Topic: AGGRESSION: THE IMPACT OF MEDIA VIOLENCE BY SISSELA BOK Summarize, support or refut the authors claims and give your reasons and opinions.

For this first essay assignment, you will be writing a personal essay. This essay will

further discuss and develop

your personal responses to the Week One

reading that you posted in the discussion forum

.

Length:3-4 pages, in correct MLA format

Topic: AGGRESSION: THE IMPACT OF MEDIA VIOLENCE BY SISSELA BOK

Summarize, support or refut the authors claims and give your reasons and opinions.

Topic: Before you can develop your topic, you need to examine other views on the

subject. Please read these articles, and include quotes from them, as well as “Aggression: the Impact of Media Violence” in your response

:

https://www.apa.org/about/policy/media.aspx

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/does-media-violence-lead-to-the-real-thing.html?_r=0

http://www.massgeneral.org/children/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=3929

When you quote the articles, you need only include attributions

(Title, author, source) rather than formal citations

since we are all using the same articles

You do not need to include other sources! This isn’t a

research paper–it is a personal response that you are supporting with evidence.