...two games that they proposed federal video game regulations and had Night Trap taken out of stores. They most likely understood the effects that violent video games would have on the user and therefore took action against them....
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...politicians across the country believe that putting guns in classrooms will solve the issue of school shootings. That by putting the object that is causing this issue into the hands of someone who is not able to handle a gun adequately will stop the shootings from happening. The teachers for whom it is legal to carry guns are usually undereducated about using the weapon in a crisis. By putting guns in classrooms, administrators are making it that much easier for a gun related incident to occur in school. Arming teachers has become a widely known controversial topic. Whether or not the government will agree to arm teachers is a mystery, but that does not stop parents all around the country from voicing their opinions. Having guns...
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...Introduction Section On December 14th 2012, a fatal shooting occurred, the lives of twenty children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school were taken within minutes. Though he does not deserve any attention, the man that took these innocent lives was named Adam Lanza and he was just twenty years old at the time of the shooting. The children of Sandy Hook Elementary school were only in the first grade, and their lives came to a tragic end. I chose to talk about this event because I think that it is important to remember these victims, who were not old enough to have any chance to defend themselves or hardly begin their lives. As well as the fact that in 2012 I was in high school, and had cousins in Elementary school, it was so frightening...
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...Violence in Music Videos and Music Lyrics has a negative impact on children. Music videos that expose profanity and sexuality are inappropriate and leave a negative impression on young children. Violence in music videos can cause health problem. Music videos that promote negative lyrics are affecting young children. Music lyrics with vulgar languages affect the development and well-being of young children. For example, the study author (Stone, 2009) found “that music with explicit references to drugs, sex or violence can be associated with negative effects on school work behavior and emotions” (p. 2). Media violence not only provokes violence among children, it provokes sexual behaviors. However, Music videos add reinforcement to what is being heard with the use of visuals. Rap music video shows an elevated level of content presented of tobacco and alcohol use than any other kind of music videos. Exposure to violence, sexual imagery and alcohol in music videos persuade violent and hostile feelings, potentially aggressive behavior that may direct them to certain types of sadistic behavior. Teens listen to on an average 40 hours of music per week. Children under eight are still developing emotionally. They cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy. They tend to imitate what they hear on the radio and see on T.V. They idolize artists and build themselves to be like them. Children use music to obtain and control of their sensitivity level and to deal with seclusion...
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...a principal conducting observations. The interruptions have become so routine that they no longer classify as “interruptions.” In fact, students and teachers have become rather cavalier to people walking in and out of classrooms throughout the day; at no point does anyone seem to suspect anything out of the ordinary would occur. However, what if the person walking in just started shooting people? What means would the teacher and students have to defend themselves? Although Columbine was not the first, school...
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...this basic law of language—that every label applied to a given person refers properly only to one aspect of his nature” (325). Meaning that we place these labels on others without realizing the negative effects and understanding the harm that’s being done. The labeling being set on others can...
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...The hypodermic needle theory regards the audience as passive and the power of media messages strong and that media influences people to behave in a certain way. The effects debate is the argument that the media has the potential to influence an audience, to affect them in negative ways, and that there is a need to protect people from material which might cause harm of one kind or another. The messages in the media are injected into the audience like a drug, but they don’t notice the effects that it has on them. The effects of messages in the media tend to be associated with bad behavior, and negative actions, especially regarding sex and violence. An example of this is the Sandy Hook Shooting, where the boy’s ruthless actions were blamed on the influence of the game Call of Duty by the New York Times, which he supposedly spent a lot of time playing alone in his basement. The hypodermic needle theory is also known as the hypodermic-syringe model of communications, and is referred to as the magic bullet theory. It implied mass media had a direct, immediate and powerful effect on its audiences. The mass media in the 1940s and 1950s was perceived as a powerful influence on behaviour change, yet according to Katz and Lazarfeld (1955), the model is rooted in 1930s behaviorism and is concerned by many to be obsolete today. The hypodermic needle model suggests that media messages are injected straight into a passive audience which is immediately influenced by the message. The study known...
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...Columbine was one of the first major school shootings in the United States. It brought attention to gun safety, bullying issues, and mental health. Columbine brought a sense of fear to the nation, school was suppose to be a safe environment. People were concerned that if something like this could happen at school, it could happen anywhere, especially with little gun safety laws. We now practice lockdown drills, have gun safety laws, and are more prepared in case of an emergency. The shooting of Columbine High School brought attention to mental health. Zero tolerance rules were made to try to eliminate bullying along with threats of violence. The country took no chances as to if things were a “joke.” Depression and anger issues were not just...
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...School Violence Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. School violence is a big problem we are facing now. This has caused many problems among students, families’ faculty of schools and residents of the community. School violence includes gang activity, locker thefts, bullying and intimidation, gun use, assault, and drugs. In my paper I will discuss the reasons why violence in schools exists, describe the dangers and effects of school violence and what could or “should be done about it. There is definitely a problem with school violence today. The last 11 years have shown us that violence in our schools society is more common today than ever before. Whether the violence has to do with guns, knives, or just a simple fight, school violence is getting out of hand. In the United States, one-on-one public-school violence, such as beatings and stabbings or violence related to gang activity is more common in some densely populated areas, which tend to be impoverished sections of cities. According to the U S Department of Education, inner-city or urban schools were much more likely than other schools to report serious violent crimes, with 17 percent of city principals reporting at least one serious crime compared to 11 percent of urban schools, 10 percent of rural schools, and five percent of suburban town schools in the 1997 school year. Student-perpetrated school violence...
