The Effects of Video Games on Children
Kien Lieu
English & 101 – Davis
March 22, 2011
Argument Essay – Revised
Word count 1,174
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The Effects of Video Games on Children
Nowadays, game is so popular that everybody can see its appearances everywhere easily. There are a lot of type of game have been invented such as cosule game, Actually, video games have become a part of children 's life for the past few decades, because they are so convenient that children can play them whenever and wherever to spend time. There are a lot of opinions about effects of video game on our future generation. In some study, video games can be considered the second nature of the modern children, and that virtual world partly reflects the real world. Through that, children can come up and learn more knowledge about the real word. However, video games can also cause a lot of negative effects on children if they are addicted to those. Therefore, most people agree that playing too many video games does more harm than good. The bad effect of game
Drifting back to the history of video game, it all started when Atari came up with its first gaming console that included a very simple game of tennis. At that time, the controller had just one stick and one button to play with. Now, we are having huge collection of gaming system with many different types of consoles available in the market with very complex games that requires controllers with two or more sticks and a variety of buttons. Every year, all gaming company makes a race for introducing a new edition or updating better quality for their production.
Most people suppose that playing video game causes a lot of negative effects. Video games – a cause of violence and aggression are one of those and mainly mentioned. Video games are very variety of kinds, but it seems that the violent games are dominant because they attract more children than others. Furthermore, in some surveys, there are many violent games that allow the children to play arm bearing characters
English & 101 – Davis
March 22, 2011
Argument Essay – Revised
Word count 1,174
Portfolio
The Effects of Video Games on Children
Nowadays, game is so popular that everybody can see its appearances everywhere easily. There are a lot of type of game have been invented such as cosule game, Actually, video games have become a part of children 's life for the past few decades, because they are so convenient that children can play them whenever and wherever to spend time. There are a lot of opinions about effects of video game on our future generation. In some study, video games can be considered the second nature of the modern children, and that virtual world partly reflects the real world. Through that, children can come up and learn more knowledge about the real word. However, video games can also cause a lot of negative effects on children if they are addicted to those. Therefore, most people agree that playing too many video games does more harm than good. The bad effect of game
Drifting back to the history of video game, it all started when Atari came up with its first gaming console that included a very simple game of tennis. At that time, the controller had just one stick and one button to play with. Now, we are having huge collection of gaming system with many different types of consoles available in the market with very complex games that requires controllers with two or more sticks and a variety of buttons. Every year, all gaming company makes a race for introducing a new edition or updating better quality for their production.
Most people suppose that playing video game causes a lot of negative effects. Video games – a cause of violence and aggression are one of those and mainly mentioned. Video games are very variety of kinds, but it seems that the violent games are dominant because they attract more children than others. Furthermore, in some surveys, there are many violent games that allow the children to play arm bearing characters
References: (1), (2), and (3) according to Video Games: A Cause of Violence and Aggression - Grace Shin - Submitted by Serendip Update on Fri, 01/04/2008 http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1723 (4) according to Playing Video Games May Cause Eyestrain Encourage Safe Game Play Guidelines for Your Child By Troy Bedinghaus, O.D., About.com Guide Updated February 19, 2008 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:INT8Liv76l4J:vision.about.com/od/childrensvision/qt/Video_Games.htm+video+games+affect+eyesight&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com (5) according to Positive Effects of Video Gaming By R.L. Cultrona, eHow Contributor http://www.ehow.com/about_5370127_positive-effects-video-gaming.html