... they get angry, sad, or depressed. Violence is not something that only exists in the imaginations of Hollywood's directors and what shows up on a TV screen. Which came first, television or violence? The answer is violence. Television and violence do not have to go hand in hand; however, when ... and awhile. How do we reduce the violence while still keeping violent shows pretty much unavailable to children? It's possible. I feel that violence on TV should be reduced and played mostly at night. That way, the majority of people watching will be adults who know what to expect from the show...

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... had AIDS, on the news. I also thought about that I couldn't remember the last time I had seen and AIDS awareness or warning about STDs on the TV or in a movie. So if the number of STDs is rising, I thought, then why are movies and shows still depicting casual sex as harmless fun. Television ... . It's also a common belief that people were taught about the outcomes of casual sex in school and don't need to be taught again from TV. People may have been taught in schools about the possible bad outcomes of casual sex but repetition plays a key roll in what a person is taught ... as educated...

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... like never before. Some shows are live some may be taped but they all seem to use the same type of content. This type of TV is called Reality TV, however is it real, is it fake, or is it just plain gross. It could be anything that makes these shows popular but ... something disgusting as a fear. Put more physical activity into the show the eating thing is getting a little boring. Fear Factor is just on example of reality TV there is also survivor. Sixteen people are sent away to a place they have never been before and stuck there for thirty-nine days. That is a long ... shows. There are...

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... picked off the news delivered by the speakers. Surely not only Mark Leyner is influenced by TV, but also everyone. That's why I choose this subject. TV's influence is a problem, which increased the last years rapidly. TV offers more and more channels for every taste. The result is that people spend much more ... get immense problems in school. The writing turns worse because they don't read books anymore. The information they get on TV is easier to understand than it's given in books. Because of that the PISA-studies were so bad in Germany. No country in Europe watches ... soccer. Now ...

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... that by the time children complete elementary school, the average child will witness more than 100,000 acts of violence on television, including 8,000 murders. The average Saturday morning children's TV show contains 26 acts of violence per hour, compared to 5 acts during prime time. (Bibliography #7) Studies have show that children who regularly watch violent programs tend to resolve conflicts ... rating system is based on the Motion Picture Association of America rating system. The television system is broken down as follows:TV-Y: all children, TV-Y7: directed to older children, TV-G...

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... of drug and have left us to determine whether or not these shows are distracting us from our reality or quality programming. Reality TV is having an influence on our children. Our children are learning about relationships and love by watching these shows. Temptation Island tests "committed ... The Real World, we are forever shaping future generations. Children no long run and play; instead, they are planted in front of the TV waiting anxiously for their next lesson on life. Technology has made this obsession easily assessable. Satellite and cable providers give our children several opti...

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... , President Clinton and Congress passed the Telecommunications Act in 1996. The bill contained the following elements: The deregulation of most cable TV rates by 1999. • • Elimination of the FCC rule barring single ownership of multiple TV stations. Increased the broadcaster's TV station audience from twenty-five percent • to thirty-five percent. Ended the FCC limited ban on networks than owned ... • cable systems. Allowed competition between telephone and cable companies • in each other's businesses. Extended TV and radio license terms to 8 • years, and repeals the law again...

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... it's easy for them to watch different kinds of shows without parental consent. Some people contend that it's not what children watch on TV but how easily obtainable guns are. The people who say violence on television does cause children to be violent site psychological research. They ... depictions of murder, by the time he or she finishes sixth grade. Numerous studies have been done to show the correlation of violence in TV and children's propensity to be violent from watching it. George Gerbner, at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that children's television shows contain about ....

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... of fame but this is ridiculous. I get the "All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players" routine. (1) These new reality TV shows feature everything from disasters in meeting your girlfriend's parents to competing to be the last person on an island to choosing between love and money. All of these ... shows offer a twist of some kind. I can hardly bring myself to turn on the TV anymore. The TV show for love or money is about a guy who is given a bunch of beautiful girl to choose from. He narrows the pick down to one lucky ... you that money is better than love? I don'...

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... programs, the juvenile crime rate has increased. It is very evident to see that television and juvenile violence go hand and hand. Turn on the TV any time of any day and one can bring a carnival of murder, mayhem, and bloodshed right into the living room. Maybe, like many Americans ... 25). If only one would step back and look at this through the eyes of a child and consider what role TV has played in their lives. It is easy to see what a menace TV violence really is. The average American 4 to 8 years old will view 250 episodes of war cartoons and 1,000 ... are more likely to stick with ...

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... fire. In Mike Judge's movie, he repeats the word "fire" idiotically around a campfire, when he was having hallucinations, fire was a primary visual, and when Butt-Head was "channel surfing" through TV shows. Beavis commented that there should "be more shows about fire" ("Beavis and Butt-Head"). Not to mention their obsession of hurting animals, like in "frog baseball". The shows characters ... and incidents, just two television shows have greatly impacted today's television viewers for the worse. Many have either become seriously injured or in other cases killed as a consequence of thes...

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... of America have always enjoyed the laughter brought by misbehavior, yet it was not until the 1950's that the entertainment business took notice. Not every TV family of the fifties was portraying a well-mannered child. Dennis The Menace [1959-1963] showed the dangers of what having a child without siblings ... could yield. A single boy child can wreck more havoc on a community than a tornado. But Dennis was only a character in TV that many children could relate to and admired. Most kids looked up to him to fulfill all the little repressed hostilities they had toward adults. Although ......

