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For the past several decades the media has impacted and naturally changed our life immeasurably. Television and movies in particular have had a destructive and irreversible influence towards children. In everyday life, a typical American child will spend up to 4 hours engulfed in an imaginary world of bloodshed, robbery, and murder. Being brainwashed from a picture on the screen that celebrates violence, children are typically not taught, or too distracted to be to be able …

…and movies makes children more “aggressive, more pessimistic, less imaginative, less empathetic and less capable students” (Torr 31). Along with liquefying their personality it’s been found that media violence has made children “less sensitive to violence and to victims of violence” (AAP Committee). While some parents find that desensitizing children makes them “less afraid of the monsters under the bed,” it also makes them naïve to things such as murder and rape (AAP Committee).