comics and online video games [Chilton: 1999]. A recent research done by four national American health organizations namely American Medical Association‚ American Academy of Pediatrics‚ American Psychological Association and American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry‚ has also already concluded that there exist a direct link between violence in media and violence on teenagers (Vermaakgeweld lei tot meer aggressie: 2000). In this paper‚ the emphasis will fall on violent online games‚ as a form
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based on an evaluation of the event which affects coping skills. Lazarus sometimes used the word hassle to describe stressors. Environmental stress is critical to the theory that links depression to the environment in which someone lives. The effect of living in an environment which is adverse is presented as a stressor which impacts on the health of its inhabitants. The purpose of this essay is to provide a critical evaluation of which stress theory dominates along with strategies which
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complain that computer games have no value to their children’s studies. On the contrary‚ those online games have produced a lot of negative effects on their mental and physical development. What is your opinion? Over the past few decades‚ online games have become favorite way of killing spare time among teenager worldwide. As everything has double-edged impact‚ besides entertainment value‚ online games also exert detrimental effect on mental and physical development of children. First of all‚ it is
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In Chinese online game market‚ there are two normal price strategies‚ Charging and Free. The Charging means that the customers need to pay for the game. They need to buy the game client or pay for the playing time (for example: RMB30 for 4000minits or RMB90 for 1month). The Free means that the customers can play the basic game for free. And they can buy some items in the shop on the official website or directly in the game store. The two players I picked for this analysis are World of Warcraft
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playing computer games. Even though computer games are common in our life‚ they have not only good effects‚ but also bad effects‚ especially to teenagers. Moreover‚ even though parents know that teenagers play computer games too much‚ they do not know that why teenagers are widely excited at computer games‚ and what the bad effects of computer games are. There are two main causes that teenagers play computer games too much. In addition‚ playing computer games too much has two main effects. The first reason
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The negative effects of violent computer games on children Computer games have a negative impact on the development of children‚ especially contributing to aggressive and anti-social behaviour. Playing computer games has a greater negative effect because it involves interactivity which impacts on learning processes of the child. • Numerous studies around the effects of violence in television‚ movies and video games on children have taken place over the last twenty years. The outcomes of various
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Harmful Effects of Tobacco Speech Today‚ I have a question for all of you “Would you mix rat poison‚ tar‚ lighter fuel‚ some radioactive gas some pesticide and drink all of that stuff at once?”‚ Your answer would probably be no because it’s obvious that all of this stuff is toxic and would result in sudden death. This is all of the stuff that cigarette smoke contains‚ so just wonder how harmful would cigarettes actually be. I’ll be telling you about the harmful effects of tobacco & the great
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The Harmful Effects Of Smoking a Cigarette The harmful effects of smoking are: Lung Cancer Smoking accounts for about 80-90% of all chronic obstructive pulmonary disease‚ emphysema‚ chronic mucus secretion‚ and chronic air flow blocks. Smoking is involved in 85% of all lung cancer deaths. An individual with chronic bronchitis‚ which is caused by smoking‚ is more likely to get a bacterial infection if he or she is a smoker. A smoker gets more nose and throat inflammations‚ respiratory
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Harmful Effects of Watching Television In a recent cartoon‚ one character said to another‚ “When you think of the awesome power of television to educate‚ aren’t you glad it doesn’t?” It’s true that television has the power to educate and to entertain‚ but unfortunately‚ these benefits are outweighed by the harm it does to dedicated viewers. Television is harmful because it creates passivity‚ discourages communication and presents a false picture of reality. Television causes
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Introduction This study is about the effect of Online Game (Lineage II) to Gamers in the Philippines. Lineage II is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows‚ the second game in the Lineage series. It is a prequel to Lineage‚ and is set 150 years before the earlier game. It has become very popular since its October 1‚ 2003 launch in South Korea‚ reporting 1‚000‚918 unique users during the month of March 2007. To date‚ the game has been played by more than 14 million
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