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This article addresses why children and adolescents may become violent, what factors influence them, what are the signs, and what preventive measures work in society's attempts to end violence among children and adolescents. In our society today, many parents have become irresponsible, not only allowing their children to immerse themselves in violent video games and movies but also causing a lot of violent behavior among their children by having unhealthy marriages, abusing their children, and becoming alcohol and drug addicts. This problem needs to be addressed, and therefore I found it important to include into my blog.
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The last material I decided to include into my blog is an article by a professor of education who talks about the connection of toys to violence. This article points out that we often look at violence in media, TV, the Internet as causes of violence among Americans but we rarely look at toys that nurture culture of violence in children. Especially, the article says that while many films and TV programs are rated PG-13, heroes in these same films and programs are marketed as toys to our children. "Often, toys linked to these movies are also linked to other media such as TV, video games, and comic books," the author of the article says. "This cross-feeding starts with toys for the youngest children and begins the cycle of children's involvement with entertainment violence." The toys-violence connection is something I did not think about before finding this article. I am sure many people ignore this aspect of violence in our society. Therefore,...
In this paper, I discussed media materials that talk about the role of the government in spinning us to wars, the increasing level of Army member suicides as a neglected aspect of wars, and how culture of violence may be nurtured at our early ages as well as preventive measures to decrease the level of violence in our society. These are important additions to what I have been collecting in the past.
In my archive, I have an entry on a youtube video "The Mean World Syndrome," featuring George Gerbner. Gerbner discusses how heavy exposure to violence in TV, movies, and video games develops in us a sense of desensitization, making us view the increasing level of violence in our society as normal. Another entry I have is about how the Iraq War is entering American popular culture, as many films and TV series are adopting Iraq War themes into their contents. The entry discusses how war generates interest in war stories among the public and how this process eventually leads to the glorification of violence. I also have an entry in my blog on a section of media watchdog FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), which discuss "war and militarism," exposing lies and double standards in reporting about wars. I believe that my latest additions to my blog, together with the previous ones, enrich it and make it more informative and more diverse in covering different issues and different aspects of the relationship among war, violence, and the nation.
It explains how an Iraq War Vet became a military consultant in Hollywood. It quotes a professor who says that as the war goes on, the stories of war will become the fabric of American culture and identity. For example, many popular television programs began to incorporate the Iraq War into their stories. These include the episodes from ER, Las Vegas, Extreme Makeover, comedy Arrested Development, and soap opera
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America took the notion of liberty and placed it in an economical framework, composed by Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations. Smith anticipated Marx by nearly a century when he focused on the nature of man and society in what amounted to a purely economical outlook. He views the violence that men do to one another and to themselves as stemming from an economical cause. The savage nations (hunters and
Violence in Titus Andronicus and Macbeth One of the remarkable characteristics of Shakespeare's plays, particularly his tragedies, is that they are frequently incredibly violent. In many of his plays, this violence is seen abhorrent, with characters not only suffering societal consequences for their violent actions, but also experiencing deep regret and remorse for their violent actions. In fact, in many of his plays, Shakespeare's violent characters are impacted more by their
Wells uses the idea of violence as a catalyst to explain human behavior and thinking. Violence seems the perfect solution throughout "The War of the Worlds" and regardless of how they look at the problem, both the Martians and people believe that by using violence they are probable to experience victory. However, when considering that the Martians' superior technology is not enough to provide them with the opportunity to be