April 20‚ 1999- Columbine high school shooting‚ July 20‚ 2012- Colorado movie theater massacre‚ December 14‚ 2012- sandy hook massacre‚ these are all examples of real life massacres that have been the cause of many innocent lives throughout the years. These are also examples of reasons on why the prohibition of rated M videogames has been such a controversial topic. My aunt went to grocery shopping last week and someone slashed her tires. Does that mean that she should no longer go grocery shopping
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A Critique of “Why Violent Video Games Are Good For Girls” Carmen Tieu‚ author of the article‚ “Why Violent Video Games Are Good for girls” gave a series of examples on why first-person-shooter (FPS) are beneficial for women. There may have been agreeable examples and stated reasons‚ but her article flawed in many aspects. Tieu lacked in the area of including two parts of ethos that would make an article succeed better. As well as excluding some parts of Toulmin Model. The use of informal fallacies
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Social Media Emily Baker Computer Literacy (ADF1206C) Instructor: Edward Bakker March 8th‚ 2012 Most people do have some type of social media account. Between Facebook‚ Twitter and Youtube there are many issues with these websites. With most people it’s just a simple way of connecting with other people‚ but for some people there are issues with addiction‚ copyright‚ privacy‚ you could offend people‚ legalized stalking. For Facebook there are many ways you could use this social
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Violence on Television Television is the most important sourc of information. It plays a significant role in people’s lives. In these days‚ people spend a lot of time watching TV. Also‚ most of families stay in front of the TV having dinner and discussing about what happened in their day. Although most of people look at television as an entertaining and educational way to spend time‚ some people think there is too much violence in television and that it influences people to act violently.
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Mr.Yee does not do a very good job arguing both sides of the story for the topic of “Parents Should Be Able to Control What Kids Watch”. If you read his article you can easily find out his point of view on this. He is very bias on this and does not present any counter arguments for the kid’s side. Mr. yee could have made a more persuading argument if he would have explained or had counterargument why parents should be able to control a big part of kids’ lives today. Yee argues that parents should
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Jasmin Aguilar Period 5 11/5/14 The World We Live In Teen violence is a very real occurrence and violent crimes are committed by teens regularly. The novel Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has a lot of teen violence going on that is really eye opening‚ because a lot of it is also happening in the real world. It talks about teens being afraid of one another‚ shootings‚ bullying‚ and youth crimes being out of control. Bradbury makes the point clear that teens are afraid of one another when he says
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Voces Inocentes is a true story of an eleven-year-old boy growing up in El Salvador. His name is Chava who live in El Salvador at the time of civil war in the 1980s. Eleven is a dangerous age because when he turns twelve‚ he will be drafted into the government army. His father left home when the civil war began‚ so he was a backbone of his family when he was only eleven years old. For other children‚ eleven years old is the age of going to school‚ playing with friends‚ and receiving love from parents
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Censorship The power of censorship is used greatly for several reasons. Censorship is used to censor explicit language‚ profanity‚ nudity‚ etc. It’s mostly used on the radio‚ apple music‚ and television. I feel that it’s good to use censorship to prevent younger children from hearing words they aren’t ready to be exposed to. For example‚ if I had a son I wouldn’t approve of him listen to music with profanity‚ at a young age. I believe children should enjoy their youth without being exposed to inappropriate
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Some people argue that not only television programs can lead to aggressive and violent behaviors but these behaviors can be influenced by people surrounding them like peers and family. However‚ children spend most of their time by watching television. Almost everyone in the world has their celebrity idol. Children tend to like the characters of their idols on the television programs or movie without thinking whether their idols are doing the good or bad thing in that show. This will cause children
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These days‚ just about every time you turn on the TV you’re met with a barrage of violent images including explosions‚ suicide bombings‚ and war casualties. And that’s just the news! Many popular television shows -- even those in the so-called "family" time slot of 7-8:30 p.m. -- also feature much more violence than shows aired in this time slot just a few years ago. American children watch an average of between three and fours hours of television daily. As a result‚ TV violence and children has
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