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Jayla Plair Norris English IV- 1st 2/7/ People play video games for entertainment or to relieve stress. There are violent and non- violent video games. Some games can be very addicting; especially the violent video games due to the explicit content, the children become more stimulated. On the other hand, video games can be non-violent and more educational. Those type of video games tend to improve a child’s thinking, social, creative skills. Regardless, the violence of video games is negatively affecting our society today, because they making the children’s behavior become aggressive. The explicit video games started in the early 2000’s, when the video game Grand Theft Auto game out. Grand Theft Auto was and still is one of the most popular which makes every child want the game. The video game was known as a Rated-R video game, but somehow the video games still got in the hands of children. The video game was advertised on commercials and banners around the city, so they convinced people to buy the game by showing all the violent and cool things on the game that made children to have an urge to get the game. In the video game there is gun violence, drug trafficking and sexual content things, which are things that children shouldn’t be exposed to. By children today, being influence by those things may change their whole perspective of life. Instead of children wanting to go to school and get an actually education, they may want to drop out of school and become and gang member or gangster as they see in the video game Grand Theft Auto.
Video games are very affective to today’s society; it is mainly the violent video games. Creators of the video games are promoting violence to the children, which will affect the children as they keep playing the video game over and over. The outcome of children playing these violent video games is that their behavior will become more and more aggressive towards others. By the children being aggressive towards others, that may stop other children from being around them, which may affect their social life. There are video games that aren’t as affective to the society like the violent video games. About 50% games are challenging educational games, that improves children’s thinking skills. They can learn different things from all subject types; for instance, a game like Jeopardy. Jeopardy is a video game where you are asked a questions from any subject of your choosing and you have to thinking and work your brain to come out with the right answers. This also can improve their school education, because there are some things that they haven’t learned in class and they learn it on the videogame, it putting them a head of learning in different subjects. Violent video games are considered harmful to the society because they affect children behavior by them becoming more aggressive (Sohn). The violence is being promoted in the video games is making the children’s brain develop a more aggressive and more violent behavior towards other that is innocent. For example, Grand Theft Auto is a video game that contains gangs, guns, and drugs. there are varieties mission you have to accomplish to gain money and respect. Besides that, the only way you gain respect and money is by being violent. Grand Theft Auto has profanity in the game, which is something children shouldn’t be hearing nor learning. 66% of the youth in today’s society is brain damaged and are influenced that by the violence, which they are gaining a more aggressive behavior. It’s damaging their brain by influencing that’s it’s okay to use profanity towards anyone, guns and drugs are okay to do, and that the
and have homework assigned to them. Today, children don’t do homework so of course the children that have the urge to play the video game when they get home won’t do their homework. By them being addicted to the video game and not paying any attention to their homework, it affects their grades. The lack of physical activity has a role because children would want to stay inside and play the video game instead of going outside and do physical activity. Last but not least, by children playing video games all the time effects their social life. By staying to themselves to play a video game only focusing one video games, they don’t have a chance to get to know other people and actually get to talk about other things with a diverse group of people. Violent video games only improve your thinking skills because you are thinking of ways to get out of certain situations. Their only there to damage your brain by filling your mind up with the explicit things you are seeing on video game. It is making your brain and thinking process change as well as your behavior. The video game is screening the explicit because the creators want you to believe that this what people do in everyday in the real world. “Only a fantasy game, which is not violent at a… it’s a stagey game.” Violence if video games are considered as a stagey game because you are learns different ways to handle violence and what to do when you are in a violent situation. Most people see the video games as a fantasy, but it also affects children no matter if it is real or fake. Just because the video game is a fantasy, it could still influence children to engage into actual violence. Half of the society likes to play the violent video games for calmness and relaxes. 44% of the society aren’t affected by playing the video games such as; Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty etc. because they have more sense of not to be influence by the stuff that happens in the video game. It doesn’t affect behavior nor their everyday skills, therefore some violent video games
don’t have a huge impact on the society. Some children can play violent video games all day long, and their brains aren’t damage by the violence, nor influenced by the violence. Those type of children are only that specific type of video games to entertain them or to keep themselves occupied. In other words, their brain knows right from wrong, having commons sense towards the violence. The children that aren’t addicted or influenced by the video game knows when and what to if there was violence in the real world versus a video game world. As a result of them not playing the video game for the influence of violence on the video game, they have a social life and also have a social life. Nevertheless, you have video games that are harmless to the society because there are some that are educational and are mainly relaxing type of video games. There are people playing video games for relaxation, and they choose a more puzzle or thinking game. The games that are educational, puzzle, thinking games etc.; tend to improve the certain skills I a child’s brain. It encourages the children to actually learn different things in different way, for example a video game called “Jeopardy” is an educational and thinking video game. This type of game doesn’t damage your brain, because it’s only trying to train your brain to think fast and learn a variety of thing from all subjects. However, the relaxing and educational video games may not be always there to improve half of the society’s thinking, creativity, social etc. skills. The more children play the educational, the more relaxing their minds will be. Therefore, they‘re going to be learning to relax their minds and they are improving their skills, such as creativity and thinking skills. The children will be learning about a variety of things from all subjects and they can go back to their friends and teach them a few things. It could also improve their grades at school, by them having the chance to learning things from a video game, its making their subjects they are taking in school more advance or a more college bound. Playing
