can your children. Do you know how much violence is being broadcasted through the media just today? Do you understand how this is affecting your child? Do you know that from birth to age 25 their brain is growing‚ and there are these neurons‚ "mirror neurons" that teach us to imitate what we see? What if it was your child who went to school with a gun? What if it was your child who was shot by a class mate? I believe that we as a country should force the media to limit the amount of violence that is
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Media construct our culture‚ and the media we use to communicate with one another shapes our perception of reality. Our society is centered on media‚ it is the most influential factor in constructing our culture‚ but is it a positive culture? If we examine the effect that media has on children‚ we can say that it breeds a harmful culture‚ one that throws values and morals out the window. This is because the media is profit driven and has developed its own code of ethics of "anything-goes". As
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Violent Video Games Made Me Do It School shootings years ago in Paducah‚ Kentucky; Jonesboro‚ Arkansas; and Littleton Colorado‚ have raised the question time and time again. Do violent video games have an influence on children and their aggressive behavior? In all three of these brutal shootings‚ all the shooters were students who habitually played violent video games. The Columbine High School students who murdered thirteen and wounded twenty-three in Littleton before committing suicide after the
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Constructing the Con Speech I. Introduction • In 2011‚ the Supreme Court rightfully ruled against a law that wanted to make it illegal for minors to purchase violent video games on the claims that these types of game cause violent behavior. • The court over ruled it stating that it was unconstitutional violating both the 1st and the 14th amendments. My opponent wants to take this law even further by banning the use of these games to any minor under the age of 18‚ however I believe
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The argument over whether or not children should watch television has become a debate as more and more technology comes into our culture. Many researchers have produced studies to see if television programs affect a child’s ability to learn. There have been many scholar articles written about how watching television can affect the way child can learn‚ teach bad eating habits‚ and many other issues that can come from watching the “tube”‚ although these studies do not show a control on the type of
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give any arguments‚ I’ll first my arguments: 1. Violence was always there. It’s not a new invention. Since the beginning of time‚ there has been violence. The first murder is mentioned in the bible. Much before there was even electricity. 2. If the violence you see on television causes you to act violently‚ each and every one of us (since most of us watch TV) would have been violent 3. Those who act violently are people which are naturally violent. The proof of that is that animals act violently
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Divorce: How does it affect children? Over 60 percent of couples seeking a divorce have children still living at home. ( 6) What some parents don’t realize when they file for a divorce is the damage and effect that it will have on their kids. Divorce affects children in many ways. It affects kids emotionally and causes them to experience painful feelings such as fear‚ loss‚ anger and confusion. Divorce also hurts a child’s academic achievement. Children whose parents divorce generally have
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The Media LaCeda Jones Cydney Williams August 4‚ 2012 Does the media‚ Both print and broadcast‚ reports fairly Does it ever cross the line between reporting the news and creating the news. In this day and time the merger between news and entertainment there is a lot of troubles and benefits that can confer. The media like any other industry is driven by profit making. This is by creating sensational and attention grabbing news at the price of exaggerating or
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Introduction The Mass Media is an important feature of modern society; its development has undoubtedly been a core factor to rapid social and technological change and also to the rise in personal income and standard of life as well as the decline of some social traditions. Mass media can be defined as venues for messages that are created for consumption by large numbers of people. It is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: WHY DOES SHE STAY? 1 Domestic Violence: Why Does She Stay? Holly Brim University of Phoenix COM/220 2 “Why did you stay?” she was asked. Liz Faith‚ a former victim of domestic violence‚ now detective at the Bellevue Detective Family Violence Unit responded‚ “See I love that question because for me‚ the only answer to that question is‚ ‘Why are you asking me that question?’. To me it’s like‚ who cares why I stayed. Why do people even ask that question
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