But I love to watch." ... We even pay up to fifty bucks a fight to watch the WBC title fight every six months or so. ... However, if I was a college English teacher surrounded by loud kids all week, I would be just as happy to sit around the house and enjoy peace and quiet. ... Americans seem to enjoy the power over the skill, which seems to be most important to our sports watching counterparts in Europe. Europeans watch the sport because of the shill, not the violence. ...

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Influence of television violence for children Each day, millions of child open their television and pass hours watching it.What they listen can be cartoon, reality show, game show, educational program or movie. ... Also, kids who watch violent programs are slower to intervene or to call for help when they saw younger children fighting or playing destructively than kids who watched nonviolent TV program. ... First, parents watch television with their kids, it has been found that when parents build their family cohesion around television viewing, the negative effects of television are intensif...

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For many people, different forms of media are used to escape from the stresses of everyday life, programmes such as soaps can be watched without any thought being required. ... A large percentage of the population enjoy many hours gossiping about different television programmes and films. It provides the nation with an entertainment source, both while watching these mediums, and the aftermath of discussion. ... It gives us all an aspiration as we see new acts performing at the Brit Awards, or when we see man land on the moon, because as we watch these events take place we see that normal pe...

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Do the effects of watching television "slide harmlessly away- or are they "slowly absorbed into the child's identity and developing sense of self- (Kilbourne 160)? ... To illustrate this point she cites a 1994 "gender-bender- commercial in which a group of bevy women office workers gather to watch a construction worker take off his shirt and enjoy a Diet Coke. ...

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People will commit crimes whether or not they watch two hours of the most gruesome pictures. ... They were two deeply disturbed youths who happened to watch Oliver Stone's movie Natural Born Killers before deciding to go on a murdering spree. ... Millions of people enjoy seeing a good horror flick every now and then, not because they need ideas on how to kill someone, but strictly for entertainment purposes. ...

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When he got home, he turned on the television and watched the news. ... Leaning back, he smiled as he watched Sylvester Stallone fill hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers with lead. ... Shows like Southpark, Pro-wrestling, and Celebrity Deathmatch provide violence in a hysterical and clever manner for Americans to enjoy. ... Watching someone fly through the air in an attempt to land on his opponent, then throwing him into the rubber ropes of the ring, and close-lining him as he helplessly passes by that's pure entertainment. ... Watching Hanson and The Spice Girls tear each other's l...

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Watch a few movies and get a few laughs and thrills. ... Empirically, entertainment is something that amuses or pleases and so we should enjoy the violence created for entertainment as it was meant to be. ... It is because for the exact same reason why we enjoy car explosions, combats, and firearms. ... There are many people who enjoy violence but do not take part in it. ...

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Children and young adults listen to music and watch television in extremely large quantities. ... Companies show violence because people are known to enjoy it. ... Children learn by observing the world around them and watching violent acts on television isn"t a beneficial observation. ... The more television they watch, the more they believe life to be like television. ...

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When kids watch this they might try to experiment on an available pet and can cause real harm. ... Although it can start being prevented by not being introduced to children in something they enjoy the most, their books and novels. ...

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Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman, a former professor of psychology at West Point argues "video games prepare kids to kill and even teach them to enjoy the experience" (Quittner 1). ... It found that children demonstrated less frontal lobe activity during the watching of violent video games. ...

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