Television influences the general media everyday. Shows and commercials range in influencing what people should eat for breakfast in the morning, to what they wear at night. Their goal is to show something in some attractive way so that it takes public interest. They do this by flashing pictures across the screen that take only seconds to remember in the sub-conscious. Violence in the media has become a giant issue, for people believe that it has a distinct effect on America's youths. I feel these people are right, and while television should not be censored for reasons following, parents should instead be forced or taught to recognize the things their children watch on T.V. In this document I will illustrate the positive and negative effects of media violence, how children respond to growing up in different environments, and the traits that kids might inherit before they even watch a single violent show.
             Violence in America has had so much history behind it. Following are various suggestions to the dominate cause of violence in American society today, ranging from things as big as the gold rush to the discovery of the "aggression gene," that which originated centuries ago and carried on through generations. Whichever the case, many believe that stricter punishment and jail sentences will eventually eradicate crime all together. Others feel that it is a more deep problem, that violence cannot be prevented until we discover the single source from which it derives.
             Males between the ages of twelve up until around twenty-eight are most likely to vandalize, kill and abuse alcohol and other drugs. This could be from some number of reasons, maybe stemming genetically. Most violent behavior is centered on multiple genes that which receive information from other parts of the body. Testosterone is generally a basic reason for any type of aggression. Males are born and develop testes, which in turn produce testo...