Why is violence on the rise?

Violence- When someone uses force to attack other people and try to hurt or kill them
On the rise- Increasing number of, in this question, violent cases

My stand- Yes, violence is indeed on the rise. This could be due to factors like the increasing number of violent shows and movies, bad examples set up seniors and neglection of children.

Opening paragraph

Times flies. As the world around us develops, technology is ever improving and things are changing for the better. However, it has come to my attention that there is this worrying trend of violence being on the rise. Everyday, when i look through the pages of the newspaper, i can easily identify several articles reporting on acts of violence being displayed by people of all ages without fail. This puzzles me and makes me question whether the people in our society are losing our discipline and changing for the worse. Why is it that this is happening?

Reasons
1) Increasing number of violent shows, movies
- Shows, movies are increasingly having a larger extent of violence in them
- In a bid to up the excitement in shows and movies to thrill the audience, directors are unknowingly causing harm.
- Televisions and movie screens are considered 'universal tools for education' and easily influence the audience.
- Audience, particularly young and immatured ones, would take characters as examples, and act out particular scenes, and unwittinly violence is naturally instilled in them.

2) Bad examples by seniors,family background
- Seniors, supposedly more matured, are not setting good examples
- Some violent fathers, often beat up kids and wife when drunk, right in front of young children.
- To add to that, parents are increasingly using violence to educate their children on the rights and wrongs of life.
- As can be seen, children now are being exposed more to violence and coming from these kinds of family backgrounds would make them assume that it is right to use violence.

3) Neglection of children
- Parents nowadays are getting more career-minded, neglecting children by going to work from day to night, hardly spending time with them.
- There is no one to care for them, and to teach what is right and worng.
- As they are increasingly exposed to violence, being unable to differentiate what is wrong in their life and surroundings and unwittingly would cost them and direct them to make wrong choices.
- They would too feel lonely and might hang out with people who are violent and exert a negative influence on them.

Conclusion

Basically, i do feel, in my opinion, that violence is indeed on the rise and this is a worrying trend. This is probably due to factors like the increasing number of violent movies and shows, bad examples set by seniors and family background, neglection of children by parents. This is unacceptable and i feel that the government should take action to stop this and prevent it from getting worse, or it could escalate into something huge.

Is Capital Punishment justifable?

Capital Punishment is also known as the death penalty, which means the execution of a convicted criminal as punishment for his serious crimes, eg. murder. It is often carried out in countries to punish the offender, to compensate the people which he affected and took away a person they knew and loved.
But i myself have divided opinions about this capital punishment. Is it truly necessary? I feel that capital punishment is really cruel and not at all justifable. I feel that people in the government are hypocrites on this issue. They tell us to follow the law and not to commit heinous crimes like murder etc. but they themselves do not present a good example to the public by killing the offender. Yes, this punishment might be needed to appease the victim's family or loved ones but we can think of new and better ways to punish the offender.
Why do i think that capital punishment has no effect? Look at the number of people who are still being convicted of commiting murder, kidnapping etc, since capital punishment had been implemented. It has not show signs of decreasing despite the serious punishment being meted out to convicted offenders. This shows that the capital punishment is not useful at all and should be abolished.
Many offenders before they commit their crimes, would have thought of the consequences, what will happen to them and prepared themselves beforehand. Thus they are not concerned by the death penalty, and would go ahead with whatever they plan to do. The death penalty insteads in another light, allows them to not face the consequences of their actions and offers them an easy way out.
I feel that we should remove the capital punishment and instead replace it with a more reasonable and punishing one. We could lock them up in jail for life and make the offender do things to make up for their actions to people involved. In this way, they would probably feel how their actions had been foolish and how it had affected other people and make them guilty. This would probably be the best deterance. When people know that when they commit crimes they cannot escape from it and have to repay, it would probably make them think twice. What do you say?

