VIOLENCE: NATURE OR NURTURE? “It is easier to childproof your gun than to bulletproof your child.” It is a well-known quotation that one should dodge violence everywhere. We can’t agree more that nowadays, everybody can commit violence easier, let alone it is nature or nurture. Indeed, there are three reasons why violence is easily aroused. First of all, it's obvious that people become violent when they are trying to protect someone or something. An obvious example of this is when gang members
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their life. Fear is one of them because it holds you back from being a strong person and makes you weak. Anger does not need to be in one's life because it lends to health issue and violence. Hate is another that does not need to be a part of one's life, because hate is such a strong emotion and can lead to violence and ignorance. Yoda had it right, “Fear lends to Anger, Anger lends to hate and hate lends to suffering.” When FDR said “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he was staying
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mberly Mason UNV 104 5/20/2012 Lexi Video Games And Violence Video games and the violence in them have a large impact on children’s behavior. Video games can be addicting, making a child aggressive, which could lead children to do terrible things. They love to play video games because they are fun and exciting. Some parents allow them to play these games because they are fun and exciting. They are also allowed to play these games because it keeps them quiet or
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Children from the now of days spend more time watching television than they do in the classroom. This can be helpful to children if it’s used as a learning tool, like channel 11, or Dora, Word World or other educational cartoons shows. The level of violence that they see on Cartoon Network is to violent and not educational or just plain fun entertainment like I use to watch. Morning programming is about 20 to 25 violent acts per hour. Are we just looking for ratings or popularity? At this rate, the
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usually high mortality.[1][2] War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence.[1][3] The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war (and other violence) is usually called peace. In 2003, Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problem facing the society of mankind for the next fifty years.[4]In the
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Summary Entertainment has often been regarded as a means of indulgence although it can prove fundamental to the development of ideas. Lack of entertainment can however cause the brain to shut down. Entertainment enables s sense of innovation. As a result, numerous ideas are created. Studies show that almost half of discoveries are done during entertainment when the inventor enjoys the task he partakes. However, over entertainment has its own pitfalls. This paper argues that society is becoming
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When I was a child, I used to spend all day playing outside. I would go for walks, play ball with my friends, go fishing, make mud pies; the list goes on. I do not recall being bored very often during my childhood. On the off chance that the words, “I’m bored.” did happen to come out of my mouth my parents would tell me, “Go outside and play.” Nowadays, children do not hear those words as often as they should. The phrase, “Go outside and play.” has become, “I just bought you a new Playstation and
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School Violence : Causes And Remedies Educators and policy makers have been grappling with the issue of violence in schools for decades, .Educators, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists have all weighed in on the possible causes. Sifting through the theories can be overwhelming, and implementing effective violence prevention programs is often frustrating. No wonder, then, that teachers and administrators often feel defeated when
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that crime and violence is too often the domain of juveniles. Even though the number of children who kill is small in the past decade has reached and all time high. According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 2008 the murder arrest rate was 3.8 arrests per 100,000 juveniles ages 10 through 17. This was 17 percent more than the 2004 low of 3.3 and three-quarters less than the 1993 peak of 14.4 percent. The search for an explanation of age and violence has led to comprehensive
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become the victim of senseless acts of violence, and sometimes they will be the aggressor. Every thirteen minutes one person dies in a motor vehicle crash. The main cause of road rage is a sense of uncontrollable anger or violence in the driver. Many times, this violence has been present in the person since childhood, much of this violence can be traced back to acts of violence seen on television as a child. It is hard to believe but road rage and television violence have many similarities. This is another
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