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…Violence In Entertainment And Its Effect On Society Does entertainment influence society's attitude towards violent behavior? In order to fully answer this question we must first understand what violence is. Violence is the use of one's powers…

…in a typical day at school. After seeing something so graphic, real life aggression seems to be dull in comparison. When children see solutions solved in violent acts of television, they come to expect that in the real world. When the violence is not there, they see…

…cheers to jeers that can lead to violence. The most common rivalries are school rivalries. Starting as far back as 1899 the students of Colorado School of Mines and those of Colorado College would celebrate victory by using dynamite to blow up the rival’s goal…

…in films seriously (Rosenblatt 592). We know that Schwartzenager is fake, and that there is no Rambo. Unfortunartely, there is some evidence that television and movies are schools for violence. In the book Children in Front of the Small Screen by Grant…

…Whenever the thought of how television affects children pops into someone mind, the first thing that they think about is the amount of violence on television. Most mass communication scientists, as well as most people in general tend to feel…

…to turn such garbage off themselves(4). Another argument for the television stations is that children here violent terms and see violence any way so why take it off the air. This argument states that children at school hear such terms as 'drop dead out…

…agree, “that an environme! nt full of violence in the home, school, community, and media can influence children from a very early age”(Gillepie, 2000, 3). Violent crime in the United States is up 560 percent since the 1950’s and is still rising…

…and on TV. This shows that violence in the media is contributing to the violence in our nation and causes people to act more aggressively in society. Each generation has been exposed to more and more media. That means every generation is more vulnerable…

…. Violence, when we hear this word images pop up in our head like the Jerry Springer Show, the Oklahoma City Bombing, or the latest act of violence to shock our nation the massacre of the high school in Colorado. These images are stuck in our minds forever…

…impulsive behavior.” Hollywood figures of the 21st century blame factors such as poverty, drugs and alcohol, poor schooling, lax gun control and a general breakdown of families but not screen violence. University of Iowa professor of Journalism and Mass…