... was also my worst. I met him when I was fifteen; he was the funny and fun, the cousin of my best friend. As our friendship blossomed we confided all of our teen secrets to each other. We spent hours upon hours on the phone, writing letters, and finding every way possible to see each other and ... this made me feel sympathetic and even more intrigued by him. As our friendship deepened he told me stories of what he remembered about his mom. The loving, caring way she had been with him. He had just as many terrible stories too. He recalled his mom crying, hiding, and being hit ... , and us...

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... three to four hours of television in a single day. That amount of time is over half as much time as children spend in school, and can be up to two times as much time as they spend with their parents on a daily basis. GeorgeGerbner, Ph.D., at the University of Pennsylvania did ... live with it every minute of their lives. A bloodied body, perhaps missing a limb, with several gashes cutting a body open is no uncommon sight for the youth today. A man or woman beating another person to death would not bother them. There is near to nothing these days that will make a person ... how graphic a...

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... no good done. This (though not quite on the same scale) is comparable to the killing machine devised by the general in In the Penal Colony. The person who was sentenced to be sentenced was to have their crime written on their body continuously for hours upon hours until they died. It is an unconscionable form of torture. The torture machine was an intricately designed killing device. It ... was made of three parts. "The bottom part is called the bed, the top part the scriber, and this middle part, suspended between them, is known as ... the harrow." It's movement was also intricately p...

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... for children. We have found out that cartoons are the most violent programming found to date in television today. Between the ages of two and twelve, the average amount of television watched is approximately 25 hours per week. Most of these 25 hours are comprised of cartoons. Cartoons like Tom and ... aware of what your children is watching. It said that television will work well for children if parents will take the time to watch the programs with the child and discuss programs with them to make sure that their children do understand that they are cartoons, fictional characters ... f...

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... get older, but they will always remember certain things that was watched when they were younger. Parents and children can make watching television an activity (44). Examples are talking about the difference between real and stories that are made up (59). Hero characters that are advertised on television can be great to have children to watch, but also can be misleading ... emergency calls, or even providing help to ones that may need it. Even though, some television is harmful to children, most of them offer help. Trying to control the amount of hours, should be the parent's next focus....

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... probably around preschool age taking an exploration approach to it. Children try to connect and relate to Cartoon Characters and are attracted to the intense sounds and sights and quick movements that are featured in Cartoons. Many of these programs, such as Bugs Bunny and Pals and ... would suggest parents could control how much violence their children are exposed to is; the most obvious would be to limit the number of hours children watch TV altogether. Parents could maybe watch an episode of the program their child watches so they know what their children are being exposed to ... and ...

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... games creates many problems in children. Children see a large amount of violence when they play video games like fighting and killing, which are the goals for winning most video games. Children learn from what they see on these games and they are learning that violence is acceptable and ... old male, had never fired a gun before until he caused a fatal shooting. Carneal took a pistol to school and shot eight children in the head and in the upper torso killing most of them. Carneal had gotten his shooting skill from video games that he has played numerous times. Without these games, ... it...

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... The increasingly realistic and exciting nature of electronic games has helped to make them enormously popular with children and youth. 79% of American children now play computer or video games on a regular basis. Children between the ages of seven and 17 play for an average of eight hours a week. "Most of the games on the ... market are appropriate for these young players, and the best of them can bring a lot of benefits. Besides being fun, some of the games provide practice in problem solving ... and logic as well as strategizing "(Walsh, David). So as the games become more ... importa...

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... pornography is "evil" and is a major cause for violence against women, specifically rape? There are many reasons for this misinterpretation and through the following few points, an attempt will be made to show that pornography has very little to almost no correlation with violence against women (of ... views are products of society. It would be downright absurd to assume that women in this society are treated as sexual objects only because the media releases or broadcasts pornographic material. A magazine associated with make-up and skin care, for example, will quite obviously not be co...

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... discovered continuous and consistent behavioral effects linked to film and television demonstrated by patients. What people watch on TV is also continuing to corrupt the way people looked at themselves. In recent years, more and more people are receiving treatment for negative feelings toward their bodies and their ... love lives. Patients feel that because their lives aren't as perfect as the lives of the people on TV, there must be something wrong with them. Psychologists are also noticing an increase in atrocious violent acts by patients ... what the children are watching, but what t...

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... of violence on television alone. Although violence in the media is not the only cause of violence in America's society, it is considered the most recognized contributing factor. During a recent report of the Nielson data, the average child in the United States views between 21 and 23 hours of television during the course of a week. Also it is said that the more "real life" a violent act is ... portrayed to a person, the easier it is learned. For example, a violent fighting scene from the old Batman television series from ... the 1960's would not be considered that ... ...

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... They have began to turn to television for their main source of entertainment. To many parents, television is an educational device for their children. On the other hand, others despise of their children watching television. They believe that it is very time consuming and has too much violence. Parents may have ... good life lessons. Television is known to be something that is very time consuming. It is said that children spend between six and seven hours watching television each day. Where does this leave time for studying, eating properly, or getting enough rest? Instead of going home a...

