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    Overlap of Fiction and the Reality Humans continuously strive to fulfill themselves with the enlightenment of technology and the pleasure of fast-paced media. However, those superficial wisdom and pleasure unconsciously empty their lives. In a futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury magnifies the negative influence of technology. Living in the society where people voluntarily abandon and burn books, a protagonist, Guy Montag, recognizes his vacant life through Clarisse and confronts the…

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    DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little, published in 2003, was immediately met both critically and positively due to the taboo language used. According to Wardhaugh (2000, p.234), taboo is the prohibition or avoidance in any society of behaviour believed to be harmful to its members in that it would cause them anxiety, embarrassment, or shame. Examples of taboo include: bodily functions, body parts, illness and death, etc. The extent of taboo differs according to various countries, including all the…

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    exposure of violence (aggressive acts), and parenting practices. These pathways of this behavior will explain the varying ways that children gain aggressive tendencies. According to Social Cognitive theory, individual factors pose to how aggressive individuals favor the behavior because they are in belief that they will receive some form of social, symbolic or tangible reward (Boldizar, Perry…

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    for the plot? Are you depictions of sexual violence accurate? How much do you truly know about sexual violence for you to create an entire film using or about it?…

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    English 5 16 October, 2015 Violence has affected many lives, many things cause violence, and many people including myself try to prevent it. I have been affected by violence, my family has been affected by violence, and many other people have been affected by violence. After being affected by this I would like to find the cause and share what I think would work to solve such a widespread problem. Violence affected my life in a big way, not the fighting violence with punching and kicking,…

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    strength relationship between watching violent media and acts of aggression or violence later in life (Poziox, Kambam, & Bender.,2013). The weight of the studies support the position that exposure to media violence leads to aggression, desensitization towards violence and lack of sympathy for the victims of violence, especially where children are concerned. In studies it is shown that there are three major effects of seeing violence on television; Children may become less sensitive to the pain…

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    Why is there so much violence in African American communities? Violence in African American communities can stem from a variety of things. Some children have been treated badly, while others have just been raised poorly. Also, role models and the people in the environment plays a huge part on the outcome of how violent the neighborhood is. Being in gangs and acting violent towards others in the neighborhood can be something that happens for attention or “stripes” in their neighborhood. Young…

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    who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.” ― John Lennon. There is a popular argument about the influence the media has over youth. Over the course of when America first began having picture televisions in their homes the times have changed immensely, especially the love for violence. As a result, what we see has increasingly gotten more violent on our televisions and with that our children are indirectly exposed to more violence now more than ever. However, is it really the…

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    There has been, and always will be, debate about whether nature or nurture matters more in determining a persons' individual characteristics and traits. In other words, do the genetics of our families, or the environment we are subject to and raised in have more of a role in the development of an individual's personality? Aggression is the feeling of anger or antipathy resulting in hostile or violent behaviours; readiness to attack or confront. (Oxford Dictionary, 2018). Aggression is something…

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    of “Gunsmoke” and “Bonanza” with my grandfather to the cut them up, bullets, blood and gore movies like “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” with my cousins. I’ve been a big fan of them ever since. No one ever said anything about the violence we were exposed to mainly because at a very young age we were taught that there are consequences for the actions we take and just because we saw something on television didn’t make it okay to try it ourselves. I wasn’t a violent child nor were…

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