Some people believe that increasing violence in the media is the cause of increasing violence in our society, especially among children. Others believe that children's peer groups and parental role models are a much more powerful influence on children's behavior.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented above.
Safety and societal harmony is very important when raising a child in this world. When the media covers violent news, one may argue that it can have an impact on children that may cause them to change their ways of thinking. However, I disagree with the former position stated in the prompt, and I more closely align with the latter. Considering that the current age is one of great technological advancements with an increasingly connected society, it only augments the need for us to make sure that young people are exposed to good ideas and information, while also not completely obscuring from them the bad in the world. There are three main aspects to this issue that must be addressed.
First, increasing violence in the media is not a cause of increasing violence in the society; it is quite the opposite. The media is a reflection of our society, and believing otherwise would be quite foolish - where do media entities get violent stories from? If society did not experience the kinds of violence that it actually does, then the media would not have such news to cover. This would make any reasonable person consider the root issues of the problem at hand: Violent acts have been observed to be in higher frequencies in less-educated and unhealthy communities. If social welfare measures were taken, by improving education and healthcare facilities, them the levels of violence will go down, and children would thus be less likely to be exposed to such crimes.
Second, children are not completely naive, and do indeed understand what is morally acceptable and what is not. One may argue that being exposed to violence may affect this, as stated earlier. But this reduces children to mere media-consuming machines. They have complex lives, they engage in conversations with friends and family, they look up to celebrity role models and follow them on social media - Assuming that children are shaped by the increasing violence in the media is to assume that they have no support system or peers. Children are more likely to be shaped by the ideas of the people whom they are closer to, like peer groups and their parents. They may not possess the ability to reason out complex scenarios, but their moral compasses are not immediately skewed by watching news about crime. If anything, their parents can talk about it with them, explaining to them why those things are bad, and how people are working to solve these issues.
Finally, it is reasonable to concede to some degree that media does influence children. However, it is not a ‘cause’ of violence. Take for example the several school shootings that take place in the United States every year: This is not a direct cause of children absorbing violent ideas and acting on them - in most of these cases, it has been proven that students engaging in such activities did so due to a combination of untreated mental illnesses and bad relations with family and peers. Simply eliminating violence from the media would not address these core issues. If the education and healthcare systems would have ensured that children's mental health is also looked after, then countless deaths could have been avoided. Hence, as the second view of the prompt states, children's peer groups and parental role models (or family, at large) are a much more powerful, and necessary, influence on children's behaviour.
In conclusion, this is a complex issue, and there do exist some arguments that favour media's role in being a cause of societal violence. However, these arguments fail to address central issues, and hence allow violence to persist in society; it is akin to treating a disease by treating its symptoms - more often than not, solving the cause of the disease is more effective. Hence, the importance of peer groups and family in a child's life cannot be understated.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 131, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[4]
Message: You should probably use: 'are'.
Suggestion: are
...ty; it is quite the opposite. The media is a reflection of our society, and believ...
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Line 7, column 614, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had ensured'?
Suggestion: had ensured
...If the education and healthcare systems would have ensured that childrens mental health is also lo...
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Line 9, column 257, Rule ID: IT_IS_JJ_TO_VBG[1]
Message: Did you mean 'treat'?
Suggestion: treat
...ce to persist in society; it is akin to treating a disease by treating its symptoms - mo...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, look, may, second, so, then, thus, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.5258426966 195% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3186.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 644.0 442.535393258 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94720496894 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.0375743251 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58736244938 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 314.0 215.323595506 146% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487577639752 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 995.4 704.065955056 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.7065730772 60.3974514979 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.538461538 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7692307692 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.80769230769 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.326688681759 0.243740707755 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0878375634197 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0773433017197 0.0758088955206 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175939241827 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0661220088768 0.0667264976115 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 100.480337079 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 131, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[4]
Message: You should probably use: 'are'.
Suggestion: are
...ty; it is quite the opposite. The media is a reflection of our society, and believ...
^^
Line 7, column 614, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had ensured'?
Suggestion: had ensured
...If the education and healthcare systems would have ensured that childrens mental health is also lo...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 257, Rule ID: IT_IS_JJ_TO_VBG[1]
Message: Did you mean 'treat'?
Suggestion: treat
...ce to persist in society; it is akin to treating a disease by treating its symptoms - mo...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, look, may, second, so, then, thus, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.5258426966 195% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3186.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 644.0 442.535393258 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94720496894 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.0375743251 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58736244938 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 314.0 215.323595506 146% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487577639752 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 995.4 704.065955056 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.7065730772 60.3974514979 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.538461538 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7692307692 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.80769230769 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.326688681759 0.243740707755 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0878375634197 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0773433017197 0.0758088955206 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175939241827 0.150359130593 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0661220088768 0.0667264976115 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 100.480337079 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.