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Tv Violence

In the past few years' violence has raged our culture. It has taken the lives of adults and children alike. Our culture has been based on violence for some time, and has sky rocketed in the past few years. Ever since violence has become more popular on TV real life has become more violent itself. Our culture has been terrorized by violence too long, and it has to be restrained from our children. Violence in Television has recently become the main focus for
many parents of young children. Due to so much of the violence,
television stations are now forced to put certain
ratings on TV programs. At
first many stations were hesitant to put this system on their stations,
but now it is located on every station.
Many parents state that acts of violence are committed by many
teens today due to them watching too much violence on television.
Take for example Beavis and Butthead. Several years ago a child set
fire to his home after watching this particular episode. Another
child that was watching this show saw Beavis and Butthead stab a
person in the eye with
a pencil, needless to say the child committed
the same act of violence.
The V Chip is a new invention that enables parents to edit what
their children watch. It is used so that parents can block out a whole
TV program in itself. Hopefully this will discourage youngsters from
being so violent.
Bullies in the movies
Although physical violence is portrayed often on screen, few movies have yet conveyed the nastiness of a serial bully and what it's like to live with or deal with such a person.
In Fatal Attraction, Demi Moore sexually harasses Michael Douglas who then has a hard time proving his innocence. Nice idea to make the harasser a female ... bullying is not a gender issues, as over 50% of 3200+ cases reported to the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line involve a female serial bully.
In September 1999, ITV screened Walking on the Moon, a chilling drama about...