have cell phones‚ as well as 89% of children have their own laptops‚ and 97% of children and young adults play video games and/or own a gaming system. With the prevalence of video games obvious many adults have started asking themselves how these games affect their children. Should I be worried that my child is playing violent video games? How long should I allow my child to play video games? These questions are ones parents who are raising children in the era of technology should be asking‚ these
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VIDEO GAME ADDICTION After playing video games for 50 hours‚ a man died in an Internet cafe in South Korea (Khazan). China has set up a system in order to control the online video gaming hours. This is the vital step the country has taken to prevent the online gamers from getting addicted by limiting the hours of online video gaming (Koo). Thailand‚ on the other hand‚ has banned a very popular game called Grand Theft Auto 4 after a crime was committed in a similar fashion as shown in the game
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Video games are generally considered to be a pastime‚ as in to pass the time and have fun. The concept that they can be an educational tool is perceived by many as just an excuse to extend their playing time with more games. Students are sometimes punished by their parents by deploying the confiscation method to cease their activities with a gaming device. The simplest way to teach using video games is to have students play games that contain similarities with an existing school curriculum. This
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October 22‚ 2007 Video Games and Obesity In just two decades‚ the prevalence of obesity doubled for U.S. children ages 6 to 11‚ and tripled for American teenagers (Childhood Obesity). Obesity is an excessive accumulation of fat causing a person to become overweight. It is a serious and growing health problem‚ especially for kids. One major factor to the problem of children becoming obese is‚ video games. Video games have advanced dramatically over the years. From hitting a ball back
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2.1 The bad effects of video games. 2.1.1 Affect our behavior‚ feeling. A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device (Wikipedia‚ 2011). With many types of games‚ there are many different effects that affect our life and most of them are bad. The first and also the most dangerous problem is violence. According to Dr. Craig Anderson (2003)‚ violent video games may have even stronger effects on children’s aggression
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Video games have been in our lives for a very long time. Even before the personal computer usage became this common‚ owning an “Atari”‚ a legacy game console‚ at home was very popular. However‚ the rapid change in technology has brought a new dimension to the world of video games as well. Game platforms have stunningly developed and changed‚ while video games have kept their popularity. Today‚ popular use of personal computers and hand-held smart devices allows gaming to take place everywhere. It
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F for Fake:Fakery or Trickery “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”-jean luc godard ABOUT THE FILM F for Fake is a film which portrays chicanery‚ deception‚ misdirection‚ scoundrels‚ sleight of hand‚ con artistry‚ dishonesty‚ and flimflammery in all its myriad guises. It’s not hard to see the film as one elaborate magic trick‚ a dizzy feature-length lark that delights in confusing the audiences at regular intervals.A singular combination of documentary‚ essay‚ narrative and
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Akeelah and the Bee Akeelah is an eleven year old African American girl who lives in a low income area in California with her family. Her economic status is poverty and she realizes quickly that she is made fun of by the kids in her school for being smart. She lives with her mother and she has two brothers and one sister. Her father passed away‚ leaving her mother alone to raise the children. Her mother works in a hospital and life seems to be a struggle for her. The movie
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Breon Smith Period 4 5/23/13 Mr. Hayes The Greatest Paper Ever The movie North By Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock was interesting to watch. It had a good story line because it had an element of mystery and surprise. Originally‚ I had thought that one of the guys in the mob was the secret agent but it turned out it was the woman. The way she interacted with the people in the mob led me to believe she was not the secret agent. What stood out to me the most was the way they tried to murder Roger
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Fallada uses Mia Pinneberg to unveil the challenges associated with the expectations of the “New Woman” in the 1920’s-1930’s. Mia embodies the modernized women conceptualized in Germany post-World War I. Her aspirations to climb the bourgeois social ladder stem from a society obsessed with aesthetic beauty‚ and related pressures from being a woman in a high-class society. She mimics the display of the “New Woman” and therefore is driven to bear the weight of all interrelationship problems related
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