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...Since the establishment of the freedom of the press many positive influences has taken place in our society today. Policies and rules have come from the media shedding light on issues of sexual harassment in the work place and equal opportunities. However, today the media has also taken advantage of the freedom of press amendment and gone beyond its intended usage of protecting the publishing of useful information without repercussion. The effects of the consistence repeat of highly sensitive reports being broadcast has effected how people interact among each other, how people resolve conflict, and racism within the work place. Therefore, my thesis for this paper is that the recent trend of reporting sensitive topics by the world of multimedia does have a negative impact in the work environment and on society. Therefore, the purpose of my paper is to show the negative impact of the press since the incorporation of the freedom of press amendment on the working world by providing factual of negative incidences that have been made famous because of the media. First, in accordance to Annenberg classroom,“Freedom of Speech and of the Press: The First Amendment allows citizens to express and to be exposed to a wide range of opinions and views. It was intended to ensure a free exchange of ideas even if the ideas are unpopular” (Annenbergclassroom,2014). Freedom of press applies to all printed and broadcast material, which includes books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, films...
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...Cyber Bullying: It’s Causes and Effects on Adolescents John Flanders Pima Medical Institute The causes and effects of Cyber Bullying, and Bullying in general, can be not only detrimental for the fragile psyche of children but it’s a new menace to society. Cyber Bullying has swept across the world at a high rate. There is an abundance of websites and foundations that have been created just to fight this plague. The majority of the information that has been pulled together for this paper is from various websites and foundations that were created by the parents of children who have taken their lives due to the negative effects of being bullied both at school, on the way home from school, and in their very own homes via social media. Bullying of all forms has been tied to every single school shooting that has occurred over the last 20 years. Cyberbullying is an epidemic that is more widespread amongst adolescent females than males. The definition of cyber bullying, per the Merriam Webster Dictionary, is the electronic posting of mean spirited messages about a person (as a student) often done anonymously. It first became noticed in 2000. The different types of cyber bullying are exclusion, harassment, outing, cyber stalking, flaming, pseudonyms, and anonymity. Some examples of methods used in cyber bullying Cyberbullying.info are as follows: * Exclusion- In many cases, teenagers who don't have mobile phone are excluded from the group of teenagers who do. Girls...
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...cause and effect School Shootings often times, human beings feel the pressures that life and the society can put on, but some can handle it, and some cant. Life and the society in which we live in can take a toll on the emotional, mental and physical aspect of lives as an adult, so just think of how much more of a burden it can be on teenagers in high school, younger children in middle school, or young adults in college. Not only are they dealing with a lot of things out of school but also but also school pressures. When these pressures get the best of these students and they do not have control over their emotions, feelings like it couldn’t be handled another way, it can be taken to a dangerous level. It can lead to negative consequences that can be violent and detrimental such as school shootings. According to www.schoolsafty.us/school-assiated-violent-deaths-p-6.html, “an identified 93 incidents when student came onto school property and killed one or more people over the worst ten- year period, 1992-3 to 2001-2. this means and average of about 9.3 cases per year or about once a month during the school years.” once of the factors that cause these school shootings is anger. Anger can be a big problem if the individual does not know how to control it. It can have a person acting in totally different ways and depending on the situation may send them off the edge. Anger can be built up from something simple as people not understanding or something quick as a bad morning or...
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...Introduction Criminal acts, such as homicidal shootings transpire everyday. Simply shooting civilians has the ability to seriously evolve and become an active shooting emergency. An active shooting or an active shooter incident is the involvement of an individual actively engaging in killing a populated area of people. The Federal Bureau of Investigation works closely with active shooter incidents. According to the Washington Post, throughout the past seven years, averages of 16.4 of these disasters occur every year. Sixty-nine percent of them transpire in five minutes or less, thirty percent in two minutes or less. Sources also say sixty percent of these events were over before first responders arrived. The preparedness and responding of these occurrences can affect the severity of the outcome. Shooting disasters commonly happen in houses of worship, workplaces, transportation stations, community areas, and schools. Active shootings that happen in schools are incredibly dreadful because of the substantial population of children/ minors. On December 14, 2012, a local elementary school of Newton, Connecticut underwent an unexpected catastrophe. The Sandy Hook Active...
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...This paper will seek to determine why have school shootings become familiar media events. On April 20th 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two students of Columbine High School, equipped with multiple firearms including explosives went on a killing spree, before committing suicide (Kohn, 2001). Wounding more than 20 people and causing the death of 13 people, the Columbine High School shooting is considered as one of the most important school shootings in history. School shooting is the action in which ‘multiple intentional killings’ are carried out in ‘educational institutions’ by one or more perpetrators (Böckler et al., 2013, p.3). The devastating event not only appeared on newspapers but it has since been adapted into an Oscar-winning...
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...Playing games has been known to relieve tensions and relax the body across all ages and genders. However, gone are the days when ‘play’ meant actual play in the fields; the modern ‘play’ involves sitting in front of the screen holding a gaming pad playing video and computer games. Video games have been said to be addictive and having bad effects to the gaming addicts. Another group has defended video games stating a few benefits to counter the criticisms. Most of the researches done by psychologists on “gaming effects” focus on the negative impacts: the harm done being related to depression, violence and addiction. Addiction has been identified as the main negative effect. Once a person starts playing, they can sit there for as many hours as possible and forget about any other task they are supposed to undertake (Abanes, R, 2006). All that the gamer cares about is beating his opponent or overcoming obstacles to get to another level. According to Abanes (2006) video games tend to take the first priority over anything else including revision for exams and going out with friends. This addiction also has its own consequences. The main being health effect; staring at the computer screen for so long leads to computer vision syndrome. This is a range of pain in the eyes and straining caused by frequent use of computers. Focusing on one thing for so long causes eye muscles to strain. This is made worse by the fact that the screen is super bright and keeps flickering from time to...
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