Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Violent Video Games Summary




       In the article"Do Violent Video Games Make People Violent". First of all, the article starts with some proves that agree with the topic. Then it says that violent video game aren’t good at all and gives some information about parents’ opinions about violent games, and tells us that government has actually created many laws about violent video games. It also says that violent video game do cause behavior problems, and people who are the most affected are youth or young
people. After that, it starts to tell the truth by giving some researches. It keeps going with the researches that agree with the topic. However, some of the researchers say that violent video games are actually useful and help people to distinguish themselves. It keeps going with giving some researches that disagree with this topic. Finally, the article ends by a huge disagreement by asking this question”Video games are not the culprit. Or are they?”










       In the article"Violent Video Games Lead To Harmful Brain Changes" Researchers find that children who play violent video games can become violent themselves. However, what drives this change?. Then the writer started to explore these questions by giving some researches that were done at Indiana University. They looked at the brain of people who had played violent video games for his first time. They used something called MRI to scan those people’s brains after one week of playing violent video games. They found that those who played violent video games showed less activity in areas involved emotions. However, the researchers also say that people who played non-violent video games showed the normal term, but they also showed increases in activity in the emotional parts. Then it starts to show us the results after several week of playing violent video games. Then the article ended by giving some facts about how the brain changes don’t appear to be permanent, and how it changes in response to playing a violent video game.