Violence as Novocain People fighting, weapons, gun fire, pain, and hurt none of us want in our lives, and yet all of this is a part of almost everyone's every day life through entertainment. Try to think of the last time a day passed when you saw no violence whatsoever. It's hard, if not i...
Television violence and sexuality is an ever-growing epidemic in our society today. With violent shows on in the middle of the afternoon, while kids are at home and parents are at work, the media has its way with today's children. Shows such as Jerry Springer, South Park, and believe it or not the e...
Jackass showcases stunts such as shooting each other with stun guns, sitting in well used Port-o-Potties while it is being flipped upside down in mid air, holding hard-boiled-egg eating and barfing contest, giving each other paper-cuts and dousing them in alcohol, walking on tight-ropes over alligators, and breaking into relatives in the bathroom and beating them up (Stein 60-61). ...
