In Alabama, a nine-year-old boy received a bad report card from a teacher, and decided to send her poison candy, as he had seen on TV the night before. In California, a seven-year-old girl sprinkled ground up glass into lamb stew, because she wanted to see if the results would be the same as they we...

IS IT A VACATION OR TORTURE Many vacation goers have had the National Lampoon's version of a vacation, we all have taken at least one in our life times, whether it is with our parents, alone or with our peers. What makes us, a normally sane person, act the way we do when we are no longer on...

Lifelines and risks: Pathways of youth in our time Author: R.B. Cairnes and B.D. Cairnes This book is an exercise in developmental science. Society is viewed at multiple levels, but Cairnes presents the perspective of childhood actions that consequence in future individuality. The...

In the early years of television people where much more sensitive to what was said and took offense to any form of obscene language. Even in the movies it was unacceptable. However, for many the standard for the use of vulgar language has expanded. In many shows on television vulgar words are used w...

To what degree does maintaining obedience to authority lead to aggressive or violent behavior? After reading The Lottery and The Stanford Prison Experiment, I believe that I can answer this question, as both passages helped me develop analogies on this subject by comparing their concepts with real l...

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...