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    Effects of War War: a duty that many honored members of the country must participate in to insure the rest of America’s safety. A representation of liberty that is glorified to be a great thing. In reality war is nothing to glorify‚ it is much too horrific to be made into any sort of good. In the 1965 movie Shenandoah directed by Andrew V McLAglen‚ paired with the novel Johnny Got His Gun by dalton trumbo‚ examine the true effects of war‚ through following two very different settings. Shenandoah

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    Erick Perez English 282 AD Kitamura March 11‚ 2014 Violence San Mateo usually Isn’t a very violent place‚ or so I thought. Two years ago at the St Timothy carnival I was robbed at knifepoint by some punk in a black hoodie. I was walking up to a concession stand to get some cotton candy when I felt a hand on my shoulder and something sharp against my back‚ I tried turning around to see who it was but he quickly pushed me back around and told me to stand still while he searched my pockets for

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    Topic: Wanted: No Guns! You have a noise in the middle of the night. Quickly you reach under the bed. The weapon is in your hand ready to fire. You shoot the intruder before he or she can hurt you. In this situation the “bad guy” was wounded. Sometime however‚ innocent people get hurt or killed by guns. One of the Articles of the Bill of rights states that citizens of the United States have the “right to bear arms.” However with so many innocent people suffering and dying from accidental

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    stricter gun laws would violent crimes go down? Gun laws have a direct effect on the rate of violence. I believe that violence in general would go down if guns laws were more strict. For instance‚ loose guns laws have produced mass shootings. This leads me to believe that there would be less violence with stricter gun laws . These laws would include extensive background checks on the people who buy the guns‚ longer waiting periods‚ and mental health evaluations to ensure guns stay out

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    Discuss the main causes and effects of gun crime in the USA? In recent years gun crime has been recognized by the American government as a serious issue In United States. In the USA the most recent insights from the FBI reported that the quantity of killings by gun expanded in 2012 - putting an end to four sequential years of declining numbers. This problem could lead to serious living safe consequences for these people living in the US. In order to solve it‚ the reasons for it must be understood

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    Mendel University in Brno Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies Research proposal to Social Psychology Aggression Media violence and its effect on children’s aggression Date: 7.6.2013 Introduction In today’s world we are strongly affected by different types of media. We also use daily the technologies like radio‚ television or internet connection‚ which gives us even better access to mass media. For last 50 years those technologies are still

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    The Effect of Viewing Television Violence on Childhood Aggression Abstract There is a great deal of speculation on the effect television plays in childhood aggression. Two contrasting views regarding this issue are violent television increases aggressive behavior and violent television does not increase aggressive behavior. Later research demonstrates there may be other intervening variables causing aggression. These include IQ‚ social class‚ parental punishment‚ parental aggression‚ hereditary

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    of research has examined the relationship between media violence and the effects on children. Media violence is ubiquitous and comes in many forms‚ television and film‚ computer and video games‚ internet‚ music and radio and newspapers and magazines. However‚ the media that dominates the studies are television‚ then computer/video games and to a lesser degree music. Three types of evidence support the hypothesis that exposure to media violence is harmful to children. First there is anecdotes and case

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    The Effects of Visual Media Violence In recent decades‚ media has become an increasingly popular and important part of the American culture. Media has many positive uses throughout daily life; media plays a large role in the entertainment industry and allows easy access to important news and other information to anyone at any time. Although media is an important and widely used part of our culture‚ many people worry that media can have a variety of negative effects. As media becomes more and more

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    Violence In Sports and Its Effect on Youth In America Today Justin Braman Southern Adventist University Sociology and Psychology of Sport Professor Rod Bussey December 10‚ 2013 The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of violence in sports. More specifically‚ the effect of violence in sports towards youth. As Jay Coakley (2009) points out in his book Sports in Society‚ when athletes engage in violence on or off the field‚ people see

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