Kendal Hill Mrs. Van Fleet Block 3 10 December 2011 Video games and Violent Behavior True or False: Violent videogames cause children to become more aggressive. Sorry‚ that was a trick question. Despite much bandying of statistics and loud talking by critics on both sides of the argument‚ the real answer is that there is no real answer—at least not one that’s been proved scientifically (Zipp). Video games are an appealing target for a public figure in search of a crusade. Movies and music
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Citation: * “Video Games: A Cause of Violence and Aggression” from SerendipUpdate’s blog. Fri‚ 01/04/2008. <http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1723> This site provided basic information about social problems merged with video gamers tendencies. It does raise some important issues about the effect of videogames in our society and status that may be useful for my Recommendation Report. It is a commercial site rather than an academic site‚ so it provides some internal opinions
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September 26‚ 2012 Thesis statement : Today most children are more into video technology and violence than they are into normal outside physical activity which is the biggest problem of child obesity. Video technology has decreased the amount of physical activity in children. Because of my nephew’s interest in video games‚ he played less outdoors than most children his age. The only physical activity he was really getting was from his gym class in school
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Effects on Exposure to Video Game Violence Part 1 Video games play a fairly large role in children’s lives today. The majority of video games played today are games found with the rating of mature and have large amounts of violence. According to IMDB‚ the three most popular video games in 2013 are‚ “Grand Theft Auto V”‚ “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag”‚ and “The Last of Us”. The definition for Grand Theft Auto states‚ “Three very different criminals team-up for a series of daring yet profitable
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Foreign Literature: Lepper‚ M. R. & Gurtner‚ J (2000)‚ states that prolonged and excessive use of these games can cause‚ mainly upon children‚ a number of physical and psychological problems which may include obsessive‚ addictive behaviour‚ dehumanization of the player‚ desensitizing of feelings‚ personality changes‚ hyperactivity learning disorders‚ premature maturing of children‚ psychomotor disorders‚ health problems (due to lack of exercise & tendonitis)‚ Development of anti-social behaviour
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Pablo Rodriguez Mrs. Wright English 102 Section 33 7 October 2014 Final Draft The Blame Game Why did our forefathers come to America? Why did they risk hopping on a boat‚ not knowing if they would survive the voyage? What could possibly be so important to them‚ that they jeopardized seeing their loved ones left behind again? The answer is freedom. Land of the free‚ home of the brave. However‚ each day the involvement of the government‚ media and other people escalates in trying to make sweeping
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Violence in Video Games Video game violence hasn ’t been around for very long. For the most part‚ video games have progressively gotten more violent. It seems that the more violent video games are trying to compete with violent movies‚ and other things. But the reason for this paper is do violent video games trigger people to be more violent? With the recent out break of mass school shootings‚ video games has always seemed to be one main reasons for the shootings or other types
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Violence Breeds Violence Violence is prominent and it promotes more violence. Throughout this discussion it is necessary to consider violence on a local‚ national and global level. Domestic violence is a regular occurrence here in Adelaide and it is common within families and neighbours. The level of violence that Australians show towards refugees is compiled with torture and inhumanity. The impact of video game violence affects many places around our globe and it can influence people’s behaviour
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citizens should be blocked from specific topics. These topics can range from politics to religion depending on what those leaders believe should not be allowed. In the article by Karen Sternheimer‚ “Do Video Games Kill?” Sternheimer shows us that despite that even though violent video games are being blamed for their players committing violent crimes‚ most should not be censored. Her reason is that there are more factors that cause people to commit violent acts that aren’t because of violent video
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Students and Video Game Addiction December 13‚ 2012 By Anonymous Until the academic warning letter from my son’s college arrived home last December 23rd following his fall freshman term‚ he assured us that he was getting Bs in his classes. Confronted with this letter‚ he broke down in tears‚ admitted that he spent most of the last half of the semester playing an online computer game‚ and didn’t attend the final weeks of classes nor even sit for his exams. An activity that started out in high
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