ed, "Does watching violence cause someone to be violent?" and thus the study began. We began searching for answers. Most of us refused to believe that our beloved televisions could be responsible for the changes that were taking place in our society. We wanted evidence, some proof that TV was really as bad for us as the scholars were insisting.
             Over 30 years ago, a scientist named Leonard Eron started a study in which he hoped to find a connection between child aggressiveness and the way parents were raising their children. To his surprise, a very different conclusion was stumbled upon. Children that had been exposed to violent acts on television were found to be the more aggressive ones in the school atmosphere. "Since then, nearly 3,000 studies have found a connection between television violence and real violence." (FRONTLINE examination (as cited in the Media Literacy Project – University of Oregon, 2000)) A fact that has been proven this many times would seem to be extremely conclusive.
             The goal of this paper is not to prove whether or not media violence affects our children. However, this information is important because the violence that we saw as children growing up is central to the way we act and how our culture functions today.
             Today's generation has been exposed to violence since it was very young. "By the age of 18, the average American child will have viewed about 200,000 acts of violence on television alone." (http://www.aap.org, 2000, p. 1) From our infancy, our
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