Video Game Addiction in Teenagers There are many stages in life which everyone has to encounter and the teenage stage is probably one of the most important stages of a person’s life. During your teen years you really learn about what kind of person you are and what kind of person you want to be. Do you want to be the type of teen who stays home all day and play video games alone or go and hang out with your friends? This is where video game addiction comes into play. Some teenagers would rather
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Why Video Games Should Not Be Banned According to some people‚ they say that violent video games should be banned. They say that video games are the source of today’s violence. It is true but I disagree with them. Sometimes video games can make us learn stuff and it will do much harm to people who play them. First of all‚ they do a lot of destruction to people. If video games get banned‚ the videos that are on YouTube will have to get taken down. That means people whose YouTube video is all
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Video Games: Creating Monsters or Not? “Stay alive at any cost! Find the key! Shoot the bad guys!” This is how one sixth-grader describes the way of playing video games. Such video games can seem like harmless fun‚ but what if the violence gets personal and addicts young teenagers‚ affecting their behavior and their view of reality? Some studies have shown that violent game players just do not leave it there on their game screens; they transfer the violent acts they get attached to‚ to the real
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Are video games bad for kids? Back in time in mid 90’s the best source of entertainment for kids was the television that have a great variety of cartoons for the kids to have good entertainment and learn good things. But now they have video games that right now are the top selling industry in the world according to Barbara Ortutay of MSNBC online “the selling of video games on July of this year went to $1.19 billion with a 17 percent more than last year. But the only concern for the society is that
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EFFECTS OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES A meta-analytic review of the video-game research literature reveals that violent video games increase aggressive behavior in children and young adults. Experimental and non-experimental studies with males and females in laboratory and field settings support this conclusion. Analyses also reveal that exposure to violent video games increases physiological arousal and aggression-related thoughts and feelings. Playing violent video games also decrease pro-social behavior
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http://www.gamespot.com/features/6090892/ In December 2001‚ Surgeon General of the United States David Satcher‚ M.D.‚ Ph.D.‚ led a study on violence in youth and determined that while the impact of video games on violent behavior has yet to be determined‚ "findings suggest that media violence has a relatively small impact on violence." The report stated: http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html The overwhelming majority of kids who play do NOT commit antisocial acts. According
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Introduction The video game industry is very broad in scope and continuously growing at a rapid pace (Exhibit 1) with billions of dollars to be made. Although the large potential for growth cushions rivalry amongst the existing competitors in this industry‚ video game companies constantly focus on differentiating their products and seize new opportunities to gain and secure their customers loyalty in order to continue in the business. Most of these new opportunities are created through advancements
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Video Games and Violent Children Brittany Hern 02/02/2011 Critical Thinking and Composition Home video games‚ an industry worth $11 billion domestically that is now 30 years old‚ continues to be thrown into legal and moral debates regarding what age is deemed appropriate to participate. Video games‚ especially those deemed to be violent or rated “mature‚” are at the center of the controversy. There are two sides to this debate. Video game companies and their supporters
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Video Games: Shaping the World’s Youth Shady Mahshi Lebanese American University Outline Claim: Negative effects of video games and results of overuse leading to many side effects I. Major idea: Video games promote unhealthy activity A. Opposing view: Video games may help children in following instructions‚ problem solving and logic Source: Raise Smart Kid. (2014). The positive and negative effects of video games. [Online] Retrieved from: http://www.raisesmartkid.com/3-to-6-ye
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Keep the Violent Vids away from Kids Violent video games and their effects on children is a growing debate in today’s society. The controversial problem is: are violent video games a negative effect on children or not? It is my personal opinion that violent video games are a bad influence on children. These young children learn from what they see. It is not a good thing when what they see is violence. It is also not a good thing when they are in control of the character that is doing the violence
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