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- 4001: Television Born Killers
- Television Born Killers This essay attempts to evaluate the view that television violence is a cause of real world violence. Several studies supporting and opposing this view are examined as well as Gerbner's cultivation theory, which provides an alternative view. The critique offered by Cumberbatch has been applied where relevant and his views ... the cultivation theory, developed by Gerbner. He emphasized the effects of television viewing on the attitudes rather than the behaviour of viewers. Watching television may tend to induce a general mindset about violence in the world, quite apart from any effects it might have in inducing violent behaviour. Cultivation theorists distinguish between 'first order' effects (general beliefs about the everyday world, such as about the prevalence of violence) and 'second order' effects (specific attitudes, such as to law and order or to personal safety). (Chandler, 1995. p 1.) The focus is on 'heavy viewers'. People ...
- 4002: Violence In Television Programs
- Violence In Television Programs In today’s modern world, children have access to many different forms of stimuli. Some of which are positive and some are negative. Television is a vary persuasive presence in children’s lives. They spend many hours every week watching ... aggression, consequences of violence are unseen, and aggression goes unpunished or seems justified. For example, one cartoon featured four heroes who used their superior strength to beat up villains who were trying to freeze the world. The villains escape unscathed. The heroes congratulated each other. Young children are unable to distinguish the difference between what is reality and what is fantasy. Thus, the children saw attractive perpetrators of aggression use violence ... makes other children less eager to play with them. After many years of research there seems to be three major avenues of how people are effected by TV violence; Direct effects, Desensitization, and the Mean World Syndrome: "The Direct effects process suggests that children and adults who watch a lot of violence on television may become more aggressive and/or they may develop favorable attitudes and values about the use ...
- 4003: Ethics/Child Labor
- ... by, or could be done by, adults. Child labor is where the children are exploited and also is when they are worked in conditions that are hazardous. 1 Child labor is a problem throughout the world, and especially in developing countries. Child labor is most common in rural areas where the capacity to enforce minimum age requirements for schooling and work is lacking. The children work for many reasons, the most ... and the parents don’t even know where they are. Governments are also unwilling, or unable to stop child labor because it often can be a large part of the countries economy, especially in third world countries. So the countries will turn a blind eye to the practice, that way the companies will stay. Labor that is cheap is an easy way to make money, but it is not always best for the country as a whole. Child labor is one reason why third world countries stay third world countries. For most countries children are seen as the future. So with this in mind, child labor does nothing but destroy the future. By keeping the majority of the children ...
- 4004: Addison And Steele
- ... and the Spectator". Through their hardships of life they came about understanding what others were feeling and the actions that they took. They documented five hundred and fifty-five essays that were depicted from the world around them. They used the feeling of love to show about human nature and what it did to achieve its goals. Through stories, such as "Jilts and their Victims", "Country Festival", "For Whom the Bell ... Charter House School in England where from their they became the best of friends. Through their hardships they ended up going separate ways. Addison went into politics where he became a popular figure in society.(World Book Addison) Steele went to the military where he later got knighted. In 1710 they were united when Steele asked Addison to join him in writing in the "Spectator".(World Book Steele) Addison gladly excepted and the two men would go out and view the world around them. The two men would write about any occasion, but whenever they wrote they were really in ...
- 4005: Huck Finn Essay
- By: Don Robinson Huck Finn Essay No one who has read the novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain can deny not seeing the faults of the civilized world that Twain so critically satires. This element of the novel plays the perfect backdrop to the thing Twain uses to compare civilization with: The ideal way of living. Every time the main characters Huck and Jim are away from the influences of the civilized world, Twain’s vision of the ideal way of living reveals itself to the reader. By observing the things that occur when Huck and Jim are in the influences of the civilized world and when they are not, we can see the vast differences that lie between these two elements. The first glimpse that we get of the civilized world in Huck’s time comes to us ...
