The use of violence in music lyrics, video games and films seen by children is causing concern in many societies. What problems this type of violent imagery may cause, and what steps could be taken to lessen the impact on young people.
Most people nowadays pay more attention to children watching audio-visual media, such as music lyrics, video games and films, which contains violence. This essay will identify potential problems and explore the way to diminish the impacts on youth.
Regarding the impacts, one possible is that children would display the acts of physical aggression. In video games and films, brutality and negative physical action can give influences over viewers especially young people to unwisely attempt the practice of martial arts exposed in these media to others surrounding. Secondly, the media would affect children to commit physical violence as an appropriate way to deal with problems. For instance, when watching action or gangster films, the fictional heroes might perform physical violent acts to fight against their enemies. As a result, viewer will assume that this action is reasonably acceptable to take as the way to defeat a bad guy.
Turning to the solutions, one of the effective ways is to provide parental supervision, meaning that parents should limit the time for children watching films. To illustrate, if youth spent less time on seeing films, they would get minimum media exposure. Moreover, another possible step is to offer technical guidance on playing video games. This can be seen on a set of practical guidelines suggesting children to ignore the games containing physical violence. Finally, to reduce the impact could be achieved by encouraging children to develop awareness of violence and understand its consequences. This will make them possess critical-thinking skills in being wise when listening to the music with lyric containing animosity.
To conclude, it is clear that violent imagery creates serious problems of both children’s behavior and emotion. Yet, there would be some ideal solutions to deal with this, in which parental supervision and guidance should be provided as the essential steps.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, for instance, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1638.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 300.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80099188781 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606666666667 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.6810493653 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.2 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06120827912 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199746305707 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0660835185195 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0424322108443 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127308076874 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0340439309609 0.056905535591 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.79 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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