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    Media Violence is definitely harmful to children as the exposure of media violence can desensitize children (age 6-12) to violence and in the real world; violence becomes enjoyable and does not result in apprehensiveness in the child. There have been several studies and experiments regarding the adverse effects of violence used in video games, television, as well as movies. With both preschool and school-aged children, studies have found that they are more likely to imitate the violence they see

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    Violent video games are blamed for causing violence, aggressive behaviors, crimes, bullying, fighting, and school shootings. The media portrays video games as a tool that influence children and teenagers to commit violent acts. During the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association case, the United States Supreme Court ruled the rejection of banning video games in California because studies have not proven the violence caused by video games. Statistics have shown the decrease in juvenile crime rates

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    lives due to war-induced causes. Horrific human rights abuses such as systematic rape and murder have created a horrific humanitarian crisis in the DRC (The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect website, n.d.). Currently, this violence is associated with conflict materials; in the area of the DRC, this is not related just to diamonds, but it is related to this and the mining of gold, copper, cobalt, gold, tantalum and tin. Neither the military nor the government appears to have

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    behavior believe that the media is just seen as the main perpetrator because many parents fear it more than other factors. The media 's ubiquitousness gives people everywhere one thing to look at and blame for the violence in their societies, because so much of what is in the media contains violence. This fear is mainly drawn out of parents lack of knowledge on how to

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    beliefs, and money is useless in both places. Therefore, an economy is clearly important to have, since probably anarchy would ensue without a stable economy system, but some people take it too seriously. Money isn’t everything in his culture. And family, memories and being a Christ following person is what really matters, not money. Those things you can’t drop on your foot, therefore materialism is viewed as evil in his society, since needing tangible things is frowned upon in his society. He knows

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    given moment throughout a day, endless reports of violence flood the popular press. From the newspaper article on the NFL player knocking his girlfriend unconscious in a brutal assault to the ABC News report on the NFL player beating his four year old son with a “switch” to the point of drawing blood and leaving scars to the early morning news broadcast of the child abuse and heart-breaking death of two year old Colton Turner of Leander, violence is running rampant within our society. Every year

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    school day he was in tears. He only got help because of one amazing teachers that I have the highest opinion of. If it wasn’t for that amazing teacher it could have ended the way it happened to David Molak. Violence is caused when people have to big of an ego or anger. Two causes of violence are ego. When people have to big of an ego they start to think that everyone is less than them. Having too big of an ego is when you think that you can do anything without the consequences. A kid at my school

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    The problem is that a lot of violence is shown on TV. This exposes children to actions that they should not see until they are old enough to understand what is happening. The violence in movies and television affect society’s children’s way of growing up because they are exposed to aggressive actions since they are young. Every child enjoys watching a movie or television every once in a while. However, a lot of the 21st century movies or shows contain some sort of violence. According to Wilson and Hudson

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    people who are already aggressive? Aggression and sport have gone together as long as sports have been around, be it the players themselves, to the parents, coaches, or spectators, they just seem to be an inseparable part of each other. The term violence is defined as physical assault based on total disregard for the well being of self and others, or the intent to injure another person (2. Coakley). Intimidation usually does not cause physical harm, but often is designed to produce psychological

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    the internet and in the media, and the idolization of violent individuals are all examples of the "romantic notions about war and violence" that exist in our society. Former child soldier turned author and

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