This Is Your Brain On Bondage. The entertainment industry has come a long way since the invention of movies and television. It opened the door to a vast new world. If it's comedy you want, it will deliver. If it's action you crave, it can give that to you too. It also has romances, thrillers, ho...

Violence in the media and in the movies today is more gratuitous than it ever has been. Many experts have pointed out that society should take appropriate ethical actions to minimize violence by adolescents. Many believe that this violence was caused by the increased brutality in movies today. I ...

These three articles were all about the relation of criminology to popular culture. I believe that a lot of the scenarios and perceptions towards certain violent movies are true. By using certain characters (heroic father or hard bodies) they can allow the viewer to perceive that character as part ...

Generation "Numb": Bouncing Violence off the Brains of America's Youth Imagine a generation of young people who are shocked by nothing. Imagine a group of young people who have seen and can bear the grotesque and unnecessarily violent to the point where they consider it the nor...

Both Mike Males, the writer of \"Stop Blaming Kids and TV,\" and Susan R. Lamson, writer of \"TV Violence: Does It Cause Real-Life Mayhem?\" have different views on the controversial issue of television causing violence. Males believe that television should not be blamed for the violence in society ...

Media Violence Violent movies and television shows have been popular since the 1960s. Westerns and Police shows have kept us entertained with gunplay and car chases. Movies and television shows has become more violent over the years. Politicians, like Al Gore and Bill Clinton, have officially asked...

I first heard of time movie through a friend, who was visiting from London. She told me about this movie that was banned in the United States, because of its content. This intrigued me, I wanted to find out why this movie she raved about for its deep psychological meanings, would be banned. We ...

For the past several decades the media has impacted and naturally changed our life immeasurably. Television and movies in particular have had a destructive and irreversible influence towards children. In everyday life, a typical American child will spend up to 4 hours engulfed in an imaginary world ...

When young people commit violent acts, who and/or what is to blame? When young people commit particularly violent acts in society, people are very quick to point the finger at the most obvious causes for these problems, but according to recent studies, young people's reasoning for committing...

Enjoying Violence There are many different views on how violent films and music affect people. Personally, I believe violent films and music do not affect people, but some studies show they do. There are also various reasons why people want to see violent films, and why artists and producer...

Nicole Imasuen In my personal opinion, I do believe media violence can definitely have an effect on people. The reason I say this is because there's many cases that I think shows it does. For example the show Jackass. I was watching 20/20 and there was a story about a kid who accidentall...

The causes of youth violence are numerous and complex. Neurological, hormonal, and mental abnormalities can produce highly increased aggressions in many cases, but environmental contexts that encourage the learning of aggressions also play a key role. Indeed, child who grows up within an enviro...

Today\'s news is filled with articles about misbehaving teenagers. It is least likely the reporters to inform people referring to normal teenagers, who suffer from stereotypical views towards teenagers. Do adults have the rights to believe that all teenagers misbehave because only the act of a few? ...

Censor To Be Censored Provoked by the streams of westernization and increased awareness of human rights, many Thais are questioning their obsolete ways of thinking and beginning to revolutionize them. Based on Potter Stewart's idea: "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confiden...

A Violent Society The American society, it seems, is often depicted as violence portrayed at its best. As a people we obviously do not condone or accept this form of action yet we know it is among us. Everyday we see or hear about an evil occurring, whether it is a hit and run, a robbery, or a ...

Causes and Effects of Juvenile Crime One of the biggest problems that the United States is faced with in the present day is juvenile crime. Juvenile crime does not only affect the individuals who commit the crime, it also affects the victim of the crime. This also affects the juvenile in their...

 The behavior children exhibit is influenced by environmental conditions, however to a lesser extent than the biological factors that influence behavior, unless the child is severely abused. The environmental factors have a limited impact when it come...

Media's Influence on Society April 30, 8:17 in the morning. Quiet. Without warning, the police scanner wails. "All units, shots fired on Third Avenue." The listening police officer sits up in his seat. "A little early for a shoot out," he mumbles, "especially in ...

In today's society, it is normal for an American child to watch an average of three to four hours of television daily. Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior in children and teens. Unfortunately, much of today's television programming is loa...

Mass media such as newspapers, books, magazines, and movies have been criticized as the cause of violence in society. Television has had the most research done as the cause of violence. The pictures viewed by billions of people throughout the world are processed in different ways. Most people just p...

An increasing concern is the high rate of violence displayed by the youth of today's society. Indeed, we are living in an age where violence has become a way of life. We have, in fact, become a culture of violence. Within the past three decades, there have been countless examples of man'...

Understanding the Problem "Video games are not the source of violence in our society", says the president of the Interactive Digital Software Association Doug Lowenstein, "That's like blaming illiteracy on television. It's time we look at availability of guns and dysfunctional families as the sour...

THE ROLE MEDIA PLAY'S IN TODAYS SOCIETY Let's stop the violence by "Turning off the Media Violence" in our own homes. Stop a moment and think about how television, movies, and video games affect children's behaviors. In the aftermath of the World Trade Center tragedy, I&a...

Over the past couple of years, child violence has been a major topic in American society. The continual school shootings represent a crisis in the raising of American children. This problem must be addressed with the utmost of urgency and in the most straightforward fashion. The resolution to this ...

The title statement is a very definite opinion, a one-sided argument that leaves little room for doubt. It's certainly a view that research can support, but also a view that can be challenged. Our society has unfortunately experienced a turbo-charging of occasional mass murderers, for which vio...