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Volience in Media

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Violence is a behavior involving use of physical force to hurt other people. It gives birth to emotional distress or physical pains to people experiencing it. Violence can be experienced anywhere in any form such as family violence, community violence, hate crimes or speeches, sexual violence. It could be even media violence which is shown in films, video games, cartoons and TV. Media violence is the act of showing crimes, killings, fights, abuse etc.
Media is now a day’s considered as one of the best source of education. It has power to create negative and positive effects on the mind of people. People rapidly adopt the stuff shown by it. The violence shown by media is becoming the cause of great aggression as people are unconsciously adopting it.

Aim of this essay is to highlight the fact that violence shown in media is giving birth to aggressive culture .We will see that to what extend does the violence shown in media disrupts the behaviors .Why people find the use of bad behaviors as the only way for the solution of their problems. Basically we will see what impact it leaves on mind that leads to aggressive behavior. Why people become unable to distinguish between fantasy and real facts and result in threat for others.

Exposing children and adolescents (or ‘youth’) to violent visual media increases the likelihood that they will engage in physical aggression against another person. By ‘physical aggression’ we mean behavior that is intended to harm another person physically, such as hitting with a fist or some object. A single brief exposure to violent media can increase aggression in the immediate situation. Repeated exposure leads to general increases in aggressiveness over time.
— (Craig Anderson)
A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to

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