Juan's Summaries

Summaries

      First Reading.

   The first reading was a scientific article that showed the correlation between children and teens playing violent video games.  The article showed several scientific studies done on the subject of violence being caused by violent video games.  The problem was that only one of the scientific studies that the article cited was done under proper scientific procedure so that left the others to be some what suspect to in accuracy.  All in all the article was informative and tried to sway you to the thinking that violent video games make kids violent when there is very little evidence.

      Second Reading.

   The second reading was a article about the hyper violent movies that Weinstein has funded in the past and how he it thinking of changing direction.  What it is truly about is just some person writing about how Weinstein has decided that he doesn't want to do movies that are as violent as the ones he has funded in the past.  It talks about how he thinks that video violence and things of the sort aren't directly correlated but they are a factor in the production of a violent person.  The scientific work they cited in this article also said that there was a correlation but that it wasn't one hundred percent which they summed up well in there final paragraph"One conclusion appears clear — extreme conclusions are to be avoided."  Another thing that was said in this article that I fell rings true and was mentioned at the end of the article was an analogy made by the writer of the article "I suspect most of us feel about media violence roughly the way we feel about hamburgers or whiskey: Moderate doses probably aren’t harmful, and may even have salubrious effects." 

      Third Reading.

   This article was about how Marilyn Manson is just talking about how every one is to blame for the violence there isn't one source of reason behind it there are many things that contribute to violence.  It also talks about how long before violent games, music and videos there was violence in the world that was just brought on by humans being humans.  This article really just tells us that every one is to blame and it is not an individual or a violent thing it is human nature and all that nonsense.