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    In recent years, video games have been rapidly growing in popularity, especially many violent video games for child and adolescents, that go unregulated to the age group is playing them instead of who they were meant for being a mature audience, which are beginning to show many short, or long term effects correlated with increased aggressive behaviours. Desensitization and cognitive learning have shown effects in children due to violent video games. Violent video games can cause physiological…

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    Violent Media's Negative Effects On Children

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    sits on his or her couch without any motivation. It can dull the creativity of children, allowing them to follow the plot instead of making their own opinion. Video games advocate violence, with all of its digital blood and dark, antagonistic themes, and contribute to the obesity issue. Addiction is a very possible issue relative to video games (Emmons 3). The movie industry, full of violence and sexual content, corrupts many while glorifying the action of the “protagonist.” The Internet, while…

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    to things faster. Today 's media states the violent video games and violent movies are affecting today’s youth in the wrong ways. Now why is the media so big on bashing this type of violence? Why do we always jump to conclusions on things? One of the first things I will inform you on is whoever controls the media controls the mind. Then after that I will inform you on the new recent studies on this violence is wrong. Then about how the video game violence is one of the biggest entertainment…

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    When reading fictional stories or playing violent video games that you know are not real, so there is nothing influencing society to do anything violence in real-life. An example is shown about violence in the fictional story “The Lottery” when “Mr. Dunbar had small stones in both hands, and she said. gasping…

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    the full effect of the horror mask. Kind of like if you see a black cat at night it’s the eyes and the minor changes in the facial features that draw you to the conclusion it’s a cat and not a monster. Furthermore, the time concept in the production game I believe they have to send some of the pieces out to help speed up the time for the final product. Bottom line it takes time to create a one of…

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    Bloody video games, brutal comic books, and promoting negativity in lyrics may lead to a positive understanding of morals in the society they will grow up in. As ironic as it sounds, finding the positivity in something so negative such as the violence in media can…

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    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). Examining this research concluded that, regardless of content, the excess of video game playing on an…

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    platforms. In the past, most people have blamed video games such as Grand Theft Auto. However, today, the most common source of media consumption is through social medias such as Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram. While it is mostly used for entertainment purposes, a large amount of the content is all sorts…

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    Selective Censorship seems to be a large debate in today’s world of technology. Through the use of television, as well as internet on cell phones, Chromebooks, and regular desk top computers, companies speak to children primarily by the use of commercials. This may sound like a freedom of speech and seem open and honest. Actually children often get persuaded to think differently, purchase certain items and accept behaviors that might not agree with their family traditions. I feel that…

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    Violence In Adults

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    In today's society violence is everywhere from television to video games and in reality violence has become a part of our culture. Some researchers have said that this exposer is not a big deal but rather a potentially good thing as people will not have as low of a tolerance or shocked with violence. However there is another side that feels we are becoming desensitized and more prone to violence. When talking about violence it's not just with ideas or images we are more susceptible to but…

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