Academic achievement falling in children's work of children that watch ten or more hours of television per week, and studies prove that children that watch excessive television achieve lower on written expression, reading and mathematic achievement tests. The number of hours spent watching television has increased sharply and now the average American child spends more time watching television that they do at school. The average youth spends an average of nine hundred hours at school and fifteen hundred hours watching television in an average year. Children need to stop watching so much te...

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Don't you think watching hours of painless "fantasy violence- children learn to view violence as a normal and acceptable way to express anger and handle conflicts? ... American surveys of violent programming, found that the level of violence on American commercial television remained constant, averaging five to six violent acts per hour in prime time and 20 to 25 violent acts per hour on Saturday morning children's programs. ...

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According to the surgeon general, American children spend, on average, more than 4 hours a day with television, whether it is computers, videotaped movies or video games and the average amount a child that is nine to fourteen years old sleeps about 9 hours a day. This means that out of the 8760 hours of the year, 3285 is spent sleeping, so that gives you a total of 5475 hours a child is active. ...

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Violence Violence seems to be everywhere these days. We as a society need to do something to stop all the violence. Violence is all over television, in video games, and even at school. Studies have shown that most kid watch three to five hours of television a day. Which averages to about 120 hour...

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According to IAGD.Net, the average American watches over 4 hours of TV a day. Also children spend more than 900 hours in a school year, but many will watch over 1000 hours of television in the same year. ...

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Teens spend about two to five hours each day watching TV, and about forty-five percent of shows have violent content in them. After two hours the violent content is absorbed in their brain it's like a teacher, teens learn from what they see and the violence sinks in so they become more aggressive towards other classmates or adults. ... An article written by many researchers claims, parents don't pay attention to violent shows their teens watch, also it says parents don't set standards on how many hours they can watch TV (Children And TV Violence). There are solutions to these pr...

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Every hour of each day of a school year, nine hundred teachers are threatened, and nearly forty percent of teachers are physically attacked on school grounds. ... Some other school wide strategies that are being developed include staff monitoring and guards and extending school hours to offer extra-curricular activities. ... Extending the number of hours a school is open is also an effective strategy to curb school violence. Having the school open later hours keeps kids off of the streets, by having them have the opportunity to participate in activities such as sports, arts, crafts, and mus...

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My junior year I wrote a paper on the symptoms and effects of domestic violence. The following year I chose to build a 3-D replica of a domestic violence help center, and make a billboard, and slideshow on domestic violence. The 3-D replica of the domestic violence help center offers a hospital, a s...

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Gerbner and Gross discovered violent acts occur on American television at a rate of five acts per prime-time hour and eighteen acts per weekend daytime hour (Huesmann, Eron, and Legerspetz). ... There are three to five violent acts per hour in prime time, versus twenty to twenty-five acts per hour on Saturday morning. ...

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The Impact of Media Violence "Monkey see, monkey do" has become a well-known saying in today's society, but is it correct? Just sixty years ago the invention of the television was viewed as a technological curiosity with black and white ghost-like figures on a screen so small hardly anyone could se...

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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. ...

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English Project - In the Penal Colony This project is a comparison to In the Penal Colony by Frank Kafka. I have here several excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles which are generally about terrorism and torture. The device that was used in In the Penal Colony was a pointless device. Ther...

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In history, different leaders have had different viewpoints on whether violence should be used in acts of war or revolution. Some leaders have felt that violent acts can be justified while others strongly disagree. Depending on their viewpoints, history was molded and changed. Violence only ca...

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In the United States children watch an average of three to four hours of television daily (Cantor & Wilson, 28). ... Falling off cliffs and shooting people is typical in one half-hour program. ...

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Children today spend on average 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice the amount of time they spend in school (Jensen). ... This tells us that we find it easier to plop our kids in front of the TV for a few hours rather than keep an eye on them while they are outside. ...

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Most children watch 21-23 of television per week, and 3 to 5 violent acts per hour ("Media Violence (RE9526)" 1). ... Studies show that kids that watched many hours of TV violence as a child will show more aggression when they are teenagers. ...

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Television has played a major role in most family households. Although television as been around for over half a century, it has now become a part of most children's everyday lives. They have began to turn to television for their main source of entertainment. To many parents, television is an edu...

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Almost every day the media reports another horrible incident involving aggressive driving or in its most extreme form, road rage. Speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, following too closely, yelling and gesturing are actions that characterize the aggressive driver. Studies show an i...

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It said that by the time an average child, who watches two to four hours of TV per day, finishes elementary school, they will have witnessed 8000 murders and over 100 000 other acts of violence on TV. ...

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Many studies have been conducted by countless scientists, these studies illustrate that children exposed to an average amount of daily television (3-4 hours) become immune to the violent acts they are watching. ...

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Open your eyes people it's everywhere! Violence is on the up rise, or is it declining by the hour? Has watching violence on TV made you act out in anger or made you think of killing someone in any way possible? Violence is in our everyday lives, we see it without even trying to or wanting to. It's a...

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Dorman in Journal of School Health asserts that: Two-thirds of girls played video games at least one-two hours per week at home, but only 20% played in arcades., while 90% of boys played at home and about 50% in arcades.Almost half of prefered games were violent in nature, while only 2% of prefered games were educational.An independent analysis of the 47 most popular video games found violence as the theme in 40 of the games. (133) For many people computer games are usually fun and relaxing. ...

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After establishing a baseline of about 10 minutes for the mice to navigate the maze, David started playing music 10 hours a day, then put the mice through the maze three times a week for three weeks. ...

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VERY EXPENSIVE BABYSITTER The author of this paper, Tiffany Adkins, adequately states and suggests that television can be, and often is, a determing factor in the establishment of a negative attitude in yo...

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In recent lawsuits, filmmakers are being singled out as the cause of violence in our society. The connection between violence in the media and societal violence has been an ongoing controversy. Violent murders are complex and cannot be narrowed down to one factor alone, such as a movie. Just becau...

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