Zakia Ali                 97677

THE EFFECTS OF MEDIA'S VIOLENCE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN

Media interest on high profile crime can misrepresent the true picture.  A well as good news regarding decreased crime rates, the media choose to rule out occurrence where crime is increasing.  This inclination to glamorise crime broaden beyond the news media through to TV drama and cinema. The media has a progressing enthralment with crime that will never go away even if the media could be convinced to temper their worst overload

When children are taught how to tie their shoes, it is because of how their parents showed them. When children are taught how to do math problems, it is because of how their teachers showed them. So with all of these role models, why is there so much violence? It is because children learn from what they see? Some would argue that movies should have strict regulations and laws because it has negative effects on the behaviour of children.

The definition of "negative effects" of children's behaviour can be described as "In 1991, children under the age of 10 committed over a 1000 acts of infuriated assault and 81 cases of rape.  of the age of 12 and under committed murder, robbery, larceny-theft, and forcible rape". In general, you can assume that the aforesaid crimes are wrong, since they were committed by children, shows a fault in society. However you can argue that society has changed over the years since 1991.

It is hard to believe that merely viewing a movie could be so damaging to children. Those who believe movies and violent programmes are too blame would show some evidence of particular re-enactments of actions in movies has been performed. Evidence such as in the arrangement of corpses, mutilated by distressed teenagers to look like victims in slasher movies. If movies are so bad for children, wouldn't it be easy to just not allow children to see "violent" movies? "The following are the approximate number of deaths recorded in five popular movies:

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MOVIE DEATH COUNT 

Die Hard 2 264

Rambo 3 106

The Wild Bunch89

Robocop 2 74

Total Recall 74

 The story in the movie Natural Born Killers, by , is about a young couple named Mickey and Mallory who fall in love, but come together as a pair due to their abusive past. Being carefree and fearless, as young lovers are, they terrify the country by killing people as it comes naturally to them. Mickey ends up in jail, but it does not stop him and he ends up killing more people, in order to return with Mallory. ...

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