Scientology controversies

“Violence isn 't always evil.” (Morrison) Josh Steinbeck is a musically inclined individual, will graduate as valedictorian of his class and enjoys unwinding at the end of the day by playing Grand Theft Auto. His face glued to the television, exposed to gruesome acts of violence. Nonetheless, Josh is not a serial killer. How is this possible? Adolescents who play violent video games are killers. Dead wrong. According to Alice Park of TIME newspaper, “90% of children in the US play video games…

Are Violent Video Games Safe to Play? Violent video games have a negative effect on our community both children and adults. Over a period of time violent video games can influence people to become more aggressive. After playing for long periods of time day-after-day, they can become an addiction. Addiction symptoms may include a common characteristic we see in teenagers today, social awkwardness (social isolation). This research paper will help inform our community of the dangers and the…

Have you ever noticed that people who play video games frequently tend to be aggressive in their behavior? Video games have become increasingly popular in this technological world. However, these video games contain massive amounts of violence resulting in aggressive behavior and addiction. It has been scientifically proven that younger kids who play violent video games express more aggressive behavior than the kids who don’t play those games. Video games cause aggression/addiction in the…

In Call of Duty Black Ops during the mission “Payback,” a teen will find themselves in a Vietnamese torture-interrogation scenario where they are forced to play Russian Roulette until they give up information. The objective is to break out of the interrogation room and get revenge on their captors. They do so by blowing up, shooting, and stabbing every enemy soldier they come in contact with. This mission is similar to many other missions in popular violent video games. The majority of the time,…

Have you ever come across someone who couldn’t want anything more than for people to stop judging each other by color, religion or origin? Well, if you have, I guarantee they’re not as dedicated as Barrack Obama is to creating a society that is equal in all aspects. In “A More Perfect Union”, Obama expresses that people should not be focused on physical or background differences, they should be focusing on the issues that we all face in society. The issues such as, schools, healthcare and jobs.…

Video games hold a high place in American culture. In the youth of America, video games are often looked at as more important than most things we do day to day. My generation is the first group to have been around the type of video games we have today. I imagine that my generation will be playing video games far into their lives. To get back to the topic of the youth and video games, the personalities and habits of younger kids in today’s world are far more different than kids who were growing…

In the past, children were always outside of the house adventuring around the neighborhood or playing a sport with their friends. In today’s world, many children are inside either on the computer, watching television, or playing on their video game consoles. In fact, “On average, girls spend more than an hour per day playing video games and boys spend more than two hours,” (Video Games and Children). However, this has begun to have a negative impact on children. Violence in videogames has become…

Recently, there has been an interesting topic being argued over. The issue that has stirred much controversy recently, is if video games promote violence in the users. Many scholars, as well as professional organizations have dove deep into researching the topic. As expected, there are two sides to the argument. On one side, there is a group of individuals who strongly believes that violent videogames promote violence in the users. While on the other side, there is a vast majority of individuals…

Rarely can you find things in life that are considered as “Impossible”. Have you ever met any children who don’t like watching cartoons? This issue is mostly impossible under normal circumstances since cartoons are just like kids; they create a world to which kids can relate to. Children like funny things that are compatible with their dreams and imaginations. Thus, cartoons can provide them with these favorite concepts more than any other activity such as playing with friends. Watching…

Since the adaptation of games has increased to an advanced level, it has created more realistic violent interactions, social interactions, and violence has been a commonly connected to the use of video games. In Michael R. Ward’s article,Video Games and Adolescent Fighting, he expands on the ideas of gaming and its connection to gaming violence and human attitudes. Overall, this article goes in depth on the concept of violent video games as a prompt for negative actions and violent behavior.…