forty thousand advertisements a year .Advertisements contain subliminal messages which are hidden messages affecting the way we act and what we buy. You respond without awareness to the stimulus. For example when you listen to a heavy beat music you may feel more energetic or when you listen to peaceful music you feel like sitting back and closing your eyes. Your brain is a sponge it will absorb any information you give it even if you don’t mean to.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.-Thomas Jefferson