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Outline and Rubric for Group

Opening Position Statement (100 words about 1 minute)(15pts)

Andrew sits in front of his 24-inch flat screen monitor and optimized computer with top-speedInternet connection. Everything he is about to accomplish depends on his speed and graphica

processing. Within the next three hours, the 12-year-old will have committed assault, murder,

robbery, arson, burglary, drug trafficking, and auto theft, breaking just about every crime law

in the nation.

Hell accomplish all this without ever leaving his room.

Most people would refer to this as a simple video game, nothing to think twice about. But how

is media violence truly affecting teens?

Media violence clearly sets a serious problem in todays society. There has been a significant

increase of violence in the world of media, and it is horrifyingly affecting much more youth as

well.

Points that Support Position (300 words about 3 minutes)(40pts)

Any individual can agree that the rates of media violence are increasing rapidly. Even studies

have shown the shocking relationships between increasing violence and increasing rates of

teen crime. Seven out of eleven movies released in a specific year have contained violent

themes. The number of juvenile violent crime arrests in a specific year is 49% higher than just

10 years before. These statistics are too closely linked together to be just a coincidence.

The majority of youth today listen to about forty or more hours of music per week. A large

quantity of Hip Hop/R&B artists feature lyrics about killing women, beating people up, or othe

acts of violence. Reports have shown that the music listened to by many crime committers

have included these types of songs.

Dr.Brandon Centerwall, professor of the University of Washington, once stated that

hypothetically, if television technology had never been developed, there would be 10,000

fewer homicides, 70,000 fewer rapes, and 700,000 fewer injurious assaults. You can even see

this case in an actual shooting rampage placed in Paducah, Kentucky, caused by a 14-year-old

boy. The teen had never held a real gun before; however, he had spent endless hours playing

shooter games using the same exact weapon he had used the morning of the shooting.

Group Member Names: Julie Song Haley Carson Brianna McKinney

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Interaction with these violent games had taught the teen how to load, target, and shoot

victims- just like an instructional video.

On April 20, 1999, teen killers were being arrested. A mutual friend of the killers, standing off

to the side, was wearing a shirt with Kenny, a character from the popular television show

Southpark. Kenny is a repetitious victim of murder on the show.

Kids associate violence in the media as a source of excitement and an adrenaline rush. They

long for the feeling of shock and fright caused by the extreme violence. Incredibly violent

games are the most popular ones on PCs. Even going to horror movies are supposedly showing

bravery and courage between teens.

Closing Summary (100 words about a minute)(15pts)

Thus said, media violence is unquestionably a serious problem for teens. There has been asignificant increase in media violence, and the media affects far more of our generation than

ever in the past. As the media is becoming a firm supporter of violence, the easy display of it is

greatly contributing to how society is less reactant to the excess of brutality. When the values

of the greater good is weighed with individual entertainment, the aggression in media is

definitely considered a threat and a violation.

Rebuttal (250-300 words about 3 minutes) (15pts)

There is infinite amount of complete evidence that media violence does increase

aggressiveness. A study done on 8-year-old boys who watched more television violence than

other boys proved that they do, in fact, increase in aggression as they further mature.

Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman even stated that the willingness to kill another person is

not a natural behavior but one that has to be taught.

Even when a parent is warned of violence beforehand when purchasing things for their kids,

saying that parents alone are responsible for controlling their kids access to media violence is

no different from saying they are responsible for safe streets. Despite the rating rule for

movies (PG-13, R, etc.), parents allow their children to attend inappropriate movies regardless

of the fact that the childs actual age doesnt permit them to. Moreover, ratings on video

games (T, E, M, etc.) are ignored due to Game Distributers not being considerate of whether

the child is old enough.

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Television, music, movies, and other types of media surely can be interactive learning tools.

Just as children can improve their Spanish with Dora the Explorer, their phonics with Sesame

Street, and their science with The Magic School Bus, they can learn to shoot with deadly

accuracy playing Call of Duty, Modern Warfare, and other first-person shooter games.

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