Media Influence On Ender's Games

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According to Sutter Health (2013), “People all over the world use the media everyday.” The media influences all ages, especially teenagers. Media can be referred as sneaky and manipulative. In a study done by the National Institute on Media and the Family (2002), Fifty-three percent of females at the age of thirteen were not satisfied with their bodies; by the age of seventeen this will rise to seventy-eight percent. There are three ways the media has influences young characters in Ender’s Game: they lure them to Battle School, they place ideas in their head about their enemies, and they influence the flow of the war. Media is an extremely dangerous weapon, like a double-edged sword; it can create a positive as well as a negative influence

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