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Media has had a huge effect on my life. I have been surrounded by it since i was very little, and it has basically become a part of my life today. Media can in fact be very helpful, for example, I use it to keep me updated with the news. Without media, I would be very unknowing to what is going on around the world. Media can has also had its negatives. Especially social media. It has become a huge distraction for me, especially with school. Instead of doing my homework, when i have a small break in whatever I'm  doing, i end up just going on Instagram, or Snapchat. In the end the time added up to how long  spent actually working on schoolwork and on social media, the social media is much longer than the time i spent working on school. I talk to some of my friends so i know that they have the same problem but it makes me think, social media is somewhat like an addiction. It always there, and whenever people get the chance to go on it, they take it. When i first started using so...

http://abortion.procon.org The article I chose consists of the pros and cons of getting an abortion. While reading through the pro-choice argument, I noticed that when describing abortions, the author always used words like "fetus" and "embryo". This word choice was used to convince the reader that what is growing inside of that uterus is not human yet. It is meant to make the abortion seem less like the murder that the pro-life argument says it is. It makes the fetus seem like an object inside of the woman rather than something that could eventually turn into a baby boy or girl, attempting to make the readers feel less guilty for siding with pro-choice. The author also uses phrases like "termination of the pregnancy" also attempting to convince those who are on the fence or who agree with pro-life that abortions are not murder. Another thing i noticed in the pro-choice argument was in Pro 4, and the author was laying out an argument that fetuses cannot ...

To be completely honest, I am very reliant on media. I use it everyday. It keeps me updated on local and world news. I use social media constantly. It keeps me updated with my friends, allowing me to talk to them when I am not with them. I think that many people have somewhere around the same relationship with media as I do, and i think that this can be a very good thing, if we use it for the right reasons.