Another analogy is of this young boy Tim who was interviewed about violence he was involved in at his school. ... In Corona California, a six-year old boy wearing a Ninja Turtle costume for Halloween stabbed his friend in the arm for not giving back a toy he had borrowed weeks before Halloween. Another boy in Iowa , was caught swinging his family cat by the head and when his mom tried to stop him he said, "It's just like Michelangelo, one of the Ninja Turtles". Another shocking analogy, would be when a little boy started a fire in which his baby sister died in after watching one out ...

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"About 10% of children aged 2 to 18 play console and computer video games more than 1 hour per day. ... The mother of the dead boy debates that her son was stabbed because of an addiction to the video game Mortal Kombat. ... On September 2007 a 16 year old boy snuck out of his bedroom window to buy the video game "Halo 3" against the orders of his father. ... Eventually, the boy opened the lockbox and removed the gun and the game. ... The boy, according to the defense attorneys, was influenced by video game addiction (Harvey.) ...

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The gory bloodbath at Luby's Cafeteria, which left 21 dead, was rooted in the killer's passion for the movie The Fischer King as was the impact of Stephen King's works that gave inspiration for a 17-year-old boy to shoot his teacher and hold the class hostage. ... When will Americans do something about this horrid and grotesque tragedy and take steps towards curing this vicious social plague? ...

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On average, children watch about three to four hours of television per day or approximately 28 hours every week that is equivalent of having a part time job. ... Each year, children spend about 1,500 hours in front of the television, compared to the 900 hours they spend at school [ CITATION Sal04 l 1033 ]. ... For example, a seventeen-year-old boy killed his ten-year-old brother by strangling him. When asked why he did it he stated that he had watch the television show Dexter and had fantasized about killing people. ...

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In one incident after viewing the movie The Program, a teen-aged boy was killed and two others were injured after lying down along the centerline of a highway. ... It would be interesting to know their respective opinions about the content of today's media. ... What does it say about American society when a gratuitously violent television programs get high ratings? What does it say about how we socialize our children? ...

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Television contains shows about terrorism, sacrificial worship, cults, and ritualistic impaling. ... The sixteen-year-old boy, when found to be guilty, affirmed that Stephen King himself told him to do it. ...

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Television contains shows about terrorism, sacrificial worship, cults, and ritualistic impaling. ... The sixteen-year-old boy, when found to be guilty, affirmed that Stephen King himself told him to do it. ...

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A young boy about six years old in the supermarket is screaming, crying, and pulling on his mothers leg to purchase a piece of candy. His mother simply tells him "stop it, stop it, stop it or you will have to go into time out," but this has no effect on the little boy's fierce tantrum. ...

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In Manteca, California, two young boys murdered a disabled man by violently kicking, stabbing, beating and finally choking him. When being questioned by the police as to why the boys poured salt in the dying mans wounds, one of the boys responded, "Oh I don't know. I just seen it on TV- (Levine, 199...

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Authors began writing books about new lifestyles that interested youth. ... For example, in Baltimore a sixteen year boy accused of killing a sixty year old woman two years ago, reportedly told a girlfriend that he had been planning to steal a car and guns so that they could "run" like Mickey and Mallory, the violent characters in Oliver Stones 1994 film "Natural Born Killers" (Bayles 30). ... A version of Shaggy's hit "It Wasn't Me" talks about a man getting caught cheating "butt naked, banging on the bathroom floor." ... Concerned parents, educators, community leaders and pressure ...

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Global Perspective Women living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are afraid to speak about the abuse they go through at home in fear of their husbands/fathers/male guardians as they are brutally abused. ... The number of abortions for girls increased immensely in India, most low-income and middle class families prefer and want a boy child, and therefore, several female fetuses are killed daily. ...

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