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Cartoons: A New Age Babysitter

It seems that every year children spend more and more time watching television. Some parents will even use the television as a “babysitter” to have some time for themselves, or maybe add a little peacefulness to their day. One of the most popular type of shows with children today are cartoons. Nearly all cartoons show an array of prosocial acts, but also depict some violent and aggressive acts. Violence is discouraging whether it is physically or mentally harmful. Other things these programs might contain are gender and racial stereotyping. In order to determine how often many of these acts occur I watched a variety of cartoons including Recess, which airs on Saturdays from 9 to 10 AM on ABC’s “Disney’s One Saturday Morning”, along with Rugrats, CatDog, Rocket Power, and Pinky and the Brain that are all part of the Nickelodeon family, and air Monday through Friday between 2 and 8 PM. Also, these programs are shown numerous times throughout the weekend on the same channel. While watching these cartoons, I correspondingly noticed the commercials and how they related to gender.

I tended to find that there were just about an equal amount of prosocial acts and aggressive acts in four of the shows that I watched, with the e

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There are many other similar acts just like that in this show. Two seconds later, “snap!” Pinky suffers no shown pain from the crack of the shell around his head, showing kids that if they hurt someone, the other person won’t feel any pain either. In CatDog, which is a cat and a dog attached together at the waist and their body looks like a hotdog, every time one half gets excited about something and runs through the house or street, the other half get thrown about hitting walls and being dragged along the pavement. In a different episode of Recess, the gang finds a one hundred dollar bill on the ground. While the boys had fast paced music, a male announcer, and took place outside. In my day we used to spend most of our time outside, or inside engaged in an imaginary journey.

Although some parts of cartoons are good principles for children, there are also a great deal of violent and aggressive acts depicted that are discouraging. His friends see that he is in trouble and try everything they can think of to help get him released. It was the man’s money, and he had dropped it on purpose to see if anyone would be honest enough to return it. Just as the older boy was about to jump on them, Angelica comes to the rescue with water balloons. Spinelli also plays all sports, and is not afraid to get dirty. She’s a rough and tough tomboy that nobody wants to mess with, although she has a heart of gold. The interviewer then thinks brain is a minority of some kind and hires him on the spot, telling his secretary to send everybody else home. A white man, with a family and plenty of credentials, is turned down at a job interview with the reason being that his family will take up too much of his time.

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