Video game controversy

Controlling Your Inner Rage In Gerard Jones short essay, “Violent Media Is Good for Kids” he argues violent comic books, bloody video games, and explicit rap is beneficial for youth. Jones believes violent media does not make a child violent, but helps them release rage and help develop confidence. Jones uses a personal example of how the Hulk helped him in his adolescence. Due to this experience as a child, he decided to research and discover if other kids had the same issues. As…

Did you know that 60% of TV programs include violence? Viewers like children are harmed by the prevalence of violence in media. Therefore some control over the violence presented in the media would be a great idea; preventing particularly kids from growing up and imitating bad acts seen on TV. This is why I believe as claimed by the cultivation theory that TV promotes a worldview that is inaccurate but that viewers assumes reflects real life. Therefore some viewers are affected by the Mean…

Juvenile Crime By: Adriana Rodriguez Have you ever wondered to yourself if juvenile crime has been a problem in today’s society? Juvenile crime is an illegal act committed by a child under the age of eighteen. Juvenile crime has been around for almost 200 years and has been debated whether the media, the parents, and the schools that these children attend are the reasons why they choose to commit crimes. It is also debated whether or not the amount of children committing these crimes has grown…

hard for children to control themselves through technologies of subjectivity. In my view, children do not have the self-control when they facing the media. If parents do not stop, children will spend several hours on the TV Program and other online games. In the article, the author talks about the girls opinion when they watching the celebrity's pictures. The girls here are talk about that the celebrity is "too sexy", and her's outfit is 'too slutty' and so on. Through those notes,…

Sports, at their core, are naturally violent. They tend to take the anger and frustrations of being a young adult and transfers that into good, clean fun. However there may be a reason as to why high school sports, in general, may be more violent than intended. High school sports are violent due to the competitive nature of them, the passion kids have to win, and also the influence of physicality through the coach. Sports have always brought out the competitive side to people. “[People believe]…

A big reason for the problem on when it is appropriate to air indecent material on television has to do with the parents complaining too much. Parents have an obsession of protecting their children from everything on television so when they see something that seems obscene parents will start complain. One thing that the parents can do is get a V-chip that is inserted in the television so a parent can put the television rating which will block any channel that has a higher rating. A problem with…

As I was watching a television show, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., one of the characters invented something that they called an "icer." It was a gun that shot out dendrotoxins so the victim would be temporarily paralyzed, but not killed. It seemed to me that with the incidents of police brutality that have been prevalent in our news lately, a non-lethal weapon seems like it could be a benefit. We've had many news reports of accidental police shootings due to panic. If the policeman pulls out and…

Behind the Books As several monsters are being presented in the movie "goosebumps";we are reminded of our own childhood and the frightening monsters in our nightmares. In today's society, no emphasis is given to those childhood monsters but rather are consumed by the latest horror trends in movies and current frightening world events such as terrorist attacks. Today, they don't need to, it is given to them constantly. All they have to do is to watch the news, hear it from their parents or…

emotion or an unpleasant or destructive natural force. It just don't come from society, it also comes from the things children play or see. Such as video games, "These video games cause or influence children that play them to become much more violent." (source 1) Children will begin to feed off that and start doing things they see on the video games. Another reason why violence contribute to bad behavior is that drug use has increased. This changed child behavior a lot, which…

Theories of Aggression Mirna Ramirez EDU 524: Coping with Stress and Violence June 13, 2018 Benjamin Roberson Concordia University Irvine School of Education  Theories of Aggression Acts of violence have increasingly plagued the nation, beginning with the Columbine massacre in 1999 that fueled subsequent rampages and spreading to the most recent school shootings in Texas and Indiana. In many of cases, the culprits were seemingly normal people that directed their aggression toward…