The Negative Effects Of Media Violence In The Media

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In this first scene, Brian owes Stewie some money and after countless approaches from Stewie for repayment Brian keeps giving him the run around. After a deadline Stewie had set for Brian to pay him back, Stewie confronted Brian and when he couldn’t pay, Stewie hit Brian with a golf club (knocking his teeth out and breaking his nose), shooting Brian in both knees and finally torched him to a crisp with a flame thrower. The aggressor, Stewie, is a baby boy who is obsessed with violence and matricide. Stewie’s age is unknown throughout the show but he is known as a genius. Stewie’s are best friends.

The victim, Brian, is a white furred anthropomorphic dog. Brian enjoys drinking and sipping on martini’s and is a marijuana smoker. …show more content…

It is pretty evident that the children are becoming heavy media consumers. Every day there is some form of violence that is being reported in the news. In adults, the media violence exposure may have little to no effects on them but the violence that the children witness can have a negative impact on them psychologically. Early exposure to the violence in movies, media and cartoons places children at risk for the development of aggressive and violent behavior as they grow older. The Assisting Children Through Transition (ACT) program addresses the impact of media violence on the development of young children, and teaches parents strategies for reducing their children’s exposure to media violence. In the show Family Guy, the characters mock and mimic some of the tragic events that occurred violently in communities around the world. Unfortunately, the show’s producers do put some humor behind those scenes that it can even make a sensitive person to the subject laugh with ease. Regardless of the humor involved the sensitivity of the subject can cause emotional and psychological damages that can have a long lasting effect on the individual observing the

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