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/^t/Further, the mass media bear the blame for a recent spread of violence. Unlike sex, violence is not curbed at all, and a subject to no censorship. Films, especially video films, quite often contain innumerable explicit scenes of violence. Moreover, they are not seldom made specially to show and promote crime and bloodshed, which is really regrettable. It must be remembered that the minds of young people are very impressionable; hence, youths are particularly susceptible to employing violence and inflicting it on other people just in order to emulate their heroes. Needless to say, violence is a real plague among those young people who, having abandoned their schools and being able to find only odd jobs, hang about with plenty of time to spare. Bearing in mind violence shown in movies, they form gangs and involve in crimes in order to create and maintain their tough image.