Video Gamers have the Advantage Since the early 1970’s‚ the demand and popularity of video games has been growing rapidly. Nowadays‚ video games are an integral part of many people’s lives world-wide. In order to satisfy the public’s growing demand for these innovative games‚ software companies are producing large quantities of attractive and stimulating video games. With each new generation‚ these games become more visually dazzling and increase in realism. Because the vast majority of children
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triggers that lead to violence and aggression on healthcare professionals or peers by dual diagnosis service users‚ the patients’ and staff perspectives on managing violence and aggression safely and the current best practice in the management of violent and aggressive behaviour (see table 2). The suggestions from various literatures brought across will form part of the evidence based intervention that clinicians can use in minimising episodes of violence and aggression. Violence and aggression are experienced
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“Video games are bad for you? That’s what they said about rock and roll.” -Shigeru Miyamoto Blaming video games for real world violence has been an honored tradition for the past few years. It has gotten to the point where the people pointing fingers neglect to take any personal accountability. Parents simply want someone to blame for their own children’s violent behavior. Video games are an obvious scapegoat‚ but what they forget is that someone has to buy the video games. There is also the little
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of violent video game playing on youth Ward‚ Michael R. "Video Games and Adolescent Fighting." Journal of Law and Economics 53 (2012): 611-28. JSTOR. Web. 5 Nov. 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/605509>. There is a link between violence in the context of video games and violence affected by gamers outside of the context of gaming. Psychologists have studied the possible connections between violence depicted in the media and violent behaviors. The usual sources for violent portrayals
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INDS-1033-40 November 23rd‚ 2012 The Benefits of Video Games It is without a doubt that video games have exponentially grown in popularity throughout the last decade. They have truly become one of the most popular forms of entertainment (when compared to Television‚ movies‚ music‚ etc). Consumers spent $24.75 billion on video games‚ hardware and accessories in 2011. Although the majority of game players are adults‚ video games have become exceptionally popular among kids. According to
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Today violence has become an every day experience in life. Playing video games or turning on the television‚ and flipping through the channels at random‚ you will most likely stumble upon various forms of violence. Does it desensitize or help us tolerate violence? And the most controversial issue‚ does it cause violence? Most humans learn by simply watching‚ and then imitating the action rather than trial and error or direct experiences of the consequences of our actions (this is not to say
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The effects of video games Kathy Michelle Watson University Composition and Communication II February 10‚ 2013 Jacqueline Smith Lance The effects of video games It is time for adults to come out of the closet. When talking about video games most people will picture in their minds an adolescent glued to a screen; while it is true that 92% of American children play video games (Gentile‚ 2011‚75)‚ the average gamer is 35 years old (ESA‚ 2008). Playing games is an investment of time. The majority
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many grossly popular video games today‚ and they have one main thing in common: violence. Whether one is shooting down Nazi soldiers on the beaches of Normandy or sawing apart Locust drones on the planet Sera with his or her lancer‚ one is engaging in extremely violent video-game action‚ and probably having a lot of fun doing so. With the rapid growth of intensely violent games‚ parents and politicians across the nation have begun to protest against violence in video games and have even gone as
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Nowadays‚ many children are addicted to video games that they play these games daily. According the research made by NPD GROUP‚ there was an increase by 9% of children aging between 2 and 17 that play video games compared to 2009. There was also an increase by 17% in the number of children aging between 2 and 5 that play video games compared to 2009. These percentage shows that video games are attracting many kids every day. Video game is an electronic game where the player controls a character‚ and
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They play the computer games for all the time and neglect their study in school.It will cause that computer games can never live apart from them‚ so I agree that playing computer games is a waste of time. First of all‚ playing computer games will waste plenty of time.Time is very precious to us today. We should be concentrate and pay more attention to our studies rather than wasting time playing the computer games. If we spend too much of time focus in the computer games‚ of course‚we can’t get
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