School violence

video games becomes more and more realistic, in extent to the violence and harsh language used in many popular games. The main consumers for violent video games are teenagers and children, who seem to copy and mimic what they see, hear or learn from these types of ‘harmless’ games. Many video games including Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty and Assassins Creed are just a few of many popular games that include blood, gore, intense violence, strong sexual content and the use of drugs. According to…

First and foremost, violence on the internet are easily obtained anyone can search the web and find anything that is associated or related to violence. According to Waukesha police Chief Russell Jack “unmonitored and unrestricted access to the internet by children is a growing and alarming problem”(Bevan 1). Young children in this generation find it easier to stream on the internet whenever they like. Before the only way to be on the internet was through a desktop computer and even then it took…

nowadays in the media. Like in the United Kingdom, a game named manhunt was banned because the children would style the theme of murder in the game and finally do so in real life. Another example is that of columbine high school, where a fellow students murdered others in school, thus bringing the issue of arms control in the United States. In this regard, audience who is seen as passive and exposed to a particular aspects brought about by the media content, can be influenced by what they read…

we help others with theirs. The U.S. should not be interfering with other countries’ affairs until we fix our own problems such as domestic terrorism. Domestic terrorism can lead to destruction a country and influence more violence. The word terrorism means “the use of violence and intimidation to frighten people” (Terrorism, Merriam-Webster.com). Add domestic to the term and it means someone within your country terrorizing your own people. With that said, domestic terrorism can lead to the…

also lead to long term consequences. Pennell and Browne (2008) found a correlation between heavy exposure to violence in childhood and violent crime in adulthood. To prove this point, Pennell and Browne (2008) examined a study by Huesmann and colleagues which was carried out on a group of people…

Exposure to Violence and the Link to Aggression in Children At any given moment during the past two weeks, endless reports of child abuse as well domestic violence flooded the popular press. From the newspaper article on the NFL player knocking his girlfriend unconscious in a brutal assault to the ABC News report on the NFL player beating his four year old son with a “switch” to the point of drawing blood and leaving scars to the early morning news broadcast of the child abuse and…

Introduction The debate whether or not violent video games cultivate violent behavior has been an issue since there has been a rise in school shootings in North America. This article will be providing a summary of an empirical study conducted by Christopher J. Ferguson and Stephanie M. Rueda regarding developmental issues arisen from violent video games. The article The Hitman Study: Violent Video Game Exposure Effects of Aggressive focuses on the concept of the social learning theory and the…

can play video games on the go. Many children spend as much as 9 hours a week playing video games and about 80 percent of high school boys play video games. However video games itself are not the problem; violent video games are the problem, which are what children play mostly. Violent video games can effect children’s behavior by increasing aggression, increasing violence, and decreasing self control Some people may believe that violent video games do not effect children in a negative way and…

Increased weight gain can lead to peers teasing an individual which could cause them to be even more anti-social and looking at video games as an outlet to get back to their comfort zone. Eventually bullying takes things over the edge and can cause violence such as fighting or worse severely hurting another human being. Lemmens also points out, “. . . but our moderation analyses indicated that pathological gaming predicted an increase in physical aggression regardless of violent content” (47).…

Video Games on Aggression: Is It Competitiveness or Violent Content?” Anderson and Carnagey, the authors of the article, explore the consequences of the competitive, violent sports on the behaviors of the players. Another journal article titled Media violence and the self: The impact of personalized gaming characters in aggressive video games on aggressive behavior authored by three social psychologists, Fischer, Kastenm¨uller and Greitemeyer, focuses on impersonal and personal characters. A…