Aspect Assignment TEA PARTY

       The video that i chose from Aspect was Tea Party. It focused on hidden violence among adolescence. The movie shows two kids in prep school uniforms wearing ski masks. They follow a trail of sandwiches, until they come to a box and large stick trap. Under the trap is a  candle lit sliver, tea set with more mini sandwiches. The box trap falls and the two school boys are stuck under the trap, they continue to eat sandwiches and drink tea in such a well-mannered way. But when each of the boys turns there back, the other slips poison into his tea. The boys eventually die, decay and get swallowed up by the dirt. The artist is commenting on how nice the rich teenagers appear to be, but it only disguises the violence within. So for my generative topic  I would like to focus on violence among teenagers.

While doing research on this topic I came across a site about teen violence. 

http://www.focusas.com/Violence.html

 It discussed the factors that cause teen violence, such as previous sexual or domestic abuse, or wealth.

some quotes that i found interesting-

"Violence is a learned behavior.  Children learn violent behaviors from their family and peers, as well as observe it in their neighborhoods and in the community at large"

and

"violence leads to violence."

The last quote is clearly seen in the video, one boy poisons the other boy, and the other retaliates.

 I also found it interesting that when i searched for teen violence most of the information that came up was about teen violence in inner city communities and not the masked violence that is found in prep schools, the one the artist was referring too

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these are some of the pictures that i found relating to teen violence I found the contrast between the way the artist portrays the violence and the pictures that i found on the internet when i searched for teen violence.

This is a chart that I found about teen violence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmln3OctZfY&NR=1

video about  teen hazing.