Essays Tagged: "desensitized"

This essay, Bad advertising, is about the effect the media has on children in our society today. It specifically focuses on television watching.

ewing the violent program caused the child to take more time to react to the situation. He had been desensitized to the violent act because he had been viewing a violent programmed show. Television ca ...

(3 pages) 339 1 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Violence: Blame it on the media. We are too quick to balme the media for all of our childrens violent acts. It satrts with good parenting.

twisting our view of the world, its just reporting real life events.The author argues that, "we are desensitized to violence and are less shocked by real reports of human pain and suffering" ("Shock H ... iolent acts change our view of the world. It's very conceivable that citizens of Ireland have been "desensitized to violence" ("Shock Horror," 2003) and accepted it, as a part of life but this cannot ...

(2 pages) 171 2 3.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

This Essay is all about Product Place ment in Modern Films.

constantly bombarding citizens with advertisements and logos. As North Americans are becoming more desensitized to advertisements corporations have become more creative and forceful with both the vol ...

(14 pages) 217 2 4.9 Jul/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Shock Value On TV: How does it Effect the Audience?

ogramming have decreased significantly in the last decade due to desensitization of the audience. A desensitized audience requires a more shocking show, which in turn desensitizes them more. The resul ...

(5 pages) 43 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Are we desensitized toward violence.

Are we all desensitized toward violence, and if so is this a new thing? Well, the media is the icing on the cak ... ing people getting killed. Because the people enjoyed watching people die, it proves that they were desensitized. No matter how you look at it, everyone is desensitized toward violence, because we see ... mful. Either way though, these people are not affected by violence like they should be, so they are desensitized.Then there are the few people that see violence through the media as a way to become po ...

(2 pages) 25 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Is War Worth it? comparing Gallipoli and These fought in any case by wafa nurdin

rs to us. 151 people died in Afghanistan. 23 children shot in Nigeria. As a society, we have become desensitized to the effects of war. Nevertheless, movies, poems and novels constantly remind us of t ...

(4 pages) 16 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Sexual and Violent Influences in the media A formal essay on Sexually violent depictions in the media today and the influence they have on adolescents.

their real-life decisions influenced to a certain extent and their feelings towards certain issues desensitized by what is done in the mainstream media (Fisher, 1994). Sex and violence in the media i ...

(4 pages) 119 1 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Theories on Aggression

ommitted a horrifying atrocity to other human beings. With each horrendous story the reader becomes desensitized to the violence in our world.Violence is an epidemic in our country. According to the U ...

(19 pages) 544 1 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Rap Music and Children

children's use of media, music, and even video-games to make sure that their children do not become desensitized to the violence. The music lyrics in many of Eminem's songs degrade women, have ...

(5 pages) 112 5 2.2 Mar/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

MISERY - NOT AS MISERABLE AS THE FIRST

ers, crosses, and other gardening utensils that were used to sear human flesh. Although I have been desensitized to this kind of violence by spending my youth in front of Pay-Per-View television, I st ...

(1 pages) 18 0 4.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Sir Thomas Moore, Richard III, in comparison to Guy montag, "Farenhiet 451."

s a fireman, is to burn books. Montag lives in a world filled with censorship, where the society is desensitized and kept under control by the static of the TV set, and the bottles of pills on the bed ...

(2 pages) 2201 0 3.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Media and its effects on children

is leads to a kind of devotion to the television. Since it is being watched so much children become desensitized to all the violence shown. Too much exposure to violent television programmes damages a ...

(3 pages) 30 0 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

I Don't Want Temporary Fate (Poem)

of feelingThe fake harsh scratching at your palmLeaving your destined to become to routine to it allDesensitized by your blinding actionsYou do it againLosing yourself once moreTo never see the endIf ... er did like that ringRinging in my earOf how suffocated it can beWhen love finally hits youYour too desensitized to beBut what does it matterYour dead and your notBecause breathing means everythingAnd ...

(1 pages) 21 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Children And Television

gressive, and have several behavioral problems. Television has also distorted reality for children, desensitized them, amongst many other impacts it's had on them.Media violence is one main problem th ... s one main problem that has been effecting children. Media violence has made children more violent, desensitized and aggressive. The problem begins with television availability. Majority of all entert ...

(12 pages) 78 0 3.0 Mar/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

The Dehuminization Of Amarica

he Metamorphosis, and The Lottery each help illustrate that the people of America have truly become desensitized.In Rape Fantasies, by Margaret Atwood, several women give their own portrayal of what i ...

(4 pages) 1171 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

All Quiet On The Western Front

currence of boots and tobacco. With every thing going on around them Paul and his buddies have been desensitized to war and violence, or at least that is what it looks like on the outside.okay now ove ...

(3 pages) 5 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Terrorism

With all that occurs, and everything falling apart in our world today we can not help but be desensitized to the turmoil. We scurry through our dull-drumatic lives day after day without being t ...

(2 pages) 875 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Marketing Current Events Issues

on of the consumer, will most likely lead to a purchase. In modern times we are more and more being desensitized to things such as violence and nudity. A modern ethical issue within consumer behavior ...

(6 pages) 65 0 5.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Violence On TV

dren might imitate the violence and crime that is viewed, might become frightened, and might become desensitized to real-life violence. Although the use of violence on television makes the shows more ... ng with becoming violent and scared, television shows can desensitize children. Children may become desensitized to real life violence, because they cannot distinguish clearly between reality and fant ...

(2 pages) 1378 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Violence On TV

dren might imitate the violence and crime that is viewed, might become frightened, and might become desensitized to real-life violence. Although the use of violence on television makes the shows more ... ng with becoming violent and scared, television shows can desensitize children. Children may become desensitized to real life violence, because they cannot distinguish clearly between reality and fant ...

(2 pages) 3 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media