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The sound of a gun echoes throughout the room as he pulls on the trigger. A women crumples to the floor dead due to the bullet that went straight through her chest, the man that shot her felt no remorse; because, he only pulled the trigger of a XBOX controller, and no-one really got hurt, except for a NPC (non-player character) that was programmed to die. A common stereotype brought up against those who enjoy the appeal of video games are that the violent games what contributes to violence in society. The stereotype is that by playing so many violent games especially now with so many games with more details and more blood and gore that it is influencing the many that play these games into becoming violent people, violent people such as murderers,
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Sternheimer begins with introducing us to a “first person shooter” game called “Doom”(214). With this multi-billion dollar game industry rising, she points out that there are three school shooting cases that the press emphasizes the shooters being “video-game experts” (215) to the game Doom, only making the “critics’ predictions” (214) about video games come true. Sternheimer begins by explaining how video game violence has become “folk devils” (214). This term allows media and politicians to “channel the blame and fear to remedy what many believe to be a growing problem” (214). Politicians are one of the main factors in targeting video games as the leading cause of violent behavior in teens, according to Sternheimer.

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The number of violent video game-related massacres is on the rise as new, more realistic, bloody and gory games are soaring in popularity during recent years ("Issue Overview: Do video games cause violence?" 2). The issue of whether violent video games are a cause of real life violence or desensitize children to blood or gore first arose around 1976 when the game, Death Race, was first released. The game was based on driving cars recklessly down a road and running over human like stick- figures. People were conflicted on whether this game was just for fun or was too inappropriate for young children, so protesters ran the game out of production ("Issue Overview: Do violent video games cause violence?" par.

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A bully is defined as someone who uses his or her personal strength to make others feel weaker. In multiple cases, video games have been found in the houses of bullies. It is thought that bullies use the video games to simulate what they want to do to other children. If the bully gets obsessed enough, he/she will go out into the real world and use the new skills learned on actual people. In 2011, there was a game released with the name Bully.

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Since then much of the senseless violence have been removed from video games, yet the gaming industry still receives criticism regarding the amount violence players are exposed to during gameplay. Many “experts” believe that these games make people more violent in real life. Although this aspect of gaming should be studied, what many of these critics don’t tell you is that these same violent first person shooter

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Violent video games tend to control children and transform them into a criminal. C. Everett Koop, the U.S surgeon general, says, “see a youngster playing a videogame and watch his behavior as exhibited by body language or outright attacks on components of the game or the television screen to understand just how deep is the connection.” Koop also saw that the three main contributors to family violence was television, economic difficulties, and video games. If you're going to play a game where your inflicting pain on other people in the game learn to control your

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Violent video games can cause an adolescent to become more violent due to the amount of exposure that they receive and the connection to reality that make the game seem realistic. The behavior and the amount of exposure can have an effect on the person's realistic views internally and externally because they are more likely to have the perception that they are the virtual player because of the amount of exposure to the game and the imitation towards

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Violent video games have been blamed for everything from bullying to school shootings. Critics of these video games believe they cause people to commit violent acts in real life. These critics, mainly comprised of parents and other responsible adults, don’t agree with what the video games portray. Others say the video games cause less violence and are an outlet for anger and stress. Although violent video games have violent actions in them, teenagers should be able to play violent video games because there isn’t enough evidence to prove they make teens more aggressive, it could prevent violence, and violent video games are a fun and relaxing way to relieve stress and anger.

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GAlmost every moment of everyday, children are exposed to new technologies, new games, new TV shows, and other forms of entertainment. One of those are the YouTube videos, being the gameplays –the type of videos that explicit explain the characteristics of a video game, the plot, the way it can be played, some tricks and other special effects- one of the most popular among young generations; yet, are this new generation of children safe while drowning in technology and information? If so, what are the effects of this type of entertainment into the children’s brain? As exploring into this new form of entertainment, it was found that some of the colors used in this particular type of videos play a crucial role into the stereotypes created by

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Violent Video Games The culprit? While video games certainly have a decorated history of violence, they have been unfairly attributed for real life violence for way to long. Games with violent undertones have been in existence for nearly forty years. Attempts are continually made to focus on the violent effects that these video games supposedly have on players of all ages.

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Peterson weatherford M Blair English III April 8 2015 Video games good for you or bad Many people think that video games are bad for you and in some cases they may be right. But this is the truth behind all the stereotypes. I really hate the stereotypes like video games rot your brain, they make people anti-social, that games make people more violent, even the idea that all people that play games are fat and unhealthy. Liston up because this is why video games are actually good for you!

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What we see in the movie is not what we see in real life. So does Hollywood really represent every ethnicity and stereotypes that the majority of the viewers agrees with? Stereotype creates more harm than good because they can influence so many minds. Even though we might find it funny and laugh that their strong accents or their strange culture, traditions, many Americans believe that Asians have an easy face because they get the best jobs and cars, but even this is a stereotype because not all Asians are having the best jobs or cars. Some Asian have the same struggles that many other races, face living in America being whitewashed in Hollywood.

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A recent content analysis by the research organization Children Now shows that a majority of video games include violence and about half of the violent incidents would result in serious injuries or death in the "real" world. Claim1 Research involving British primary schoolchildren found that the length of time young people spend playing games, rather than their content, could have an effect on their behavior or school performance. But it concluded that fears that generations of young people are growing up with their development impaired by exposure to violent video games are no more likely to be borne out than previous “moral panics” over television and other media. Playing one-player games is not always negative if you do it moderately.

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There are games that literally replicate and give people the ability to score points for doing the very same thing that these students are doing inside schools, where you get extra points for finishing someone off who’s lying there begins for their life.” ( 6) There are several ideas that say young people benefit from these violent video games “Surprisingly, playing video games can help our physical, mental, and emotional health.” It helps them to improve hand eye coordination and thinking ability. These benefits are not worth the risk of being influenced by violent video games. (7) All in all the research and officials say that violent video games affect how children, teenagers and young adults act.

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