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Essay Topic
Essay Topic
The analysis of the problem of the liberal bias of the mass media.
Essay Questions:
Can mass media be considered liberal?
In what way the mass media is the mediator between the events and the audience?
Why do mass media covers the news from the perspective which is suitable for its own
purposes?
Thesis Statement:
Mass media claims to provide a diversity of different thoughts including political, religious,
economic and other ones without thrusting the opinion of the audience.
Introduction: Computer games have seriously caught the attention of Mass Media and
nowadays every channel considers its duty to remind people how much damage these games
cause to children and adults. The increasing amount of games with violent scenes sock the
society and makes it very aware of them.It is already common knowledge that violent games
cause violence in people. This fact is not even doubted by the majority of people. Every other
person says that the reason lies in games being too close to reality. The opinion that games
make violent actions normal for the player and therefore make the player pitiless can be
often heard. In this case the game is the cause of violence and the act of violence by itself is
a consequence. And can real-life violence exist in the reality of a game? Is the transfer of the
definition of violence with all its peculiarities from one world to another justified only
according to the external similarity of these two worlds?
Games originally are entertainment. Contemporary games are very realistic and for this
reason they are a source of great experience for the player and develop the imagination.
Games are entertainment and even more then that. In addition, the statistics of the New York
University lead by Green and Bavelier claim that the player preferring active games get an
improvement of some types of brain activity, related to processing of visual information. In
particular, game players cope with problems of simultaneously tracking several moving
objects at the average level of 30% better then people who do not play active computer
video games. The gaming violent experience may not be the cause of violent behavior in
reality. None of the playing experience will become the priority in making important decisions
concerning problems in real life. A game is an abstraction. A player gets abstract tasks and
acts according to abstract rules.Games are also the possibility to be however a person wants
to be and to rest from the outside world for some time. But what if a person gets so much
excited with the game scenes that he becomes violent in reality? Then, it proves that the
games cause people to become violent. Let us stop for a moment right at this point. Those
who do not participate in this type of activity usually make the conclusion of presence of
violence in the game-world.
Conclusion: Nobody will ever hear this kind of statement from those who play, from those
who know the rules of the game and understand that it is just a virtual world. A
psychologically healthy person will never confuse or connect these two different worlds. A
game is a virtual world with visual images very similar to human. These images represent by
themselves nothing but simple playing obstacles. A game may potentially give the
opportunity to destroy the obstacles that may not be destroyed according to the rules but it
is more about personal choice whether to do it or not. This leads us to the conclusion that
violence is not a consequence but the cause. People who are originally prone to violence may
get irritated by games and perform violence in the real world. But in this case violence in
games is a simple justification of the violent nature of the player.
Essay Topic:
The scheme of the teachers behavior in case of signs of child abuse.
Essay Questions:
How should a teacher react if signs of child abuse are seen on the body of a child?
What type of reports a teacher needs to make to start the legal procedure?
What possible outcome a report to the Department of Children and Family Services will
have?
Does the teacher take personal responsibility for the child abuse report?
Thesis Statement:
The telephone report should include detailed information about the person making the report
and detailed information about the child, suspected of being a victim of abuse: location,
special needs, injury, ect. Afterwards all the details must be repeated by the contact person
and approved by the reporting teacher.
13. The bully, the bullied, and the bystander are all equally responsible.
15. The more elaborate the means of communication the less we communicate.
17. The pressure on the screen is selling things that we do not need