Ernest Boyer, President of the Carnegic Foundation for the Advancement of teaching and former U.S. ... In the book, Social Learning Theory by Albert Bandura, he presents a major thesis about television violence. ... While visiting family in California, my two nephews kicked me as I walked in to the living room where they had been watching television, and they just laughed about it. ... A final solution could be a special program implemented in schools that teaches children about media violence. ...

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The strongest points he makes are that the boy is an orphan and that he has a vivid imagination. ... A sweeping view of bleak marshland finally focuses on the boy, shivering with fear as well as cold. ... Read the convict's long speech to Pip; the short pressing phrases, the constant repetitions, are like thumbs tightening on the boy's throat. Yet when he talks about the vicious "young man" who is his accomplice, we guess he's bluffing desperately. ... In spite of a moving speech about his wretched night of waiting, he's still a dangerous criminal. ...

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They have this attidude All they care about is money. ... On February 2, 1996, a 14-year-old boy opened fire as he walked into his junior high algebra class. ... A year later, a sixteen-year-old boy stabs his mother to death, then proceeds to school and shoots 9 of his peers. In the same year, a 14-year-old boy killed 5 students because they were praying in the hallway. ... To conclude, the complex issues and truths about cable television is causing negative influence on kids and we, as a nation, need to get involved. ...

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Most parents allow their children to watch so called "kid's shows" without even thinking about what might be contained within them. ... Quickly a cartoon about a man hunting a rabbit can turn into a story of murder or hitting and throwing things. ... Children see violence everyday in their cartoons, but what about shows that they watch in which people star. ... In one documented case, a Californian boy that was seven years old watched a movie one night. ... The very next night, the boy put crushed glass into the stew that his family was to eat for supper. ...

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The level of violence that they see on prime time television is about five violent acts per hour and the level of violence on Saturday that includes cartoons morning programming is about 20 to 25 violent acts per hour. ... One day, a five year old boy watch his favorite cartoon, Beavis and Butt- head, and sees the characters pull one of their famous arson stunts. ... These kids have learned about there environment from their parents, not by watching television. ... My boy was just like me." ...

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JACK Jack is a boy who it seems is programmed to be violent. ... It is the problems that Jack causes that bring about the rift between the group of boys. ... This whole book would have turned out different if Jack had thought more about the group than about himself. If he had thought about the good of the group and what would benefit them all some of the awful things that happened would not have happened. ... He just wants to hunt and have fun and doesn't seem to care about being rescued. ...

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This belief of freedom and individualism brings about conflict between others, which tends to lead to violence. ... In New York, a seventeen-year-old boy broke into a basement. ... In California, a seven-year old boy sprinkled ground up glass into the beef soup the family was to eat for dinner. ... By the age sixteen, two hundred thousand violent acts have been seen, about thirty-three thousand of them are murders or attempted murders. ...

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You think you saw an opposing player intentionally elbow the injured boy's face. The boy is severely injured, but the referees have not called a foul on the offending youth. ... "He told me it's about time someone shed blood,"Limon said . ... Are there benefits to being labeled a "bad boy" in the sport arena? ... Sports Illustrated writer, Steve Rushin gives a humorous account about the recent rash of baseball fights. ...

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Domestic violence isn't always a husband or boy friend beating their kid or girlfriend/wife. ... A major percent of domestic violence is occurred from husbands/boy friends abuse their significant other, whether it's physically or verbally. ... If you ponder about this for a while, this is only the number of cases heard, not all of them. ... However one must think about fights with siblings and on a rare occasion hitting their parents but mainly their mother. ... When feeling threatened or worried about your family's safety in any way, you should not hesitate to call the poli...

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Even though he knows nothing is funny about the situation, he trys to replace the guilt with humor. ... He trys to amuse himself so he wouldn't have to ponder about guilt, he wouldn't have to think about blaming himself for anything. ... One of the soldiers, " Norman Bowler, otherwise, a very gentle person, carried a Thumb...The Thumb was dark brown, rubbery to touch...It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifteen of sixteen."... They don't have to worry about keeping their emotions, and living up to their values if they don't have any. ... Why did you cut the Th...

