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...

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 ...

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 ...

On a sad day of loss, the entertainment world continues to reel in the aftermath of the worst terrorist act in recorded history. Last Wednesday, studios and TV networks reopened, but Hollywood still struggled to cope with the traumatic attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. All the movie studios t...

Uncertainty of Success Because no exact formula exists for creating a successful product producing have had to come up with ways to reduce their risk of failure. First the producer must find out what is successful and why. In the TV industry networks measure this by ratings and shares, but this o...

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...

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 ...

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 o...

Mass Media And Its Influences On Children Today Parents all around the country are faced with children in distress almost every night all year round. Often their children are shaking and weeping, they have nightmares and climb into their parent's bed refusing to sleep alone. At this point ...

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...

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...

Television was invented as a means of providing entertainment and began with shows such as "Leave It To Beaver" and "Lassie". Throughout the years, though, television, along with it's counterpart, the movie, has evolved into perhaps one of the most graphic displays of violence and is having a large ...

T.V. advertisements mislead people to think of war as something romantic. Children today make games out of a serious issue such as war. In Stephen Crane's The Red Badge Of Courage Henery Fleming also has romantic ideas about war. It isn't until he is actually at battle that he sees the reality of wa...

The amount of violence shown in the media has posed a lot of controversy. Many video games, television programs, adverts, films and music lyrics depict different forms of violence. Some people feel that there is too much violence exposed in the media. Many studies have made the claim that the media ...

29 March 2001The Monster: The Entertainment IndustryTelevision was invented as a means of providing entertainment and began with shows such as "Leave It To Beaver" and "Lassie". Throughout the years, however, the entertainment industry has evolved into one of the most graphic displays of violence. T...

Reality Television SECTION 1, A Reality television is an exposure of the voyeur in all of us—the sensation-seeking human. We take pleasure and satisfaction in peeking into others\' lives, and the reality of reality television is that the characters are real people. It is unscripted, and the exper...

Media Violence Here is something no one will dispute: The American media contains a high degree of violence. Movies, television sitcoms and other programs as well as cartoons use violence for entertainment and to hold our attention. Musical lyrics that glorify and condone violent behavior and cri...

Top School SitesTop 25 Top 50 Top 100 OPPapers Main Total Papers: 2426Word Count: 572The world today has a variety of problems. Violence is around the top of the list. Everywhere you go that is all you here. It is seen on the front page of the newspaper and as the headlines in the news. Unfortu...

From 1979 to 1989, the firearm homicide rate for persons 15-19 increased sixty-one percent. Male youth in the U.S. are more than five times as likely to be victims of homicide as to youths in many other developed countries. The violence in many entertainment programs has increased to over seve...

Society today has many problems. As many things may be responsible for this, we are definite television has a large role in the malfunctions of our society. This essay will provide evidence that television is bad for our society. Violence is one problem in today's society. Television programs and th...

A Brave New AudienceOver time, technology has become increasingly more advanced. This is unfortunate for mankind because the more advanced, the more serious television gets, the worse it is for its viewers. It constantly feeds people information with which they take in without even knowing its peril...

Violence on Television: Do Children Need Protected?What would you do if your children were watching cartoons one night when all of a sudden the characters pull out a gun and start shooting each other? Would you turn it off? I am sure most parents would. But if I were a parent, I would not. Shado...

Television has a powerful influence of developing value systems and shaping behavior. The fact that television is universally accessible to all different types of people, especially children, is quite upsetting. While I spent hours observing different types of programs, I realized how fortunate I w...

BLOOD! GUNS! DEATH!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TV heroes endorse tanks of noxious,flesh-eating gas The complex age of elaborate laptops, portable color televisions in every room, and pocket radios the size of a basic calculator have all taken their toll on American society. In a furious...

Media Violence BLOOD! GUNS! DEATH! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TV heroes endorse tanks of noxious,flesh-eating gas The complex age of elaborate laptops, portable color televisions in every room, and pocket radios the size of a basic calculator have all taken their toll on American society. In...