Desensitization

Paul Pierce                                                             pier5511@uidaho.edu

Luke Gragg                                                            grag9979@uidaho.edu

Jesse Ford                                                             Flee3814@uidaho.edu

Evan Nye                                                               Nye7237@uidaho.edu

Website URL:

None of the other group member were in the first semester so we’ll just be using my website as our base of operations

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~pier5511/

Considering we have two different groups with completely different topics, the group will be split into pairs and each pair will seek our own topic.  For Luke and me we are going to use the subject of desensitization and how it’s affecting our society.  Are monsters just bread or does it take a certain environment to raise one.  With constant violence being streamed from the news and other media it’s hard not to consider how pictures of dying soldiers are affecting our youth as well as the video games they play and so forth.  Parent’s can only be blamed for so much of what their children do, but a parent can’t be blamed for why their child fires a gun only for why their child obtained the gun to begin with.  There is something subtly hidden that is sending out messages to our youth to be violent.  If someone is constantly viewing violence and horror around them then wouldn’t they eventually disregard as what they see as the normal?  It would get to the point where that person would no longer react normally and so would be desensitized to they view as violent and horrific.

Paul:  Desensitization through the media, mostly the news.

Luke: Desensitization through video games.