Workplace aggression

The True American is a book that details the story of a Bangladeshi Air Force Officer, Rais Bhuiyan, who immigrates to the Texas for a better life. In the midst of widespread post-9/11 paranoia, a white supremacist by the name of Mark Stroman, attacked and attempted to kill Bhuiyan while he worked in his store in Dallas. Throughout the novel, both individual’s lives are examined as to how they reached this point and how we as Americans view both Islam and immigrants in general. In this analysis,…

media contributes to aggressive behavior such as school shootings, desensitizes violence and fear of being harmed into adolescents. A dysfunction of the functionalist perspective in the portrayal of violence includes an increase in the adolescent's aggression and allowing adolescents to…

One of the most mentioned issues regarding the debate around video games is that they heighten aggression. While some studies suggest an argument that violent video games cause increased violent behaviours, individuals, as well as some media outlets often, fail to see that this "heightened aggression" is often merely frustration at the game itself. One can easily picture the scene of an angered teenager screaming at the TV in their room due to a failed level, quest or mission or even the death…

The first media effects theory we are talking about in class is the Social Cognitive Theory. This theory provides a framework that allows us to analyze the human cognitions (or mental functions) that produce certain behaviors (Bryant, Thompson, & Finklea, p. 57, 2013). My definition of Social Cognitive Theory is the study as well as analysis of the human brain on how certain behaviors happen. In chapter four of the textbook, we read about this theory. One main idea that I found interesting was…

Parental Block As time goes on it seems that the content in media gets worse and worse, and with such easy access to multiple media platforms, it's understandable that parents are afraid of what their children have access to without them knowing. Especially television since there's almost no restrictions on what type of content can be showed, in movies or in tv shows, and there's also no way to stop or monitor the programs one's family can have access to, except with parental block, but is…

Psychological leads to watch/undertake the violent actions, exploring the violent action in sports. In the article of the “should the fistfight be banned in ice hockey?”, the author addresses the question of act by some the players may be count as violent action in many competitive sports events, sometimes it even causes serious injury or death. And, even the ethic code of the sport, rules or the referees are unable to clarify the differences between the accident actions or the intend actions.…

1. There are ten ACES that someone could experience. The first five ACES are personal and they are physical abuse, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect. The last five ACES is if a child has a family member who is diagnosed with a mental illness or is suicidal, addicted to alcohol or another substance, a victim of domestic violence, in prison, or losing a parent through divorce, death, or abandonment. 2. Young children are more vulnerable to the impact of trauma…

Non-Lethal weapons are being researched and developed for military, law enforcement and personal safety in general. Marks claims that “by giving officers an alternative to drawing a gun against a knife wielder, for instance, the weapon can save lives”(2005) The weapons can incapacitate a person, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury, and collateral damage. This technology can shape how society views a police department. Over the last few years many questions have come up over the use…

EEvery second a human spends reading or watching television ingrains a new ideology into their thoughts and actions. In modern literature a book is not complete without some kind of a romantic plotline twisted in; movie producers feel the need to add romance to appeal to more audiences even if romance is unnecessary, and television series can hardly function without a steamy romance or love triangle. With a large portion of the population dependent on their phones and televisions, the ideals of…

Children Are Dying……...Make the World a Better Place Violence by definition is a behavior that involves physical force intended to damage, kill, or hurt someone or something. Scary, yet true, violence, including youth violence is around us. Murder is the second leading cause of death of youth 15-25 year olds. Although we may not realize it, violence has an impact on everyone’s life. Youth violence can be triggered by many means including the media, insufficient parental supervision, and…