When we look at the many media outlets provided to all Americans it makes you wonder, how does the media we consume effect our daily thoughts and how we live? Are we truly living out what we see on TV or are we all following some innate feeling deep down that we cant control. Most importantly what we worry about when it comes to the media of the outside world is, how does this effect my child, will this effect my child? When answering that question we need to look at a few things. When looking at how we are affected by our outside influences we must first look at if we even can be affected by outside influences or if our behavior is based on something more to do with our biological influences. The outside influences and biological influences debate is more commonly known as the nature verses nurture debate. Biological factors that could influence our behavior are schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, depression, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. While outside influences that affect our behavior can come from almost anywhere, films, television, internet, video games, music, books, attentive parents, inattentive parents, friends, brothers or sisters. While there are many debates arguing nature verses nurture many experts agree that when it comes to how we act there is a good mix of biological and outside influences that affect our behavior. Violence in the Amish community is relatively common despite being shielded entirely by almost all influences of the media. The