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    Television Aggression

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    To extend Gerbner’s definition of violence‚ I selected 4 television programs to count verbal as well as physical aggression in these TV shows. One of the many educational television programs that I selected was Barney. To my opinion Barney did not contain any verbal or physical aggressive behavior. This show taught children how to live with one another and how to avoid aggression. I also chose one child’s cartoon which is an all-time favorite Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry contained at least 10

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    Introduction Communicating with others is always considered as an indispensable part in human’s life. In the past people usually communicated through drawings‚ symbols‚ writing‚ radio‚ television and so on. Since the changes in technologies people can convey their messages from one side to another side by e-mail‚ telephone‚ text message and social media (Appendix A) such as Facebook‚ Twitter and YouTube. Apparently‚ communication involves two parties which are sender and receiver where both of them

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    Anger And Aggression

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    Anger and Aggression  Everyone feels anger or aggression many times in the day. This happens all of the time. We all face the same challenge of trying to control our temper. It may be easier for some people than it is for others. Holding anger in is bad and unhealthy for your body. If you let the anger build up it could go from just being a verbal argument to a point in which someone or something is hurt or destroyed. When you look into a problem more closely you can control you anger better. You

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    Roger Crisp - Pleasure

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    PLEASURE IS ALL THAT MATTERS Roger Crisp Roger Crisp asks whether hedonism is quite as bad as is often supposed. Hedonism’s decline Since the beginning of philosophy‚ many people have thought that the only thing really worth seeking in life is pleasure‚ and that the only thing really worth avoiding is pain. This is the view called ’hedonism’ (from the Greek hedone‚ meaning ’pleasure’). The ancients were fascinated by the view. Plato‚ Aristotle and the Stoics spent a lot of time coming

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    Pain vs Pleasure

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    Different Interpretations Dualism/Behaviorism for Pain and Pleasure People have a difficult time accepting that emotions as well as sensations exist on a continuous basis. Generally one type of emotion must exist and be experiential and the other polar opposite emotion must also exist and be experiential. This means you cannot have pleasure without pain‚ and that you cannot have pain without pleasure. People seem to be under the impression that an eternal pleasurable experience is possible without

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    Institutional Aggression

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    Institutional Aggression The term refers to collective violence E.g. violence within institutions such as prisons‚ students‚ police and army They are danger for both inmates and workers Benjamin Mogmat a member of ‘the number’ in a South African prison was sentenced to nine years. Now in prison he claims to have killed more inmates than he can remember. All to impress a gang. Initiation rituals One way institutions show aggression towards each other is through violent initiation rituals

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    Epicurus and his focus on the pursuit of one’s happiness is how he talks about how that pleasure is the most great and legitimate pursuit of a person’s life. That is what he spent his life studying and speaking to others about. Epicurus invasion of pleasure is where we stay clear of unnecessary desires and try to achieve some kind of inner peace and be content with simple things. Unnecessary things would be like food‚ drinking‚ sex etc. Basically anything that you would say I want or desire. Now

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    Institutional aggression

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    Institutional aggression AO1 Importation Model - Irwin and Cressey - claims inmates who enter prison with certain characteristics are more likely to engage in interpersonal violence than other inmates - violence in prisons isn’t a product of the institution itself but the characteristics of individuals who enter them - young rather than old and black not white more likely to have higher interpersonal violence as they ’import’ behaviours from their norms/culture/background - recognised the

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    they marked an important part of our evolutionary process‚ and today we still study them with great fascination.So yes‚ although I don’t support war and violence‚ i have to admit the reality which it is that war and violence are an inevitable part of human nature. I have chosen this topic because war and conflict are a thing which rises an exclamation mark for me and I wanted to dig a little deeper into it. Most of the experts believe that war is an inevitable part of human nature‚ whether it is national

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    It has been shown that impulsive behavior and aggression have been associated with having low levels of serotonin. Evidence for the role of serotonin comes from the use of drugs that raise levels of serotonin in the brain‚ such as antidepressants. In clinical studies‚ antidepressant drugs which increase serotonin levels also tend to reduce irritability and impulsive aggression. This suggests that  increased serotonin levels do lead to reduced aggression. Mann et all gave 35 healthy subjects dexfenfluramine

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