The Bad Side of Video Games Whether its hours a day or a few hours a week‚ a lot of people take time out of their day and dedicate themselves to video games. However‚ many popular games encourage violence and violent behavior. The bad side of video games is that the violence in many popular games can have an impact both physically and mentally on the kids who play them. The fact that the games kids and teens might be playing a lot encourage violent behavior can be a serious problem‚ and the nonstop
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Johnson Professor Harrison Composition II 2 October 2012 Effect of Video Games on Kids Growing up‚ playing outside was what I did for fun. Whether it was riding my bike‚ playing with friends‚ or swimming‚ I was outside for hours at a time every day. Today‚ kids have access to things like Xboxes‚ Playstations‚ and Nintendo DS. In a study conducted by Gentile‚ Lynch‚ Linder & Walsh (2004) "adolescent girls played video games for an average of 5 hours a week‚ whereas boys averaged 13 hours a week
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Professor James English Comp II 8 March 2014 Video Games Changes Lives There are upsides and downsides to letting video games shape your life as a child‚ and even up to your adulthood. Even in my own life‚ I have experienced games shaping me‚ and giving me the skills I would not have gotten if I did not grow up playing video games. As an “adult” now‚ I have noticed different aspects of my life that have been altered dramatically by gaming. Playing video games throughout your life may have positive and
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Effects of Video Games on Teens Video games are making teens more aggressive and violent. Our children are at danger. Are the teens of today in jeopardy of being outrageous and physiologically aroused? Are we producing a violent youth? What are video games doing to our kids other than providing entertainment? What can we except from the generations to come in this video-game overtaken era? In this research paper‚ I will be demonstrating how video games make teenagers violent and aggressive
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desire of entertainment and with video games this particular desire could be explored in whole new way. That is the main question‚ why video games are popular and continue to get more broadly used and highly enjoyed by millions. However‚ well grown popularity of video and computer games turned out to be harmful for original human development and damaging and poisoning psyche of human. In media‚ lots of episodes of violence cultivated by coercion in ‘war-blood’ games - Call of Duty‚ Counter Strike‚
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English 1120 10 March 2006 Video Games vs. Children The promotion of violence by today’s media‚ especially video games‚ has caused violence and aggression in reality to become a major concern. As gaming graphics and special effects are becoming more realistic‚ this portrayal of violence is one of the many important concerns in society. These days‚ a person can pick up a controller‚ move a joystick around‚ press a few buttons‚ and totally devastate an entire city. The recent uproar about this
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In the early ages of video gaming‚ males were predominantly targeted by game companies‚ which resulted in games that were designed for mostly heterosexual males (indie games were created and variations of mainstream games‚ but they were not profound and didn’t become well known). Within the past decade‚ this stereotypical idea has diminished‚ and females currently represent almost half of the gaming demographic‚ about 46% to be exact. Gaming holds a greater significance than we thought‚ which is
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Children turn into teenagers‚ and teenagers turn into criminals. Violent video games and movies turn into violent weapons. But the feeling of playing the violent game‚ or watching the violent movie‚ stays the same. It stays the same until the teenager no longer gets the rush of energy from the game‚ but they want that feeling for real.That same teenager is bullied at school and one day‚ he has had enough. The teen takes a weapon to school and a school shooting occurs. Who is to blame? The parents
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effect of video games on children”. The amount of information researched on the psychological effect was a lot and thus the topic question for the research was then changed to “the psychological effect of video games on children”. The main reason for researching this topic was the fact that there are a lot of young children in the world who play immensely violent games. Many children and their parents ignore the game rating. Many parents do not understand the adverse effect that those video games would
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The Effects of Video Games on Children: What Parents Need to Know The home video game industry is now over 30 years old. In that time‚ computer technology has improved at a geometric rate. A high speed elevator now has more computing power than the Apollo spacecraft that landed on the moon. The promise of computers and video games as teachers was clearly recognized in the 1980s when there was a nationwide push to get computers into the classrooms. In the years that have followed‚ researchers
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