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Influences of Society

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  • October 21, 2002
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What Influences Society?
Society seems to influence all ages by poisoning our minds with lies and aggression. People all over try to act like different souls because of what we see on television, hear on the radio, and view in the movie theaters. Everyone try's to dress different, act different, and change their whole life style just to be known like a certain movie star, or singer.

In our society today, it is extremely important to pay attention to what influences children. One of the biggest influences America's youth may have is the television. It is possible for children to be pulled into the television's realistic world of violence with sometimes devastating results. The impact of television violence on youth behavior has been an issue for many years. Violent programs on television lead to negative behavior by children and teenagers who watch those programs. The causal effect of television violence on aggression, even though it is not very large, exists. Jackass for one is a good example on kid's influences to do bad things. They see people doing things so they believe its ok for them to do, but they end up 6 feet under or paralyzed for life. With the explicitness of sex on television expresses young adults to go out and have sex. That's why we have such uproar in population. Sex In the City, and Friends express that to children's eyes all over, and they get that in their heads that they can be like the people they see. In today's world it's not about being ourselves, it's about trying to be like other people.

When kids hear a certain music group or a performer like Eminem and Britney Spears, they get visions in their heads that they can be them. Britney spears dresses like a slut, acts like a slut, and then gets mad when people call her a slut. Girls growing up see that and try to be that, in which they get raped or assaulted by the way they dress. Eminem raps about drugs, beating women, and other explicit content. In their eyes it's just music,...
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