The effects of media violence on children

             THE EFFECTS OF MEDIA VIOLNCE ON CHILDREN
             On April 20 1999 two boys by the names of Dylan Klebold and
             Eric Harris walked into their High school in the little town of Colombine Colorado
             and opened fire on their fellow classmates.Some say it was the parents others say
             just pure teen adolescence, I say it was the media.
             In the 1950's Television was first introduced to America, only
             ten percent of the families owned a one television in their home, by 1960 that
             number increased to a mere 90% of the people owning a TV, but now a whopping
             99% of homes in our country own a TV. 54% of chidren have one in their own
             Television has become so much of a part of are existense that it
             is virtually impossible to imagine life without it. We all love TV. We can't help
             ourselves. But the question is what is TV doing to us?, and how much is too much?
             Children begin to react to television at a very early age, studies
             show that by the age of three, 95% of children will imitate someone on TV as they
             would a real live person, and children between the ages of six and ten believe that
             most of what they see on television is true life.
             Children learn more about life through the media than any
             other matter. It is said that the average child, from the ages of three to twelve will
             watch a minimum of 28 hours of TV a week, meaning children spend more time in
             front of the so called "Boob Tube" then they do in the classroom. This makes them
             very vulnerable to the effects that television causes.
             The average child will witness over 200,000 thousand acts of
             violence on television including 16,000 acts of murder in his lifetime. Violence in the
             media leads many children to become very aggressive, by watching aggresson
             how to become aggressive, and they also bel
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