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- 12881: Societies Scapegoat
- ... the most obvious source of violence within a home is the television. However, in most cases it is not the true cause. With the TV in the forefront of virtually every home in the civilized world, it's no wonder that it's the easiest target for criticism. It's elementary to blame the tube for a child's behavior; it's a quick and easily identified source of violence within a youths confined world. The TV many times is identified as the cause of aggressive acts to avoid dealing with other underlying issues. Society today has an entire array of different afflictions that plague us from day to day ... hero, it's not the TV's fault!!! (Your kid probably has less common sense than a lemming.) Violence on TV is both unavoidable and necessary for children to learn about their ever changing hostile world. The only question to be asked is, "when is a child mature enough to watch certain programs?" A change in children's programming is not likely to occur any time soon. It's up ...
- 12882: Outdoors Or TV?
- ... long. They don't spend enough time outdoors, hunting, fishing, surfing, and doing all those fun exciting things. The outdoors offers so much to do and takes your mind off reality and into the fun world. When you are outdoors you are free as a bird and there aren't too many rules. The one rule I go by is; have fun. When you're outdoors you don't have to ... If you are outdoors you can't watch TV. That means that there would be fewer kids wanting to join gangs and probably less violence. That would stop allot of killing and stealing in this world if every body went outdoors instead of watching TV. Just think, what if kids spent their time outside rather than watching TV and learning how to steal and kill. Maybe our world would become a safer place. Instead of watching TV, I spend my time outside. It is allot more fun then learning how to fight and kill each other.
- 12883: Evolution of Media Violence
- ... and always discreet In the second stage of programming, which was called The Golden Age of Radio, shows were action adventures. Vaudeville-Comedy was also popular. The hard ships of the 1930's and then World War II, made it important for citizens to be able to relax as radio brought popular entertainers and adventure stories into their homes. The third stage of programming lasted from 1945 until the early 1950 ... in television programs, particularly in action-adventure series and cartoons. They feel that viewers, especially children, may learn to see violence as the way to resolve conflicts. Television can influence peoples mental picture of the world. This is especially true for younger viewers who rely heavily on television and other media for their understanding of the world beyond their neighborhoods. Television today is failing to provide a complete, unbiased picture of reality. United Stated has a long standing tradition of freedom of speech, and freedom of press. These freedoms have hampered ...
- 12884: Ida B. Wells
- ... of this is that even if a woman worked outside the home, all her earnings would legally go to the head of the household. However, Wells emerged as one of the best known of these new women that chose to speak out. People were beginning to listen to these accusations of unlawful lynching, but more impressive was the fact that non-Americans were starting to listen. These non-Americans interests were peaked because the United States, as a world power, tried to silence all issues such as lynching and mob violence. Now, these issues were coming to light, writers from other countries contacted Ida. Wells received an invitation from Isabella Fyvie Mayo, a Scottish ...
- 12885: Moral Force Protesting
- Moral Force Protesting Moral force protest has a greater chance to succeed that physical force protest. Discuss in relation to our contemporary world. In the modern world today, there is an immense diversity of global issues which are constantly being dealt with. Moral force protest as well as physical force protest are used, in hope of achieving a purpose and proving a ... maybe even justified. By turning to violence, the IRA as well as the Arabs are immediately ruling out any possibilities of winning their causes. They are, in the long run, doomed to failure. Today's world has enough violence and terrorism surrounding its environment to even consider using any sort of inadequate violence to fight for a cause, no matter how important. When so many progress can be acquired by ...
- 12886: Pornography: Sex or Subordination?
- ... immune and can't expect it to get any better or to go way. Porn is here for good. Pornography is a multi-million dollar international industry, ultimately run y organized crime all over the world, and is produced by the respectable mainstream publishing business companies (Itzin 21). Although the publishing companies are thought to be "respectable", people generally stereotype buyers and users of pornographic material as "dirty old men in ... Arcy. "The King of Porn." Maclean's. 11 Oct. 1993: 52-56. Kaminer, Wendy. "Feminists Against the First Amendment." The Atlantic Monthly. Nov. 1992: 111-118. Leidholdt, Margaret. "Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography." New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980. Nicols, Mark. "Viewers and Victims." Newsweek. 10 Aug. 1983: 60. Webster's Dictionary. Miami, Florida. P.S.I. & Associates. 1987: 286. Whicclair, Mark R. "Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship ...
- 12887: Parental Pressure within High School Students
- ... child will get good grades because he/she wants to (Webb pg.25). Works Cited Gaillard, Lee Hands Off Homework? Education Week 14 December 1994 Guetzloe, Elennor C. Youth Suicide: What the Educators Should Know. New York: The Council for Exceptional Children, 1989. Leaman, Kelly - interview Mills, Tyler - interview Rubin, Dr. Jeffrey and Dr. Carol When Families Fight. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1989 Webb, Margot Coping with Overprotective Parents. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 1990
- 12888: Family Values
- ... families have poor, mediocre or virtuous family values, however what one may consider as a mediocre family value may seem poor to someone else and vice-versa. These family values differ from family to family world-wide. The most significant values are family unity, honesty and education. Family unity, is a family being together in blissful harmony on holidays. Family unity is regardless how bad a situation may be it will ... I am an adult my parents are persistent to spend time with me and teach me values not taught to me when I was a child. I believe it's like teaching an old dog new tricks. A child needs direction from the childhood up to adulthood not the reverse. I recall coming home from school to an empty house. My parents were working to provide us with a home, things ...
- 12889: Is The History Nonsense?
- ... influenced our society in the present. As we know, "Rome is not built in one day." Our human development depends on the flow of history. We absorb knowledge from our history, remold our society, make new inventions and make progress. For example, the interaction of bursts of technological development First, appeared the steam power and drove the industrial revolution ; then introduced the railways; third , with the electrical power; fourth with cheap ... political policies. This aspect is acknowledged by the author of the article "Stop the lies ". The author give an example about how Native Americans influenced American system of government. Meanwhile, history also shapes one's world outlook and raise the class issues through the industrial economy. As a common fact, Henry Ford was prejudice. How did he form his attitude if he were not influenced by the history? It can not ...
- 12890: Is Tiger That Great?
- ... better than Woods to be .32%. This means that 99.68% of the Tour players are not the player that Woods is. This is the reason that Woods is currently ranked #1 in the SONY World Rankings. We believe that the main problem within the world of sports criticism has been the media generated hype. Words such as legend and greatest ever begin to appear whenever a player shows his true abilities. It has a make or break effect on the sports world today. We set out with the goal to find the truth behind the hype and the T-shirts, and to bring you the numbers. We hope you have found that non-biased approach yourselves, ...
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