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What is the cause of violence today? Is it the environment your in? Is it the way you were brought up? Or is it the media? In this essay I will try to explain why I think the media has a huge impact of violence on the life of people today. Most children begin to watch TV probably around preschool age taking an exploration approach to it. Children try to connect and relate to Cartoon Characters and are attracted to the intense sounds and sights and quick movements that are featured in Cartoons. Many of these programs, such as Bugs Bunny and Pals and Tom & Jerry Kids seems to contain more violence than some adult programs. After watching violence on TV children are more sensitive to violent acts due to the fact that they are in the early stages of development. TV violence often misleads young people. Children are affected by the outright amount of violence on TV. Possibly even more damaging is the false messages that TV violence sends. Violence is often rewarded and rarely has negative conse