From Enjoyment to Ruins

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Entertainment has been a part of society from the beginning of time. Entertainment varies from a television show to a play at a high school. People can believe a variety of things when it comes to entertainment. Some people believe that entertainment is doing nothing wrong and that people are ruining society by themselves rather than through entertainment since entertainment does nothing wrong. Many things people do are reactions from either the TV or a play, but actions people make also are a part of the new hit show, or the musical people are “dying” to see. Entertainment has the capacity to do many things; it can create new moods that people never thought imaginable. This supports the people, like me, who understand that entertainment has the capabilities to ruin society. Entertainment ruins society through stories which create dreadful emotions, shows that make people loose knowledge, and finally coming together to fall apart.
As entertainment has many capabilities, including creating emotions. Entertainment has surrounded people for thousands of years. The joy from starts at a young age and continues for most people. Entertainment changes emotion based on how people look at the information given to them, it also depends on the audiences’ age. Unfortunately stories like Cinderella give people false hopes and emotions. A young child will hear Cinderella in a different way then an adult would while reading. A young girl would think that Cinderella is so lucky to have her fairy god mother change her into a beautiful princess. As the princess leaves the ball she drops her shoe but had no time to get it back which allows the prince to find his Cinderella, a young girl will look on this and think how happy Cinderella must be that ...

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...eople supporting the opposite team will get annoyed and a brawl starts. All these points emphasize that entertainment brings people together, but more importantly it brings them even further apart ruining the bonds society spent years to build.
Entertainment is a huge part to society. Stories that create emotions, false information, and coming together only to get further apart are the things that ruin society. Reading fairy-tales create hideous emotions in beautiful people as explained with Cinderella. False information being incognito as true explained through mermaids. With the last point of going to the movies on a date to die because of one corrupt man. Entertainment has been in the world from the beginning of time and is continuing to change. Entertainment will continue to change even after my time, and even then it will ruin society, if society still exists.

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