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…Teen Violence Causes and Cures Eric Vollrath Forty years ago, teachers said that the worst problems in their schools were students chewing gum and talking during class. Wouldn't…

…Television Violence From the time I remember watching my older siblings flip through the stations of our T.V. I remember violence on T.V. From the simplest children shows such as Heman, Shera, and Transformers the violence within television has…

…it is. The current rating system is as follows: TV-Y--This program is appropriate for all children. TV-Y7-- Directed to children age seven and above. May include mild physical or comedic violence, or may frighten children under age seven. Categories for programs…

…Pornography and Violence In today’s society women are viewed very often as objects of sexual pleasure. This view has been around for many years and because of it many groups have popped up throughout the past fifty years. Does pornography lead men…

…Violence and sexuality are usually the theme for action movies. In Hitchcock's Psycho, violence is brought out as a substitute for sexuality. Norman Bates uses violence to release his sexual frustration. Two clues in the movie to support such an idea…

…Gangs and violence Gangs have been around since the 1950s and early 1960s. Gangs are a loosely organized group of tghree or more people who interact together for a common purpose and are usually participating in some kind of legal activit, whether…

…Violence, like charity, often begins at home. The roots and the causes of violent activity in people's lives frequently lie in their earliest experiences. It is well known that acts of aggression and assault go from generation to generation…

…? Is this violence in mass media affecting our children? Some people would disagree while others would strongly agree. Is the idea of "freedom of expression" being taken to another plateau or are we just letting the media take control over the First Amendment and deciding…

…Most people in our society generally have the opinion that violence on television increases aggression in children and adolescents. Does it? Who is to say whether television has a positively direct effect or a positive correlation? However, the majority…

…Religion and Violence As humans we try to make connections between civilizations and time periods. Historians have attempted to discover universal constants of human nature a, a bond that forms from continent to continent, human to human. Indeed…