The effects of media violence on children
THE EFFECTS OF MEDIA VIOLNCE ON CHILDREN On April 20 1999 two boys by the names of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into their High school in the little town of Colombine Colorado and opened fire on their fellow classmates.Some say it was the parents others say just pure teen adolescence, I say it was the media. In the 1950's Television was first introduced to America, only ten percent of the families owned a one television in their home, by 1960 that number increased to a mere 90% of the people owning a TV, but now a whopping 99% of homes in our country own a TV. 54% of chidren have one in their own Television has become so much of a part of are existense that it is virtually impossible to imagine life without it. We all love TV. We can't help ourselves. But the question is what is TV doing to us?, and how much is too much? Children begin to react to television at a very early age, studies show that by the age of three, 95% of children will imitate someone on TV as they would a real live person, and children between the ages of six and ten believe that most of what they see on television
violence that number increased to 82% of video games that included violence, and you want to see as you get older. Violence is like a drug, it starts out in a harmfull with this movie is that a young man took his date out to see this movie, after the Violence is also portrayed through video games. A study in There was an increase in violence in video games, which took
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