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Violent video games are taking over. Middle school aged children are getting a hold of these games and their behavior and attitude towards violence are changing because of it. My little cousin, Andrew, is a 10 years old boy and a Call of Duty activist. Call of Duty is a very violent video game which is intended to be played by kids that are 16 years old and over. The game simulates World War II warfare where the player can choose from a variety of time-appropriate weapons and essentially goes on…

Tragedy strikes at a school, a shooting occurs and the assailant is a fan of video games, violent video games. Therefore, the hours the assailant spent enthralled in this fantasy world morphed a killing machine at least that is what some would claim. Violent videogames like Doom have been in the hot seat because according to some reports this was the favorite video game of the Columbine school shooters. Violent video games are not to blame for creating violent tendencies or creating confusion…

Nicholas Checa IS 300 T/TH 2:00 YouTube Case 1. There are a few competitive forces that have challenged the movie industry in the past decade. For example, with the creation of online streaming there was a big increase of illegal downloads that have begun to happen. Substitutions are popping up all over the web to illegally attain videos instead of paying for them. This creates more bargaining power for the customers, because instead of paying rental fees or buying high priced movies,…

Poker Chips Rick Lavoie presented an interesting and compelling comparison between poker chips and self-esteem. Within his commentary he noted how easily it is for parents, teachers, and classmates to remove poker chips, which equal self-esteem, from young people. It was an insightful video and put tangible representations to the exchange that happens with the children in our lives and the self-esteem we either help build or help destroy. One way that we do this is by reinforcements. As…

Mehmet Saçaklı Aynur Kadıoğlu Eng 101-42 20Nov., 2014 Do Video Games Have Harms On Youth Culture Today Video games are the new phenomena of our age and their effects on teenagers is an complicated issue. Especially for the last twenty years, almost every teenager have interacted with video games one way or another. As a result of this, scientist and experts started to research about this issue and they want to find answer of one important question: Do video games have harms on youth culture…

I choose the movie entitled Nerve because I think that this movie is IT related and has to do with the technology. Nerve is a 2016 mystery and crime film that tells a story about a game. It is a life within a game. The people who are watching are going to dare you to do something. Everyone can join; you can choose either play or watch. If you choose watch, you can see the player and be able to ask the player to do a dare. If you choose player, you have to do the dare. Every dare has an…

As the child is growing up many influences can affect how the child behaves in the future. In the article, “How Playing Violent Video Games May Change the Bain”, Alice Park touches on the idea how playing violent video games will have a negative impact on your brain. In a study conducted by Dr. Vincent Matthews at Indiana University explored the idea of if 28 students were randomly put in 2 group either in a violent games that involve shooting or a nonviolent game. These students were supposed…

Does video game violence cause aggressive behavior? No, it doesn’t. Violent video games are those that represent violence as the best or only way to resolve conflict, and they are games that don’t exist in real life. The term “violent video games is defined in the scholarly world. When we define violent video games it has a little meaning, but in the case of violent games, its alternative is a peaceful approach to resolving differences. The government has debated violent video games as normal…

Introduction Since the dawn of media, it has been argued how the violence shown in media affects the mind sets of children. Violence is not a new concept to humans and is increasingly being shown on television and in video games and movies. The effects of this have been debated throughout the past five decades. According to Article 17 of UN Convention of Rights of Children “Governments should encourage mass media – radio, television, newspapers and Internet content sources – to provide…

Video games never have been the cause for violent behavior that led to criminal actions. Politicians have long been looking for an excuse as to the reason that many national tragedies happen such as many mass shootings. To blame these acts of violence on the sole act of playing video game would be just plain idiotic. Studies done have shown that while violent behavior has long been linked to aggression in children and teenagers, there has been no such evidence to link it to criminal behavior…