Video Games: Exploring The Influence of Gender Within Society Throughout this paper‚ I will be exploring the spectrums of femininity and masculinity within video games in the American pop culture. Since video games were first marketed‚ a theme has been prevalent till this day: the notion of masculinity (how to be a man) and the sexualization of females (sexist portrayals of women) in video games. This profound issue affects the younger generation within gender socialization‚ gender stereotypes
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In the early ages of video gaming‚ males were predominantly targeted by game companies‚ which resulted in games that were designed for mostly heterosexual males (indie games were created and variations of mainstream games‚ but they were not profound and didn’t become well known). Within the past decade‚ this stereotypical idea has diminished‚ and females currently represent almost half of the gaming demographic‚ about 46% to be exact. Gaming holds a greater significance than we thought‚ which is
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Video Games: Good or Bad? Spending hours upon hours playing video games‚ one would think that they would start to influence the day to day life. This controversy is brought up in the article “Defending Video Games: Breeding Evil?” written by the editor of Ecomunist.com. The article argues that violent video games do not necessarily make viewers violent‚ but may in fact be beneficial to the user’s health. The main topic is proving games do not influence their audience to the extent of behavioral
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History The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s‚ when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith‚ Jr. and Este Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a "cathode ray tube amusement device." Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s‚ when arcade video games‚ gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public. Since then‚ video gaming has become a popular form of entertainment and a part of modern
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Parents Should Trust Their Kids Have you ever been on your phone or laptop and your parents come inside the room and start to look over your shoulder to see what your doing? In the article “ The Undercover Parent” they explain why some parents tend to do this with their children and why they might not trust their kids with the internet. In my opinion I think that parents should have trust in their kid and at least check on them once in awhile. My first evidence I have is some parents use spyware
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Rhetorical Analysis Essay According to the article “Shooting in the Dark” author‚ Benedict Carey‚ states that studies today on violent video games show no concrete evidence on actually long term negative effects on gamers. Mr. Carey is not a researcher or scientist but is a veteran writer of neuroscience‚ neurology‚ and psychology. Throughout this article he gives factual evidence and quotes from scholarly sources such as doctors and researchers in the fields of behavior and psychology. The author
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going to discuss how different cultures view video games. I will also determine whether they see video games as beneficial to their culture. Video games can be a powerful learning tool according to Daphne Bavelier a researcher at the Unversity of Rochester. He did a study on the first-shooter game "Unreal tournament" found that players were able to increase there perceptual and atention skills by playing that game. Since this game is a pro-social game which means communcating with other people online
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Violent Video Games Are Stealing the Innocence of Young Children Violent video games are harming children‚ and they need to be stopped. Many parents allow their children to play violent video games‚ but they probably don’t know the consequences. The time in a person’s life when she/he is a child is one of the most important time periods of his/her life. It’s the time when they absorb knowledge from everything around them. Their surroundings and what they see and hear are what shapes them into what they will become
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statement that video games have “a redeeming social value.” Do violent video games have “a redeeming social value?” You could get many different answers to this question depending on who you ask. Is there any good that can come from video games? What harm can come to people and society from video games? Is modern culture being affected either negatively or positively by today’s video games and those that play them? Are young‚ impressionable‚ people affected by playing video games for hours and
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Pablo Rodriguez Mrs. Wright English 102 Section 33 7 October 2014 Final Draft The Blame Game Why did our forefathers come to America? Why did they risk hopping on a boat‚ not knowing if they would survive the voyage? What could possibly be so important to them‚ that they jeopardized seeing their loved ones left behind again? The answer is freedom. Land of the free‚ home of the brave. However‚ each day the involvement of the government‚ media and other people escalates in trying to make sweeping
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