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According to CNN world, August 14th, 2012, An English 17-year-old boy, Thomas, murdered his 14-year-old friend, Jimmy, with a hammer. ... Secondly, if the younger boy was the one who owned the game, why wasn't he the more violent one? ... They allow us to forget about worries for a while and take over a life of another individual. ...

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Claire Rayner, the broadcaster and journalist who has talked about her own experiences of being beaten as a child said parents should use love and praise to teach children the difference between right and wrong. ... In 1997 a fourteen year old boy's step-father was cleared by the British courts for causing the boy actual bodily harm and claimed that hitting him with a three foot garden cane was reasonable chastisement. ...

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As a boy, he began to create a path that would lead him out of violence and depression, into a happy and successful life. ... The only things that kept Brent updated with the old life were the phone calls about unfortunate events back home. ...

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"Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation The books depressed me, scared me ante bellum whites had known quite a bit about torture-quite a bit more than I ever wanted to know" (p. 117). ... When Rufus is still a young boy, Dana asks, " Your father whips black people?" ...

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Often times turning to another peer and judging them may make the individual feel better about themselves. ... Teen dating violence is preventable if it is talked about in the right way. ... I chose this topic because I feel as though it is a very important topic to be brought up about and I feel as though many people do not realize how serious dating violence can be and how often it does happen. ... A partner might feel more comfortable to say his or her opinion but then argue more about it then he would if you were talking face to face. ... If a partner lacks self-esteem it is often proven f...

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The beast was their inner fears and violence projected outward onto something physical, so that they didn't have to admit these things about themselves. ... Conformity is a change in behaviour or attitudes brought about by a desire to follow the beliefs or standards of others (Feldman et al. 2004). ... There was a circle of society's protection around the boy that Roger couldn't throw stones into. ...

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One of the boys was also abandoned by his father and accused his mother of beating him, while the other boy lived in a crack house and his father beat his mother until he died violently himself. ... A movie that has always comes to mind on this issue is "Boyz in the Hood" directed by John Singleton is about a group of four best friends who all grew up in Compton, California and were the product of low income homes, drug addicted neighbors, and gang violence. ...

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"Trying to keep certain topics from someone is like showing the rainbow and telling them about all the colors but yellow. ... "If you keep books out in the open and teach kids and others about them you will be letting them come up with their own ideas by knowing all aspects of it." ... Jones gives us an example of just what he actually is talking about. ... On the playground she acted out "sailor moon" fights, and in the classroom she wrote stories about people being stabbed with knives. ... She came out of it just as fiery and strong, but more self-controlled and socially competent: a leader ...

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All the gun control laws are not about preventing crime. ... How many times have you read about someone walking into a public place and opening fire? ... FBI data for 1990 show that criminals used firearms in about 258,000 violent offenses or about 16 percent of the 1.6 million crimes reported to the police. ... In conclusion, it is estimated that firearms are used in about 12 percent of violent crimes. ... The battle over gun control Is not about controlling inanimate objects; it is about controlling people. ...

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There is a lot to talk about when it comes to effects of war on children. ... Some of the areas I will be talking about in this paper as effects of war on children are: death, injury, disability, illness, rape and prostitution, psychological suffering, social and culture loss and child soldier. ...

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If we take the director's word, then there is no question about it since he has given a very clear answer: "It's really a straight, simple story, almost linear, of a guy attaining something and losing everything, and then redeeming himself. ... But before asking about Jake's redemption, we need to ascertain what redemption is in a Catholic context. ... Freedom is also the starting point of guilt, since it only makes sense to feel guilty about something we could have done differently. ... It only makes sense to feel guilty about what has already been done and thus when we fe...

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