Television-Free America, a website of television statistics, shows that the "number of violent acts the average American will see on T.V. by age 18 [is] 200,000." also proven by this website is that the "number of murders witnessed by children on television before age 18 [is] 16,000." these are disturbing statistics considering that another statistic TV-Free America shows is the average American youth watches 1,500 hours of television each year and only spends 900 hours in school." ... So on an average developmental day between the ages of l-18, a young person sleeps 8 hours, spends 10 waking ...

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Promotions such as Happy Hours' further enhance the risk of violence or disorder. ... She suggests that the avoidance of happy hours and the provision of meals will also reduce incidents. ... The burden that alcohol-related violence places on staff was highlighted in November 2000 when a summit was held by health professionals complaining at the lack of a National Alcohol Strategy who highlighted:- • Four out of five attendances at Accident & Emergency departments during peak hours are alcohol-related. ... The Governments white paper Time For Reform' has suggested that cha...

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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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There is an average of twenty-two per cent decrease in assaults per hour of restriction (Kypri, McElduff & Miller, 2014). ... Their studies showed that for each hour that the closing time was extended, violent assaults significantly increased by 4.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants per quarter. This is a 16% increase in violence for every hour closing time is extended by. ... One case involving an alcohol related injury often causes six hours of severe disruption in the ED. ...

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According to a news report, teens and young adults were at greater risk of committing violent crimes and participating in other types of aggressive behavior now and later in life if they watched more than one hour of TV a day (Kolata). This is no t a good sign because most teens and children, for that fact, watch more than one hour of television on an average day. ... Johnson, from Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, reported that the likelihood of adolescents and teens to display violent behavior and commit aggressive acts in their future increased when they vi...

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ough what they experience on television, children are forced into adulthood at too young of an age. The innocence of youth is lost when children stare endlessly at a screen displaying the horrors of murder, rape, assault, devastating fire, and other natural disasters. Although these are occurrenc...

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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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By 1985 prime-time television reached and all-time high with 13 violent acts per hour and 55 percent of programming high in violence (Leon, 162). ... Which is the equivalent to 22 hours of classroom instruction in exciting, pro-war entertainment (Leon, 163). ... Similarly, the major television networks have designated a "family hour" in which they air shows with a more family based content, nevertheless after eight p.m. adult based shows can be aired. ...

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Nearly three quarters of all eighth-graders report that watch two or more hours of television each weeknight, and a third report that they watch four or more hours each weeknight (p. 2). ... Even the American Psychiatric Association indicates that the average American child watches 28 hours of television each week and will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the age of 18. ... Among eighth graders in 2001, 62 percent of black students watched four or more hours of television on an average weekday, compared with 22 percent of white students (10). ...

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According to the article, "Growing Up Fast and Furious," Wayne Warburton and Danya Braunstein provide comprehensive poll about Americans ages playing video games: American children aged 8-18 play an average of eight hours of video games per week, an increase of over 400 per cent from 1999. Playing is heaviest in the 11-14 age group, with boys outplaying girls more than 2.5 hours to 1. ... It is common for US children and adolescents to play more than 20hours per week and it is not uncommon for males to play 40 hours more per week. (56) Most video games nowadays are killing with bloo...

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The results hurt our television loving brains: the more hours of television violence viewed, the more the tendency for aggressive behavior in teenage years becomes as does the likelihood of criminal acts and arrests in later years. ... The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school. ...

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Media Censorship Censorship of the media is a hotly contested topic. The public has declared that there is excessive violence portrayed on television and that this violence ultimately negatively affects viewers, especially children. Censorship is the regulation and control of information an...

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Recent studies have shown that the average American child spends approximately four to five hours a day hypnotized in television programs full of violent content (Hepburn 244). ... Many who reject television violence are persuaded that the violence shown on several programs has actually increased for example, air time for war cartoons jumped from approximately two hours per week in the mid-eighties to forty-three hours a week in the early nineties (Gogna n.pag.). ...

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George Gerbner, at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that children's television shows contain about 20 violent acts each hour and that children who watch a lot of television are more likely to think that the world is a mean and dangerous place. ... In 1960, Eron did a study of over 800 eight-year-olds and he found that children who watched many hours of violent television tended to be more aggressive in the playground and the classroom. ...

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No one ever imagines that they would allow themselves to be in a domestic violence relationship; however it's more common than one would think. No one can begin to understand how it happens until it does. I know this because it happened to me. My first love as a teenager was also my worst. I met him...

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The National Football League (NFL) commissioner, Roger Goodell, has been under heavy scrutiny because of the unethical domestic violence policy the NFL currently has in place. The NFL's domestic violence policy is a suspension for up to three games, depending on how serious the NFL commissioner thin...

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Many television programs involve substantial amounts of violence in one form or another that causes people to think that television is the cause of violence in today's youth. Many question whether television disturbs the minds of adolescent children who cannot yet comprehend the truth of fiction an...

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Violent Child Behavior, Is Television to Blame? Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of today's television programming is violent therefore negatively shaping the attitudes of youngsters. Many studies today show the effects o...

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With that in mind it's unbelievable that we as a society, "where kids spend 40 hours a week on average with media, don't see media literacy as an absolutely essential part of the national curriculum" (Silver 41). ...

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A Secret War in America Battered women who kill their abusers should not get harsh punishment or the same punishment as other murderers. The statistics are ridiculous on how many women are abused in the United States. Currently there are 2,000 to 4,000 battered women in America serving prison ti...

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Being a parent has never been regarded as an easy task. In today's world parents must protect their children from many dangers. It certainly doesn't help that it is becoming more and more common for both parents to work full time, and thus have less time to protect their kids from these dangers. ...

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Many children spend much of their waking hours in front of a television set and because of the content, a child will most likely witness some terrible act of violence prevalent in today's television syndication. ...

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Domestic violence is a global problem that affects men, women and children and is the aggressive or controlling behavior of an individual often involving a spouse or partner. There are many organizations that have been created to help protect and care for people that experience domestic violence as ...

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One may ask, "Why can't the government or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intervene to control the amount of violent programming that currently circulates during most broadcasting hours?...

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