Johnson Professor Harrison Composition II 2 October 2012 Effect of Video Games on Kids Growing up‚ playing outside was what I did for fun. Whether it was riding my bike‚ playing with friends‚ or swimming‚ I was outside for hours at a time every day. Today‚ kids have access to things like Xboxes‚ Playstations‚ and Nintendo DS. In a study conducted by Gentile‚ Lynch‚ Linder & Walsh (2004) "adolescent girls played video games for an average of 5 hours a week‚ whereas boys averaged 13 hours a week
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Do you remember‚ when you were a young child‚ stuff that you would do with your friends together? Or maybe the moment when your parents took you to the nearest park where you could find kids around your age‚ and you played together? You would play many games with them‚ hide and seek‚ -‚ -‚ etc. When you were playing around‚ suddenly one of your friend tripped himself and fell on the ground‚ he cried. His mother came‚ rushing‚ and calmed him down. After he calmed down‚ all of the sudden‚ out of nowhere
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The Negative Influence of Video Games Video games are a relatively new medium of entertainment‚ which gives us control over the story to play it out‚ act it out‚ making it engaging. This leads to games being extremely fun‚ challenging‚ appealing and addictive. With time‚ games with improved mechanics‚ visuals and complexity are released making it even more appealing for the player making it difficult for people not to like video games. Nevertheless‚ video games tend to have certain effects on people
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The Bad Effects of Video or Computer Gaming Submitted by: Kevin Richard G. Operiano Kevin Eric R. Siangco Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 1. Gaming Culture 4 2. Video Game Culture 5 3. Massive-multiplayer Online Gaming
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Harmful effects of video games Video game addiction In his moving biography‚ Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction‚ Ryan Van Cleave describes the way that a violent online game‚ World of Warcraft‚ dominated his life to such an extent that he was unable to function normally and was driven to the verge of suicide. Video game addiction is now taken so seriously by psychologists and psychiatrists that it was recently considered for inclusion in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic
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Video Games and Their Place in Our Lives What is a video game? “A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor”. History of video games goes on from the early 1950s. Video games are the products for mobile/tablet‚ gaming consoles (such as PlayStation‚ Xbox‚ Nintendo etc)‚ social browser‚ handheld consoles and PC platform. Video games have an important position in our
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The management of disruptive behavior problems is a familiar concern for many schools. Student’s behavior problems are challenging at all levels in school in recent years‚ behavior difficulties in school have increased‚ teachers seem to be unprepared to deal with these problem. According to C.E.C.P (1998) “Difficult student misbehaviors‚ reported by teacher include violation of classroom rules‚ being truant from school‚ blaming others for problems‚ irresponsible behavior‚ and destruction of property
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that puzzling problem. And there comes the blood. The opponents of video games‚ including anti-violence activists and some parents and educators‚ imagine the former when they hear the phrase “video games”. The latter is pictured by the proponents of video games‚ which include gamers and the addicts. The dawn of these pros and cons can be attributed to the increasing number of gamers‚ which accounts to around 500 million people around the world‚ according to Jane McGonigal‚ a game researcher‚ in
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Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that video game violence is okay to have. Central Idea: Video game violence is not the cause of overall violence in our country. Introduction I. Attention Getter: Do you play violent video games? If the answer is yes‚ then you must be a mass murderer. II. Central Idea: According to the survey you all filled out‚ a few people are of the opinion that video games can cause violence in those who play them‚ which is why I’m here to try and
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Do Video Games Kill? By Karen Sternheimer • When white‚ middle-class teens kill‚ the media and politicians are quick to blame video games. Are they right? As soon as it was released in 1993‚ a video game called Doom became a target for critics. Not the first‚ but certainly one of the most popular first-person shooter games‚ Doom galvanized fears that such games would teach kids to kill. In the years after its release‚ Doom helped video gaming grow into a multibillion dollar industry
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