Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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Source: Leary, Kowalski, Smith, &Phillips (2003)
1. Based on some particular researchs, scholars argued that people who are ostracized often become angry and react violently to people who ignore or reject them. In a research about "unrequited love," We can find out there are lots of evdiences to support this point of view that people will feel anger and tend to lash out at people who does not care about them when they encountered some kind of rejection or ignorance.


2.People usually do not intentionally ignore some peers who behave differently to most people. It is because when people possess some undesirable social characteristics, or are particularly shy or eccentric, they will be easily ignored by others according to their specific personality. This kind of ignorance is not due to intention or purpose, but due to simply disinterest.


3.In a tragedy of Columbia high school, 13 people were killed and 21 people were injured. The most stunning part is that the criminals who commited this tragedy were two young students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They planned for a year to do this severe massacre and finally committed suicide at this tragedy. The possible reason that caused them to behave in this way is to revenge on their classmates who ignored or bullied at them. Before they commited this severe accident, one of them had been rejected by the Marines and was turned down by a girl, which made him more angry and commited this tragegy on an impulse.

Source: David M. Kennedy in a New York Times editorial
4. Since ancient Greeks to American revolutionary War, the obligation to serve in the military and the privilages of citizenship is intimately linked for a long time. Until nowdays, the modern military has been separated from American society and it might cause a disturbance to the society. People worried about standing armies which Samuel Adams warned were "always dangerous to the liberties of the people."

5. It is an unusual situation that we can wage war without puting any risk or significant burdens on our children. Since our children don't need to sever in the military and we can just put the military force into the field that scarcely cost much to do so. In other words, warfare can be waged without laying any burdens or risk on the most citizens in whose name the war is waged.

Sara Beale(2006)
6. Sara Beale argued that news media's current treatment of crime and violence are under the commercial pressures. In this circumstance, the resulting reports has acted as a tool to reshap the public opinion, and eventually , criminal justice policy. Right now, the news media are no longer simply reflecting the truth in society, but are used to publish content which is shaped by economic and marketing considerations that frequently override traditional journalistic criteria for newsworthiness.

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