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    The use of media (television, video games, phones, music, and computers) by young children is becoming more and more common in everyday life. Children are in front of media screens now more than anytime in history. Parents are allowing, encouraging, and promoting the use of media in many forms. There are endless sources available for parents to purchase for the use with infants, toddlers,a nd preschoolers from movies to games and videos. (Ravichandran, France de Bravo, 2010, “Yound Children and

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    to have an increase in violence. Studies that were taken to act as evidence toward video games being harmful or harmless were focused on neuroscience research. This is an aspect of Psychology that deals with the functions of the brain. The way the brain functions is affected by many factors, a major argument is playing violent video games has harmful influence on the brain? Since the late 1990s there have been a continuous increase in the standard of lifelike violence in video games. The emergence

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    Bellis and Zisk (2014).This article is about how childhood trauma effects psychosocial, medical, and public policy. When trauma happens in a child's developmental stage, it creates overwhelming stress. Chronic intrapersonal violence is extremely common in children all over the world. The article says that childhood traumas is a fairly new study, so there is not as much information about traumas as adolescents versus adults. The authors goals is to show the long and short term effect on children after

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    & Buckley; Anderson). Researchers believe that the aggression caused by violent video game effects depends on a real-life situation. For example, teens that do not associate with violence will not be as effected as teens that are associated with violence, violent video game have more positive attitudes toward violence without consequences in the game then that in real life “If you shoot somebody in one of these games, you don’t go to jail, you don’t get penalized in some way — you get extra points

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    that physical violence is the most infrequent form of aggression and that people prefer alternatives that give bigger effect and less punishment. Her thesis implies that Hamlet shows a great amount of examples of how humans psychologically treat each other. Characters spread aggression in non physical violent ways such as spreading lies, framing others and etc. Opening to the thought that the Queen was not seen as a suspect to Ophelia’s death because she did not use physical violence. “ I suggest

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    Corporal punishment has been practiced for many centuries, available throughout many countries. This form of punishment is thought to be an effective method for obedience. However, corporal punishment is becoming a growing concern throughout the US. Multiple research reveals that the obedience gained from corporal punishment lasts only for a short amount of time and may cause other issues, both mentally and physically. Each individual has a set of ethics that differs from every other person. Due

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    Introduction In an effort to understand the media and its functionality, it is my belief that one needs to go back to inception to get a fair understanding. The twentieth century was an era that saw an explosion of mass media however, prior to the late 1980s; the only form of mass media that was prominent of that time was literature. It was noted that back in these times, the average person had to get by with music and oral storytelling or live action media through the form of plays or even gladiatorial

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    INTRODUCTION: Many studies have shown that bullying is the most common form of school violence (Nansen, Over peck, Pilla, Roan , Scheldt and Simon-Morton ,2001) and it may be a starting phase to a more severe forms of youth violence ( Leary , Kowalski ,Smith , Philips,2003). Bullying can be defined in terms of the power differentials (Olwens, 1993) that are between the victim and the perpetrator. According to Olwens, for bullying to set forth there should be imbalance of power as it doesn’t happen

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    Should video games be blamed for causing aggression and violent behaviors? Video game popularity has increased significantly every year since the 1970s and it will continue to increase as technology advances. At first the video game industry was dominated by males, but now almost 50% of video game users are women. This proves just how powerful video games have become and how it equally attracts both male and female gender, video games are now a part of our culture. It is a form of entertainment people

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    acts of violence created by a handful of irrational people of the society. Terrorism however, is a military strategy that brings with itself many advantages, and has been used to gain independence from oppressive nations on multiple occasions. Terrorism is often used when two forces are unevenly matched in war. When nations are placed between a rock and a hard place even the most rational people will result to terrorist tactics. By terrorism, this is meaning non-state actors that are using non-traditional

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