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- 10281: The Effects of television Violence on Children
- The Effects of television Violence on Children What has the world come to these days?. It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The home is a major source of violence. In many people’s living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the children ...
- 10282: Media and Society
- ... only to return in the very next episode, good as new. As a result, children learn that there are few, if any consequences for committing violent acts. Unfortunately, as long as there is an extremely high public demand for violent shows and movies, the media is going to continue on the same path, because it looks as though the violence is going to continue for some time. We need to be ...
- 10283: Age of Reason
- ... appear pathetic; Swift’s satire on yahoo behavior is traced with seriousness. Through this allegory, Swift portrays both the ideal nature of man, and the real nature of man. Although he holds reason in very high esteem, Jonathan Swift is more of a realist than his forerunners. Each of these spectacular thinkers may have had a different world view. Their values, principles, thoughts, and feelings may also have differed significantly. They ...
- 10284: Television That Kills
- ... Kids are impressionable. They do imitate what they see. In Canada a town that had recently been introduced to television noticed an increase in fighting between young children (Leland 48). Murder rates were twice as high after only a decade (Leland 48). The media should take more initiative in this pressing issue. Parents cannot always be watching their children and the media should be doing what they can to help American ...
- 10285: The Debate on Gay Rights
- ... heterosexual therefore it does not suggest elevated rates of homosexuality among the offspring of lesbian or gay parents. Reports by both parents and children suggest normal development of peer relationships. As would be expected, most school-aged children reported same-sex best friends and predominantly same-sex peer groups . A personal concern of some such as Mr.Knight of the anti-gay group is that homosexuals are also more likely to ...
- 10286: Slavery: A Justified Institution
- ... pumped money into the industry by investing in the cotton. The fragility of the triangle was tested as controversy surrounding the labor methods used by the South was questioned and criticized. The controversy reached a high and the Civil War commenced, proving to be the ultimate imbalance and destructor of the economy. Meanwhile, the South also saw a war that was not winnable without foreign intervention; thus, the third party comes ...
- 10287: Violent Crimes By Juveniles
- ... temper and “flip their lids” too easily. Two children in Colorado were being teased and did not know how to release their anger and created a great tragedy. Not only did they go into their school and start shooting at their classmates, they took a grudge against the world and planned to kill innocent people by crashing a plane into New York City. Doesn’t that sound like something straight out ...
- 10288: Does The Mass Media Cause Undesireable Social Consequences With Specific Reference To Pornography
- ... legally obscene (hence crime) material, are operating illegally. It is obvious why pornography is attractive to criminals; just as anything that is banned or is made illegal, there is always someone who will pay the high black-market price for it. Having considered the issues at hand, it can be said that since there is no concrete evidence to support otherwise, pornography in the media does not cause undesirable social behaviour ...
- 10289: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... less, and societies were more barbaric--capital punishment was probably quite acceptable. However, in today’s society, which is becoming ever more increasingly humanitarian, and individual rights and due process of justice are held in high accord, the death penalty is becoming an unrealistic form of punishment. Also, with the ever present possibility of mistaken execution, there will remain the question of innocence of those put to death. Finally, man is ...
- 10290: Overpopulation
- ... ways that humanity is destroying its inheritance, we can look more closely at the concept of "overpopulation." All too often, overpopulation is thought of simply as crowding: too many people in a given area, too high a population density. For instance, the deputy editor in chief of Forbes magazine pointed out recently, in connection with a plea for more population growth in the United States: "If all the people from China ...
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