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- 291: The Violent Reality of Gangs
- ... but in the short term the answers are much easier to find. On the surface, gangs are a direct result of human beings’ personal wants and peer pressure. To determine how to effectively end gang violence we must find the way that these morals are given to the individual. Unfortunately, these can only be hypothesized. However, by looking at the way humans are influenced in society, I believe there is good ... gang jobs. Although these are important factors they are not strong enough to make kids do things that are strongly against their morals. One of the ways that kids morals are bent so that gang violence becomes more acceptable is the influence of television and movies. The average child spends more time at a TV than she/he spends in a classroom. Since nobody can completely turn off their minds, kids ... are living. However, to a child this portrays a violent gang existance as acceptable. ‘The Ends Justifies the Means’ mentality is also taught through many shows where the "goody guy" captures the "bad guy" through violence and is then being commended. A young child sees this a perfectly acceptable because he knows that the "bad guy" was wrong but has no idea of what acceptable apprehension techniques are. Gore in ...
- 292: Crime And Punishment 8
- Violence in literature often has a greater meaning than simply providing entertainment for the reader. In great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake; the act of violence contributes to a greater meaning of the complete work. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov s actions in Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is an example of this. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a desperate man, thinks very ...
- 293: Under The Influence Of Televis
- ... create huge corporations out of simple mom and pop stores in small town America. Clearly, television has impacted our lives in both positive and negative ways. While television educates and entertains, it also promotes laziness, violence and poor social skills. Television has tremendous power, an unlimited potential to educate and inform. The bright colors, quick movements, and sudden flashes capture the public's attention in a way like no other medium. TV programming has helped many viewers confront major social issues, such as domestic violence, homosexuality, and drug abuse. Since the 1950's, the American public has embraced the visual aspect of TV and shown an interest in world events like never before. Television has given the common man the ... much more stimulating on the mind and body. As children and adults spend more and more time with TV, their physical activity decreases which can result in obesity. Many also argue that exposure to television violence encourages negative behavior, including aggression in children and increased crime. By portraying crime as an everyday event, television programs normalize violence, thereby suggesting that criminal behavior is connon and acceptable. Televison violence particularly affects ...
- 294: Capital Punishment
- ... through the irrationality of the vengeance raging in so many of us, like it is in the supporters of capital punishment. An indecent justice, one that takes human lives based on ideals of vengeance and violence, is an immoral system that is unacceptable. The most widely used argument in support of capital punishment is that the consequence of execution influences criminal behavior more effectively than imprisonment does (Amnesty International). Although the ... people are eventually executed. Moreover, the possibility of increasing the number of convicted murderers sentenced to death and executed by requiring mandatory death sentences was declared unconstitutional in 1976 (NCADP). Murder and other crimes of violence are not always premeditated. For example gang violence, drive by shootings, and kidnapping for ransom are serious crimes that continue to be committed because the criminal thinks they are too clever to be caught. Most capital crimes are committed in the heat ...
- 295: The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
- ... to break free of the shackles that were the fifties. They considered their parents conformists , and they wanted a way to break free of the molds cast for them. As a reaction to the growing violence of the 1960's, many people turned to the ideals of peace and love. Ironically, many of those who were seen to be in favor of peace - including President John Kennedy, his brother Bobby, the ... would make equality a legal right. "On 28 August, 1964, between 100,000 and 200,000 black people, led by Martin Luther King," marched in Washington in support of the Civil Rights Bill. But the violence still did not stop. In September, 1964, a black man was shot dead in Alabama, four blacks were killed when a church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed, Medger Evers of the Advancement of Colored People ... the 1965 Voting Rights Act, he had turned to the urban poor, but his strategy of nonviolence, national publicity, and coalition-building seemed unavailing. Just a week before his death, his hopes for a non violence march in Memphis, in support of striking garbage workers, had been dashed by the window-smashing of a few dozen black teenagers. King had become a hero without a strategy, but a hero he ...
