Gaming has been around since the late 1960’s far later than I had thought‚ for me I had always thought that the Atari 2600 was the first gaming system known to mankind‚ and after starting my research I found out how wrong I was. In this part of the teams paper I will discuss the different types of this technology thought it history. In 1967 the first gaming console ever was created and was named the “Brown Box.” A German born television engineer Ralph Baer and his colleagues created the Brown
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Gaming as a Community Now that technological companies all over the world have set most of the seven billion individuals in the world with a computer‚ smartphone or tablet‚ it is time for better software to use with them. This is where games come in. Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello stated in a recent interview that PC gaming is the ‘fastest growing platform’. This shows the growing interest in gaming bearing in mind that gamers also have the means to play on. The term ‘gamer’ refers to
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Video Game Violence Violence is happening all around us and it is said that one of the biggest reason for teen violence‚ is because of playing video games. It is true that there are many games that due show or portray violence; however the intention was not to promote teens to doing more violence as they are rated for mature adults. Personally I believe that if parents were more active or aware of what games they are purchasing‚ and became responsible for what games their children are playing
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of many grossly popular video games today‚ and they have one main thing in common: violence. Whether one is shooting down Nazi soldiers on the beaches of Normandy or sawing apart Locust drones on the planet Sera with his or her lancer‚ one is engaging in extremely violent video-game action‚ and probably having a lot of fun doing so. With the rapid growth of intensely violent games‚ parents and politicians across the nation have begun to protest against violence in video games and have even gone
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as Tetris or the ever so popular Candy Crush. Nearly everyone participates to some degree of video gaming. Gaming now‚ believe it or not is considered as an actual professional sport. Hell‚ Gaming on a computer could mean earning a medal in the Olympics in the near future! Congrats guys‚ the world is slowly turning into a utopia for dweebies‚ geeks and noobs. Regardless of how you feel about gaming‚ it unfortunately has become a social activity as common as a pick-up game of basketball or a
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Violence There’s too much of it‚ but where does teen violence come from? Some studies say movies‚ other say TV shows‚ but most of them say video-games. When a dad or a mom sees the news and they says that the killer played violent video-games‚ they just take of shooting games for a week and then they forget about it. If parents are just going to do that what is the difference? "There’s an association‚ but it’s not a very robust one." says Katherine Newman author of books about the
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English 102 29 October 2014 Do video games cause violence? For many years‚ children would go out and play in the yard‚ ride bikes‚ or play soccer for fun. All of that has changed since the evolution of technology. In today’s society‚ kids of all ages are no longer playing outside or with their friends. Instead‚ they are locked up in the house all day playing video games. Why is this bad? Video games are neither built to help heighten the learning skills of kids‚ nor are they designed to impact
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consists of 2 females and 1 male. Central Idea: Video game violence and children. Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about videogame violence and children and to persuade parents to become more knowledgeable about game violence. Introduction: I. Attention-getter A. As parents we protect our children from watching all types of media from T.V‚ DVDs‚ and the internet. In today’s culture the media today displays tons of violence‚ sex‚ and profane language that we don’t want our children
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Violence can be defined in many ways but the most common and basic of these is commiting a harmful act to someone or something. When you typically think of violence‚ you probably think of the popular crimes that make the news like murder‚ rape‚ school shootings‚ bombings‚ suicide‚ and more things along those lines. However‚ technically by definition‚ bullying and other similar things could fit in among this definition‚ too. Just like the definition of violence has an open ended controversy‚ this
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manipulate their audiences through a variety of techniques‚ to make them believe a representation of reality as opposed to the true fact. This is evident in the current affairs story "Video Game Violence" and the standard news story "Music Video Ban". These similar stories both originated from Channel Nine and represent violence in society’s youth today‚ stating children are at risk if exposed to such material. Through a selection of techniques‚ the audience is lured into supporting the told story and agreeing
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