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... achievement falling in children's work of children that watch ten or more hours of television per week, and studies prove that children that watch excessive television achieve lower on written expression, reading and mathematic achievement tests. The number of hours spent watching television has increased sharply and now the average American child spends more time watching television that they do at school ... . The average youth spends an average of nine hundred hours at school and fifteen hundred hours watching television in an average year. Children need to stop watching ... so much ...

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... an virtually experience anything. It is almost impossible to go a whole day without experiencing or seeing viollence. What people don't often realize is the effect it is leaving on our children. Children spend more then three to four hours a day watching television. Fifty percent of children aged six to seventeen have their own television. There is an average of 2.3 televisions in American ... about anything, also be there for guildness, advise, and for their role model. If we can cut down on the number of hours of television that children watch, they could spend more time with family, ...

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... includes television, videos, movies, video games, print, radio, computer, and the Internet. Most kids are in school for a total of 6 hours, this includes time for lunch and recess and if required naptime. So if you subtract the hours of the other activities, you find that kids are not actually doing one activity for six hours. Besides sleep, the most time spent on any one activity would involve ... the media. It was found that the highest proportion of violence is in children's shows. Children are witnessing large amounts of violence ... have more concrete control over what children ar...

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... to 90%. Today 99% of homes have a television. Actuality, more families own a television than a phone (AAP Committee). Children spend more time learning about life through media than any other manner. The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school (Dr. Ledingham, Jane). Most people based their lives around ... some time, we need to be dependent on parents to reduce the effect that media violence has on children, which can be done in so many different ways. First, parents should limit the amount of television...

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... of 14 and 18 who had been sexually active for six months prior to the study were chosen to participate. Participants were surveyed and asked how many hours a day and how many days a week they might listen to rap music, and the number of hours per week they watched music videos. The type of rap music i.e. gangster rap, hip-hip, male or female lyricists was ... .8 percent had engaged in sexual intercourse with someone other than their steady partner; 44.2 percent reported using drugs and 44.4 percent consumed alcohol. Those subjects with greater exposure than the average 14 hours were thre...

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... prime time news hour. Considering that it has also been said by Beckman that children watch an average of twenty-eight hours of television a week. That is a lot of violence children could be watching. The child could be affected in many ways, by becoming aggressive, fearful or less sensitive to others. Children are impacted everyday by violence on television. With regard to ... has also been proven by many sources to make teens and adults more aggressive. Studies by Leonard Eron, Ph.D. and his associates at the University of Illinois found that children who watched many hours of televis...

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... society need to do something to stop all the violence. Violence is all over television, in video games, and even at school. Studies have shown that most kid watch three to five hours of television a day. Which averages to about 120 hours of television a month. With all the violence on television kids are quick to ... pick it up. They become use to it, and think that violence is the way to resolve conflicts. Studies have shown that the violence on television can ... cause kids to be more violent and the effects and be ... stopped. Certainly no one thinks that sending their kid to school...

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... small hardly anyone could see them. Today that curiosity has become a constant companion to many, mainly children. From reporting the news and persuading us to buy certain products, to providing programs that depict violence, television has all but replaced written ... the same path. And because it looks as though the "violence craze" is going to continue for some time, we need to be dependent on parents to reduce the effect that media violence has on children, which can be done in so many different ways. First, parents should limit the amount of television children watch per day from th...

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... of us have a television in our living room and one in the bedroom also. As a child, the television in the living room was for my brothers, sister, and I to watch. My parents would leave us unsupervised and watch TV in their bedroom. Children between the ages of two and seven spend almost twenty hours per week watching TV unsupervised. (Facts and Figures) Ninety-one percent ... of children over the age of seven spend their television time without their parents. (Facts and Figures) This leaves children to be exposed ... real-life violence causes real-life pain or death. (Children and TV ...

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... small hardly anyone could see them. Today that curiosity has become a constant companion to many, mainly children. From reporting the news and persuading us to buy certain products, to providing programs that depict violence, television has all but replaced written ... the same path. And because it looks as though the "violence craze" is going to continue for some time, we need to be dependent on parents to reduce the effect that media violence has on children, which can be done in so many different ways. First, parents should limit the amount of television children watch per day from th...

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... know it is hard for school officials to contact their parents. Although when parents are contacted, they often refuse to respond, often blaming the school or the teachers. When a violent act in a school occurs, there is most likely a victim. Every hour of each day of a school ... order for school violence to be stopped, classroom and school wide strategies must be developed. This task is getting harder and harder with the increased amount of weapons available to students, especially guns. More than 50,000 kids were killed with firearms between 1976 and 1991. ... them installed. Some ot...

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... Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, now, American children "watch an average of three to fours hours of television daily. Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior- (http://www.parenthoodweb.com/parent_cfmfiles). On the other hand, their parents had less of an opportunity to spend their time watching television in their childhoods instead they were out ... problem causes not only children to be less active, but also causes children to become ill easily. Moreover, to compare with the children who watch television a lot, and the children ...

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... as television. According to IAGD.Net, the average American watches over 4 hours of TV a day. Also children spend more than 900 hours in a school year, but many will watch over 1000 hours of television in the same year. The American Academy of Pediatrics study says, by the time today's child reaches age 70, ... he or she will have spent approximately seven years watching TV. One thing can be said about television, the images ... and values that its viewers absorb are standards that the viewer can accept to be the ... and tribulations. America watches television to slip into a world bett...

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