Robert Nooks
Composition I
Formal Essay
Abstract
This essay is to education the minds of those who do not take the time to sit and actually play the games that our youth and mature adults play today. Not only is the games that we play today are a fun past time for the events that we do but these games are also very educational for real life situations that could take place within anybody 's life. These educational games has helped many people survive tons of memory loss diseases that are known in this world today.
In the Minds of Many
In this world many crimes take place for all types of different reasons, but who is the blame for the corrupted minds of those committing all of the harsh and deadly crimes? Most people would tell you that the video games that are being sold today, along with the violent music that we listen to is to blame. What is the overall purpose of a video game? Many adults in the world would say that the purpose of a video game is only used for distracting the minds of a human brain, or to promote violence as per hip-hop music, or a violent movie that anyone could either purchase or watch anywhere on television. A video game could have a plethora of purposes, starting by being educational towards events in real life, while being fun overall to stimulate your brain, and they can also be used as a positive event to keep kids out of trouble.
With any parent, watching their kids grow to become young adults, and being able to succeed in this world by paying attention to their books in school would be a delightful joy. Not all things in life are wrote into a book, for instance: how to talk when growing up; the members of the family that we are born into; or simply just plain common sense. Others will simply just keep saying that other outside influences would still be the blame to why negative things happen amongst other people. As Gerald Jones once said about the two Columbine students, "Those games
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