Grand Theft Auto IV

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    blamed for countless crimes. Though that isn’t the whole story. Studies show there is no real connection between violence in video games and murders. Regardless, the news will still blame video games. If someone was to go and steal a car, the game Grand Theft Auto would get blamed, not the person’s financial problems. If someone was to brutally beat and murder a person without any connection to media violence, it would get blamed anyway. Wrongful accusations aren’t going to solve anything. Media…

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    Imagine walking the halls of your school and you accidentally bump into a fellow student. You apologize and attempt to walk away, but the student physically grabs you and is about to punch you in your face. Your yelling and screaming for help had alarmed a teacher, and saves you from being pummeled. The principal later finds out that the student plays violent video games and thinks that this might be the cause of his aggression and influences him to release his anger through fighting. Violent…

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    you see a lot of muggings and violent behavior people may believe it’s from the popular game Grand Theft Auto V, which is a game in which you can go around and kill people freely and do a strew of illegal activities. What isn’t really noticed, is sometimes in areas like these you will find that there has always been muggings even before the release of the video game and it’s predecessors (Grand Theft Auto IV, III, San Andreas, Vice City) and it’s the environmental nature of the community that it…

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    I Introduction A Accesability Video Games have been becoming increasingly accessible. Its a popular entairtinment method for kid to get out an escape into a virtual reality. B. Introduce the topic I. As technology expands the different platforms that video games can be played on will increase and more children will be able to play them II. After conducting a study it was found that the majorty of twelves to fourteen year old frequently played violent video games. III Thesis statement…

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    Like Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular games today rewards players for acting fantasies against sex workers. In GTA, a player can purchase women to perform a menu of different sexual acts that he experiences in first person. The gamer can also choose to…

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    The only severe one that I found offensive was the first hasty generalization in which he said people who play games by themselves feel ashamed. Although, minor fallacies, can be found within the text, like when he hasty generalized Grand Theft Auto 's community, or when he used an appeal to pity to draw attention. Leonard definitely won with his simple but informational argument. Leonard strives, as far as I can tell, for a clear and decisive argument on video game culture as a whole.…

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    the knowledge with emphasis on women. An example is the page about Pat Barker, a prominent figure in psychological novels who based her writings in the era of World War I; she has gotten less credit than Niko Bellic, a character in the game Grand Theft Auto IV. How less you ask? The writer only had a mere three paragraphs written about her while the fictional character had an article about five times as long. Imagine the increasingly huge number of people in this world that uses Wikipedia, and…

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    few years ago when a child, who was only 8, got a gun and shot a 90 year-old-women in the back of the head. The police investigation determined the boy targeted the women and it was not an accident. The boy had played a violent video game, Grand Theft Auto: IV, before he shot the women…

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    chat that children could have with unknown people. According to experts, games can be dangerous because of the violence. However, also can promote an extensive variety of cognitive skills. In shooter games such as: Battlefield, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto IV, children can develop spatial skills, attentional resources more efficiently and filter out irrelevant information more effectively (Granic…

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    As stated in the beginning of the movie “video games don’t die, they evolve”. As a Graphic Design Art major that hits a soft spot because as an artist you understand even when you put your passion into your work; you can always create new ideas and evolve with the new trends. Artwork in my eyes is creativity, imagination, and telling a story. Phil Fish communicated “every form of artwork or expression man kind has ever made is put into a video game”. The argument they were making that impacted…

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