Michael Carneal

Throughout history man kind has always searched for ways to entertain himself, each time developing new activities and games. Video games have become a very popular way to spend time and have fun from the 1970’s up to now. With new developments appeared different video game genres from adventure to racing, but the violent video games appear to be the most popular ones (Shin, 2003), for example: shooters, fighting and video games where you have to eliminate, destroy, or kill your enemies.

Everyone enjoys the sweet taste of victory and the feeling of accomplishing a goal, especially in a video game. However, video games are not just about winning. Video games are a good method to enhance our educational experience and create a career pathway for us to take. By creating a video game course within schools around the world, we are able to create a whole new generation and future that incorporates the advanced technology that is constantly improving.

Throughout the article he uses sarcasm to demonstrate how little he trusted students with weapons. Furthermore the quote “My current students have grown up learning responsible weapon use through virtual training available on the Xbox and PlayStation. Far from being enamored of violence, many studies have shown, they are numb to it.” shows blatant sarcasm. The games

When he was in the high school, he was the first player to attend the practice and the last one leave. In his sophomore he joined the varsity team, but he was cut from the team early in the season because the coach thought that Michael would benefit more by playing jayvee ball than by sitting on the varsity bench. Michael was angry and embarrassed that he had been cut. Late in the season, the varsity team wanted to add one more player to the team. Michael was expected that they would choose him, but they didn’t. They were looking for a big man, so they call Leroy Smith who was six inches taller than Michael. It was not the last time that Michael’s talents were overlooked. Michael didn’t give up because of this attitude, he said that he promised himself from this point that will never happen again, and he started working hard more than before. Michael began cutting classes to work on his basketball skills. His parents were wired about him, so they talked to him. Michael told them that he had a goal and he had to work hard to reach my goal and he

“Experts” like to over dramatize things. Retired Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, is convinced that video games not only make youths violent, they also teach them to shoot accurately. His evidence for that is the Michael Carneal’s shooting of a prayer group in Heath High School in Paducah, Kentuck in 1999. He states that Carneal “landed eight out of eight shots on eight different targets. Five of those were head shots” (Hoerrner). He says not even trained FBI agents

Additionally, although violent video games might expose children to violent behavior, the amount of violence are not as great as the ones in movies and television. The news is filled with stories of war and murder, and nearly every movie contains some forms of violence. Plus, these two media are different from games in a very important way because they involve real people, not computer-generated characters. One of the social psychological science faculties in

In order to do this they believed the soldiers needed to be desensitized and therefore employed classical and operant conditioning to aid them. When considering classical condition, the example mentioned by Grossman is that of Pavlov’s dog, where the dog becomes conditioned to respond a certain way to a stimuli. This technique was employed with the soldiers in the sense that, instead of having them shoot at bullseye targets, they were shooting at human-like targets that ‘popped-up’ in a similar way to that of an approaching enemy. They were then taught to shoot whenever this stimulus occurred. Therefore, when the soldiers were on the battlefield, they have become conditioned to automatically shoot (Grossman, 2000). Furthermore, soldiers who presented ‘good’ behaviour (the behaviour they have been conditioned to do) are rewarded and thus associate killing with pleasure (Grossman, 2000). Can this same phenomenon not be seen in first-person shooter games? When presented with a stimuli, (an oncoming opponent) the youth becomes conditioned to shoot to kill because they will be rewarded in the game. This leads me to believe that if a youth has become conditioned to attack when they see an oncoming threat, they will react the same way outside of the gaming

Growing up as a gamer, I have experienced many new things in the video game industry. I’ve been playing video games since the Sega-genisis that I started playing when I was three years old. I’ve been gaming almost my whole life, I have watched new console been introduced, seen video games go from 1080p to now an amazing 4K which makes the graphics look amazing. Modern video games even have virtual reality that you as a consumer can now play in your own living room. But, even though we have amazing things in video games the modern gamer is being introducing to a new problem. The problem I am addressing of coarse is micro transactions in video games. Modern game companies are charging you $60.00 dollars for a video game. Once you purchase this said video game you have to grind countless hours in order to obtain specific items that will enhance your abilities in this virtue world, or you can turn your real life currency into this video game currency in order to potentially get these items early on. This concept is called pay to win. The definition of pay to win as stated in wikipedia “is In some multiplayer video games, players who are willing to pay for special items or downloadable content may be able to gain a significant advantage over those playing for free.” Though I believe companies should be allowed to do this in free video game, I think it is wrong to charge someone $60.00 and afterwords try to make them buy guns in order to enhance their gameplay.

For instance, in South Carolina there was a kid facing the death penalty for murdering a father of two. The boy and his friend thought it would be funny to rob a store and ended up killing a man. When the boy was asks why he killed the man he says, “ I don’t know. It was a mistake. It wasn’t supposed to happen.” (Paragraph 38) He never intended to do what he did that day, it was a natural reaction he had developed from video games. When experiencing intense moments whilst playing video games, your heart rate increases. Because of this, every time your heart rate increases, you get sparks of stimulus that sets you off. This idea is made apparent when he concludes, “…kids who have never picked up a gun in their lives pick up a real gun and are incredibly accurate. Why? Video games.” (Paragraph 41) In conclusion we are training our kids to kill by allowing them to train via the media but mainly video games.

Many young children and teenagers have heard their mother’s incessant plead to get away from the screen and to go outside or pick up a book for once instead. The urge to play “just one more level” before starting that homework or doing those chores can be quite distracting. But are video games really as awful as Mom exclaims or as brutal as those TV ads depict? It turns out that video games can have a strong impact on participants’ lives in both positive as well as negative ways.

Video games in today’s society have become very popular. Every new game that comes out to be played and conquered by the average gamer has its own category. There are several other types of genres of games that people play but because of big hit titles and the new popular game systems like the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, people become more interested in a game that is well known than a game they have never even heard of before. Every game has its own storyline and own way of how it unfolds and where the game ends according to game play. Some of the biggest reasons people sway to certain genres of games is because of the game titles released under them and the demand of people who want a good game under that category. The top three most

“I like video games, but they’re really violent. I’d like to play a videogame where you help the people who were shot in all other games. It’d be called Really Busy Hospital.”-Demitri Martin. Role playing games have been a source of fun and entertainment for children and adults. There are more safe and calm games such as Just Dance, and there are more Perilous games such as Call of Duty. Role playing games such as killer are perilous for school age children putting them in danger, teaching violence, and teaching reckless behavior.

Excessive video game playing has been a problem with today’s youth they have had more influences over the youth than ever before. That brings to my attention a question, how do video games affect the youth of our society? Excessive video game playing, especially violent video games, can lead to youth violence, a decrease in academic success and many other negative things. I realize that some parents believe that they can be good for children, I agree but I also disagree in some cases. Some parents allow their children to play video games to keep a social life and to learn how to use strategies. This is true in some cases but not in all cases. For instance, other children that play video games alone and are in their rooms constantly can

Current education systems are failing to give learning material to students in a way that they understand. Most students don’t care about their education because they think it’s boring and unnecessary. Students feel if the homework or lesson is too hard they won’t give it their best work. We should use video games as a new source of teaching. Students can benefit from video games because it’s a fun interactive way of learning, improves a student 's thinking ability, and increases participation.

Since the Early 70’s video games have been giving a bad name. Parents state that video games rot the minds of children and are influencing them do be violent. These accusations are far from the truth. In my research I found that there are many positive effects of gaming. Some of these effects are increased skills, creativity, general knowledge, and also help those in need. Parents can also take proper precautions and look into a game before buying it to see if it meets the criteria discussed in this paper.