A Study on Media Culture’s Negative Influence on Children WANG Da-wei (Media Management School‚ Communication University of China‚ Beijing 100097‚ China ) Abstract: The link between media culture and its real world effect has been a hot topic for many years. Many people believe that media have an obviously bad effect on children. More than 1000 studies conducted in the past 40 years show that excessive exposure to media violence causes the violent behavior in real life. Some other researches
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the denouement or falling action of a play. One example is the dueling scene in Act V of Hamlet in which Hamlet dies‚ along with Laertes‚ King Claudius‚ and Queen Gertrude. Catharsis The purging of the feelings of pity and fear that‚ according to Aristotle‚ occur in the audience of tragic drama. The audience experiences catharsis at the end of the play‚ following the catastrophe. Character An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work. Literary characters may be major or minor‚ static (unchanging)
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the frustration‚ and prior punishment for the same aggressive behavior. However can also be seen that aggressive behavior can occur from reinforcement‚ even if there is an absence of frustration. If aggression really is learned then no amount of catharsis is going to solve the problem‚
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Imitation Plato and Aristotle Introduction Plato and Aristotle are two famous literary critics in ancient Greece. Aristotle is Plato’s student. They all agree that art is a form of imitation. However‚ their attitudes towards imitation are profoundly different. Plato claims that poetry is worthless and bad because it is mere imitation and may have bad influence on human beings. Instead‚ though Aristotle admits that poetry is imitation‚ he thinks that it is all right and even good. He also
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Discuss Girard’s argument that violence is at the core of every religion and examine the scapegoat theory Around the world violence and war are being carried out in the name of religion‚ not just in today’s society but throughout history. René Girard argues that violence is at the core of every religion‚ and by the ways that the media portray religious conflict could lead many people to agree. This essay will be explaining his argument and examining the key points‚ in order to understand his view
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Emmanuel Roberts English 112 Spring 2010 Research Paper Antigone Introduction Greek playwright Sophocles wrote the last play in the Theban Trilogy‚ Antigone‚ around 442n B.C. The Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the king); Oedipus at Colonus‚ and Antigone‚ but the play considered the last of the three was‚ ironically‚ written first. Only seven of Sophocles’ one hundred twenty three tragedies have survived to the modern era with the trilogy surviving the ages intact
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Annotated Bibliography CATHARSIS THEORY AND MEDIA EFFECTS Summary In this e-book it argues is viewing violence cathartic? It explains the work cathartic comes from the Greek work katharsis which means cleansing. Aristotle‚ a poet taught the viewing tragic plays give people emotional release meaning person viewing the play would be positively affected and cleansed. The out- of-date approach of catharsis where firstly established by Sigmund Freud and his associates. Many directors
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Imitative Art A Comparison of the Philosophies of Plato & Aristotle And the Ultimate Beneficial Nature of the Tragic Drama By: Stephanie Cimino In the various discussions of imitative art there has been a notable disagreement between two distinguished philosophers; Plato and Aristotle. Although it was Plato who first discussed the concept of imitative art‚ it is my belief that Aristotle was justified in his praise and admiration of imitative art‚ specifically‚ the tragic drama
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One thing that makes a novel a cult classic is the influence it has on culture. Fight Club had undeniable influence on small groups of people throughout America. Fight Club presented a new method of catharsis that many young men felt very strongly about. After the release of the novel and subsequent film‚ “authorities discovered over a dozen fight clubs” (McCarthey online). The idea of Fight Club is violent and infectious‚ with the sharp language and
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as “the imitation of an action‚ serious‚ complete‚ and of a certain magnitude‚ in a language beautiful in different parts with different kinds of embelishments‚ through action and not narration‚ and through scenes of pity and fear bringing about the ‘Catharsis’ of these or such like emotions.” Thus in a tragedy we have the object imitated namely ‘action’. The medium of imitation is ‘language made beautiful by different means’. Themanner of imitation is direct presentation. The purpose of imitation is to
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