Violence in movies has become a reality of our everyday lives. The effects of such violent images on children can only lead to a more violent society.
Some people maintain that movies depicting violence do not heavily influence children's future actions. children are able to think for themselves and comprehend that real violence differs from the images they are exposed to in movies. while there is no doubt that violence is not a new phenomenon and predates movies, there is reason to believe that children are easily influenced by depictions of violence and cannot differentiate them clearly as real or fictional, and that therefore violence in movies has serious negative effects on young viewers.
One argument that supports the idea that violence in movies does not severely influence children is that violence is a permanent feature of human life. In other words, movies are just a modern medium for representing a persistent reality. today, movies show violent images, but in the past, violence was ubiquitous. For example, in the Middle Ages, from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, it was normal to witness public hangings on a daily basis. During the Inquisition, people were publicly executed for their beliefs, and there was no censorship; children watched, too. this did not mean children who saw this would be more prone to violence. brutality simply seemed to be a part of everyday life. Thus, past realities were even worse than what is seen in the movies today.
However true it may be that violence has historically been a part of daily life, today, with the development of modern media, such events are represented in plastic detail, enhanced by artifice, circulated widely, replayed numerous times, and embedded in our consciousness. while we do not know the full workings of human consciousness, we can look to research that has examined the link between media violence and the behavior of children. A number of studies have demonstrated that watching depictions of violence encourages aggression, desensitization, and pessimism in children. even as far back as the 1960s and 1970s, research into social learning and the tendency of children to imitate what they see actually proliferated and was widely accepted to the point that in the 1980s the US Mental Health Institute accepted such findings and recommended that more efforts be made to buttress this relatively recent development.
Moreover, the presentation of violence minus its effects reduces its seriousness. In essence, violence is mainly depicted in a playful way; movies do not tend to show the real results of violence, so the connection between violence and its effects disappears. For instance, popular movies about comic-book heroes, such as those put out by the widely known Marvel franchise, show the heroes “saving the day” with an enormous amount of brutality. we do not see the effects of that violence; a falling building does not land on anyone, and the building is empty of workers even at midday. therefore, impressionable children see violence as a “game.”
As can be seen from the above, although it is true that children have always been exposed to violence, and violence is indeed a part of human history and life, it is important to focus on whether certain media increase the amount of violence in society. children are the prime victims, as such media confuses their sense of reality. If we do not begin to control what children watch and ignore this issue, we may end up with a more violent society, one in which people view violence as commonplace instead of as horrific and disturbing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, no doubt, such as, in other words, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 12.9106741573 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2937.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 566.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1890459364 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87757670434 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85085494572 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 289.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510600706714 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 906.3 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 85.9896808147 60.3974514979 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.5 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7272727273 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.77272727273 5.21951772744 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 7.80617977528 154% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 10.2758426966 19% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 18.0 5.13820224719 350% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.294017691642 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0810856169472 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0433294966848 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160491802019 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0303705960281 0.0667264976115 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 160.0 100.480337079 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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.