... attitudes after watching the classic "Woody Woodpecker" cartoon. An example of a statement the students were asked to respond to in the pre-viewing aggression survey was, "When another kid hits me I hit them right back." The range that was involved was 1(not at all true) to 4 (very true). In the above stated question the mean was 1.8, with all other answers to ... [that are] carried in their genes" (Bee, 1998, p.145). In a study by Centerfall (1992, p.3062), it was found that the annual Caucasian homicide rate doubled after the introduction of television. This study also concluded that ...

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... don't think this is fair at all because I think they should make laws that suits the whole U.S., and not make different laws in different states. Another reason that makes me think that they shouldn't have different gun control laws in different places is because I knew a person that buys guns in New York, and some how got them over here ... and sells them to people by tripling the price. I have asked him how he got them over here, but he never told me how he did it. He told me that he has done this for many years until one time he got caught when he was selling them and was jailed for 6...

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... and 55 percent of programming high in violence (Leon, 162). With this noticeable increase in violence appearing in television 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 ... of shows that are appealing to kids. These shows promote both bad judgment and aggressiveness, which leads to violence. " TV did have an effect on me right from the beginning in the first grade, I was a member of a four kid gang that went around imitating TV westerns" (Brandon Tradeoff, NBC ... it is evid...

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... to the kid in our neighborhood?" I stuttered for a second "Yes?" Mentioning old incidents over and over always make people irritated. It really annoys me when my relatives or my parents say video games are bad, especially those that aren't suitable for the young, developing mind. I've been playing video ... Word choice in sensitive issue, like about gaming, does make a difference when a research article is published widely for people to read. If someone tells me that I am aggressive, I usually take it one way; I would shove everything out of my path to my goal; someone might get "hurt",...

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... as possible. The researchers made profound and astonishing discoveries and theories that I was able to agree and disagree with. However, it occurred to me that violent behavior accumulates and forms at a young age, so I feel that it is important to understand what causes the adolescences to become violent ... In the adolescence stage, children are most vulnerable and susceptible to gang violence and drugs. Research has shown that in neighborhoods where there is high rate of divorce, residential turnover, temporary people with no roots in the community, single parent families and poverty,...

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... shows up when they themselves have become parents, giving way to households of tolerable violent behavior. Straus says, "As parents, they have a higher rate of severely attacking their own children than the parents who were not hit when they were adolescents."" Straus also goes on to include tendencies towards wife ... hit, they are taught that hitting is acceptable. Hitting, in my mind, is a crime, or an assault on a physical person. It seems to me that reasonable corporal punishment on middle-school-aged children, rather than having a positive affect on reducing crime of older teens, ma...

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... of how crucial music is to a teen's identity and how it helps them define important social and sub cultural boundaries. Teens consider musicians their heroes more frequently than athletes and rate the influence of music higher than religion or books." (Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, 1999). One study found that teens listened to music an average of 40 hours per week ... , especially when it reaches a vulnerable audience For example, Nine Inch Nails released "Big Man with a Gun," with the following lyrics: I am a big man (yes I am) and I have a big gun; got me a big old dick and I lik...

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... freeway, I realized it would be an even longer drive home than I thought. Apparently, I cut someone off because I was brighted and honked at several times. I was afraid because this person tailgated me until I was almost home. In this case of road rage, I was lucky. I wasn't hurt and my car was not damaged; other people have not been so lucky. Every time someone ... threatening or sometimes violent behavior that is intentionally inflicted on one or more motorist. Road rage is an increasing problem in the United States. "Researchers say that the highway fatality rate due to driver aggres...

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... have been conducted to test if violence in the media has a direct influence on the behavior of its observers. Gerbner and Gross discovered violent acts occur on American television at a rate of five acts per prime-time hour and eighteen acts per weekend daytime hour (Huesmann, Eron, and Legerspetz). Because of new age technologies, such as satellite cable, and digital cable ... Lariviere, Virginie's sister, had been robbed of mere $6, then raped and strangled. "I kept asking myself why anyone would want to do that to Marie-Eve, and it suddenly occurred to me that it might well be the re...

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... , and being concerned about others feelings. Although there were drastic differences between the two groups, the second group was neither more aggressive nor more helpful. What was so interesting to me in this study is that it showed both sides. This shows that television ultimately affects the way someone behaves. Extensive viewing of television violence by children causes greater aggressiveness. Sometimes ... aggressive behavior as rated by their classmates. Finally, in a study focused on adults, Phillips (1983) investigated the effects of the portrayal of suicides in television soap o...

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