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    Women In Video Games

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    Women and Video Games The way women are sexually portrayed in video games is pathetic. The lack of effort to change this is disappointing‚ and sadly women’s portrayal in video games is an accurate representation of how this country view women. By portraying women negatively in video games‚ designers are adding to the normalization of certain gender roles. From early on in video games women have been over sexualized‚ current games have not changed the view of women‚ and kids are being misinformed

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    Video Game Controversies

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    Controversies over video games center on debates around video game content and the potential for it to negatively impact player attitude and behavior. Since the early 1980s‚ video games have become part of the political discourse with advocates emphasizing their nature as an expressive medium (protected under the freedom of speech laws of many countries)‚ and detractors promoting various theories that video games are harmful for society and thus subject to legislative oversight and restrictions.

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    Video Game and Violence

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    Expository Essay: Final Draft Video Game Violence and Its Effect on the Youth Audience By: Jodi Fram UNV-104 Tamla Johnson The topic regarding violent media resulting in subsequent user violence in the youth audience has long been a controversial and heated debate. In the time of Plato‚ it was argued that Greek plays attributed to violence. In the nineties‚ people argued that violent movies and television resulted in violent behavior. Now‚ the debate focuses on video game violence and subsequent

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    Video Games Scapegoat

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    ENGL 200 October 6‚ 2014 Video Game Violence: A Scapegoat for Disengaged Parents Today’s youth live in a time where video games are a fixture of entertainment. Video game consoles are found in almost every home‚ including a child’s bedroom. I believe that the portrayal of violence in video games is not the reason for the increase of violent acts committed by and against youth. Parents and the government should understand it is not the fault of the game itself. Modern parents should be engaged

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    Violent Video Games

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    genre-electronic video games-reinvigorated the debate. Two features of video games fuel renewed interest by researchers‚ public policy makers‚ and the general public. First‚ the active role required by video games is a double-edged sword. It helps educational video games be excellent teaching tools for motivational and learning process reasons. But‚ it also may make violent video games even more hazardous than violent television or cinema. Second‚ the arrival of a new generation of ultraviolent video games

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    Music in Video Games

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    Music In Video Games Throughout the history of the video game industry‚ there has been many changes concerning music in video games. Music in video games progressed greatly within the life of the industry from 1972 to the present. These progressions can be seen as improvements in quality which includes an increase in the number of output channels‚ an increase in song length‚ a great improvement in the quality of timbres‚ and also a general shift from non- programmatic music to programmatic music

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    Violent Video Games

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    Violent Video Games It seems like everywhere we as a society look today‚ violence rears its disgusting head. We see violence in the streets‚ back alleys‚ and even our schools. Violence can now be seen in many people’s living rooms while they are sitting down playing video games. Children and teenagers seem to be the most effected by violence on video games. Many things should be done to change children’s view on video games and how much violence should be on the video games. Kids today act

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    Effects of Video Games

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    you ever chosen to play your new video game over studying for your big upcoming test? That extra ten minutes of study time can go a long way. Research shows that excessive use of violent video games can not only decrease academic performance‚ but increase aggressive behavior‚ and desensitizes the player towards intense violence and gore. One of the many negative effects of excessive use of violent video games is increased aggression. Excessive use of these games could really change how fast you

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    Video Games Are Bad

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    I believe that video games are bad for the human brain and body. There are many problems that come from violent video games. “Children who play more violent video games are more likely to have increased aggressive thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviors‚ and decreased prosocial helping‚ according to a scientific study” (Anderson & Bushman‚ 2001). In this study‚ they compared children who play violent video games with children that play none with a cat scan and the violent video game child had more

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    Video Game Violence

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    Why video games really are linked to violence. By Amanda Schaffer|Posted Friday‚ April 27‚ 2007‚ at 4:10 PM Master Chief in the video game Halo On The Daily Show on Thursday‚ April 26‚ Jon Stewart made short work of the suggestion that the Virginia Tech shooter‚ Cho Seung-Hui‚ might have been influenced by violent video games. (Cho may or may not have played the popular first-person-shooter gameCounter-Strike in high school.) A potential video-game connection has also been dangled after past

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