American Culture is Infatuated With Violence

             AMERICAN CULTURE IS INFATUATED WITH VIOLENCE
             For Americans, violence has become a way of life in more ways than are imaginable. In America, violence occurs everyday and leads to disasters, disabilities, and sometimes deaths. Over the past years, violence has occurred in different ways in America. Violence is evidenced in our sports, in our films, and lastly in our homes and neighborhoods.
             In America, violence is being evidenced in our sport activities, which thousands of us spend thousands of dollars to be a part of. For example, during wrestling matches, people are paid to perform violent acts. These violent acts being performed in the wrestling rings have lead to broken bones, paralysis, and very often, deaths. Wrestling doesn't only cause fortune to the people that do it for a living, but has also caused serious injuries to people who watch wrestling and try to perform what they see, that is performed in the wrestling rings at home. Wrestling is only one out of many American sports that is conducive to violence. Some other American sports involving violence are football, hockey, ultimate wrestling, boxing, and many more.
             In America, violence is also evidenced in many films. It has been proved that most violent acts that are performed in this modern life that we live in, especially by people less than 18 years of age, are acts derived from films and movies. For example, the shooting that occurred in Columbine High School took away many lives and left parents with a child less. Two teenage boys imitated the shooting from a movie. The boys got their idea of shooting and killing the popular boys, girls, and sport stars from a scene in an old film. The killers in the film were called the "trench coat mafia"(which the Columbine High School student killers called themselves). The boys also followed all the steps that were used in the movie during the school shooting and shot themselves after their kill...

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