Rock music and the word "dangerous" have been known to be used in the same sentence together; is it dangerous because of the lyrics or is it just dangerous to our hearing? Rock music has been around since the fifties, so has the last 40 years created dangerous people causing violence and mayhem or ...

Music is a form of art that allows lyricists to express themselves and through their personal feelings with words. Feelings that result from the loss of a family member to hating the dog for eating a favorite pair of shoes. For whatever the personal feelings may put into a tempo of beats then it i...

Aggressive Behavior at Rock ConcertsPantera, Slayer, Slipknot, System of a Down...all these are bands. These are bands that have been associated with violent behavior since their inception. Their lyrics incite aggressive emotions, which follows up with fast paced music. These are signs for concert v...

Freedom of speech is one of the rights our Founding Fathers put into the United States Constitution, so why is the US government trying to enforce music censorship? Society blames current music trends for dysfunctional behaviors among teenagers and demands censorship of music artists\' products, whi...

Music of different types has been criticized throughout the ages. A generation of parents worried about poor role models like Kiss and Marilyn Manson. Before that, they thought the Beatles' hair was too long and Elvis' shake too suggestive. Rock'n'roll was said to be demonic. ...

Music is one of the most prominent forms of communication. It is used in every situation to set a tone, alter moods, change attitudes, and affect behavior. The right song can make or break the scene in a movie or set a romantic mood at a restaurant. Music is one of the most expressionistic forms of ...

Apocalypse Now started its scene in the sound of silence genre wherein the viewer sees coconut groves at first and getting a visual smorgasbord of the peacefulness and tranquility that can be found in the Orient. Then all of a sudden the reverie is taken away when the sounds of flying helicopters ...

In the Webster dictionary the definition for violence is an "exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse (as in effecting illegal entry into a house), an instance of violent treatment or procedure injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation". Violence has always ...

IT HAS POWERS FOR EVIL AS WELL AS FOR GOOD." On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 12 of their peers, a teacher, and themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. The Littleton killers idolized shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, The facts of these and other instances of youth violence par...

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 ...

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...

"The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise mind man ever acquired his wisdom...

Within a social structure, there are many factors that influence how individuals view others and themselves. As an example, an individual\'s social class, cultural beliefs, and commitment to religion will influence how that person functions within a social structure. While all of these factors and m...

The Negative Effects of Media on ChildrenDid you know according to the university of Miami, 40% of the average thirty minute news program was devoted to crime? That crime on your television set may be the reason your child may thinks it's alright to bring a gun to school. Did you also know that "...

Violence in the media. This project is to look at violence in the media and to find out whether it influences people and there actions. There have been a lot cases in which people have committed crimes and then said they done this actions because of films. I'm going to look in detail about s...