nvolving young boys imitating a scene from the movie Deer Hunter by playing Russian Roulette. Another young boy was killed and several of his friends injured when they imitating a scene from the movie Program. The boys lay along the center divider of a busy road to prove their courage. (Viewing Violence, 1996) Though these cases are fairly rare, they seem to be happening with more frequency. There are researchers who do not agree that the television shows and movies a cause people act violently. Such as Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles, he feels images of violence do not harm a child. He says that sometimes they actually help “sort matters out, stop and think about what is true and what is not by any means true”, the child “doesn’t forget what he’s learned in school, learned at home, from hearing people talk in his family and his neighborhood.”(Media Violence, 1999)America is a culture that glorifies violence, neglects our social problems, and puts vengeful, ruthless characters up on a pedestal. If we truly want a society of less aggressive, more compassionate children, we need to create more suitable role models for them....
