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Professor Leibow
ENG 112
22 November 2015
Essay assignment #2
Effects of Violence Media on Teenagers
Virtually, since the dawn of television, parents, teachers, legislators and mental
health professionals have wanted to understand the impact of television programs,
particularly on children. Early research on the effects of viewing violence on television,
especially among children, found a desensitizing effect and the potential for aggression.
In this paper, we shall focus our attention to a work done by Gerald Jones, an author of
several works of fiction and nonfiction, about how media violence makes an impact to
children. The twenty first century generation is highly engulfed with emulating what they
see on media rather than following wisdom of our fore fathers.
Gerald Jones is an author of different character who will take you step by step, to
realizing his reasoning towards the issue of how violence on media is corrupting our
children’s mind. By giving us a short summary of his experience as a kid as well as his
teenage life, Jones mainly focuses on enlightenment hoping that we would all grasp the
idea behind his logical thinking, as well as his personal experience on the matter. He
introduces us to the experience at age thirteen. He is afraid and alone, locked in a prison
of rage. His well-meaning parents are so concerned with protecting him from violence
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scenes either from media or at school and this makes him hide his deepest fears and
desires under a nice-boy persona (Jones 2006). The tempo of adolescent boyhood is
raging up high outside, but due to the wall build by his parents, he ends up withdrawing
into passivity and loneliness.
In this context, Jones is desperate for a reborn. The suffering is slowly eating him
from the inside. He cannot do a thing about it due to the level of loyalty to the family. In
a different level of patriotism, it is not acceptable in my opinion to suffer lonely without
expressing your concerns. It will only harm you so bad to a level of no return. Hope
rejuvenates in Jones heart as one of his mother’s students convinces her that Marvel
Comics, despite their apparent juvenility and violence, they are in fact devoted to lofty
messages of pacifism and tolerance. Jones is excited not for the benevolence preached by
the lofty messages, but by the violence contained in the scenes of Marvel Comics (Jones
2006).
From this moment, the writer takes us to his mid-life stage where important
decisions are made concerning his career and the overall realization of his true calling in
life. Across generations, genders, and ethnicities are trying to pull themselves out of
emotional traps as a result of immersing themselves in violent stories (Johnston 2011).
The kind of entertainment being created is highly integrated into the scariest, most
fervently denied fragments of their psyches into fuller senses of selfhood through
fantasies of superhuman combat and destruction (Gerald 2006).
The fight to self-actualization does not end with Jones. It’s all over the human
race. Slowly eating us deep within us, but we are too blind to realize this. His son is
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battling against rage to freedom (Jones 2008). Teachers are begging with parents to keep
their children from rotten culture that is polluting their mind at early stages of maturity.
Melanie Moore is a psychologist who works with urban teens and has noted that; fear,
greed, power-hunger, and rage are the aspects of ourselves that we try not to experience
in our lives but often want, even need to experience through stories of others. Moore feels
that children need violent entertainment in order to explore the inescapable feelings that
they have been taught to deny, and to reintegrate those feelings into a more whole, more
complex, more resilient selfhood (Johnson 2011).
The concept of dual-identity at heart of many superhero stories help kids in
negotiate the conflict between the inner self and the public self as they work through
early stages of socialization. Identification with a rebellious, even destructive, hero helps
children learn to push back against a modern culture that cultivates fear and teaches
dependency (Jones 2006). The author’s tone all through this article is persuasive and
objective in the sense that, it is appropriate to the audience intending to see a generation
worth a rating five star.
In conclusion, I totally agree with the author that, violent entertainment can play
an important role in inspiring some people to real life violence. On the contrary, it can
help far more if we learn to use it well. That fear of youth violence isn’t well-founded on
reality, and that the fear can do more harm than reality. We don’t need to make the
assumption that entertainment violence has effect with gender bias, we need to address it
as a major concern affecting our youth.
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Works Cited
Johnston, Stephen. Tea Party Culture War: A Clash of Worldviews. Enumclaw, WA:
WinePress. Pub, 2011. Print.
Jones, Gerald, Daniel Cardinal, and Jeremy Hayward. Moral Philosophy: A Guide to
Ethical Theory. London: Hodder Murray, 2006. Print.
Jones, Gerald, Jeremy Hayward, and Daniel Cardinal. An Introduction to Philosophy for
AsLevel. London: Hodder Education, 2008. Print.
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since the dawn of television, parents, teach...
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This language comes directly from another
source. But you have failed to cite it. Use
signal phrase and parenthetical citation along
with the complete cite on the Works Cited
page to avoid plagiarism. Remember, you
must make clear to the reader that these
words come from another source.
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Early research on the effects of viewing vio...
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Again, this is plagiarized -- exact words from
another source must be in quotation marks
AND be properly referenced with signal
phrase, parenthetical reference, and
corresponding works cited entry.
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The twenty first century generation is highl...
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Instead of a "In this paper..." statement, I am
looking for a strong thesis statement that
asserts your evaluation or interpretation of the
meaning of the text or effectiveness of the
author's argument. Why or why not was his
argument effective? What specific elements
of the argument do you examine in the essay
Be to show the strengths and/or weaknesses in
his reasoning.
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of different character
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this phrase makes your sentence confusing.
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Dexample of wordiness -- sentence would be
more clear if you make it concise -- try
replacing this phrase with one strong verb --
Author Gerald Jones explains how violence...
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By giving us a short summary of his experi...
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Interesting explanation of how the evidence
supports the claim -- but the paragraph is
confusing because you haven't yet stated a
claim, or presented the evidence -- Here a
more logical sequence would be -- 1. state
claim, 2. evidence (the summary), 3. explain
how the summary relates to your claim; and
Be 4. explain how the claim relates to your thesis
about how effective (or not) is the author's
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The tempo of adolescent boyhood is ragin...
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Where does this idea come from? If it comes
from the essay, you must cite it.
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a reborn
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word choice?
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that Marvel Comics, despite their apparent...
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You have misrepresented this source by
presenting this as a paraphrase, when you
have quoted the exact words. Be sure to use
quotation marks. -- This is another form of
plagiarism - Your goal is to make clear to the
reader what EXACT WORDS come from
another source AND what IDEA IN YOUR
ABE WORDS come from another source.
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the writer takes us to
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(Gerald 2006).
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Where does the information from this source
enter your essay? Be sure to mark the
beginning of the words/ideas from this source
with a signal phrase.
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(Jones 2008)
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Again, where is your signal phrase. I cannot
tell where your words/ideas end the
words/ideas from this source begin. I was
surprised when I arrived at this cite, because I
thought you were "talking" here.
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is
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Make this signal phrase more concise:
Melanie Moore, a psychologist who works
with urban teens, notes, fear....
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The
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MLA formatting -- no extra line space
between paragraphs.
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The author's tone all through this article is ...
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This is a good "claim" -- If you supported this
claim with evidence from the essay, and then
explained how the evidence supported the
claim, and then explained how this claim
relates to your thesis, you would have an
excellent paragraph.
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(Jones 2006)
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Where's the signal phrase for this source?
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I totally agree with the author that, violent e...
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The conclusion (like your thesis) should focus
on WHY you agree. What has the author
done to effectively build his argument that
violent entertainment can play an important
role in inspiring... Also, this seems to be the
opposite of the argument he makes...
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