Views on Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery is a common thing that women nowadays are going through in order to make sure that they stay young and look good as they grow older over the years. It has become a common trend over the years and truly, the number of people going for plastic surgery are steadily increasing as the years go by.
You might think, why do people want to go for plastic surgery? Some go for plastic surgery as they are not satisfied with their looks and are ashamed of how they look. They are worried about how people look at them. As we all know, people like to take pride in how they look and often like to dress themselves up to look their best in front of their peers. Sometimes, people feel that they don't look as good as they want themselves to be, and thus the idea of undergoing plastic surgery comes into their mind. On the other hand, the thought of having plastic surgery might come from the most surprising source of all, the television set we all sit in front of at home. Shows featuring well-known stars are often watched by teenagers and young adults and the audience are often influenced by what they see on TV and often aspire to be like their idols and thus go for plastic surgery in order to get closer to looking like their idols.
I myself feel that there is no need to go for plastic surgery as people all are special in their own way. We are born as we should be and should not bother how people look at our looks and instead should focus on achieving something good in our lives to let people see us in a different light. I feel that plastic surgery is not necessary in this generation and people should be proud of how they look and not worry too much about not looking as good as other people as people are not judged on how they look but instead on what they achieve in their lives.

Views on Child Prostitution

Last Thursday, our GP teacher, Mr Zheng showed us a video on the issue of child prostitution. It was really quite horrible as i then know how many people in the world, some even as young as 7 or 8, are being forced into the business of child prostitution to earn money for themselves or for the family. In the video, we can see how many women are bveing forced into the business unwillingly.
I was unaware to this increasing trend of child prostitution in under developed countries. How could anyone be so desperate to want to have sex with children whom have barely even reach their teens? In those countries, people are poor and thus need money to survive but to go to these lengths to earn money is totally immoral! Also, the people masterminding this business are very smart to prey on these people, to get the cheap labour they want so that they can profit more from this business. But i feel these sex prostitutes should not be giving up on themselves and having to reduce themselves to this pitiful state to earn money. Instead, they have hands and legs and are completely healthy, thus they should go out and find jobs. True, jobs there may not pay well but at least it is a down-to-earth way to earn money and a rightful one at that.
At that, I also hope that certain governments and world organisations should look into this matter and discuss ways in which they can improve the standard of living there and wipe out the disgusting and immoral child prostitution which is common there. Children can also be more educated in such areas so that they would not be easily deceived into such businesses. In my opinion, we should all learn to cherish ourselves.

2) How ethical is Youtube in its dealings in the media industry?

Youtube is ethical in its dealings in the media industry to a certain but limited extent. There are laws on the Youtube which states that unauthorised, unapproved and indecent videos will be removed when found. But it is hard for the Youtube to completely force out every copyrighted and obscene video as there is a large number of videos being uploaded everyday and it is virtually impossible to keep an eye on every one of them.

Recently, there is the case of Youtube being sued by several companies that they are allowing copyrighted videos to be posted and shown on their website and Youtube is protesting their innocence, claiming that they do not know that the videos are under copyright laws.

Actually, i feel that they are not in the wrong as they have no control over what people over the world post on the website and that they have no idea as to which videos are under copyright laws, unless they undergo the tedious task of checking every video. It is instead the people who must be ethical in what they post on the website, as i feel that Youtube is trying its best already.

We must not abuse our freedom of posting what we want on Youtube, and make Youtube a place of legal entertainment where people can enjoy watching interesting and their favourite videos efficiently online. But perhaps, Youtube should put the videos being uploaded under stricter checks, to ensure uploaded videos are legal.

1) To what extent has the emergence of Youtube changed our medium entertainment?

Youtube has changed our medium of entertainment to a certain extent. Before it came about, it was hard for people to watch videos online as they often have to apply for a license or download it illegally before being able to watch it. There were little or limited ways for people to watch and share leisure videos. People had to watch them on television or buy the whole drama series on VCD or DVD from shops.

However, thanks to emergence of Youtube, we now have the privilege of watching videos online. Youtube, founded in 2006, is popular as it allows people to watch videos online without having to download any software or to register and takes a short time to load, thus making it easy to use and efficient.

As a result, it has changed our medium of entertainment as people are now able to enjoy videos or catch up with their favourite drama serials or variety shows or movies online, and no longer have to sit in front of the dull square screen of the television. It has also show from ratings and statistics that less people are tuning in to television shows and are instead catching them online on Youtube.

Acknowledging this fact, i feel that the emergence of Youtube has changed the medium of our entertainment to a certain and significant extent.

How abt a little intro abt myself....

I am a guy, currently studying in Anderson Junior College, in class 28/07. My CCA is volleyball, and i myself is quite outgoing and likes to make friends. I like to sing and hope to join AJ idol, lol.
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