(DL03) PSY 230 Research Paper: Current social issues in America Richard Recupero J Sargent Reynolds C.C. INTRODUCTION “ELECTRONIC BABYSITTERS” We are going to review the effects of a child’s cognitive, emotional, moral and physical development in today’s technological society. My research and thoughts include topics of excessive television viewing, texting, iPads, mobile televisions in cars and video games and how they are affecting our children. Included is some information about how violence in media also affects development. How do we aid in the development of children and are the roads we are traveling the wrong roads?
Sternheimer feels it is these other over looked factors that are truly the cause of “young killers” (210). These factors include personal traits, background and family. Sternheimer also blames politician’s claims for the rise of concern for video game violence (209). She briefly writes of law suits on video game producers and points out none have ever been won (210). Sternheimer wants us to question why there are “young killers” (210) arising from suburban families who are considered by most to be decent, well
A solution to the Amex problem would be to temporarily shut down their company since they can’t handle being truthful to consumers based on their false advertising about the Blue Sky program. Temporarily shutting down the company would address the problem by making Amex realize what they are doing to consumers isn’t okay. The government has a federal agency called the Division of Advertising Practices that need to monitor advertisements more carefully because the government needs to stop these crimes immediately.The government should step up solving these crimes faster because Georgia Peanuts was selling salmonella-infested peanut butter to the public for MONTHS before the government did anything. Amex was scamming people for 9 YEARS before the government found
According to an interview with Kaczynski on primitivism.com, it was stated that he developed a negative attitude toward the techno-industrial system very early in his life. It was in 1962, during his last year at Harvard he explained, when he began feeling a sense of disillusionment with the system. When asked why he became against technology his answer was, “Why do you think? It reduces people to gears in a machine, it takes away our autonomy and our freedom." Yet his argument seems to be questionable based on the fact that the proclaimed terrorist created over 20 bombs to get not only his point across but to also get the attention New York Times to publish his essay.
News articles bring up these horrible deeds from the past in regard to bring focus on gun control. Gun control has been a topic and debate in Congress and the White House since the United States was still young. In 1934 during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt brought about this National Firearms Act to try to eliminate automatic guns and other such weapons like guns in canes or guns that had silencers to name a few (Bureau of ATF). President Obama fought hard to push forth a gun control package that has been all over every media imaginable. Ten days ago the US learned that what the President fought so hard for did not pass.
With this extensive history of gun related tragedy, and a gun favoring majority population, Colorado has become a testing ground for new laws on gun control. Source A concludes by saying “ ‘It’s different now because children are being butchered in schools,’ said Dave Hoover, a police officer in Lakewood, Colo., whose nephew A.J. Boik was one of the 12 people killed in Aurora. ‘Because kids were killed at a movie. Because families went to church and were gunned down.’ ”(Source A).
Also he admitted in a press interview to having helped up to 300 people to die ("BBC News”). Also in the Netherlands, a 1990 government sponsored survey found that 8% of all deaths in the Netherlands were euthanasia deaths that occurred without a request from the patient and in a 1995 study, Dutch doctors reported ending the lives of 948 patients without their request ("http://www.euthanasia.com/start.html"). This shows on what level, the legalization of euthanasia is being abused in the Netherlands and the case of Britain is more surprising because euthanasia or PAS is illegal there but still it is happening. So if euthanasia or PAS is made legal then it will probably pose great threats to people. It is also predicted by The American Medical Association (AMA) in its June 1996 article "Decisions near the End of Life" (www.ama-assn.org).
Aggression is the reason behind gun-violence and video games bring that aggression out,”(Studies Suggest Complex Link Between Guns, Violent Video Games). Those with mental problems, such as the Columbine shooters, are thought being influenced more through media. Video games are a huge portion of media and have been for years. “One such game, Grand Theft Auto, has been seen as the starting point of influencing children involving gun violence. More parents everyday don’t give a damn anymore whether their kids play games like this anymore.
yes yes no OD cause death? yes no no of annual deaths 100,000 4440,00 0 sources: Centers for Disease and Prevention; and Marijuana Medicine: Assessing the cience Base, Institute of Medicine, and The National Academy of Sciences. What are the 4 biggest reasons people are concerned about Marijuana? 1. )Marijuana use is WRONG-whatever one's moral beliefs about pot, marijuana laws have caused far more harm than marijuana use itself: marijuana prohibition drained precious criminal justice resources from our communities, made it difficult to keep pot from our children, and destroyed the lives and families of otherwise law abiding citizens 2.)
On the show “To Catch a Predator” the predators that fall for the bait are arrested. This is just one of the reasons why parents are becoming more worried for their children to be using the Internet. Television shows like “To Catch a Predator” have parents asking themselves, is the internet safe for my children? The internet can be very dangerous, but there are ways for parents to better insure their child’s safety while online. One great way to start protecting your children is to have a computer in a high traffic area in the house where children can be observed.