- 296: How TV Impacts Teens
- ... This phrase is used to attract people’s attention including teenagers. This is one of many problems with TV these days. TV teaches teens the wrong material. Some of the other problems with TV include violence and dialogue. When it comes to commercials on TV, people think of the cola wars between Pepsi and Coca-Cola, or maybe they think of the famous Energizer bunny. However, there are also commercials for ... So what are teenagers going to think? They will think that if they drink beer they will have as much as the teens in the commercial. As a result of adolescents drinking there will be violence. Where do teens learn the concept of violence? Where else but TV. There is definitely way too much violence on television. For example on cable networks such as HBO or Showtime, there are shows that are built around violence. Shows such as ...
- 297: Gangs
- ... but in the short term the answers are much easier to find. On the surface, gangs are a direct result of human beings' personal wants and peer pressure. To determine how to effectively end gang violence we must find the way that these morals are given to the individual. Unfortunately, these can only be hypothesized. However, by looking at the way humans are influenced in society, I believe there is good ... gang jobs. Although these are important factors they are not strong enough to make kids do things that are strongly against their morals. One of the ways that kids morals are bent so that gang violence becomes more acceptable is the influence of television and movies. The average child spends more time at a TV than she/he spends in a classroom. Since nobody can completely turn off their minds, kids ... are living. However, to a child this portrays a violent gang existance as acceptable. 'The Ends Justifies the Means' mentality is also taught through many shows where the "goody guy" captures the "bad guy" through violence and is then being commended. A young child sees this a perfectly acceptable because he knows that the "bad guy" was wrong but has no idea of what acceptable apprehension techniques are. Gore in ...
- 298: Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in Breakfast of Champions
- ... Outline Thesis: In Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut portrays a prepackaged, robotic society, and an American culture plagued with despair, greed, and apathy. I. Introduction II. Social problems A. Racism B. Commercialism and materialism C. Violence D. Lack of culture E. Greed III. Destruction of America A. Pollution B. Destruction for wealth IV. Conclusion "The country Vonnegut takes us through has been plasticized, prepackaged, and brainwashed beyond redemption. The poor are ... wealth." This quote is a very adequate discription of the literary journey through the current scene of America. At one point or another, Vonnegut discusses nearly every social, political, or cultural problem afflicting America. Racism, violence, greed, and commercialism are a few among the many problems prevalent in this country ("Briefly" 146). Vonnegut's novel is an exhibit of the flaws of a robotic, self-destructive society (Allen 107). In Breakfast ... passers-by to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes (114). Trout and Hoover are the children of materialism. Hoover embraces it while Trout is rejected by it. Another problem rampant in today's American society is violence. Violence shows itself in many forms. Guns are the animate tools of violence. People use guns for one reason and one reason only: to put holes in other human beings. Policemen have guns, criminals ...
- 299: World Class Soccer
- ... of it’s popularity, the intensity intends to grow more and more witch leads sometimes to violent acts by certain athletes, but how far are these athletes willing to go. Lately, intensity has led to violence acts that surpassed expectations and leaving the owners with a lot of thinking do. Through out my composition, I will talk about hockey incidents, soccer violence and fan conflicts. First of all, I will talk about violence in the most popular sport in North America, hockey. This sport was always known for it’s roughness, that’s part of the excitement. Lately, it has grown more then just rough play, incidents ...
- 300: Capital Punishment
- ... the best of ability and each would receive in accordance with legitimate claims to available resources. What would a community based on this kind of love do with those who committed brutal acts of terror, violence, and murder? Put negatively, it would not live by the philosophy of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life." It would act to safeguard the members ... love would justify killing in self-defense and killing enemies in a just war when non-lethal alternatives are unavailable. They are necessary and tragic emergency means here and now to stop present and ongoing violence. Capital punishment is opposed since the crime has already been committed, and isolation can protect society against future violence. Love in the ecstatic dimension becomes superethical. In ecstasy one is delirious with impetuous joy in the presence of the other and totally devoted to that person's happiness and well- being. In ecstasy ...
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