“Television and Our Kids Minds”
On January 6, 2006 Columbine High school got a huge awakening when one of their students decided to go on a shooting spree. The 17 year old walked in the high school dressed up in all black where he let off shots in the crowd and killed 15 people, 11 of them was women and girls. After that devastating effect, the gunman turned his gun towards himself and took his own life after he witnessed the damage that he had done, and the thoughts of what his consequences would be if he got caught by the police. Palgrave Macmillan (2009). Macmillan also stated that the shooter had to been mental ill or influenced heavily in order to commit something like taking a person’s life or anything of that nature. This specific action could have been enhanced by one of the most unexpected things that we all have in our houses at this very moment and the thing that might be the next epidemic to being behind more drastic events and its name goes by television.
School shooting, cruel behavior, and acting in a rude manner is some examples that the kids in our society portray. The main persuader would be someone or should I say something that exists in every household in today’s world. Some parents wouldn’t expect who the culprit would be, but its name goes by television. Television has been around us for decades and has been the main cause of why children act in a negative way. The reason behind this would be that now its animated shows has taking on an adult persona which would be highly inappropriate for young kids to hear or see. With kids seeing those types of animated shows, there comes a huge consequence because of the fact that in a kid’s mind is that whatever they see on television then it’s okay to perform it in reality. Even though this aspect shows some of the reasons behind a kid’s action, parents still don’t feel like they should intervene and stop this soon to be epidemic that quietly rests right beside.
An example of how much television... [continues]
On January 6, 2006 Columbine High school got a huge awakening when one of their students decided to go on a shooting spree. The 17 year old walked in the high school dressed up in all black where he let off shots in the crowd and killed 15 people, 11 of them was women and girls. After that devastating effect, the gunman turned his gun towards himself and took his own life after he witnessed the damage that he had done, and the thoughts of what his consequences would be if he got caught by the police. Palgrave Macmillan (2009). Macmillan also stated that the shooter had to been mental ill or influenced heavily in order to commit something like taking a person’s life or anything of that nature. This specific action could have been enhanced by one of the most unexpected things that we all have in our houses at this very moment and the thing that might be the next epidemic to being behind more drastic events and its name goes by television.
School shooting, cruel behavior, and acting in a rude manner is some examples that the kids in our society portray. The main persuader would be someone or should I say something that exists in every household in today’s world. Some parents wouldn’t expect who the culprit would be, but its name goes by television. Television has been around us for decades and has been the main cause of why children act in a negative way. The reason behind this would be that now its animated shows has taking on an adult persona which would be highly inappropriate for young kids to hear or see. With kids seeing those types of animated shows, there comes a huge consequence because of the fact that in a kid’s mind is that whatever they see on television then it’s okay to perform it in reality. Even though this aspect shows some of the reasons behind a kid’s action, parents still don’t feel like they should intervene and stop this soon to be epidemic that quietly rests right beside.
An example of how much television... [continues]
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