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    The Effects Television Violence Has on Children Television has both positive and negative effects on children between the ages of two and five. Some research shows that violence in the media can be linked to aggressive behavior in children. Though, some researchers disagree with this statement and believe that there are other factors, besides television, which cause children to become violent. The following essay will reflect both sides of this argument. Violent television shows lead

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    movies or television. With that being said entertainers, directors and creators of T.V shows should be monitoring what they are releasing to the public to make sure it is nothing that will harm the consumer in a negative way. Most of these producers, actors, and writers target the youth which can be very dangerous because how it can influence children.       Recently in an article written by Katherine Ellison who wrote “What’s Up Doc? A Bloody Outrage, That’s What” expressed about violence in shows

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    Does violence on television really impact children? A lot of media claim TV violence does by correlating it with aggression, which is why there are many advertised parental locks, mostly by television cable companies. Parents cannot always be there whenever children witness something violent on television. Thus, we studied how often violent acts actually appeared on two types of television shows children may possibly watch. In our study, we chose to watch an adult drama, The Walking Dead, which

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    crime rate is also the very high violence rate. Why is violence becoming and everyday event in our society? When you flip on the television and tune into the news, the highlight of every show is somehow directly related or connected to violence. We see it every evening and perhaps say "Oh my gosh" and then forget all about it two minutes later. Or perhaps we don't even make any comments at all, just a simple grunt or “Oh, how terrible”. This numbness to violence is very scary and real. It makes

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    The Effects of Television Violence on Children According to the Article ?Violence on Television? published by the American Psychological Association at the website http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/violence.html, ?violent programs on television lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch those programs.? That's the word from a 1982 report by the National Institute of Mental Health, a report that confirmed and extended an earlier study done by the Surgeon General. As a result of

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    Children and Television Violence Through what they experience on television, children are forced into adulthood at too young of an age. The innocence of youth is lost when children stare endlessly at a screen displaying the horrors of murder, rape, assault, devastating fire, and other natural disasters. Although these are occurrences in everyday life, things adults have grown accustomed to hearing about, children do not have the maturity level to deal with these tragedies appropriately. Children's

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    Television Violence Television violence has a negative effect on society. Violence is everywhere on television. A question people ask often does violence on television has negative influence on society. Majority of people believe that violence on television does have negative influences on society. Television violence has a negative effect on society because it can influence to become violent and take drugs in the future. Scientist has also tested and proven that television violence has negative

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    Television and Violence One of the increasing problems in today`s society is the violence caused by watching too much television. In 1950`s only 10% of American households had television, but today that number reached higher levels and 99% of households own one or more. Television is most of the time amusement and entertainment for many young people, especially children. Television itself has an impact on everyone. Some researches show that television has good sides and that can be entertaining

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    Effect of Television Violence Program on Children Now more and more violence television shows appear on the screen. A lot of television shows will remind that is available for certain range of audience. Of course, elementary school student, mostly watch cartoon. However, the television production people will add violence into the show. This study aimed to demonstrate the gender-specific impact of violence-oriented television cartoons for children, and to identify the behaviors demonstrating this

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    through violence. The guest baby sits your kids and teaches them principles you don’t agree with. Does watching violence in TV is harmful for your children? Is it Ok to let the 2 year olds watch TV unsupervised? No says the American replacing baby sitters? Hypothesis: Extensive viewing of television violence causes children to behave in aggressive or harmful ways to others. "Children model behavior they see in the media," she wrote in 1993. "If kids don 't see the consequences of violence, it teaches

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