Guo 1 Hao Guo (Bruce) Professor O’Toole Capstone Research Project June 21, 2013 Take Off Mask of Violent Video Games Can you imagine that a group of kids, on their way home after school, discuss how many people they have killed? It seems unbelievable but it is true. The “people” those kids talk about refer to their “enemies” in a violent video game Left 4 Dead. With the improvement of technology, today’s violent video games offer a realistic experience for players due to great graphics and animation effects. More and more people, especially adolescents, play violent video games.
Many school shootings have been linked to violent video games. This is because children begin to believe that the real world is the same as the virtual world they have created, and start to act out in violent and aggressive ways. "When children play violent video games, especially at a young age, they receive the same kind of operant conditioning as killing" (Grossman 17). Another negative effect violent video games have on
Bad language is also in violent video games. When they hear their character using profanity it makes bad language seem “cool” to use. The violent video games children are playing are mostly the killing type games. They are rewarded every time they kill someone or harm them, which is a bad positive reinforcement. So kids that constantly play violent video games see this aggressive behavior and think that it is okay and fun.
This can mainly be seen between a student and a teacher, another adult, or just a simple student with student. The same attitude that is being used toward parents is used against school officials. Schools should enforce more disciplinary action against these rude teens so as to make them pay for their lack of respect. As teenagers go about their daily lives, they observe others being rude to their friends and their parents, so they in turn do the same. The amount of peer pressure is increasing; therefore, it results in conforming to their peers’ expectations.
Children’s likes and dislikes are defined on MTV and BET. Children see how they should dress and how they should physically look by watching television and reading magazines like Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone. Some children are more vulnerable to these messages than others. Children who are insecure about themselves or eager to please others are most likely to fall in to this horrible craze of being “thin and beautiful”. Children are bombarded with images and messages that reinforce the idea that thin is happy and successful.
The “delienquents” were talked down to and punished while the “will be” were praised and helped. “Smart” classes were held in the morning while trade schoolers were away and ended when they came back. The two groups of people were kept on almost entirely different schedules, which meant the one class we had together only helped accentuate our so-called differences. Teachers thought my classmates were bullying me to get higher scores, they got
Sexually tempting material is out there, on the internet and television. In her passage “Challenges for Today’s Parents’’ Harriet Davids writes ‘’ With the click of a mouse, they can be transported, intentionally or unintentionally, to a barrage of explicit images and conversations.’’ The internet is filled with thousands of porn websites that kids have easy access to. Looking at these websites gives kids a negative perception of sex. The television is also filled with sexual material. In The passage ‘’The Stranger’’ (referring to the television as a he) the author writes ‘’He talked freely (much too freely!)
B 1. Larry talks like a man, “Next morning I woke at my usual hour, feeling like a bottle of champagne” (161). This’s so funny because Larry is a kid and he’s never drank alcohol, but he acted as if he has an experience about that. 2. When Larry gets mad at his parents, he said “they really made my blood boil” (164).
Alexie and Wiesel both in their essay hint that they write to changing minds of the readers and help them realize what life is about. In Alexie’s essay he uses emotions that he felt when his peers at school use to fear him because he was smarter than them and loved by teachers. He expresses his feelings to the readers by writing “A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike. I fought with my classmates on a daily basis. They wanted me to stay quiet when the non-indians teacher asked for answers, for volunteers, for help” (65).
Due to his background teachers regarded him as a hopeless cause because his difficulty in using Received Pronunciation which contrasts against Harrison's attitude towards language and that there is a variety of dialect within the English language which everyone uses to convey a conversation with one another. When Harrison was young he was overawed by his "posh" teacher who embarrassed him resulting in him feeling demeaned and docile. The first section is in the form of a memory emphasised through the embedded dialogue of the teacher showing how he is undermined as the teacher wants to make sure their "glorious heritage" is not "done to death" suggesting that teacher is aiming to undermine Harrison by discouraging him from reading the important roles. Similarly, in "Bringing Up", he emphasises his separation from his mother as she disgusted over him using taboo language. The use of embedded dialogue implies the different view on the Leeds accent emphasised in his mother being disgusted with him and believes he was not "brought up to write such mucky books!"