Television is no longer censored the way it once was; killing, stabbings and guns are being displayed on these media devices. Allowing the youth access to these horrible acts. Growing up children are little sponges that absorb everything; they hear and see. Mininking what they have heard and seen when they get older. Cutting back on the amount of hours spent on media devices, will cut youth violence.…
Firstly, the use of vulgar languages and violence causes teenagers to have no respect for the elders. The language that they use is abusive, but they consider it as a “Modern Culture”. The Media scope National Television Violence Study found that children are learning aggressive attitudes and behaviors becoming desensitized to real world violence. Many of the programs that children watch send the message that a conflict always involves a winner and a loser.…
The media teaches teens that violence is acceptable. Children will try to imitate the things they see on television. For example in Toronto, a six year old boy wearing a Ninja Turtle costume stabbed his friend in the arm for not giving back a toy he had borrowed. When the child is young and watches shows that have violence in it like SpongeBob Square pants children will want more violence when they grow older. The more they grow the more violence they want. This makes them less sensitive to violence. Only 16% of shows actually show the long-term effects of violence.…
I feel there are many causes or reasons to teen/youth violence. Like how they could be in an unhealthy environment like an unstable home. Another reason is taking drugs that make them lash out or be crazy. There are drugs out these days that will make some teens lash out, act senseless, and crazy. Also teens get influence from extremely violent video games and television causes them to act pugnacious. All of these things cause can cause kids/teens to do harmful things to themselves and others.…
Society’s attitude towards sexual behavior is more tolerant and permissive now than ever before. Entertainment directed at a teen audience is much more sexually explicit allowing teens to believe that sexual activity is something common that everyone in society does. The popular series “Twilight” is a perfect example because although the book is meant for a teen audience, it contains a sexual nature. Another example would be the TV show, “16 and Pregnant” which glamourizes the issue of teen pregnancy. These new social norms make teenagers feel that it is accepted behavior to become sexually active at a…
In society today, just like when your were young violence is everywhere. And it isn't going away. People now get paid to do violent things and call it a "Sport". People play violent video games and call it "Fun". Society says violence is wrong but in reality we aren't doing anything to stop it. I bet if there was none of this influencing violence then the teen violence rate would go down. Honestly I think seeing violence everywhere targets the teens more because they are more open minded then adults and know more than younger kids.…
1. The media, especially television, are a prime cause of smoking, drinking, and drug use among adolescents.…
Violence among young people today is a mixture of many things. The parents of these kids do not connect enough with their children to realize that they are troubled. High school students make life a living hell for anyone who goes there, even the popular kids, everyone gets made fun of at some point. Television and video games are so much easier for kids to play than something that means they would have to sweat, and therefore they see violence on a daily basis. Lastly the Internet is the single most used source for teenagers in the United States, and on the Internet is anything that you can desire. Violence is what is desired, and at some point in every young boy’s life they want to know about it.…
A survey conducted by the Children's Institute International showed that almost 50 percent of all teenagers, regardless of their settings, rural, suburban, or urban-believe that their schools are becoming more violent. Parents and home environments can be a very issue as well. Parents can be very abusive or home life is not good for kids coming from low income. They can be very rough environments and can often lead to…
Outside influences do impact our character as they shape who we become. Some research concerning this topic have been compiled into an article, “Violence in the Movies: Cinematic Craft or Hollywood Gone Too Far?”, discussed traumatic scenes that appear in movies that often leave negative impressions upon the audience. In addition, younger audience viewing these violent films might experience a shift in their nature since “‘exposure to media violence leads to aggression, desensitization toward violence and lack of sympathy for victims of violence....’” (30, paragraph 6). Anyone can overcome even the worst thing by being involved with it over and over again. In the same principle, unacceptable actions, like murder and foul play, can become normal in one’s mind if it was exhibited repeatedly in videos. This is extremely serious to children due to the fact that they are not fully matured, making them very impressionable by movies and films that they watch. Furthermore, they might learn to lie and not care for others as many videos might suggest in some…
Supporting detail 1: Television shows extreme violence as a form of entertainment causes teenagers to feel the need to imitate the actions.…
Some teenagers go to violent movies and listen to heavy metal and rap music. Some teens argue that they have not killed anyone. These teens are missing the point. Violence in video games and television teaches teens to handle their problems in the wrong way. Some ways include arguing, hitting, abusing, and initiating other violent behavior-sometimes, even killing like what happened in Virginia Tech. Little boys all the way up to teenagers have always loved guns. They started out with BB guns and end up with real guns. Even with gun control there was no way to stop the kid at Virginia Tech. I am also concerned about the disconnection from the parents and the lack of respect for authority. Parents need to…
Children would likely develop their violent characters from watching violent medias such as televisions, radios, video games, and magazines. According to the article “The Psychological Effects of Violent Media on Children” by Aimee Tompkins, there are three main impacts of bad medias. First, they become less aware to the hurt and sorrows of other people. Second, they would be more afraid of their environment. And lastly, they would be more argumentative. Although surveys say that harmful video games can make children become more quarrelsome to others, a few parents and psychologists believe that some kids gain some good things from it.…
Televisions, movies and music are responsible for teen violence because the televisions and movies have programs that show a lot of fighting and music that have thoughts that might result in violence, there are a lot of parts in the dialogue that is suitable for adults and all the media has inappropriate language. This is bad because there is a lot of violence going on in the world. This might eventually lead to the world having terrorism issues.…
Movies, music, television shows, video games, none of these things actually make people commit crimes. Violence in the media and the real world rise in violence among children is not a cause but merely a coincidence. A person is an accumulation of their real life experiences. Children do not turn into a crazed maniac after playing a computer game or seeing a movie with violence. The easiest place to obtain a mind for violence is from a home setting. Adults want to find an outside source for the growth in violence among children instead of taking the blame first hand. It is the parents, those actually responsible for this corruption, who try to suggest otherwise and negligence on the part of those who seek to find a different cause. Adults seem to steer away from the increasingly true fact that our whole American society is doing this to its younger generation, and not just the media.…