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Television Violence - Online Term Paper

Television Violence

Does entertainment influence society’s attitude towards violent behavior? In order to fully answer this question we must first understand what violence is. Violence is the use of one’s powers to inflict mental or physical injury upon another, examples of this would be rape or murder. Violence in entertainment reaches the public by way of television, movies, plays, and novels. Television with its far-reaching influence spreads across the globe. Its most important role is that of reporting the news and maintaining communication between people around the world. Television’s most influential, yet most serious aspect is its shows for entertainment. After viewing NBC from 6:30 p.m. to ...

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course of the night Seinfeld had the most acts of violence in its half-hour programming. There were a total of five acts of violence, which included tripping and hitting people with a cane, verbal threats, and physical slapping with hands. All these actions were meant to be funny best evident by the laughter from the audience in the background each time something occurred. One violent act was when one of the main character’s George was standing in a hall way and someone walked passed him and he stuck out his cane and tripped the person walking past him. This wasn’t such a horribly violent action although it could possibly cause physical harm to someone. A child seeing this might think this is very funny and repeat the act in real life. Of course the child thinks nothing will happen because there was laughter after the man was tripped and he got up just fine after being tripped. In order for the program to depict this random act of violence more realistically they maybe ...

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Added: 1/1/2005 02:17:21 PM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Free Paper
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