Response for Wednesday, 11/14: "McNasty" article

3. Of the criteria and evidence Crane provides, which do you feel would be most likely to influence you decisions about food choice? How do you think different audiences would react to Crane's assessment?

--ejfleitz

Television-Tim Fisher

The laws should be changed in concurrence with the influx of new information regarding television violence. If it has been discovered that violent behavior is the result of domestic violence and not television, then some safeguards on the t.v. used to prevent children from seeing some shows can be removed. Also, the government really is going to need to work on how to crack down on domestic violence if they want this new trend to stop.

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While America remains a more violent country than Canada, and nothing can change that, there are some valid reasons remaining as to why America has such a vastly higher crime rate. One of those reasons would be the population. The United States population absolutely dwarfs that of Canada. The United States population stands at the moment at 301,139,947 and it is growing everyday. If you compare that with the Canadian population which stands at 33,390,141 and you can see why the crime rates differ so much. With that vast of population difference, it stands to reason that crime in the larger country would be much higher.

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Tv has nothing to do with how violent someone will be, I could've told you that years ago. The media tries to protect from too violent on tv, but people will see violence else where, and it isnt goin to make them a criminal if they see it on tv. But yes they number 1 cause is domestic violence, because that all the person sees and knows so it makes sense. Tv has nothing to do with people becoming violent, so all the censors, and ratings for shows should go away because they make no sense.

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Sitting around and concentrating on one thing at a time if you suffer from ADD. ADD is also known as Attention-Deficit Disorder, and currently affects 5% of the world's population. The disorder is mainly considered to be a developmental disorder, presenting itself in childhood. ADD usually comes with certain traits such as lacking impulse control; one with ADD would have trouble with simple tasks because they are easily distracted by anything and everything. History of ADD dates all the way back to 493 BC when scientist Hippocrates talked about a condition of patients who had "quickened responses to sensory experience, but also less tenaciousness because the soul moves on quickly to the next impression". ADD has almost become an epidemic one could say, but only in America because no other place in the world has as many ADD cases as the USA. There isn’t one cause for this strange fact, but there are some speculations on why this trend is happening in America and no where else.

I learned a lot about transitions they help focus the point. And lead into new things. Without them papers would just be randoms thoughts one after another.

Using Transitions

Many teenagers that use drugs do so because of peer pressure by friends. Peer pressure may occur when a friend influences you to do something you usually would not do, or stopped you from doing something you would like to do (Peer Pressure). Teenagers are closer to their friends than they are their parents and also share more information with their friends. Teenagers know the risks of doing marijuana but getting accepted by their friends is more important to them. During the teenage years it is hard to resist peer pressure. When they know everyone else is doing marijuana, consequently they feel as if they need to, too. As a result, teens would join their friends since they would not want to feel that as if they are being left out. Not only are teenagers influenced by their peers to do drugs but their parents also influence them.

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In America, violence is everywhere. We see violence in the media, movies, television, and video games. Certainly, the biggest one is in the media, which makes it hard to get away from violence. In return the media makes Americans feel paranoid. Similarly, everyone is afraid of everyone else, like neighbors, classmates, coworkers, etc. So therefore, when we feel too afraid we resolve the problem with violence, normally with firearms. Although as Americans we believe that we are the best, and this is an attitude that has served us well throughout our existence. For example, if there is something wrong, whether or not it happens in our territory, we send ‘American troops’, ‘the best troops’, to resolve the problem. However, while we have this attitude of being the best, most do not realize that our neighbors up north, Canadians, are doing a better job with the crime rate. Canada’s crime rate is significantly lower than the U.S., because Canada has stricter firearm regulations than the U.S. Since these regulations exist, Canada does not have as much violence. Also, Canada does not have violence in their media. In return, Canadian’s are less afraid of each other, unlike Americans. In summary, the less violence there is in the media, then the less afraid people will be of one another.