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... . There is too much violence in children's cartoons and it is affecting their way of life. Some problems are the amount of time kids spend on TV, the influence of adults and older siblings and many inappropriate shows being broadcasted on children's networks. One means of which violence gets to kids is the ... become common in them. Also, by spending so much time in front of the television, kids" minds become convinced that whatever they saw on the TV is the right thing to do and they must follow in that path. This is not what we want our young children to learn. To prevent ... activit...

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... 60's, when such shows as American Bandstand, the Addams family, and the Three Stooges arrive on the scene. Shows like this would forever change the face of TV. The Television has been known by many names, but the boob-tube is probably the most well known of them. This name is probably derived from the fact ... that it makes people total boobs. This has been a fact since the first episode of the first sitcom, and will be true until the last TV show has ever been shown. This is why there is such appeal to it, you don't have to think, and you just know that everyone hates thinking. ... In ...

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... 18 July 2001 For how long will the young men and women from the reality TV series Big Brother be household names? For three months, their conversational tics, sexual inclinations, methods of ablution, personal obsessions and much less have been on display on the small screen ... amused by the goings-on - including the definitively banal conversations - in the Gold Coast "house" with little attendant controversy. All the same, this should not obscure the fact that reality TV is by and large a con. It is a creation of the entertainment media in which an ersatz reality, where preconceived...

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... imitate the violence they see in television Identify with some characters, victims/victimizers That show us that child could real problem, like becoming more aggressive after watching a TV program, and more specifically a violent TV program. 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. Child can be traumatize if they see a too much violent scene that seams real. And now, the question that all parents ask themselves : What can we do They a...

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... violence is where they are most likely to be watching: commercials and children's programming such as "Power Rangers". In studies by George Gerber Ph.D. at the university of Pennsylvania, children's TV shows have been to include 20 violent acts per hour. "Children may be less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others". This is one of the three major findings ... television is a powerful tool and a lot of thought goes into it. Advertising is a great way to display something to a mass number of people. People decide on a variety of things through TV ads. They inspire wants in people. ...

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Those who proclaim that television is harming society may be too quick to judge television, in fact in some ways TV can help society. One only has to look at programs such as America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries, they may often be on the corny side, however America's Most Wanted ... hocked constantly on television; the parents have control of the checkbook and should therefore establish some rules about commercials. Unfortunatley, advertisements are unavoidable these day's, they are everywhere, not just TV, they can be heard on the radio, there are billboards everywhere you look. Tur...

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... the ABC show "Friends", the women are portrayed to work for a clothing designer, a restaurant kitchen, and one that is a "hippy-type" floater. While the men are a business professional, a anthropologist, and a TV actor. The gender bias then goes past that point to the competence of the individuals themselves. The females all have a more "flighty" personality to them, while the men are a more ... alters the scale of gender bias, as the main character is a high-school cheerleader, who also saves the world. But, on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", the only female is young TV reporter that i...

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... society by dealing with the sexual revolution and showing that men and women are equal. The Cosby Show had a great impact on society by being the African American show on TV. The show helped break down barriers of racism. Bill Cosby showed that African Americans do live a normal live and can be just as successful as any other human being on ... ...

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... is startling cause the kids are still in high school. They don't realize that having sex is risky. It's not like the after effects of sex are shown on these TV shows or movies, where characters rarely get pregnant or contract a sexually transmitted disease. Shows like Blind Date depict real world type situations when merely it is really fantasy. While studies ... ...

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... watching violent shows. Children who view shows in which violence is very realistic frequently repeated or unpunished are more likely to imitate what they see (TV 2). This is visible in a study done at Penn State University. About one hundred preschool children were observed before and after watching television. ... a vicious cycle begins to spin. Aggressive behavior is evident in many cases. For example: in Alabama a nine-year-old boy received a bad report card from his teacher. He suggested sending the teacher poisoned candy as revenge as he had seen on television the night before (Gro...

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... 's actually done with computers now). You have to see it to believe it...and once you do, you'll either be hooked or want it banned. South Park is rated TV-MA/L, it contains adult language, animated violence, and suggestive material. They are a very politically incorrect show with major shock value and address many controversial topics. In 1995, filmmakers Trey Parker ... and Matt Stone were hired by a Fox executive to make a video to send as a Christmas card. They were given $2000 to develop it. $750 and lots of construction paper later, they were finished. The video was sent out before...

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... harm his sister. However, television perhaps was responsible for altering his views of reality. Many researchers claim that there is a direct correlation effect with the amount of violence seen on TV and the amount of violent behavior one commits. However, an unrealistic approach and inconsistency of the studies often flaw the research in this area. Firstly, researchers in laboratories can, with ... and Violent Behavior, which was published in a journal Social Forces the authors suggests a theory about the effect television has on violent behavior. The authors suggest that, "It is possib...

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... literature, and reinforcing many of the works of Carole Pateman, and Emma Goldman. In analyzing Reality T.V's most recent hit "Joe Millionaire", many of these themes become apparent. Further, many reality TV shows also premise themselves as being democratic in nature, the show Survivor for example, relies heavily on the voting process. Does voting alone however provide a democratic nature or are the ... votes merely just a strategy for contestants to win. It is not this authors contention that reality TV has the same overtly political 2 messages as the proletarian literature of the 1920'...

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