Name # Madison Hanna Period: 4/5
Argumentative Speech Outline Due Date: May 12, 2015 DO VIDEO GAMES ADVERSELY AFFECT ADOLESCENTS?
Introduction:
Attention getter (hook, link to audience, why this topic is important) 20 year old Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary school with his hands clutched around his gun, he might have had no idea that this wasn’t a fantasy killing. This was real life. According to Business Insider, Adam spent most of his adolescent life holed up in his basement playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. For hours on end, Adam would be constantly shooting virtual opponents and collecting weapons. Since it happened to Adam, could it happen to anyone? Could they adversely affect adolescents such as ourselves? Could violent video games actually make you violent? …show more content…
Define your topic
According to the California State Law, a violent video game is defined as “a video game which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being.” Examples of these types of games would be Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, and Borderlands. If you don’t play these games, which some of you might do, these are games that encourage violence in any of the ways I said earlier to help you level up and win the game. C. Thesis Statement
In my opinion, violent video games adversely affect adolescents because violent video games associate pain as a pleasant and enjoyable thing, children and adolescents often confuse fantasy violence with real-life violence, and violent video games reward players for violence enhancing the learning of violent acts.
II. Sophisticated transition and argument (claim) one:
Violent video games associate pain as a pleasant, enjoyable
Argumentative Speech Outline Due Date: May 12, 2015 DO VIDEO GAMES ADVERSELY AFFECT ADOLESCENTS?
Introduction:
Attention getter (hook, link to audience, why this topic is important) 20 year old Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary school with his hands clutched around his gun, he might have had no idea that this wasn’t a fantasy killing. This was real life. According to Business Insider, Adam spent most of his adolescent life holed up in his basement playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. For hours on end, Adam would be constantly shooting virtual opponents and collecting weapons. Since it happened to Adam, could it happen to anyone? Could they adversely affect adolescents such as ourselves? Could violent video games actually make you violent? …show more content…
Define your topic
According to the California State Law, a violent video game is defined as “a video game which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being.” Examples of these types of games would be Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, and Borderlands. If you don’t play these games, which some of you might do, these are games that encourage violence in any of the ways I said earlier to help you level up and win the game. C. Thesis Statement
In my opinion, violent video games adversely affect adolescents because violent video games associate pain as a pleasant and enjoyable thing, children and adolescents often confuse fantasy violence with real-life violence, and violent video games reward players for violence enhancing the learning of violent acts.
II. Sophisticated transition and argument (claim) one:
Violent video games associate pain as a pleasant, enjoyable