Soc105 Ass#1
Imagine that you are running for a state office (e.g., governor, senator, or representative) and you have to prepare a position paper for a debate on controversial issues in the news. (Write about the topic in bold.)
“Do Media Cause Individuals to Develop Negative Body Image?”
You will want your position paper to demonstrate critical thinking, sound logic, valid claims, personal passion, and credible support that is cited correctly because the paper will be provided to the news media before the debate and will be scrutinized by the media and reported on regarding these criteria. Your professor will serve as your close advisor whose job is to review the paper and provide feedback to you on the paper’s strengths and weaknesses.
Write a two to three (2-3) page (700 to 1,200 words) paper in which you: Introduce your position using a thesis statement in the first paragraph, including a quote, question, or statistic from your reliable sources and an overview of the main points you will cover. (It’s important to grab the audience’s interest and inform the audience of what the main and support points are.)
Provide two or three (2-3) major points to support your thesis statement. (Put each major point in a separate paragraph.)
Provide one (1) paragraph in which you identify and answer an expected argument against your view. Organize arguments and support your claims effectively. Demonstrate personal passion for your position and critical thinking with persuasive language, sound logic, valid claims, and credible support for the claims.
Provide two to three (2-3) credible and reliable references (in addition to the textbook) about current events, which have been published in the last five (5) years and are cited correctly in the position paper. (Wikipedia is not an acceptable source.)
Topic: Does media violence lead to aggression in children?
Country: US
Committee: White house
Introduction – I, the representative of the united states of America, thanks you to be a part of the success we achieved so far and proved our metal amongst various nations throughout world. Today I want to emphasize on the fact that our environment is changing day by day and there is changes in almost everything we see, we do and statistic shows that it is going to increase further with the maximum speed. But I want to ask you people that are we embracing all these changes, technological development or anything else to the best of our knowledge. Are we getting benefited with that? Our family is getting benefited?
Media is the heart and soul of our society. They help us in knowing things which is not reachable to us and they connect us with the outside world. We have social media, televisions, news and what not which helps us every time to keep us updated. But my questions still stand the same- Are we getting what we should take? Or there is a negative impact of it on us or our family our children? Do you know that? Or clueless?
Yes. The fact is no. we are not only taking good things from media but also embracing wrong things. Specially the most impact is on our children. We know it very well that children are at the verge of learning new things rapidly and this way they will proceed to create a better life. But is this only restricted to learn good only or they are learning something else.
Younger and younger children our beginning to show increasingly violent behaviour. There has been continuing speculation over the main cause of this. The most important question is whether children being exposed to media violence really does reflect in their behaviour. Recent studies have stated that there is no correlation between media violence and children’s aggressive behaviour. The American Medical Association quoted; ‘Media violence affects children’s behaviour’ this can be explained by the learning approach. There are hundreds of shows which constantly show violence such as ‘wrestling’, ‘the sopranos’ or ‘Eastenders’. The learning approach might suggest that children are imitating the violence they see. Huston in 1992 carried out a study proving that once a child becomes eighteen they will have witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television and in the media, including 40,000 murders. Kaiser Family Foundation 2005 shows that children aged between 8-14 spend more time in front of the computer; television and game consoles than any other activity in their lives expect sleeping. There have been over 1000 studies on the effects of media violence. Most of the studies concluded that; ‘children who watch significant amounts of media violence are more likely to exhibit aggressive behaviour’ – Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1999. Bushman in 2001 said that children are affected by media violence at any age but they are prone to learn these and embrace it when they are in their teenage. It looks fascinating to them and they do not think twice before committing any crime as they know that law cannot punish underage kid. So they are starting taking advantage of it.
Now its high time to stop all these and we need your support for this.
Although the issue is often presented as controversial in the media, we have pretty good evidence that exposure to violent media does make children more aggressive. And we’ve known it for decades. In one of the most well-known studies on this topic (published all the way back in the 1960s), researchers showed pre-schoolers a video of an adult playing with an inflatable doll. In the video, the children watched as the adult sat on the doll, punched it in the nose, hit the doll on the head with a mallet, and kicked it repeatedly. After watching the video, the children were brought into a playroom with the same doll and lots of other toys. As predicted, the kids who watched the aggressive video imitated what they saw—they beat the doll with a mallet, and they punched and kicked it. What was most surprising was that the children found new and creative ways to beat up the doll, and they played more aggressively with the other toys in the room as well. In other words, children didn’t just imitate the aggressive behaviours they saw; seeing aggressive behaviours caused these kids to play more aggressively in general.
Very recent research suggests that these effects can become particularly problematic when guns are involved. The children who watched the movie with the guns played more aggressively than children who watched the movie with the guns edited out, consistent with previous research.
So, what do you think- viewing violent media cause more aggression in children? Yes! it’s worth pointing out that the videos children saw in the in movies, series, clips and other violent shows were acting as a catalyst in their mind to get provoked for that. Hence it takes the shape of crime committed by them at later age. The clear implication from here is that if you don’t want your children to be aggressive or violent, keep them away from violent media, and even away from toy weapons that might encourage aggressive behaviour all on their own. That doesn’t mean you won’t end up with an aggressive child—some children are just naturally more aggressive than others—but it’s certainly a start.
Some measures which can be taken to restrict these behaviours are –
Even the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry suggests parents to:
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