Violence

Violence In today’s society our children are attracted to violence no matter were it is being presented. Violence today is affecting our children of tomorrow making them more dangerous as they are growing up. The question is how is this violence accruing and how do we reduce to amount of violence that’s is being presented' Ellen Goodman, writer of “How to Zap Violence on TV” and Mike Males writer of “Public Enemy Number One'” have contrasting views on the subject. Violence is a problem that is discussed in both articles. Goodman believes that TV violence is the cause for this behavior. She states that children see that there are few consequences to the person that commits a violent act on television. But on the other hand, Males believes that TV violence is not the only cause for, but the media as well. He states that media violence accounts for 1 to 5 percent of all violence in society. In “How to Zap Violence on TV” Goodman talks about the effects that TV violence has on children and teenagers. She believes that violence turns out to do a lot of harm when it looks harmless. In a 73 percent of the scene violence, tv, children, males, violent, media, problem, percent, goodman, writes, states, every, cause, believes, zap, year, writer, unpunished, television, teenagers, talks, society, situation, showed, same, presented, over, one, million, control, block, being, article, amount, american, according