tamara's+persuasive+essay

I think video games are bad for children because: Kids do what they see in video games in real life, The video games do not teach children real consequences, and lastly it affects the brain so that they can't control their behavior and their actions. Children stay up all night playing video games and it takes control of them so when they need to take care of their responsibilities.


 * Kids do what they see in video games in real life**: The 2008 study Grand Theft Childhood reported that 60% of middle school boys who played at least one violent video game hit or beat up someone. Compared to 39% of boys that did not play violent video games. When the series of video games **//Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas//**, Kids felt the need to buy game after game. The more violent the games became the more children did not want to keep their eyes off of them. All series of Grand Theft Auto have a part in the game where the woman in the game are treated with no respect. There are prostitutes, drug dealers, drug users and more. The language in the game is violent and there has been a study in 2006 that the more children who played Grand Theft Auto have been known to hit women.


 * The video games do not teach children real consequences**: On the show Dr. Phil he talked about children playing violent video games and the consequences in the video game not being real as they are in real life. " If you shoot somebody in one of these games, you don't go to jail, you don't get penalized in some way — you get extra points!" This doesn't mean that your child will go out into the world and shoot someone. "But they do use more aggressive language, they do use more aggressive images, they have less ability to control their anger and they externalize things in these violent ways." Said Dr. Phil on his show and website. If you shoot someone in real life you don't just get chased by the cops and lost, You get actual consequences and jail time, There are no points in life. If you use bad language at a young age you don't get a slap on the wrist, you get detention if your in school or something taken away if your at home.

**Violent video games affects the brain so that children can't control their behavior and actions: ** When children play the video games and do not "complete a mission" or "die" in the game, they seem to get very frustrated when they repeatedly do it over, and over, and over and still cannot beat that level or game. "For the first time, we have found that a sample of randomly assigned young adults showed less activation in certain frontal brain regions following a week of playing violent video games at home," said Yang Wang, M.D., assistant research professor in the IU Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences. "The affected brain regions are important for controlling emotion and aggressive behavior." Its not good to sit in front of a television for too many hours, its a bad affect on the brain and it causes the brain cells to die very slow. When you play video games you have to make decisions and you have to make them fast, When you constantly do that its called "brain strain." It can cause bad eye vision that leads to migraines. **// COUNTER ARGUMENT #1: //** Kids can play video games because it stimulates real life events. **//REBUTTAL://** The only known game to stimulate "real life" events is Modern War Fare: Black Ops. That is not the only violent game that children play. The other violent games they play are NOT stimulated to "real life: events. In 2009 it was known that the violent video game GRAND THEFT AUTO [|sold 35 million copies and sales approaching at $2 million. In 2009][|a multi-million dollar lawsuit was filed in Alabama against the makers and marketers of Grand Theft Auto, claiming that months of playing the game led a teenager to go on a rampage and kill three men, two of them police officers]. ****//COUNTER ARGUMENT #2://**** Video games can stimulate learning of facts and skills such as strategic thinking, creativity, cooperation and innovative thinking, which are important skills in the information society. ******//REBUTTAL://****** [|Many parents and teachers prevent their children from playing video games because of the common belief that these video games will stun the children's development, social skills and ultimately cause them to become violent criminals.]