The Impact of Games
Jullia Nguyen
Professor Gurfield
English 101
Research Paper
7 May 2013
The Impact of Violent Video Games Video Games have big impact on youth by forcing their mind into aggressive behavior. Children and adolescents tend to act aggressive from obsessively playing video games. Violent video games lead youth to engage in a real-world violence that changes their lifestyle, because children tend to learn from what is on screen, like TV or most commonly, video games. Video games are indeed affecting children to be more violence by playing inappropriate games that have shooting which they can be able to shoot others, because video games are like training to shoot/kill every living person in front of them. Violent video games can cause youth violence, especially school violence. School violence causes shooters, who have fascination with violent video games, to shoot innocent people because they influence from what they saw from the game that have inappropriate and gruesome scene that are not appropriate for under-age teenagers, especially younger children. While violent video games can be very entertaining and enjoyable, they have great impact on youth that influence them to be more aggressive and antisocial behavior that change their perspective as youth because by the amount of younger people that have played from inappropriate gaming. Violent video games can create youth violence which it usually happens to minors all over the world because of what they influence from violating others by playing video games. Tragic happens when people start to cause violation by shooting tremendous of people, especially in school violence. In 1999, there is a school shooting massacre that occurs in Columbine High School, two suspects, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, have shoot various of students, including the teachers. The incident have something to do with a first-person shooting game Doom because the suspects are happen to be influence from the game and everything revolves
Professor Gurfield
English 101
Research Paper
7 May 2013
The Impact of Violent Video Games Video Games have big impact on youth by forcing their mind into aggressive behavior. Children and adolescents tend to act aggressive from obsessively playing video games. Violent video games lead youth to engage in a real-world violence that changes their lifestyle, because children tend to learn from what is on screen, like TV or most commonly, video games. Video games are indeed affecting children to be more violence by playing inappropriate games that have shooting which they can be able to shoot others, because video games are like training to shoot/kill every living person in front of them. Violent video games can cause youth violence, especially school violence. School violence causes shooters, who have fascination with violent video games, to shoot innocent people because they influence from what they saw from the game that have inappropriate and gruesome scene that are not appropriate for under-age teenagers, especially younger children. While violent video games can be very entertaining and enjoyable, they have great impact on youth that influence them to be more aggressive and antisocial behavior that change their perspective as youth because by the amount of younger people that have played from inappropriate gaming. Violent video games can create youth violence which it usually happens to minors all over the world because of what they influence from violating others by playing video games. Tragic happens when people start to cause violation by shooting tremendous of people, especially in school violence. In 1999, there is a school shooting massacre that occurs in Columbine High School, two suspects, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, have shoot various of students, including the teachers. The incident have something to do with a first-person shooting game Doom because the suspects are happen to be influence from the game and everything revolves
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