Can you say baa baa
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Can You Say "Baa, Baa"?
Many people in the United States are consumed by what the media tells them: what to do, what to wear, and where to shop. People will swear up and down that they want to have their own identity, and they will even go to great lengths to attain it, yet, inevitably, they all fall into a "clique" with millions of others. Nobody wants to be a follower, but in terms of youth culture, nobody can really be a true leader. Nobody, that is, except the media. The American people, young and old, line up like sheep and follow the media shepherd wherever it leads.
After a pathetic plea from my 11-year-old brother, I reluctantly agreed to take him and a few of his buddies to the mall to shop for basketball shoes. So, off to the mall we went. On the way, the increasingly loud arguments over which shoes were the best made me want to drive my car straight into a tree. The topic of conversation was about the different shoes they had seen on television...