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Violence In High School Research Paper

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I wait in the lobby of Edinboro Elementary for my younger brother, surrounded by vibrant colors, and drawings of what the children who attend there want to be when they grow up, coupled with adorably misspelled descriptions underneath. They remind me of how innocent and simple life is when you are young. Before I got to read any of the posters I see my brother running down the hall in his blue, Pokémon shirt and with a smile that spans from ear to ear, which could only mean that it is Friday. When we entered my car I asked him the usual, “How was your day? Did you have fun at school today? Did you learn anything new?” He replied with his typical “Good. I learned noth-” but before he could finish he was interrupted by the radio with his favorite …show more content…

They hear, and see everything, even when they shouldn’t. While the radio does a fine job of “bleeping” out most of the profanity in songs they play, they cannot “bleep” out the content that glorifies drugs, sexualizes women, and promotes violence. One way the radio could fix this problem is by only playing songs approved for all audiences all the time. Another way is for them to have times that have the highest amount of young listeners set aside for kid appropriate music and have other times set aside for adult only music. While this would not fix the problem completely it would lower the accessibility children have to age inappropriate music. It is not just the radio that is problematic, media browsing sites like YouTube are at fault as …show more content…

My brother, or any other young child could have stumbled across this song just as easily as I had. This is just one example of a popular song today; there are hundreds more that have similar themes that could be used as examples as well. While YouTube does have age restrictions on certain videos, from my experience the vast majority does not. I understand YouTube’s optimal audience is not a young child, but at the same time it should account for the fact that young children have access to their site and should do more to protect the innocence of them. YouTube is not the only online media resource, but others, such as Spotify and Pandora require at the minimum an account and/or a subscription to stream music through them. That makes those websites less available for young children to listen to them and more parental control over what they are

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