Richard Riley White`s summaries over the violence articles

Violent Video Games: The Effects on Youth, and Public Policy Implications - Douglas A. Gentile and Craig A. Anderson

     The first article breaks down the information into three parts: the history of violence in video games, different research and experiments conducted, and public policy/government involvement.  In the history portion, the article explained that the more violence the game had the higher the market value and sales.  Also, the reason why the profits sky rocketed was because the outcries and bans of the game made the game more desirable.   In the second portion, the excerpt describes the three main studies being conducted: experimental, correlational, and longitudinal.  It goes on to say that the research can never be wholly conclusive and each study has different strengths.  They continue to say, it is the total picture  of combined studies that answers the question of a causal link.   Lastly ending with the writer saying he hopes that some kind of policy needs to put in action, and if they are we need to decide on the best one.

Weinstein, Tarantino and The Standoff Over Movie Violence

     The second article focuses more on the media side of violence.  Mentions how our "peculiar era" violent crime overall has declined but spectacular mass shootings are more prominent.   How much media violence is too much, and whether it`s contributing to the perceived epidemics of mass shooting incidents.   Lastly, this article discusses, in the beginning, Weinstein`s and Tarantino`s personal view on the violence, from a media side. 

Columbine: Whose Fault is it? 

In aftermath of the Colorado school shooting, Marilyn Manson speaks out.  

     Lastly, The third article discusses Marilyn  Manson`s point of view on violence in our culture.  She goes on to say, we as a nation glorify killers by putting them on the cover of Time magazine.  The media in general reports all the bad, shocking, crazy things that go on in the world and not always the good things.  She goes on to explain, now a days kids can access information so easily that the information is all there for them.  Kids get the see the living world.  She also kind of puts her own religious side of into the article to kind of relate to people and the laws and culture, because our culture and laws are based on Christianity.