In Rome, leaders organized “shows” for people to watch and be entertained. Gladiators were put into the coliseum to either fight slaves, criminals, animals or Christians. They fought until someone died. People went to see these events for free to be distracted or just to have fun. These fights were violent and barbaric. Just as there are distractions in Rome, the United States today has many similar distractions, such as television, games, sports, ect. They were similar because we have shows about people killing each other and we watch sports hoping for someone to get hurt. I don’t think that the people are any different because when we see something on television we expect someone to get hurt. For example in a football game we expect to see someone get tackled.