... Nobody focuses on TV itself; it's simply a means to an end. It's a source of news and information, a way to feel connected with the world, and a way to waste time; it's a passive, uninvolved form of entertainment. Besides consuming time and replacing other leisure activities, TV hardly ... sharing, kindness and good manners while kids are still young enough to buy it. Once the "educational- programs lose their appeal, kids graduate to cartoons and action hero series such as Powerpuff Girls, Looney Tunes and Power Rangers. Although these entertainment-based shows usually don't claim to ....

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... who watched nonviolent shows. Children, who watched the violent shows were more likely to strike out at playmates, argue, disobey authority and were less willing to wait for things than those children who watched nonviolent programs (Television 2). Studies have found gender differences in cartoons. Boys watch more television than girls during childhood. This usually occurs because most programming ... for children is aimed at young boys. This is accomplished by offering a wide variety of action, adventure, or violent programs. Boys are also more attentive than girls when watching cartoon...

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... . Today we have more than forty studies that have been done by scientists to show that seventy-three percent of individuals who commit crimes in cartoons and children's shows go unpunished in violent scenes( Carter & Strickland 1996, pg . 2). Some of the most popular children's shows are Power Rangers, Pokemon, Spiderman, and Batman. Children before completing elementary school will witness 8,000 murders (Erwin,1997 ... they graduate from high school. Often these images will stay with them for the rest of their lives and will carry on when they are parents. A study was performed over a s...

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... noticed that Nickelodeon has some of the best cartoons I have seen, they may have no point whatsoever but none-the-less I crack up every time. Yet I see myself changing the channel when my nine year old sister walks into the room. Because even though I can distinguish the difference between right and wrong and make ... violent or not has a great impact on all people especially children. Centerwall also believes that television has a huge impact on the amount of violence that is shown in children. He believes that this television caused violence stays with them throughout life and can af...

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... that they were practically falling off. This new trend became known as "sagging." Girls" styles of clothing are much like we wear today; nothing has really changed since then, with the flare jean trend coming back after leaving in the eighties. A new form of television show was developed in the early nineties, animation. Sure, cartoons have been around for a long time, but they now became a part of ... prime time television. The Simpsons became the first animated TV show to air during prime time, and became an ... instant success. Now, almost ten years later, The Simpsons still remains ...

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... television violence on children. In the 1970's, programs for younger women such as "The Bionic Woman," "Charlie's Angles," and "Wonder Woman" where used so that the younger girls would have a role model. A psychologist at the Aggression Research Group at the University of Michigan found that young girls who often watched shows featuring aggressive heroines in the 1970's have grown up being more aggressive. The older girls get into more confrontations ... not." A study done by George Gerbner states that one hour of primetime television contains five violent acts per hour. Morning cartoons ...

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... , kicked off my shoes, fluffed my pillow, reclined my side of the sofa, and grabbed my soft velvet afghan. I pressed the button on the remote control; the TV flared to life, and I was appalled with every station I switched to, from factual stories in the news, to the violence in the movies being shown, to the so called comedy of the cartoons, the shows all revolved around violence. There just wasn't any escape. On ... a slow motion of blood, water, glass and severed body parts take to the air throughout the room. I was feeling a bit stressed. In a desperate need for entertainment I thoug...

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... of our cultures. Most enjoyed films by our society like Independence Day, daytime talk shows such as Jerry Springer and even in cartoons that have been around forever like Tom & Jerry all include violence in the content of their program.. I can recall a time when daytime talk shows (Donahue, Oprah) would have audience feed back and very few panelists without violence. On today's talk shows ... . This growth of gangs and their drug usage has been implicated in the increasing violence of school students. People who are close to one another need to trust each other. We should trust our pare...

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