you ever chosen to play your new video game over studying for your big upcoming test? That extra ten minutes of study time can go a long way. Research shows that excessive use of violent video games can not only decrease academic performance‚ but increase aggressive behavior‚ and desensitizes the player towards intense violence and gore. One of the many negative effects of excessive use of violent video games is increased aggression. Excessive use of these games could really change how fast you
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I believe that video games are bad for the human brain and body. There are many problems that come from violent video games. “Children who play more violent video games are more likely to have increased aggressive thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviors‚ and decreased prosocial helping‚ according to a scientific study” (Anderson & Bushman‚ 2001). In this study‚ they compared children who play violent video games with children that play none with a cat scan and the violent video game child had more
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Why video games really are linked to violence. By Amanda Schaffer|Posted Friday‚ April 27‚ 2007‚ at 4:10 PM Master Chief in the video game Halo On The Daily Show on Thursday‚ April 26‚ Jon Stewart made short work of the suggestion that the Virginia Tech shooter‚ Cho Seung-Hui‚ might have been influenced by violent video games. (Cho may or may not have played the popular first-person-shooter gameCounter-Strike in high school.) A potential video-game connection has also been dangled after past
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Lorraine Hansberry: An Annotated Bibliography Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born May 19‚ 1930 in Chicago and raised in a middle-class family. When Hansberry was only eight years old she had her first experience with civil rights. Her father fought a lengthy legal battle in the late 1930 ’s against harsh covenants which kept Chicago ’s blacks in the ghettos. To make a statement the family moved into an all white neighborhood which was against the law at that time. The house
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Annotated Bibliography Daly‚ Melissa (Sep2008). Meth isn’t worth messing with. Current Health 2. Vol.35 issue one. P 26-29. This is a magazine article that I got from the university library. In this article the author explains how teenagers get hooked on meth and the dangers that it causes to the body. Caplan‚ Joseph; Kish‚ Stephen‚ CMAJ: (Sept.2008). Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Meth Addiction. This is an article that I found in the university library. It
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Sierra Villanueva Mrs. José English II PAP 4th 8 November 2011 Of Mice And Men : An Annotated Bibliography "Book Review: Of Mice & Men." A Novel Menagerie. Novel Menagerie‚ 2009. Web. 7 Nov 2011. <http://anovelmenagerie.com/2009/02/18/book-review-of-mice-and-men/>. The author of this review focuses on the life of Lennie. She sympathizes with the hard times Lennie had to go through as a character. The author describes Lennie to the readers as an innocent‚ childlike character who
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Anthony Martino English Comp Annotated Bibliography Change the Age to Save the Lives The legal drinking age in the United States is the only age that is above 19 years of age. Everywhere else in the world the age is 19 and under and some countries don’t even have a drinking age. The drinking age should be lowered to 18 because it will help all the problems that come with underage drinking. There is a numerous amount of reasons to change the drinking age to 18 and there are also many opposing thoughts
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Psy 200 Dr. Wesley October 28‚ 2012 Annotated bibliography 1. Gaultney‚ J. (2010). The prevalence of sleep disorders in college students: impact on academic performance. Journal Of American College Health‚ 59(2)‚ 91-97. doi:10.1080/07448481.2010.483708 This article is about college students experiencing a number of sleep problems‚ which may impact academic performance‚ health‚ and mood. A common sleep problem among college students is sleep deprivation and resulting excessive
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Annotated Bibliography Kristen E. Van Vonderen‚ M.S.‚ William Kinnally‚ Ph.D. (2012)‚ “Media Effects on Body Image: Examining Media Exposure in the Broader Context of Internal and Other Social Factors”. Volume 14‚ Issue 2. 41-57. American Communication Journal. Summary: Vonderson and Kinnally’s article discusses the influence media has on women today and the way they see themselves. Being “overweight” has such negative stigmatism to it that women who are considered to be overweigh feel as
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Annotated Bibliography Research Question: What are the history/cultural importance of Hip Hop? Source #1: Hill‚ Collins Patricia. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism‚ Nationalism‚ and Feminism. Philadelphia: Temple Up‚ 2006. Print. Patricia Hill’s l idea of writing this book was to gather different essays for each chapter that were written by African Americans that talks about how they dealt without having the right to stand up for themselves. The importance of this book is to talk about how
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