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    Imagine a person who has spent most of their life on a farm performing mostly agricultural duties, now imagine this person in the city who now has no idea how to behave in a new setting with a different set of people. Children who had spent most of their childhood glued to the media and the violence it contains is much too similar. Children are learning new things every single day, by the attitudes of those around them the situations around them and they are also learning of violent ways…due to…

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    When it comes to game adaptions of books there are bound to be obvious differences caused by adapting from one medium to another. Are these differences significant enough to mean that a game can never be a faithful adaptation of a book? Faithful adaptations being an “attempt to recapture the original text as closely as possible” (Beach). Using the book Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena and the game of the same name by Square (now known as Square-Enix), it becomes easy to see that games can never be a…

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    people believed that it was due to the presence of an authoritative figure, such as the guy in the labcoat. However, that is not necessarily the case. Another experiment was done in which individuals were invited to a fake game show called “the Game of Death” (Nelson, 302). This game had the same premise as Stanley Milgram’s experiment, if a person got a question wrong, then they would be shocked by the individual. However, the main difference of these two experiments were the fact that one…

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    The truth behind video games. "If our lives are already written, it would take a courageous man to change the script." Alan Wake, Video game character. Video games takes us to different amazing worlds as we live and see life form the game characters prospective, on the same day I can kill the entire earth population on video game and save the planet earth from alien invasion on a different game. The only limit on video games industry is human imagination. Moreover, Video games forms our modern…

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    what is going on in their personal lives. The series includes many intimate moments that each family member goes through on a day to day bases. There is no intricate information or thought within the reality show, what you see is what you get. The controversy on Johnson believing that TV making society smarter by pushing viewers to question and think, having complex…

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    video games would increase the mental health of players, learning and exceeding in subjects like English. However, Taoism also states that there has to be a harmony between playing video games and the benefits from playing video games. So, scholastic video games should be played moderately because excessively video game playing can lead to addiction and that comes with it 's vices. Video games can reduce the symptoms of ADHD and treat anxiety. In Nathan Wilkinson 's article “Online Video Game…

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    Media's Puppets

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    Not seeing what logic is, and going off of personal feeling or experiences. The Media makes people emotionally unstable when they come in contact with their video games and their music video gangsters. Watching or listing to these videos could potentially lead a person to changing their character or living with long term consequences. This is a very important topic to discuss because youth crimes are on a constant rise and if we had an understanding…

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    their products with competitors and wanting to charge for their products. Part 3: Game Hackers With computer games becoming popular, Ken and Roberta Williams started creating games and were the co-founders of Sierra Online. They created games like Wizard and the princess. People were buying computers just to play games. Hackers had more access to computers now than they did in the past. John Harris started producing games for On-Line. He brought Frogger to the Atari system. Companies started…

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    Many people have speculated the cause behind school shootings is mainly violent video games. No one ever thinks about other causes. The real problem may be much deeper than that. There are several ingredients that go into the cocktail of violence ,that is so prevalent in our society. When tragedy hits and horrific happenings occur, we scramble for a quick answer and a quick fix. The senseless tragedies that happen are unnecessary. It proves that catastrophes can strike anywhere and anytime. Our…

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    As time goes by, humans rely more and more on technology. Like it or not, everyone is exposed to some type of technology in their lifetime. Now-a-days kids play in tablets instead of going outside and being involved in actual physical activity. One thing for sure, is that technology does come handy to in various ways. Technology does in a way make humans more powerful; It is something that is growing with society, there is no turning back, or is it? As stated above, technology is evolving…

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