... saddens me that children have such easy access to this inappropriate nonsense. Violent video games can have an effect on children but it does not mean that they are going to be killers. Research states that a child's personality may be a bigger factor of a negative behavioral change than the video game. Violent video games are definitely not a good option for your child if they are ... moody, impulsive, or unfriendly (Jayson). In more extreme cases violent video games may be correlated with children who have committed murder. David Grossman, a retired Army Ranger and tactical trainer, b...

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... current increase of violence in the media and in the public's interest in this violence. In "Videotape," Delillo uses an unnamed narrator to transfer the video of a stranger's murder, which was unintentionally filmed by a young girl, from the television set to the reader. The sequence of events, as ... in Australia and denounced by the United States Congress in its annual report on violence and video games. However, because of the public's infectious interest in violence, GTA3 became the nation's top selling video game in 2001 and grossed nearly $300 million by the end of 2002, accordin...

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... Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 13 and injuring 23. Harris and Klebold took pleasure in playing the bloody, mass murder video game "Doom", a game meant to teach soldiers to successfully kill (Mortal Combat). Violent video games train kids to react aggressively to conflict. A study done on second grade boys to compare the effects of non-aggressive and ... aggressive video games, indicated the aggressive video game players, displayed more physical and verbal aggression to objects and playmates ("Video Games"). Thus, as teens and kids continue to watch and play these v...

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... , such as watching an action movie, allows a person to simply observe the violent behaviour, whereas active participation involves one to 'become' a violent person, such as in a violent video game. According to Anderson (2004) there are many short term and long term effects of media violence on aggressive behaviour, depending on the amount of exposure to media violence. He argues ... are many subtle effects. Both active and passive exposure to media violence, especially in the early years, affects people's ability to interact with others socially. Violent television and video games ...

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... that the average child has witnessed 8,000 murders on television before finishing elementary school. Some of the examples of that violence to children are: video games, music lyrics and videos, and television. Most studies currently indicate that video games have been a new and strong motivation for aggressiveness, especially for younger children. A study reports that almost 50% of the favorite games chosen were ... . In addition, they discovered that the children's violent behavior in free play increased after they had played or merely observed a violent video game. Playing with video g...

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... 40,000 killings and 200,000 acts of violence. This would lead children to behave violence later in life.(Carol Wekesser) High technology such as video games should also be censored as well as some TV shows. A video game such as the Night Trap is not necessarily for young teen in which you try to defend a group of sorority girls in scantly pajamas ... ...

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... government makes laws preventing such acts of "violence" from reaching the television. Not only that, they extend further into the video games and big screens. One now has to be at least eighteen years or older to buy an "R" rated movie or game, and to see an "R" rated movie. I am not disagreeing with the ratings system; there should be some kind of ... ratings to let the consumer know what kind of movie or game they are viewing. This way it is left up to the individual to make his or her own choice. But making a law forbidding one to view such material is just ... ...

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... other media violence. The event when the boys planted bombs in the school and shot classmates was proved to have been the boys" obsession of a violent movie and computer game (Gonzalez 1). Even though video games are more graphic than television, children spend more of their time watching TV ("Media Violence" 1). Fifty-three percent of surveyed people said that violence on television, films ... ...

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