- 4006: Spanish Influence
- Spanish Influence When the Spaniards came to settle the New World, or what is now Mexico and Peru, they imposed many new ways and customs for the people living there. These institutions were partially what the Spaniards were used to from living in Spain, and others were simply to live better. The Spaniards imposed many political, economical, and social institutions in the New World never heard of before by the Indians, and many feudal customs and systems that they brought wholly intact from Spain. The political institutions were very important for government functionality in the Spanish colonies. First, a class system similar to that in Spain was reconstructed anew in the colonies. Those in the New World that were born in Spain held the highest position. These people were called Peninsulares, and were the nobles of the feudal class hierarchy. Below them were the Creoles, or Spaniards born in the New ...
- 4007: Ancient Egyptians and the Norsemen: Creating the Past
- Ancient Egyptians and the Norsemen: Creating the Past Ancient Egyptians and Norsemen along with all other cultures believe that the world and all that lies there in was created by a supreme being or force. For most people faith alone is not enough to base their very existence on; people want to know why, how, and ... filled the tombs with items to use in the afterlife. There are a few different creation stories that occupied the Egyptian region, but most all of them began the same. According to Pierre Montet the world was created from nothing in “ a time when there was no sky, when neither the earth, nor men nor gods existed, and when even death did not exist ” (154). The main and most believed creation ... knew about biological generation, and their typical way of life (Budge 20). In the Memphis creation myth the Egyptians claimed that Ptah, their supreme god, joined with Naunet and fathered Atum, who then created the world. The Memphite’s were trying to show that their deity began creation (Cavendish 97). It is only human for a group of people to want the credit for a great event, and that is ...
- 4008: To Kill A Mockingbird Notes
- ... that when Atticus calls her Miss Mayella,she accuses him of making fun of her. She has no friends, and Scout seems justified in thinking that she "must have been the loneliest person in the world." Even Atticus pities her. Mayella's victimization is marred by her attempt to become a victimizer, to destroy Tom Robinson in order to cover her shame. We can have no real sympathy for Mayella Ewell ... Scout about the trial. Miss Maudie rescues the children by inviting them in for some cake. Jem complains that his illusions about Maycomb have been shattered: he thought the people were the best in the world, but having seen the trial, he doesn't think so. Miss Maudie points out that there were people who tried to help, like Judge Taylor, who appointed Atticus instead of the regular public defender; and ... is too old to cry. In a way, Mr. Raymond is describing himself: he is an unhappy figure, a good man who has turned cynical and lost hope. "You haven't seen enough of the world yet," he tells Scout. "You haven't even seen this town, but all you gotta do is step back inside the courthouse." To Mr. Raymond, Maycomb's racist side is the real Maycomb. Atticus, ...
- 4009: Ring World
- Ringworld By Larry Niven This story has four main characters, they have been chosen by a race called the puppeteers to investigate a gigantic artifact. Nessus, Louis Wu, Teela Brown, and Speaker-to-Animals are the ones chosen ...
- 4010: The Scientific Revolution In The 17th Century
- The Scientific Revolution In The 17th Century Sci·ence n. The systematic study or knowledge of the physical or material world . One might think that with all of the great scientific discoveries that happened in the 17th century, that they happened over night and that the discoveries seemed to have happened in a relatively short period ... scope of “general knowledge” of the society. Society, and philosophers too, had problems believing the teachings or discoveries of other philosophers during this rebirth. The revolution in science, also called the mathematical revolution, took the world by surprise. Science was diffused by public demonstrations, but not always with much success. Galileo on many occasions, assembled notable philosophers and tried to convince them of his discovery of the moons around Jupiter. These ... the first time, because I suppose, for the first time in history science actually worked! Through the miraculous achievements of men like Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton, and their sifting through centuries of knowledge, a new world view was created. This view was based much on the previous science and knowledge as it was on the new scientific methods and discoveries. Issac Newton’s discoveries and publication of the Principia, again ...
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