Professor Longoria WRC 1023.059 4 Feb. 2013 Influence of Video Games on American Youth: Corruption or Improvement? Parents across the nation are dumbfounded with the amount of violence and sexual content that lies in modern video games. Companies such as Microsoft and Sony are selling millions of copies of video games every year; with the quality and graphics getting better‚ children are continuously exposed to gore-filled violence. Enraged parents believe that Xbox and Playstation are the ones
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computer‚ video‚ and/or casual games. Videogames are played for the sake of entertainment. Whether they are played on a television or a computer they still attract millions of people to take part in this activity every day. In fact they are one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. By playing a simple game maybe 30 minutes to 1 hour a day can vastly improve your thinking skills (Russell). By simple game I mean a game that is very easy to learn but incredibly hard to master. Games like Solitaire
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that we can learn from playing video games. Video games have always been infamous for their anti-social aspect and the violence that is shown in them. They have been seen as negatively affecting the players in terms of lack of social skills‚ inefficiency‚ obesity and laziness. We lack the unbiased view thus miss on the positive effects of video games. The negativities brought in by video games are due to the unrestricted duration for which they are played. Video games are popular among the children
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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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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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April 4‚ 2014 PLAYING VIDEO GAMES & ITS PERKS Please Use Responsibly Technology is all around us in the year 2014‚ electronic media is part of everyday life from infancy to adulthood‚ is this a good or a bad thing‚ it is all a matter of getting the facts straight then putting it into perspective. Media tools available for productivity and entertainment purposes are common culprits of publicly known negative outcomes of video game enthusiasts as well as obesity in recent headlines concerning the
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can Can Video Games Be Educational? Have you ever thought a videogame can be educational? Video games are widely known as an excellent source of entertainment‚ and according to some‚ they can be of great help as an educational tool because of their interactivity. What a lot of people don´t know is that they can be good for those who play them for fun as well for learning. Nowadays the development of technologies is so rapid that it involves all layers of society‚ regardless their
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I was drawn into video game design because I love video games and technology. Playing video games increased my interest in video game design. I already know having an interest in video games and knowledge about computers helps while becoming a video game designer. I hope to gain knowledge about their role in creating a video game‚ what they do daily‚ and their income. Video game designers have a unique role in creating a video game. They create fun by communicating with gamers and adjust the
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Video Game Media Analysis Often video games are simply regarded as play things and because of this‚ are not brought under any scrutiny except for how they harm children. The video game as a medium though offers many new ways of interacting with a simulated world that the likes of movies or books could never dream of achieving. Marshall McLuhan describes games in general as‚ “situations contrived to permit simultaneous participation of many people in some significant pattern
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An essay on Video game testing To delve deeply into Video game testing is an exciting adventure. Advancments in Video game testing can be linked to many areas. Until recently considered taboo amongst polite society‚ it is important to remember that ‘what goes up must come down.’ Often it is seen as both a help and a hinderence to socialists‚ who are likely to form a major stronghold in the inevitable battle for hearts and minds. Keeping all of this in mind‚ in this essay I will examine the major
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