... murders witnessed by children on television before age 18 [is] 16,000." these are disturbing statistics considering that another statistic TV-Free America shows is the average American youth watches 1,500 hours of television each year and only spends 900 hours in school." Many children many not be getting enough education to teach them that acts of violence are wrong. It is also ... many peoples lives. Studies are being done on violence in the media on the brain, to see if electronic media can influence a growing and developing significantly. So on an average developmental day between the...

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... 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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... 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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... related. Out of the 2,513 cases in a 3-month period, only 32 of those were alcohol related. That accounts for 1.3 per cent of visits to the ED from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon (Don Lajoie Star Staff Reporter, 2001). However, hospital CEO says that numbers don't reveal the whole story. One case involving an alcohol related injury often causes six hours of severe disruption in ... the ED. Doctors say that patients who are intoxicated take up too much ... of their valuable time and they also negatively affect the whole ED through their rowdy behaviour. Visits to the ER due to alc...

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... out inexcusable, ignorant, blasphemous, and extremely low to lay hands on a woman. Also, the NFL is the only occupation where the player's boss, the coach, can yell at them. And if they show any reaction to that, they may be benched or even cut from the team. If your boss spent hours screaming at you like a crazy person, you would most likely file a complaint. When a football ... heavily scrutinized, there is a lot of national pressure from fans, victims of domestic violence, company and endorsement deals, and all employed positions in the NFL to make the commissioner make an ethical po...

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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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... ; nor have Saturday morning programs for children, marked by excessively violent cartoons, changed much for the better- (Cullingford 61). One may ask, "Why can't the government or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intervene to control the amount of violent programming that currently circulates during most broadcasting hours?- Edward Palmer states: "The FCC's reluctance to regulate - especially directly about violent content - is consistent with that of many ... other groups. Because the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, no direct censorship or programming has eve...

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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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... ; nor have Saturday morning programs for children, marked by excessively violent cartoons, changed much for the better- (Cullingford 61). One may ask, "Why can't the government or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intervene to control the amount of violent programming that currently circulates during most broadcasting hours?- Edward Palmer states: "The FCC's reluctance to regulate - especially directly about violent content - is consistent with that of many ... other groups. Because the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, no direct censorship or programming has eve...

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... an average of four hours a day, 28 hours a week, 2,400 hours a year, nearly 18,000 hours by the time they graduate from high school (Chen, 1994, p.23). In comparison, they spend a mere 13,000 hours in school, from kindergarten through twelfth grade (Chen, 1994). It appears children spend more time watching TV than any other activity. Studies have shown that children, in the hours between school and dinnertime ... , spend nearly 80 percent of the time watching television (Chen, 1994). Children living in poverty watch even more ... television than average -- some up to seven hours a day. B...

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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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... of setting. It is no coincidence that statistics reveal that a large proportion of violent crime occurs between 9pm and 3am over the weekend period within or directly outside licensed premises (BCS, 2000). Promotions such as Happy Hours' further enhance the risk of violence or disorder. Deehan (1999) suggested that unattractive and poorly maintained licensed premises are more likely to suffer from ... violent incidents. She suggests that the avoidance of happy hours and the provision of meals will also reduce incidents. The BCS (2000) identified males' aged 16-29, visiting licensed premi...

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... TV on children. The worries were first about the violence on TV, then increased to address the amount of time spent on TV, the quality of TV programs, and the way television portrayed men, women and ethnic minorities. First, how can the amount of time spent on TV affect children? Surveys show that the typical American household has a TV set turned on for about 7 hours each day. Researchers ... on television. Topics such as drug abuse, alcoholism, and sex may also be brought to children's attention sooner than the normal age (Children and Television). Fourth, TV could decrease creativity...

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... poverty and family dysfunction, however now stable suburban and rural communities are also experiencing it, as are private schools" (Schwartz, 1996, p. 1). Therefore, it has been important for school officials, the community, and the government to developing and putting into action many promising types of anti-violence strategies, focusing on both discipline and social and personal transformation. It has also been an issue ... music. Nearly three quarters of all eighth-graders report that watch two or more hours of television each weeknight, and a third report that they watch four or more...

