While Longinus' idea of the sublime had an asterisk, which stated that the truly great cannot be despised, Burke believed the sublime was founded in pain and obscurity. ... Burke's sublime has a noxious aura around it because the sublime finds its pleasure through pain because the sublime can arise in two ways the first being that it is pleasure can be found from escaping pain, which is delight, or it can found from thinking about pain by viewing others in pain, as in tragedy, or by thinking about how oneself is not in pain. ... Pain has the power to engulf one's being in an exp...

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Introduction Violence in America, perpetrated by criminals, mentally unstable and easily influenced individuals produce effects that are more far-reaching and destructive to society than the physical damage they produce. ... They support the general aggression model (GAM) as a basis for proving that long-term effects are produced when music or other media access easily influenced patterns of thought and behavior through repetition, producing a desensitization process. ... However, it has also been found that the relatively uncontrollable effect of pervasive violent media mental impressions an...

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Another study found a similar link between instances of Conduct Disorder and youth whose parents suffer from psychological disorders (Kostic et al, 2014). ... Children exhibiting this trait are easily provoked because of their inability to properly interrupt social cues or regulate behaviours (problems present in all manifestations of CD), and when provoked react aggressively in their (perceived) defence (Pardini & Frick, 2013). ... Children who perceived their parents as being less caring, cold, distant, or otherwise rejecting of them were found to act in kind towards their parents. ... Di...

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