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The Enemy Of Children: Television Violence

            The Enemy of Children: Television Violence.
             "With a television in ninety-six percent of Americans" homes, TV obviously has a major effect on the attitudes, education and behavior of our children." (Dudly PG 71) The lesson being sent out through the airwaves is violence. And the students to this lesson are children. The portal to this harmful material is Television. "The context in which most violence is presented on television poses risks for younger viewers" (UCLA monitoring report) Violence on TV is at epidemically high levels for example eighty-five percent of cable programming is violent. (UCLA monitoring report) This on-slot of television violence is affecting children in many harmful ways. As a result of observing this high amount of TV violence, children are now becoming desensitized to violence in real life situations. Therefore children are not able to decide what is appropriate behavior and what is inappropriate behavior. "The media influence undermines children's abilities to select priorities and choose alternatives to violence". (Arnold, pg 21) Children are also known to reenact what they see on television. Example: kids see their favorite super hero do something on television so they want to act like their hero and mimic him. The influence of television violence is a real problem, especially for children. .
             Television violence is presented to children on most programming they are exposed to. Statistic such as "the rate of violence in children's programs is three times the rate in prime-time shows" (Benders, pg 32), "fifty-five out of one hundred and eighteen films tested raised concern" (UCLA monitoring report) and an alarming "twenty-three percent of all children's cartoons raised serious concern" (UCLA monitoring report) show there is a definite concern about the amount of violence that can be accessed by children on television. Aggression is the result of all this violence.


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1. Public Enemy Number One

In "Public Enemy Number One," Mike Males analyzes both media coverage and documented cocial studies to argue that violence in the homes causes more of an affect and impact than violence shown on television that children see and hear. Throughout Males' essay he uses cause/effect, argumentation, and emotional appeal with occasional fallacies to prove his points. Using cause and effect, Males suggest that the type of life most inmates ... a post hoc ergo procter hoc fallacy used by Males because he tells how the result came to be. The inmates were being abused as children, therfore they started ...

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2. Public Enemy Number One

In Public Enemy Number One, Mike Males says, "America, from Michael Medved to "Mother Jones," has discovered the real cause for our countries rising violence: television mayhem, Guns N" Roses, Ice-T, and Freddy Krueger." This is a very strong statement. Placing all the blame for society's problems on these factors is very risky. Television, for example, does have some excessive violence. The fact that Tom and ... Jerry, run around throwing dynamite down each others throats, and dropping anvils on the others heads. This is nothing compared to the violence that occurs on the news everyday. Chil...

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3. Children and TV Violence

Television Violence and Children Imagine walking into a relative's house and their child comes charging at you claiming to be the yellow Power Ranger. You think nothing of it at first; he is just being a four-year-old. Now imagine he is charging at you carrying a plastic sword. In his eyes, you are the enemy and he is going to take you out with his almighty weapon. He swings ... of children over the age of seven spend their television time without their parents. (Facts and Figures) This leaves children to be exposed to sexual content, violence, profanities, and other adult situations. Frank L...

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4. Violence in the media

... not aware that many of the events on television are not real. For this reason, children are known to idolize many of the people or characters that they view on television. Superman is a great role model for young boys and assuming the role of Cat Woman is a dream to a young girl. If you take Batman, for example, he uses violence to create peace. He will fight the enemy using fists and weapons ... to create bloodshed. Many children find this as admirable ... ...

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5. Television Violence Myth

... -five percent of the programs monitored shows no punishment of the perpetrators for example, the famous cartoons "Batman and Robin" and "X-Men" are not bringing justice to the enemy by sending them to jail; rather they are destroying them with elaborate weapons. Only four percent of all programs monitored contained a strong anti-violence theme (Hepburn 244). As a result of the violent content shown in children's programming, those who want to eliminate television violence believe ... this to be two of three interlinking elements that lead them to vicious and destructive lives. Last of al...

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6. Children in Front of TV Violence

... , cars, brands and the various ethnic groups before even attending school, via TV. (Steve Wulf 66). Children who view shows in which violence is very realistic, frequently repeated or unpunished, are more likely to imitate what they see and tend to learn that under certain circumstances agg! ressive behaviour is acceptable. For example, a battle, a rebel, or a fight is always against an enemy. As a result ... and what is right. Why does the problem exist with children and TV violence? The problem exists because of the different ways that children react to what they watch on TV. One impor...

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7. Violence

... of "How to Zap Violence on TV" and Mike Males writer of "Public Enemy Number One?" have contrasting views on the subject. Violence is a problem that is discussed in both articles. Goodman believes that TV violence is the cause for this behavior. She states that children see that there are few consequences to the person that commits a violent act on television. But on the other hand, Males believes that TV violence is not the ... only cause for, but the media as ... ...

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8. The Reasons for Gun Violence

... inherent importance or public service "but for its ability to attract an audience and turn a profit." (Maeroff, 2000) The depiction of violence on television is graphic and can be particularly harmful because children more readily connect with visual images. Watching this sort of action appears to desensitize the young and lead to aggressive behaviour. 2.1.2 Violent games It is a commonly known fact that many video games do not ... to view them are shocked by the horrific content of some. One of the newest games, Soldier of Fortune, not only allows a player, for just $45.99, to shoot an...

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9. Violence and Videogames

... usually takes several shots to the torso for a normal enemy to go down, and many other major errors (Wynar 5). A videogame is strictly made up of polygons and pixels, and there are no available controllers to even remotely simulate the feel of a real gun. Many gamers believe that videogame violence holds little to no influence in children. Television, movies, and books are ... more widespread, less expensive; and less censored than videogames yet still containts the same themes. Themes of ... aliens invading earth, villains seeking to conquer or destroy the world, and normal people .....

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