"Poor child" she said and left.
Stacey had bread that day.
Lewis provides one side of the story: the privileged customer. This essay provides the other side of the story: the man behind the cup; the child behind the bowl; the woman behind the wheel. Taking them into consideration, we may pronounce tipping to be a worthy custom. It diminishes, to a miniscule extent, the great divide between rich and poor in our nation and gives those, who otherwise would have naught, at least some food for another day.
In the "consequences of carnage as entertainment," John Ellis provides a reasoned argument for his assumption that media, particularly and specifically television, results in an increase in violence, in general, and on school campuses in particular. Television serves up a routine diet of violence, and kids, reared on this offering, see little harm in imitating. After all, they then become national heroes. The media interviews them, people utter their names, and others, in turn, may wish to imitate them. They become more talked about than do doctors who search for cures for cancer.
Ellis repeats a complaint that is popular with contemporary adults. The fact is, however, that correlation or association between TV and violence has never been conclusively resolved even though countless studies exist on the subject, and even were a positive correlation or association to exist, correlation...
It may be the illness that has caused him to take the shot. Y who killed her patents may have been cruelly abused by them day after day until, at the end of her tether, she drew out her gun. Z who stabbed his teacher may have been sexually abused by that same teacher who then intimidated him from revealing. The shame, the embarrassment, the humiliation caused him o take revenge. All of these individuals -- x, y. And z may have been on a daily diet of TV, but TV was incidental to the reason for their acts.
So many others who watch as much, if not more violence, on a day in/d ay out routine do not resort to aggression. Many of them, in fact, may be placid, humane, benevolent individuals. And then there are others who, as part of their job, occupy themselves with more explicit scenes of violence (such as with monitoring terrorism for instance), and are contributing members of society.
On the other end of the spectrum are individuals who, growing up in sheltered communities, do not possess a TV and, if they do, are debarred from watching violence-replete programs. And yet they shoot and kill others on a par with their TV-viewing colleagues. Correlation is not association. TV programs may, and indeed do, feature violence. That they stimulate aggression remains unproved.
