Autumn Schultz 11-7-12 Period 7 Media Violence Argumentative Essay Media is all around us‚ including the thousands of books‚ magazines‚ television shows‚ and newspapers that are sold or viewed every day. Now imagine people around the world turning on the television set to see guns‚ blood‚ and more. It is not even only adults seeing this. Children of all ages are picking up books and magazines and seeing violence. Death and gore is everywhere‚ and because of imitation and priming people are reacting
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ENG 1102 Krause 1 Mr. Little Mary Krause 2/7/2012 Violence affecting Children in the Mass Media There are many problems with mass media today. I think the worst issue with mass media is‚ the way children are depicted and the affect that it has on children. The violence in the media greatly affects children in a negative way‚ especially when it is children on TV doing violent acts. What it all boils down to is‚ do you really want children to be treated this way? Is it ok for children
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Why are so many young people turning to prescription drugs to get high? By survey‚ almost 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs. Prescription drug abuse is a major issue that does not seem to be moving towards a solution. There’s a reason why prescription drugs are intended to be taken under a doctor’s direction if people don’t use them as they are to be taken‚ they can be extremely dangerous. Despite what many people think‚ abusing
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Do violent video games cause violence? People don’t realize that the violence in video games can cause violence in real life. Not all videogames are violent but the majority of them are getting worse as the years go on. In the past 10 years the death rates caused by videogames has gone up. The most violent game is Call of Duty. Kids aren’t understanding how dangerous guns really are and the video games are causing them to kill in real life. Some young kids don’t completely understand what they’re
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Does Media Violence Cause Aggression? Elizabeth G. Kinser Motlow State Community College Does Media Violence Cause Aggression? Introduction Numerous studies and experiments have been conducted to test whether or not media violence can cause aggression. The experiments were set up and conducted with a variety of ages and number of people‚ starting from the younger generation through the older generation. The experiments and studies also varied in the steps and information. We will be looking
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teens play violent video games. It is a very large industry in the United States. In 2008‚ over $11.7 billion was spent on video games and 10 of the top 20 bestselling video games in America involved violence. These violent video games are being blamed for bullying‚ violence towards women‚ and school shootings. The games teach children that it is acceptable to solve problems with violence. Violent video games are a large contributor to youth violence. Many people believe that violent video games
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twice as much time as they spend in school ("Facts about media violence and the effect on the American family‚" 1998). Unfortunately more often than not adolescents shape their lives after characters they can relate to on prime-time television (Fisher‚ 1994). When sixty percent of popular television shows depict sex and/or violence and the characters committing acts such as unsafe sex‚ sex with multiple partners and depictions of violence on women it leads adolescents to having their real-life decisions
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“Violent Media is good for Kids” is an article which attempts to persuade the reader that violence (if used in the correct manner) can help children more than it hurts them. Famous comic-book author Gerard Jones claims that gory video games‚ comics‚ and cartoons may do a thing or two in helping to increase a child’s self-confidence. Jones says ‘creative violence’ can help by “giving kids a tool to master their rage.” In this time and age parents are more than ever protective of what their child
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finishes elementary school is 8‚000. (Herr‚ 2007). “The UCLA Television Violence Monitoring Project (1995)‚ commissioned by four major American networks (ABC‚ CBS‚ Fox‚ and NBC)‚ defined violence as anything that involves physical harm or a threat of physical harm of any sort‚ intentional or unintentional‚ self-inflicted or inflicted by someone or something else.” (Alter‚ 1997). Cartoons that provide comedy can still have violence‚ then there are the cartoons that are just show for their portrayal of
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be to blame for all this violence in adolescents. This debate has been going on since 1993 when the first violent video games were released. Since then‚ more violent video games have been released and the argument still continues with no actual hard evidence to either side. The reason no actual evidence has been found is because so many factors play into it the situation. Although the little evidence found leans more towards the side of it has nothing to do with violent acts. Video games are one
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