Category: Cartoons

In todays society, television violence harmfully affects the minds of children. However, it doesnt mean that the violence on television is the only source for bad behavior, but it does largely contribute to the situation (Szaflik). For instance, the variety of television programming, which permeates violence, is sitcoms, commercials, and cartoons. Also, the many video …

Realism and ExpressionismJanuary 2001 Realism and Expressionism (sometimes called Formalism) are terms used to describe two stylistic tendencies in film. In the abstract, they can be considered polar extremes, but to do so clouds the nature of each style. In fact, they are not mutually exclusive; they can and almost always do appear in the …

Societies ScapegoatYouth crimes are on a continual rise. It seems that everyday violentoffenders keep getting younger and more aggressive. We turn on the news only tohear that a ten year old mugged,shot,stabbed,beat or blew up one of his peers. With crimes on the rise involving children, people begin to look for a cause.Society, when looking …

In 1966, the national Black Panther party was created. Their platform and its idealsstruck a chord with blacks across the country, especially in the inner cities of the north. ThePanthers were able to organize and unite these blacks. This alarmed the federal government. They instituted many controversial, illegal programs of harassment, infiltration, and instigationwhich led …

owersThe United States and Soviet Union, the single most important rivalry of the twentieth century, started as a partnership. This irony was caused by the fact that the Germans were taking over Europe, which forced them in this relationship. Once Hitler was eliminated and Berlin destroyed, the tensions began rising. These two nations had completely …

In John Updike’s short story, “The A&P”, he writes of an eighteen-year-old cashier who is infatuated with three girls that enter the store and in Robert Browning’s poem, Porphyria’s Lover, He writes of a man’s intense passion for his lover. Even thought these two works are different in context, they have very striking similarities. Updike’s …

Psychological ReasoningIs Media Violence Harmful to Children?Media violence is getting more attention now than ever, as a precursor to children becoming violent teens and adults. Does watching a violent cartoon before school in the morning influence children to go to school and show violence toward their peers? The verdict seems to still be out on …

In the last few years we have seen a new and frightening phenomena comeacross our TV screens. Young kids, mostly boys, walking into their schoolsand opening fire into crowds of schoolmates and teachers. The airwaves havebeen filled with “experts” claiming the cause is everything from too manyguns available to arcade games to violence on TV. …

Aggression is a critical part of animal existence, which is an inherent driving force to humans, as we, too, are animals. The source of aggression within humans is a long summative list, but before trying to understand its source one must apply a working definition of aggression. Encyclopedia Britannica as any action of an animal …