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... . Considering that most Americans have an average of 2.5 television sets in their homes and watch an average of three to four hours of programming a day, the television has made its way into our everyday life. With television being such a huge portion of the American life, it is becoming an even bigger portion of our children's lives. With American adults having less and less ... content of television and children watching it. It states, "Children in the United States view about 2.5 hours of television per day by the time they enter elementary school, increase their viewing to almost 4 h...

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... life long problems and potentially increasing their violent behavior. When children sit in front of the television for several hours a day, it provokes the loss of creativity, impatience, and a dispensation towards violence. As we will see from the research gathered from secondary sources, the more children watch television, the more likely they are to be violent as a young adult and later as an ... a child reacts to his environment is a direct reflection of how they see the world and how TV portrays that world. On average, children between the ages of two and eighteen spend almost five...

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... play an average of eight hours of video games per week, an increase of over 400 per cent from 1999. Playing is heaviest in the 11-14 age group, with boys outplaying girls more than 2.5 hours to 1. A recent study suggests ... that around 99 per cent of American boys play video games, along with 94 per cent of girls. It is common for US children and adolescents to play more than 20hours per week and it is not uncommon for males to play 40 hours ... more per week. (56) Most video games nowadays are killing with blood and many weapons such as guns, knives, or explosives. In his article, th...

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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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... with murder. Teens enjoy violent shows because they"re fun and exciting, but it influences them in a negative way. Teens spend about two to five hours each day watching TV, and about forty-five percent of shows have violent content in them. After two hours the violent content is absorbed in their brain it's like a teacher, teens learn from what they see and ... the violence sinks in so they become more aggressive towards other classmates or adults. Many teens think they are untouchable, no one can get them in trouble ... it says parents don't set standards on how many hours they can wa...

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... view such behavior as they are far too young to comprehend the severity of what they see. Younger children are more susceptible to the impact of television violence in part because they spend more time in front of the set. "Children ages 2 to 5 watch about 28 hours of television each week, or almost 4 hours per day." (Black, et. al. 317) Older children watch about four ... hours less per week. These younger children are fascinated with a media that does ... not require the ability to read or decipher in a way they do not know ... ...

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... something I saw on TV."" Watching violence on television influences society to act aggressively because of its vulgar content. American children watch an average of three to four hours of television daily. Whether it is a music video, cartoon or a televised sport, a large amount of the programming is violent in a way. Statistics show that children and adolescents in America spend, on average, 28 ... hours per week watching television. Unfortunately, much of televisions programming is violent. What's even more staggering is that it has been estimated by the American Academy of Pediatrics...

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... of combining these two elements (Hepburn 244). First of all, today's adolescent watches more television and movies when compared to an adolescent from the early 1970s. Recent studies have shown that the average American child spends approximately four to five hours a day hypnotized in television programs full of violent content (Hepburn 244). Protesters of television violence believe an increase in television sales also ... elementary school (Hepburn 244). Many who reject television violence are persuaded that the violence shown on several programs has actually increased for example, ai...

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... television. Dr. Jeffrey G. Johnson, from Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, reported that the likelihood of adolescents and teens to display violent behavior and commit aggressive acts in their future increased when they viewed over seven hours of television a week (Kolata). This is not a ... hard thing for teens to accomplish. The amounts of television violence that adolescents and children view should be decreased or eliminated to ... way so that children do not have access to it. An average American will have their televisions on for approximately six ...

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... were least likely to depict the long-term consequences of violence (5%) and they portray violence in a humorous fashion 67% of the time. Leonard Eron, PhD at the university of Illinoi, has conducted a close study of television viewing from age 5 to 30. The results hurt our television loving brains: the more hours of television violence viewed, the more the tendency for aggressive behavior in ... teenage years becomes as does the likelihood of criminal acts and arrests in later ... years. Nick workman's (7 years old) favorite program is The X-men, a carton featuring mutant superheroes wi...

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... television 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 affect how ... been noted in newborns only a few hours old (Centerwall, pg 128). Even though these children are able to mimic the things they witness, many are unable to discern between moral right and wrong. "The average American preschooler watches more than 27 hours of television per week up through ages ......

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