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...

Two teenagers get up one morning. Both live normal lives and have never harmed a fly. However, years of listening to heavy metal, gothic, and rap music have put destructive suggestions into their subconsciences. They decide that their lives are not as perfect as they want them to be. They arrive at ...

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...

The content of music lyrics should be censored Page 1 The contents of music lyrics should be censored. There are many different types of music. Some artist's music has profanity and some do not. Many parents complain about their children going out and buying a cd that has a lot of pr...

Daniel BagwellMs. WaggonerEnglish 11115 November 2000A View on Music and the GovernmentThe censorship of music and other forms of entertainment by the government have long been the topic of discussion among social and political circles. Some forms of censorship such as warning labels for parents ca...

Blaming the entertainment industry for the atrocity perpetuated at Columbine High School was a attempt to ascribe a rational meaning to an irrational act of violence and self-destruction. Government officials, the mass media, advocacy groups, religious and civic leaders, and common citizens were qui...

Every other day it seems there is another violent act occurring because of the media. Some people say it is all because of television. Others say it is because of the lack of responsibility of other people. More laws are needed to restrict violence in the media. Americans have the right to go to any...

He Didn't Just Say What I Think He Did. Did He?"I'm like a head trip to listen to cuz I'm only giving you things you joke about with your friends inside your living room. The only difference is I got the BALLS to say it in front of yawl, and I don't got to be false or sugarcoated at all. I just ge...

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...