Tuesday, September 1, 2015

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Violent Video Games: The Effects on Youth, and Public Policy Implications

Video games are something kids use for entertainment all of the time. Most of which include some form of violence. Some video game developers have put restrictions on their games as to how far they want to take the violence. Many test results have shown that violent video games can make a difference in someone's aggressive behavior. While it doesn't affect some, the ones it does affect can change their actions very dangerously.


Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?

Everyday, tragedy affects many lives all around the world. In today's society many people treat these things like they are not that important. People who may look different or have different thoughts then everybody else are being casted as outsiders, and not are being treated fairly. Marilyn Manson tries to challenge the minds of the people in this changed world through his music. He tries to show the people that the problems we blame other things for, are actually are fault to begin with.


Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence

There have always been conflicts as to if movie violence can create or encourage real violence. Harvey Weinstein even points out that no one knows the connection of media violence to real life violence. The knowledge of media and real violence in the minds of Americans was wrong to begin with in the first place. The ones who comment about this topic fall into two different groups. The first group has to do with how media violence is damaging the thinking of the youth. The other group has to do with the belief that violent media has been with us since the beginning of time.

 

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