Public Speaking 205 03/23/2012 Video game addiction Specific Purpose: As a result of my speech my audience will understand that video games aren’t as bad a hobby as they may think. Central Idea: Playing a video game an excessive amount of time can ruin your social life. Cause you to lose friends and potentially a job. Introduction: I. You and your friends decide to go biking it’s a beautiful day‚ nice and sunny. Everyone arrives and you are ready to go biking but then you look and notice
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Video games have become a large form of entertainment ever since the Magnavox Odyssey was released in August of 1972. Now‚ consoles such as the PlayStation and Xbox are upgrading throughout the years‚ and the companies create more video games for kids and adults alike. Three-fourths of American households play video games‚ and with a growing industry‚ more job opportunities such as games designers and programmers are increasing. While there are professionals who take advantage of games to help live
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Violent Video Games The future of entertainment revolves around technology. Video games become more and more realistic. The main consumers for violent video games are teens and young adults. These games encourage killing and fighting enemies. More ways of playing violent video games are created each year‚ but most of us have this question in mind. Violent video games influence young people to act aggressively‚ too much video game playing makes children socially isolated‚ and some video games teach
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Video games do not cause violence or aggression towards others‚ but may benefit you in various ways. Video games are an optional thing to play and can be beneficial to you with interacting with others. Video games also hold an age limit for certain types of games‚ if the game is gory then it will most likely be for kids eighteen and older. Video games may do not only stray away from violence‚ they teach these kids how to handle life or death situations‚ it is truly for the better. Teenagers most
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years video games have gotten a bad reputation. They are considered to be intellectually lazy‚ violent and a complete waste of time. People also tend to think that people that play video games are more likely to be lonely with few friends and almost no social skills. And with the increasing amount of video games that are being developed faster in Generation Z parents are starting to worry about their children. However‚ multiple researches have proven all those things to be false. Playing video games
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diverse technologies that exist. Even with such a dependency on technology select individuals deem technologies such as video games mindless and unproductive. The common words used to describe gamers are obese‚ lazy‚ aggressive‚ and socially awkward. However‚ video games reap many benefits that include stronger social ties‚ improved hand-eye coordination‚ and certain video games can be used as an educational tool. For the individuals with Schizotypal personality disorders or even just introverts
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allowed to play video games‚ listen to radio and/or watch TV because of all the violence that occurs. If people want to do what the hero or heroine in the game is doing‚ let them. In every game the position you take is the good guy meaning you have to save the world‚ along with the humans that live on the earth. None of the games have the objective as killing humans‚ instead the goal is to kill zombies‚ monsters‚ witches‚ wraiths‚ etc.<br><br>The people who don’t want violence in video games should try
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Video game use has been studied in the development in young adults for many years. It is implied that young people tend to use the games as a distraction from pain in their lives‚ thus making it an inequity to many “gamers” to put a limit on video game use. Using video games to relieve pain is often seen in children with infirmities and receiving medical treatments. The games allow the children to focus on something other than pain for long periods of time. But other than a distraction‚ how are these
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IT in the Video Game Industry Emanuel Ultreras BUS 381 Instructor: P. Witman October 20 2011 Fall 2011 Video Games were once a simple simulation of pong using two lines and a dot for imaging. They were played and mastered by a minority group of individuals most commonly referred to as “nerds”. Since those days in 1975 the video game industry market has gone through an exponential growth. With the revolutionary changes in technology and the social changes in product demand the
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Soloway UNV-104 Expository Essay Final Draft 8/17/13 Nikki Squire Video Games and Violence Playing video games is an ubiquitous pastime among youth today. Popular genres of video games are about conflict and resolution‚ much like real life. When people hear the words violent or violence‚ they automatically associate these words with negativity. However‚ studies have shown (Ferguson & Rueda‚ 2010) that in the world of video games‚ those that are considered violent can actually be of benefit to
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