Hello my name is Maria Sebastiano. I am a Junior at Rowan University, majoring in Elementary Education and Writing Arts. This website is dedicated to my research paper for my school course, Evaluating Writing. I chose to research how advertising affects children because of the persuasion and manipulation involved. This topic personally is interesting to me because I love children and am a mother myself. Since becoming a mother I have been exposed to so much advertising. I have recently realized that advertisements may have an effect on our children. Click here to learn more about advertising.