Which supports claim: We are born DOD, but factors such as family, society and technology, all interfere with our natural design. Family has a huge impact on who you become. They are the people from whom we first learn about love and life. We are impacted, positively and negatively, by the beliefs, attitudes, values and behaviors of those in our families. According to the Harvard Family Research Project, “The level and quality of family involvement has a direct link to healthy early childhood development. The family plays a significant role in how a child’s personality, attitudes and behaviors are formed” (1 .
The values and practices of parents and siblings directly impact the learning and emotional development of the children in a family. For instance, if a child was born into a family of UK Klux Klan members, then the child would have been conditioned to hate Jews, African Americans and Catholics. Those children would see people getting lynched and beaten from the time they are born, so they become desensitizing to these images, making it easier for them to act out these terrible crimes without feeling bad about it when they become adults.
Children soak up information like a sponge, they mimic what they see and/ r hear. One clear example is Ted Bundy, the American serial killer who, “as a child… Would watch his own father torture animals (Bell 1). ” Eventually Bundy did the same and further went on to being convicted of two murders and suspected of at least another forty. Because Bundy was “influenced by someone he looked up to (Bell 1)”, he mimicked his father’s actions and eventually became one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.
In today’s schools, bullying is not an occasional occurrence but rather an everyday reality where children learn early that being sensitive, respectful, ND kind earns them no respect. Jessie Klein, author of the book The Bully Society, makes the claim that “the rise of school shootings across America, and childhood aggression more broadly, are the consequences of a society that actually promotes aggressive and competitive behavior (Klein With the constant need to “fit in”, students will do anything to make themselves seem popular or cool, sometimes even resulting in school shootings, fights and theft.
In the novel Frankincense, written by Mary Shelley, one of the Shelley topics addressed is the conflict of how society can affect someone and their resonantly. Frankincense is about the scientist Victor Frankincense, who creates a grotesque creature (a monster) in a scientific experiment Later through the novel, through the monster’s story, we begin to understand that he is not “evil” in the way that Victor describes him, but instead it was his social surrounding that made him act violently. Society shuns the Creature in every situation because of his appearance.
The creature even gets rejected by his creator’s brother, William Frankincense. As he wanders in the woods, he sees a boy, William, whom he wishes to befriend. In disgust, the boy “placed is hands before his eyes and uttered a shrill scream” (Shelley 122). Yet another rejection proves to the creature that people see him as a monster, not a kind, ordinary person, and because of this, his nature is shaped by the response of the humans around him. Throughout the years tech oenology has helped improve the way society lives but, it seems to be that lately it is having a negative effect on Some.
According to the Media Violence Research Center, “In 2010, nearly 300 million video games were sold in the United States. Six of the top ten best-selling video games included violence, with four of the games carrying a “Mature” rating commended for people of age 17 or older. ” Such things as shooting, stabbing and killing are glorified in these games. Along with video games, television can be just as influential. With more channels, less supervision, and an increasing supply of violence on mainstream TV, the opportunity for a child to be exposed to these horrific acts of violence has never been greater.
In the novella The Strange Case of Dir. Jewell and Mr.. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, one of the Stevenson topics addressed is the conflict of good versus evil. Dir. Jewell and Mr.. Hyde is a story about the good and evil hat exist In all men. In this book, the battle between good and evil rages within the individual, Dir. Jewell. Since Hyde seems to be taking over Jewell in the story, it proves that evil is stronger than good. “My evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion; and the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde. Chapter 10). ” In the first chapter we learn how Mr.. Hyde trampled a young girl, later on it is discovered that Hyde, mercilessly beat Sir Dangers Care to death. Even worse, we find at the conclusion of the novella that Hyde enjoyed committing these acts of violence, and afterwards let a rush of excitement and satisfaction. With the scene it proves that the potion that Jewell took not just released his inner monster, Hyde, but showed the true depravity and pure evil of Jelly’s inner personality.
