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  • Children Through The Media Including Television
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    Television and other media have major influences on the modifiable children of today; nevertheless, the gradual mind-manipulation process is often neglected. For teenagers, peers can play a powerful role; but the media, too, often influences them. Unhealthy attitudes learned from the media during childhood may be put into action during adolescence, with adverse consequences. Although there remains considerable controversy about the media and their effects on human behavior, much information is a...
  • Your Children Watch Television
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    Television And It's Effects on Children Have you ever wondered how television effects your children? The average child watches television 2 hours per week and most of this viewing is of violence or sexual acts. During this time there is a violent act shown every 6 minutes and on Saturday mornings there is 20 to 25 violent acts shown every hour on prime time t. vs. especially in cartoons or animated programs. So no matter what your child is watching it is damaging their sense of imagination and c...
  • Affects Of Violence In Television On Adults
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    Children, TV, and Violence America has the largest crime rate in the world. Along with that crime rate is also the substantially high violence rate. Why? Why is violence becoming and everyday common happening in our society? When you flip on the " tell' and tune into the news, the highlight of every show is somehow directly related or connected to violence. We see it every evening and perhaps say 'Oh my gosh, how terrible. ' and then forget all about it two minutes later. Or perhaps we don't eve...
  • Television And Its Impact On Violence
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    March 16, 2005 Reaction Paper Media & Adolescence Concern about children and violence through the media has a long history. The attention is divided between the two sides which view media as an insignificant problem or the opposite, a threat. Everyone, male or female, white or black, child or adult, are affected and influenced by the media. We learn from television each day, and without the slightest intent do we take after what we see. There is no doubt that children alter their ways of life du...
  • National Television Violence Study
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    It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. It is seen in the muggings on the streets, physical assaults in back alleys, shootings at schools, and even at home. The last of these, surprisingly, is a major source of violence. In most living rooms there sits an outlet of the most violent behavior and it often goes unnoticed. It is the television and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world with sometimes devastating results. More parents are us...
  • Subject Of Violence In Children's Television
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    Political Involvement Concerning Violence in Television Looking back in time, it is evident man has mastered his resources in an effort to increase his technology. This technology has had a measurable effect on society. To a certain extent, we have embraced, as well as feared, the growth of this technology. As far back as 390 BCE when Plato warned about the danger of storytelling (Cooke L 19), to the 1930's and 1940's when "studies warned of the harmful effects radio was having on children's abi...
  • Television In Our Everyday Lives
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    Do you think that television is a force for good, a harmful influence, or both What would you do to reduce its potential to harm young people in particular. Television is a source for top entertainment adored by all ages but the programs are influencing the eyes of the viewers both in a good and bad way. Violence, sex and bad language is currently shown at earlier and earlier times, leaving especially children prone to mature viewing. With the television the most watched object in the country, i...
  • Trance Like Nature Of Their Children's Television
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    To Watch or Not To Watch In the 1950's only 10% of American homes had a television. By 1960's the percentage had grown to 90%, states Matt Richtel's article in The New York Times. Televisions, video games, and computers dominate today's marketplace. "Over the next eighteen to twenty four months, consumers will be barraged with a host of gadgets and media outlets attempting to redefine television, the web, and leisure time", states James Kearney in this year's April issue of The Internet World Ma...
  • Questions About Acts Of Terrorism
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    Comm 100 War on Terrorism: It's Effect on Children According to the American Heritage Dictionary, terrorism is defined as the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. Basically, terrorism is imitating the practices of third graders. With the leader, or bully, and his group of followers illegitimately intimidat...
  • Time At Work As Affluenza
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    Affluenza: An American Epidemic Affluenza: An American Epidemic Essay, Research Paper Affluenza is an epidemic which effects millions of people in the United States.? Until this century [20th], to consume was considered a bad thing? says Jeremy Rifkin an expert on affluenza (Gross). The victims of affluenza are consumers who work long hours at a job they hate so they can buy things which they don? t need (Fight Club). Like AIDS, affluenza has spread quickly throughout the United States showing n...

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