Violence In Television Programs
Beginning of paper
In today’s modern world, children have access to many different forms of stimuli. Some of which are positive and some are negative. Television is a vary persuasive presence in children’s lives. They spend many hours every week watching it, although patterns of viewing and program tastes cha ....
Middle of paper
.... boys interacting with one another. We are able to see them play fighting and when asked who they are trying to imitate, they often respond with the words " Power Rangers" .
Many television programs contain violence portrayed in ironic contexts. For example heroic "good-guy" characters commit aggression, consequences of violence are unseen, and aggression goes unpunished or seems justified. For example, one cartoon featured four heroes who used their superior strength to beat up villains w ....
------------------
Word count: 2524
Page count: 10 (approximately 250 words per page)
