IELTS Writing Task 2: ’video games’ essay Some people regard video games as harmless fun‚ or even as a useful educational tool. Others‚ however‚ believe that videos games are having an adverse effect on the people who play them. In your opinion‚ do the drawbacks of video games outweigh the benefits? Many people‚ and children in particular‚ enjoy playing computer games. While I accept that these games can sometimes have a positive effect on the user‚ I believe that they are more likely to have
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Video Games: A Source of Benefits or Addiction? Super Mario Brothers‚ Sonic the Hedgehog‚ and Street Fighter are familiar names to nearly all of us. They are all best selling games of major video game consoles. Over 9.8 billion dollars were spent on video games in the United States during 2001 alone‚ and video game consoles are present in 36 million homes in the United States (1). With the increasing amount of time that people are spending on video games‚ one is left to wonder what effects video
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“Gaming the Console” addresses the possible effects that video gaming has on teenagers and children. The article supports both sides of the debate: whether or not video gaming has negative consequences. Ultimately‚ Bernstein lets the reader form his or her own opinion on the subject. Some scientists and experts claim that video gaming is harmful as it may negatively affect areas of the brain‚ academic and social skills‚ and can become highly addictive. Other experts argue that some video games are educational
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Joseph Waits Professor Longoria WRC 1023.059 4 Feb. 2013 Influence of Video Games on American Youth: Corruption or Improvement? Parents across the nation are dumbfounded with the amount of violence and sexual content that lies in modern video games. Companies such as Microsoft and Sony are selling millions of copies of video games every year; with the quality and graphics getting better‚ children are continuously exposed to gore-filled violence. Enraged parents believe that Xbox and Playstation
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How Video Games Effect Children During the last decade‚ attention and accusations within the media have turned more to the meteoric rise in popularity of arcade-type home computer and console games. Considerable anecdotal evidence abounds about how teenagers are affected by shoot-em-up and beat-em-up games. Zimbardo (1982) remarked that video games are so addictive to young people that they may be socially isolating and may actually encourage violence between people. Another comment came from
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Some people can actually be diagnosed with a condition called: obesity. There are some medical professionals out there that say that Obesity qualifies as a disease. Whether obesity is a condition or disease‚ Obesity is an abnormal high proportion/percent of body fat. A doctor can assess the percentage of body fat simply and easily by measuring body weight in proportion to height‚ which is the usual way of determining if an individual is overweight‚ obese‚ or at normal‚ healthy weight. A physician/doctor
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Video games and the positive effects on society Do video games infect children and force them to act out violently? With incidents like Columbine High School and Sandy Hook Elementary society‚ and the media‚ has strived to find a connection in these school massacres. These incidents occur at the hands of children and adolescences and they all played video games. The media has ultimately decided that these violent video games may be to blame. After every school shooting this is information the
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Console V. PC for gaming Since the days of computers the size of rooms and cathode ray tubes‚ video games have been a hot topic filled with constant innovation and adaptation. What better for adaptation than the one piece of technology that is evolving and changing every hour of every day‚ the personal computer. The debate between the superior video game platform is a wide one‚ ranging from XBOX vs. play station to wii vs. them both. From an even wider view‚ the debate between consoles and
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The Good and Bad Effects of Video Games Video and computer games‚ like many popular‚ entertaining and addicting kid activities‚ are looked down upon by many parents as time-wasters‚ and worse‚ parents think that these games rot the brain. Also‚ violent video games are readily blamed by the media and some experts as the reason why some youth become violent or commit extreme anti-social behavior. But many scientists and psychologists find that video games actually have many benefits – the main one
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Christophe Pignol # 959 2474 Coms 472: In-class iteration Prof: Mia Consalvo Video Game and Harassment: The medium that will be used is through video. The narrative format will resemble half way between a TED talk and a report. This will enable me to criticize the current state of online gaming and the constant harassment that occurs for women gamer. I am attempting to schedule some interviews from women gamer in order to receive feedback on the topic. At the same time‚ I’ve organized a couple
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