Who's to blame? (with cited page)
...ce. Kinkel was said to be already violent, so people giving him information and being unsupervised just made the rage to kill stronger. Ko, Daeha. “The Monster That Is High School.” Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. John D. Ramagae, John C. Bean, and June Johnson. 6th ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004. 259-61. Daeha Ko gives the audience an inside look on who is to blame for the violence that teenagers and young adults commit. He starts off by telling the reader about a school in Littleton, Colorado where two students brought guns to school and killed twelve students. He tells how schools look at popular cliques as being better than the rest of the school population. He also says that more money is put into supporting football, basketball, volleyball, and cheerleading than other organizations. Ko mentions in his essay that he was not one of the popular kids and that the jocks would pick on him. One day one of the basketball players decided that they would mess with him and he “kicked the shit” out of the basketball player (260). Ko defended himself by carrying a 7-inch blade with him to school. If anyone continued to mess with him he would “send them anonymous notes with a big swastika drawn on them”(260). Ko feels that the media has brought this violence into school. The media tells kids that this is how you should look, dress and feel. If you do not do all of these things then you are not in the in “crowd”. Then the popular kids see this and they begin to pick on you and tease you because you are different and an original. Who’s to Blame? Society is the one to blame for most of the current violence that is happening in our society at the moment. I have always been told “that it takes a village to raise a child”. That’s what I have always heard and believed in. Once a child strays from the path that they are on, it is really hard to put that child back onto the right path again. Anything that society shows attention to, whether it is negative or positive, sets an image in a young persons mind to do “it” or rebel against “it”. The “it” can be as simple as an ad for toothpaste, cars, clothing, shoes or a jewel commercial. Most people are so easily influenced now days. When a person can be persuaded to do something, it is referred to as “jumping on the band wagon”. Once that person sees someone else do something that cause them to be interested in, then that person might want to do “it”. The media can be blamed for some of the negative influence that is placed in teenagers minds. The media is filled with all kinds of violence that would traumatize a young person’s mind. Just watching the news can make a person think violent thoughts or even give them ideas on how to carry out the act. When the media talked covered War in Iraq they would show images and video footage of men and woman carrying guns, even dead people on the ground. That is to much for a young person to watch. Decades ago this would not have been shown on tv. Seeing dead bodies and people being killed would have been something that one would have...