Kenny Fuller Health The Impact of Media Violence. I was reading in some of my information and it was talking about how monkey see, monkey do is a popular saying now days. Sixty years ago the television was invented. People looked at it as a technological curiosity (I got that part from the info). For some people now days TV is there best friend. Most of them are little kids.
TV shows the news, tries to make us buy certain things, and it also shows violence. The only thing that it can do is replace written materials (Got that to). The bad thing is that these violent shows are dangering our society. Certain things on TV and movies have inspired people (I could think of any other word to use so I used theirs) to set their wives on fire, lie down in the middle of the roads, rape, steal, murder, and to do shootings. Out of 1,000 studies it is proven that media violence can have a negative affect on adults and even children. When people watch these shows it makes them more aggressive and anti-social.
After a few days of watching these shows people become less sensitive to violence and to victims of violence. After that happens they begin to have a hunger for more violence in entertainment and in real life. Media violence is especially damaging to young children between ages 8 and under. The reason for that is because they cannot tell the difference between the real life and their dreams. Some images on the TV and movies may seem so real to them that is might traumatize them (I got traumatize from the info). Even with all of the media violence on shows, there havent been any real major changes to deal with the problems that keep growing.
All the people glory the violence in movies, like the movie Natural Born Killers. They are viewed as normal and everyday entertainment. Now days it is hard to find a childrens cartoon that does not show some type of violence. The violence on shows isnt the problem though. It is what they dont show. They never show what happens to the people for doing the things that they do.
This happens a lot in cartoons, toy commercials, and music videos. Children often do not realize that it hurts to hit someone else because they see it all the time on TV. Everyday in cartoons a character is beat up or killed. Then they come back in the next one and they are just fine. So then the kids think that they can do that to someone else and they think that they will come back tomorrow. If the people keep having a high demand for violent shows and movies, then the shows and movies will continue to be played.
So if the way people think today stay the same then nothing is going to change and the show will keep on playing. So in that case our society needs to depend on the parents to cut down the violence that is shown to them. There are many different ways that, that can be done. First the parents should limit the amount of TV their children watch per day. It should be between 1 to 2 hours. Children are exposed to too much violence every day on TV.
Mostly that is because parents see the TV as a babysitter. By cutting down the hours that they get to watch it makes the kids do something more productive, like trying to read a book or playing outside. When you decide to let your children watch TV you should always check on them to make sure they are watching something good. Even if you dont let your kid watch TV that doesnt mean that they arent seeing it. Parents should also make a better effort to develop their childrens literacy skills. They should help their children learn the difference between life and their dreams.
Without doing that children often have a hard time telling between what is real and what is make believe. When they learn this then their parents should teach them about what happens to them if they .
