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America has always boasted about its rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, there have been numerous debacles where court cases prove the People are much more oppressed than originally thought upon. Growing up in Small Town, Wyoming, concepts of being treated equal ring throughout the land. Withal, this was not the case a century ago. While the citizens of the past segregated and hated based on physical appearances, a new hate grows in the society of today. Aristotle teaches the common man and woman that there is more to an individual than the physical aspects of him or her. The “metaphysical” is being attacked and preyed upon. If one grows up differently, he or she is to be outcasted of what has become to be known as the “social norms.” This can be anything from liking a different kind of music to growing up in a poverty-stricken household. A strange example no one …show more content…

Being a teenager currently, I am always constantly exposed to the “wonders” that are advertisements. These little remedies can cure my pain, my doubts, all my little worries! Google attempts to read my location and guess which winter boots to sell, while YouTube observes the videos and tries a different approach. Middle School is often the deciding point for whether a child decides to conform to social norms or stray from its path and become independant. As I still sang along in the car with my mother and watched the same shows that I did as a kid, it made me unmarketable to the ads of today. The companies who run these placards try to think that I am some kind of “normal” teen, when most people don’t even realize that normal isn’t real. Social media ads try to place a name onto a wind-like entity. Fashions, customs, dances all change with the wind, and it is the advertisers trying to continually catch the attention of the moving that makes this issue so

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