I don't really remember knowing anyone who didn't think about their childhood with great joy. Suddenly everything we did when we were growing up seems as if it had been nearly perfect. We don't think much about how we cried a lot the day we scrapped our knee when playing tag in that rocky hill, or how we had gotten really mad at Rochell for not wanting to share her Malibu Barbie with us. Instead we normally think about the great things that went on in our lives. We think about the sunny days in summer, were we would run around in the grass with our ice cream cones, we think about the days were we could spend all day doing bike races, sometimes pretending they were horses, days were we could play pretend and laugh all afternoon.

Yes, we normally remember the good things that occurred in our childhood. Although this doesn't mean that our childhood was indeed our happiest period of time. I think we tend to over rate the past, old folks usually say that the past was far better than the present, in the past, they say, people had manners, people were much more smarter ,easy going etc. Although I don't think, this is always true.


I believe the real problem is that humans, can never be happy in the present. It is until an event has happened, that they can finally state:"...oh yeah, I guess I was happy in that time after all..."
It is only after it has passed, that a person really starts to appreciate it.
That is why, everyone normally says: "Oh my childhood, was one of the happiest time of my life. "
It is an event that has passed, and since we can never be happy with our present, and because we have to be happy with something, we tend to think that our childhood was indeed a very joyful time.

We have all been there. We´re sitting in our living room surfing through the Internet

We´ve all been there, we´re sitting in our living room, clicking through the channels of our television set, when suddenly we hear it. It is that old melodie we used to listen to when we were young, that song that was playing when we got our first kiss.
We listen to it, and suddenly, suddenly we´re taken back for an instance to that place, to that time.
We can see Victor´s face again, we can smell his sweet breath over our skin, we can feel his lips coming closer ,and closer ,and closer, and then... the song is over, and we´re back to our living room,we´re back to our Tuesday afternoon of Soaps.

We all know the tragic story about Kip Kinkel, the young 15 year old boy , who shot and killed both his parents , or what about the Coloumbine high school case, about the two 17 old and 19 year old who killed about 12 students, 2 teachers and hurt many more.

Society at the time, was as they say "totally freaked out". Everyone was trying to bring up an answer to what turned these children, these young teens into these horrible murders, into these sick persons that killed in cold blood.

In the Coloumbine case, after some research in the lives of the two murders, it was found that they both listened to a lot of Marylin Manson music, and had a lot of violent films in their bedrooms. It was then all very clear! It was surely Marylin Manson with his satanic lyrics that brought these kids to brutally killing their fellow classmates.

But , is the media the true factor in incrementing the aggression inside individuals, inside children?
My answer to that, would be no.
We currently live in a globalized world, where the same music that is played in London is played in Germany is played in Brazil is played even here in Mexico. The sameTV shows can be seen worldwide. I have recently, for example, been watching "old episode of" Cow and Chicken (a famous cartoon from the USA) in a German translation. It is clear that the world is watching, now a days, the same shows and listening basically to the same music.
Despite this, not every country has the high levels of violence in schools as the ones that the US presents.
I believe the US presents its high levels of violence due to other factors, cultural factors. But we cannot just blame television for it .It would make sense to blame television for an increment in violence , when the rate of violence world wide had incremented. And, this is not all true. Not all countries that display violent TV shows, TV shows that come from the US, display aggressive behavior.
The world is full of horrible things, but this does not mean that we have to be like that.

I believe we have a power to decide, therefore despite seeing violence, we can decide whether or not we wish to be violent. Television dosen´t need to be the factor that pushes us to be violent. I believe our friends, or our family members could have a greater influence on us becoming violent or not. They could be key factors on the decisions we make...But television?
I don´t know anyone who takes television too seriously. When you are a child, you learn that television is full of make believe. You have to learn that it is not real.

If one knows it´s fake, how could a fake thing ever influence me on what I decide to do in real life ?

Our decisions are influenced by our family, teachers, friends etc. Not by a screen with light.
The problem is, many children are forgotten and are left alone to make their own decisions. It´s the fault of the lack of attention given to them, that brings them to make incorrect decisions and turn violent. It´s a scream for help, coming from a failed family.

Violence has incremented in the US, due to the fact that the family structure in that country is failing. There are more and more single mothers with children, single mothers that leave for work and leave their children behind, untaught and forgotten.

it is not the fault of the violent television programs, or the violent lyrics from Marilyn Manson, it is the fault of family system.

We were given a graph, which shows the amount of time that people from different age groups in Someland invested in different activities throughout a year.
Teens are the group that invested the largest amount of time in watching TV/videos. The number of hours that they spent was around 1,200. This comes very close, to the hours that people over 70 invested in this activity. (1100 hours per year).
Despite the fact, that teens spent the great majority of their time watching TV, they only spent 100 hours a year to go to the Cinema. (Although in this activity they were also one of the groups which invested the most time in .)
The group that invested the most time in socialising with 4 or less people, was the one which had people in their 30´s. After this group, the ones that also invested plenty of their time in this activity were people in their 40´s,50´s and 60´s.
On the contrary, people in their 20´s and teens, invested a lot more time in group activities.

We can clearly see, that the amount of time invested in each activity, has a lot to do with the age group in which a person is in. When a person is young, they will tend to invest a lot more time to socialize with large groups of people, on the contrary when they start to age, the people with which they socialize starts to decrease.
Although young and old people have a common trend, they both spend a lot of their time watching television.

We were given two graphs, that compare the highest level of education of women in Someland between 1945 and 1995.
In the mid forties, the great majority of the women in Someland ( 35% of the women population) either studied up to 12 years of school or didn´t study at all . It was also popular for the women to study for just around 6 years, (15% of the women population did this) Only 1% of the population studied up to first degree. And no one studied up to Post graduate.

This contrasted greatly with what went on in woman´s education in 1995 in Someland. The great majority of the Woman in the mid nineties, finished their First Degree. ( 50% of the population accomplished this.) Not one woman studied less than 9 years. And 20 % of the women in Someland were able to study up to a Post Graduate.

We can therefore conclude that throughout the years in Someland, the level of woman´s education rose. The great majority accomplished to finish a degree.

We have here two different graphs.
One of them shows the millions of lives that were taken in Someland by 6 different diseases during 1990.
the other graph shows how much money was invested on medical research for each disease.

When looking at the graph of Deaths in Someland, we can clearly see that the disease that caused the greatest number of deaths, was TB. TB produced nearly 2 million deaths in 1990 in Someland. No other disease came close to producing the number of deaths that TB produced. The second disease that took the most number of souls was Diarrhoea. Although Diarrhoea, was responsible only for .6 million deaths, contrasting greatly of course with TB!
The other diseases that were responsible responsible for deaths, presented mostly the same death rate as Diarrhoea.They oscillated between .1 million deaths and .6 millions. The disease that took the lowest number of lives was Leprosy, which took approximately .5 million deaths, this was closely followed by Aids, who took about .6 deaths.

On the other hand, the graph that shows how much money was invested on the medical research of each disease, clearly states that the disease which received the greatest amount of funding for medical research was aids. Aids received almost 180 million dollars of funding. No other disease was even close to receiving that amount of money for research.Tropical Diseases received almost the same amount of funding as Leprosy. The disease that received the least amount of money was TB.

Seeing these two graphs, we could conclude that: the more a country invests on medical research of a certain disease, the lower the number of deaths produced by this disease.
If a country wants to reduce its death rate caused by a certain disease, it has to invest money on medical research related with this disease.
Someland invested more in medical research related with AIDS, than with any other disease. This has paid off on the fact that AIDS diseases took only about .3 deaths on 1990.