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…Making Wrongs Right, at a Price In our society today bigger and more worrying issues are often left out of the media's spotlight, replaced by a pop-stars or a celebrity events. Many people including myself are poorly informed about such issues…

…. My take on the situation? My parents were obviously freakishly overprotective zealots. Everyone likes to blame the recent upsurge of school violence and shootings on things such as the violent and explicit content of mass media, including that of music…

…such as that of 'Bull' Connor in Birmingham. The authorities here were more subtle to avoid gaining the attention of the media e.g. the police would avoid using brutality and Daley even blamed violence for social decay*. This prevented the movement from gaining as much…

…Protecting Our Children The overlap between domestic violence and child abuse has been well documented; where one form of family violence exists, there is a likelihood the other does as well. Child abuse and domestic violence often occur…

…of conflict; informational warfare.”(Devost, 1) The Department of Defense definition of terrorism is "the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals…

…watching too much TV? Many emerging dilemmas are resulting from this concern. When a young child with a maturing brain sits if front of the TV for several hours every day, it can instigate loss of creativity, and violence further along down the road…

…They are the shots heard ‘round the world- the shots that have been fired in so many schools across the country. Like everyone else, I am captivated by this sudden phenomenon. After all of the media coverage, though, there are always unanswered questions…

…opportunity of a teenager. Without an adequate amount of money available to a teen they will turn to robbery and in the worst case, murder. ( Donna, 22 ) There are a variety of other causes to the violence, ranging from out-of-wedlock births to media violence…

…for music. They have become obsessed with music as if nothing else matters. When people are reading and listening to lyrics or going to concerts they are exposed to sex, violence, and drugs, which have a negative, influence and plague the music world…

…be that kids turn on the television and flip through the channels just to see the pain and suffering from the families of those who crossed the shooters. They see this media dramatization and think that they can do it to. This is called the "copycat" effect…