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    what was once “frowned upon” or “adults talk”. For example, Aggression in video games can increase the amount of bullying and fighting in schools as well as decrease the juvenile crime rate. The question is simple, if video games are decreasing juvenile crime, but increase school-wide violence, is violent imagery helpful or harmful? In addition to school shootings and bullying, what other influences are being made on the minds of the children of today? As they enter into a red carpeted…

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    Did you know that, 90% of pediatricians and 67% of parents agreed or strongly agreed that violent video games can increase aggressive behavior among children? A boy is playing Grand Theft Auto V while his mother walks in the room and asks him to do her a favor for her but he ignores. His mother cries for him to at least acknowledge her but his mind and soul had entered the virtual world of gaming and won’t come back to the real world. In this generation, majority of children and teenagers play…

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    articles that I have read, the research has shown that people who play simulated violent games, are more prone to show violent behavior in their everyday lives. Simulated violent games contribute to bad behavior in people, they allow us to think that violence is okay, they take away from productive time, and creates misinterpretation. In the article, “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out” by Guy Martin, a journalist from The New Yorker, Martin reveals a game played at St. Ann’s, in New York City, by the name…

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    Media Violence And Youth

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    Media Violence Effect on Youth In today’s society media violence has significantly increased along with societal violence in youth. This has caused many dramatic issues within society how the youth is effected as they grow up in all of this. Many researchers have shown a lot of research in this area because the youth is the being future and with a corrupt youth there bound to be a corrupt future. Many things affect are kids even things we do not think is bad or even media violence, and combining…

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    if video games cause you to become mad and commit violent actions big and small. So the question is do video games actually cause violence? Lots of critics say that videogames are a cause of violent crimes such as shootings. That can also be argued by people who think that video games absolutely do not cause violence. So videogames definitely do not cause violence, because they can be used for education, they are meant to give you a lot of adrenaline,…

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    A challenge affecting the residents of Morris Heights is violence. According to DNA info (2011), Morris Heights ranks 53rd in ranking for overall violence in New York. Due to drug use and gang activity, shooting incidents rose 24% from 2009 to 2010. Violence in Morris Heights is a human rights issue because it stunts the opportunities of the residents in the community – there are less opportunities to thrive peacefully, the quality of life for inhabitants are lowered due to violent crimes…

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    games. As the times change, so does technology. Recent advancements in technology have played an intricate role in educating people. The advancements in technology impart the lives of our children. Statement of the Problem Media violence often sensationalizes acts of violence yet rarely do…

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    Gang Violence Environment

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    Environment Can Lead To Gang Violence among Kids Name Institution Most children are exposed to violent environments including abuse, crime, and violent families in the family, educational institutions and the society. Most of these children experience violent acts exceeding one. The exposure to violence has a substantial impact on the children as they develop their relationships in childhood and later in adulthood. Children’s exposure to violence is linked to long-term psychological, physical…

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    constant over the last three decades, youth homicide rates have risen. In 1997, more than 1,400 murders were determined to have involved a juvenile (U. S. Department of Justice, 1999). Even more recently, over the past two years, school shootings have left our schools as modern killing fields for a generation of children (Gar.…

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    Christian faith supporting these acts and their occurrence by means of presence in the location they occur and/or representation of the artifacts used for the action. This poses the potential to lead towards the relations of Christian morals with heavy violence and suggesting that the church as a whole no longer recognizes suicide as a form of sin. Some say that these religious artifacts that are seen throughout this movie are meant as a means of consciousness to be observed by the characters…

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