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    focusing more on the games rather than getting involved in sports‚ friends‚ family‚ and school. It is surprising how many people are addicted and the impact they have on their lives. While many children play violent video games for amusement addiction to these games‚ especially violent ones‚ can cause negative emotional effects on todays youth. Children are spending too much time playing violent video games and are becoming addicted. Children could be spending more time participating in productive activities

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    The West Amanda Miranda America was beginning to boom! With the war over and immigrants coming to the land of “freedom” from all over the world‚ people began to adventure to the West. There was a new‚ unsettled land presenting opportunities beyond what anyone could imagine. The west offered natural resources such as gold‚ oil‚ and lumber‚ also it gave hope to freedom and landownership all the while guarding it with dangerous obstacle such as natives‚ disease‚ and drought. The forge west brought

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    The question that is being asked here is what is the West? The west can be defined as many different things‚ but According to Levack‚ B.‚ Muir‚ E.‚ & Veldman‚ M. (2011) the west is a “place” (p. 2). The west is thought of to be traditionally compromised of certain regions like Europe‚ the Americas‚ Australia‚ and New Zealand. There are in fact many ideas that are evolving around western civilization such as form of governments‚ methods of scientific inquiry‚ religions‚ and languages just to name

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    Violent Cartoons

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    INTO Manchester – IFY University of Manchester Pathway Dissertation Title Violent cartoons: The impact of cartoon violence on children’s interplay and behaviour (Submitted in partial fulfilment of the NCUK Key Skills Programme) 7 June 2012 By: REEM AL ALAWI GROUP S2 – KS 4 NCUK NUMBER: IM-11-0225 Table of Contents Introduction.........................................................................................................3 Literature Review....................

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    RUNNING HEADER: VIOLENT CRIMES | VIOLENT CRIMES | Hate crimes and Violence in Schools | | Maggie Gallegos Criminology | 9/1/2011 | Brookline College | Abstract Hate crimes are “any felony or violent crime based on prejudice against a particular group. They are prejudice’s

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    2013 Juvenile violent crime is at its lowest level since 1987‚ and fell 30% between 1994 and 1998. Fewer than half of serious violent crimes by juveniles are reported to law enforcement. This number has not changed significantly in 20 years. The rate at which juveniles committed serious violent crimes changed little between 1973 and 1989‚ peaked in 1993‚ and by 1997 declined to the lowest level since 1986. On average‚ juveniles were involved in one-quarter of all serious violent victimizations (not

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    Peterson 3/4/13 Per. 3 AP English Felton Video Game Essay In the process of media reform and editing‚ is it appropriate to limit video games? Nonthreatening things like games should not be banned by our fears‚ but we should look at the facts. Violent video games should not be banned for their content because no means of art or communication should be banned. Our first amendment is our sacred rite of passage that should be upheld with all of our power. We can benefit from these works of art like

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    the West

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    Wessay The United Staes were trying to push people to settle in the west brought a lot of trouble. Since‚ Settlers and Native Americans thought very differently there were many conflicts between them. They both thought in different ways about the land usage‚ settlement‚ and ownership. Native Americans thought different about land usage than the Settlers did. The Native Americans thought that land should not be purchased or sold to anyone. They looked at land as a gift of the Great

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    Violent media is good for kids Violent media is inevitable in our daily lives. In recent years‚ the popular media seem to have become increasingly violent. Whenever you turn on the TV‚ read the newspaper or comic books and also when you play video games you can easily find that violence is one of the most popular forms of entertainment. Some people believe that violent media have positive effects on young people and children‚ however others think that violent stories are harmful to kids and we

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    Vincent Chen Ms. Brantely ENGL 1105 27 November 2012 Violence as a Tool With increasing violent crime rates in America people wonder who and what cause this. The blame tends to fall upon violent media. Media wants to spread information on the events of the world. We live in a violent world and the news on television shows that. The news tells use about shootings and people getting raped and murdered. The blame cannot fall on media for doing their job and providing news that people would like

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