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Juan Linares

Professor Sylne

ENC 1101

02-11-2020

The influence of video games in youth

Paragraph I. Intro: Hook + Thesis

Thesis: Do video games make changes in youth and kids’ behavior? console video games have been blamed in certain cases for school shootings, fights and another types of violence, there is a big amount of debate and studies about the impact of these video games in kids.

Paragraph II. Playing violent video games causes physical and mental aggression

Reports says that 60% of middle school boys and 40% girls who play matured rated (M-rated) games have been involved in conflicts in their school and tend to have low grades.

Paragraph III. Children are more likely to imitate behaviors videogame’s characters and have difficulty to difference reality to fantasy.

Young children are more likely to confuse fantasy violence with real world violence, when they are playing, they can temporally believe that they are the character that they are pretending to be.

Paragraph IV. Simulating Violence such as shooting and hand to hand combat in video games can cause real life violent behavior.

Video games today are so realistic that simulating the violent acts enhances the learning of those violent behaviors.

Paragraph V. Conclusion

Any violent video game will cause aggressive thoughts and potentials behavior issues in kids during their development