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…“Dubya, We Have a Problem” Guns in schools are one of the biggest problems facing the United States today. In the past three years we’ve seen them in schools where disastrous things happen. Little children are getting a hold of guns…

…spent in school. Naturally, the television provides children with learning much of the time they are watching. However, not all learning is positive. In most cases, children are learning about stereotypes, aggression, and violence on mainstream shows…

…8,000 murders and 10,000 act of violence on TV before graduating elementary school (Bushman, 537 & 538). Parents since unable to monitor all of their children's viewing, are very concerned about the effects of viewing these violent acts. It now becomes…

…in Colorado went on a shooting spree. Many people are focusing on violence, guns, computer games, movies, television, and the free flow of information on the internet. These kids wouldn't have done what they did without a motivation. Their motivation was hate…

…with a constant threat of violence in a race-based society is just something that one has to live with. Violence in a society that does not want another culture infiltrating their school system, job, or neighborhood is nothing new. Unfortunately, this violence…

…to a kind of devotion to the television. Since it is being watched so much children become desensitized to all the violence shown. Too much exposure to violent television programmes damages a child's mind and spirit. Nowadays, a child comes home and right away…

…, television is harmful because of the shows it broadcasts, the effect it has on people, and the way it is used in homes.         First, heavy TV viewing leads to poor school performance. Most television broadcasters show a variety of programs 24 hours…

…the blacks to fight back against discrimination, build black communities, and segregate schools to give blacks better educations. Malcolm X supported the use of violence as a form of protest and self-defense. Blacks had been experiencing violence for hundreds…

…to violence. One morning she was sitting on her school bus and a boy who wanted her seat demanded that she gave it to him and then he called her a “trailer girl.” She asked a girl where she got her shirt because it was nice and the girl just laughed at her while…

…safe sex, sexual predators and S.T.I.s , however the average child spends approximately twenty eight hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school ("Facts about media violence and the effect on the American family…