Media Violence Essay, Research Paper

Kenny Fuller

Health

The Impact of Media Violence

I was reading in some of my information and it was talking about how

?monkey see, monkey do? is a popular saying now days. Sixty years ago the

television was invented. People looked at it as a technological curiosity ( I

got that part from the info). For some people now days TV is their best

friend. Most of them are little kids. TV shows the news, tries to make us buy

certain things, and it also show violence. The only thing that it can do is

replace written materials (Got that to). The bad thing is that these violent

shows are dangering our society.

Certain things on TV and movies have inspired people ( I could think

of any other word to use so I used theirs) to set their wives on fire, lie down

in the middle of the roads, rape, steal, murder, and to do shootings. Out of

1,000 studies it is proven that media violence can have a negative affect on

adults and even children. When people watch these shows it makes them

more aggressive and anti-social. After a few days of watching these shows

people become less sensitive to violence and to victims of violence. After

that happens they begin to have a hunger for more violence in entertainment

and in real life. Media violence is especially damaging to young children

between ages 8 and under. The reason for that is because they cannot tell the

difference between the real life and their dreams. Some images on the TV

and movies may seem so real to them that is might traumatize them ( I got

traumatize from the info).

Even with all of the media violence on shows, there hasn?t been any

real major changes to deal with the problems that keep growing. All the

people glory the violence in movies, like the movie ?Natural Born Killers.?

They are viewed as normal and everyday entertainment. Now days it is hard

to find a children?s cartoon that does not show some type of violence.

The violence on shows isn?t the problem though. It is what they don?t

show. They never show what happens to the people for doing the things that

they do. This happens a lot in cartoons, toy commercials, and music videos.

Children often do not realize that it hurts to hit someone else because they see

it all the time on TV. Everyday in cartoons a character is beat up or killed.

Then they come back in the next one and they are just fine. So then the kids

think that they can do that to someone else and they think that they will come

back tomorrow.

If the people keep having a high demand for violent shows and movies,

then the shows and movies will continue to be played. So if the way people

think today stay the same then nothing is going to change and the show will

keep on playing. So in that case our society needs to depend on the parents

to cut down the violence that is shown to them. There are many different

ways that, that can be done.

First the parents should limit the amount of TV their children watch per

day. It should be between 1 to 2 hours. Children are exposed to too much

violence every day on TV. Mostly that is because parents see the TV as a

babysitter. By cutting down the hours that they get to watch it makes the kids

do something more productive, like trying to read a book or playing outside.

When you decide to let your children watch TV you should always check on

them to make sure they are watching something good.

Even if you don?t let your kid watch TV that doesn?t mean that they

aren?t seeing it. Parents should also make a better effort to develop their

children?s literacy skills. They should help their children learn the difference

between life and their dreams. Without doing that children often have a hard

time telling between what is real and what is make believe. When they learn

this then their parents should teach them about what happens to them if they

draw violence to someone( I made that up that is why it sounds bad). The

parents should tell them that pain is real and death is for ever. They also need

to understand that weapons and other objects that cause violence can cause

serious and life long injuries. All of this can be done by watching TV with

children and going through the show and telling them that the violence and

bad things that happen are fake. They should also ask the kids to think about

what would happen in real life if those things happened. Like would anyone

die or go to jail, or would anyone be sad?

The easiest and most simple way to keep children away from the media

violence is to teach them alternatives to violence( Yes I got that word from

the info). Parents should not be so quick to let their children just sit and

watch TV all day. They should get their children into some more productive

and exciting things to do. It is important for children to be given a lot of

support when they are dealing with violence. If they don?t get that then they

might end up like one of the criminals that are in jail right now.

We are shown tons and tons of violence, brutality, and sexual

immortality( No I didn?t make all of that up). When children, teenagers, and

adults do the things that they see on shows it is like they are playing a game

of follow the leader ( no) and no one wins. There are so many non violent

people in this world. That is because of education. So that means that we

should keep on teaching the younger kids about violence.

The End

Opinion

I didn?t think that the info that I read was to bad. All the info I got

though was to negative. Myself I like watching those kinds of movies. The

other movies are just boring. Everything that I wrote was all true. The only

thing I didn?t like is how they were bitching about how they weren?t changing

the rules or whatever about what to show on TV. But they pay thousands and

thousands of dollars to do that so I would just let it be. The info had a lot of

good stuff in it though. So my opinion on all this is a 7 on a scale from 1-10.

Bibliography

Committee on Communications vol. 95 No. 6 June 1995

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Internet but not to much just a bunch of little stuff

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