My partner and I are both seniors attending High School. This upcoming summer will be my third year life guarding at the Columbian Swim Club, in Union. My partner has worked in the building next door, the Boys & Girls Club, for the past two years. Both of our jobs are centered on children. We work with them on a daily bases and know a lot about their actions. As a result, we chose to do our project on a topic relating to today's youth.

Anthony and I came up with a problem that concerns many parents. It seems as though violence plays a role in the lives of many people. Even innocent children are affected by the negative things that go on in the huge world we live in. Television violence is often overlooked because of its ability to retain children's attention. Countless mothers and fathers put their children in front of the television so they can have time to themselves. As a result, the kids are subjected to unnecessary media violence. Anthony and I feel as thought this violence has a great effect on the children's lives. We decided to further investigate this hypothesis.

We presented 45 kids, ranging from ages 6 through 15, with a short questionnaire regarding the television shows they watch. The age categories were broken down into three groups. These were "ages 6-9," "ages 10-12," and "ages 13-15." The purpose of this was to find if age had anything to do with the results. The questions asked the children what their favorite TV show is, if they stop doing school work to watch TV, if they act violent towards their friends and family, and if they prefer happy shows or sad shows. The questionnaire was anonymous so that the children would answer honestly. We were hoping to find some sort of connection between the shows children watch and whether or not they are violent towards their family and friends.

The results of the project show an obvious correlation between TV violence and children's actions toward people in their lives. The kids who watch violent shows, such as Power Rangers, Jerry Springer, OZ, and WWF tend to act violently towards their family and friends, while the kids who watch "family-type" shows, such as Rugrats and Doug don't act violent. More specifically, every child who watches WWF or OZ, the two most aggressive shows listed on our questionnaire, acts violent. A lot of the older kids put down their homework to wa

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