Has this generation of people been infected by a wannabe ebola virus? As far as adults can be concerned, there was no such thing as technology back in their day. There was something else that existed though. It was usually a life with no screen at all. As kids, they would go outside and enjoy the fresh air, as they would play outside with friends and socialise in person. However, generations have changed. Now there's technology like iPhone’s, PC’s and console’s. However, one of the most effective and deadly creations of them all is computer games.
Jane McGonigal, who is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games-or in other words, create games that require people to solve real life problems, had also taken many thoughts about computer games itself. She had been on TED talks and have discussed the issue about computer games. Although she is a video game designer herself, she was conflicted whether to say it was really all that worth it. When she began she said, “Currently, there are more than half a billion people worldwide, playing computer games and video games, at least an hour a day. Alone, 183 million people play video games in the U.S.” Half a billion people playing computer games is more than the population of Indonesia and Brazil put together, who rank top 5 in the most populated countries since 2014. Not only that, a survey conducted in 2007, had 1,102 kids taking the test. The games of choices had the top 5 games being Guitar Hero, Halo 3, Madden NFL, Solitaire and Dance Dance Revolution, according to ABC news. This proves on how the majority of the video games played by many is not games that require you to solve issues that could help you in real life. Jane McGonigal also had to add on how we spend 3 billion hours a week playing computer games as an entire planet, which is not a good thing. That is around 125,000,000 days, and with that amount of time, people could be doing so much more to benefit the world or themselves.
Many people agree that computer games is something that really shouldn’t have been introduced to people. Many authors like Terry Pratchett had to say, "Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon…” Other people have to say the same on computer games. Student, Aaron Kiss, who is from an unsourced school says, “Computer games is a waste of time, I don’t really like it but I must admit, I did use to play it frequently. Although I would get mad when my parents would stop me from playing, I was definitely not addicted.”
Mr Raisdana, a sophisticated English teacher has daughters, who also can be addicted to computer games. “My daughters have an iPad and love playing Minecraft, however, I usually see a risen amount of procrastination during their time when playing computer games. So I’d usually have to unhook them from the game, but it isn’t easy, as whenever I tell them to get off or when I take the iPad away from them, my children will sometimes get mad or will even enrage,” says Mr Raisdana. Studies show that the younger you are, the more likely you are to start playing computer games. With 99% of boys under 18 and 94% of girls under 18 reportedly playing video games, they could rack up 10,000 hours of gaming by the age of 21. The issue is that when 18, these grownups should be heading into college. However, the 96.5% of girls and boys who choose to game, miss out on what would’ve been the next step in their future, and as said before, the games played by the majority of people are not games that can help improve life skills. Not only has it taken the ego of some people, but it can even take even more than that, it could take lives. There have been cases of killings, just over computer games. That includes a 13 year old taking his mother’s life with a .22 caliber. He was so enraged that he even made efforts to rape her before killing her, and all of this, just because of his mother taking his Call of Duty game away. With so many hours wasted on these computer games that are usually violent, it can drive people crazy, even to the point where depression takes place. From depression, it could only get worse.
With computer games that drive people to the edge, and with the young generation at risk of cutting themselves off from the real world, computer games is definitely not worth it. The amount released into stores should be reduced, and if computer games were to be released, the games should positively improve the logic and the mind thought of the people playing the video games. Still, there are better and more important things to do in life than to just play computer games. There are hobbies like board games or sports, or to even just be social with family in the real world, as you could do everything together as one, and all of this can easily improve the attitude and the mindset of one. Unless the computer games played by majority of the people is something that can make a positive impact onto the lives of many people, the best choice as a hardcore gamer, is to stop gaming.
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Bullying Should Become A Major Concern To Kids and Should Stop
What has made school a living dungeon to some kids? Why have some kids come home, anxious about the next day? An anonymous source expresses his feelings to a reporter and says, “I feel depressed when people call me names, I don’t feel as if I should go to school the next day after I get teased.” Another victim of the issue says, “I try to ignore it as best as I can, I feel so defenceless that I have to make fun of myself when other people make fun of me.” These victims have had issues with being a victim of bullying and aren’t the only victims in the world that are being bullied.
Picture this, a dark night at Katong Park. This wasn’t the right time and environment for a fight to start. However, the wind and the silence was broken when a friendly kids soccer game turned into a living horror. Two teams were going against each other, one of the teams were called Homies FC and the opponent was BSFC. The team captain of Homies FC was found scrambling with bruises on his head after a fight with the opposing team members. A witness of the fight says that the team captain of Homies FC was found scratching a teammate on the opposite team. It was after a violent argument of teasing and cursing that the argument led to dripping blood from the opposing teammates lip. The dripping blood from the opposing teammate led the older brother to vigorously smack the team captain of Homies FC. The hard smacks to the head and a blow to the stomach left massive bruisings, it was only when the brother was out of breath that the whole team of BSFC made a run for it. The wet ground and the dark clouds watching over the fighting victims only made the afternoon more horrifying. With an unpleasant environment, the night couldn’t have gotten any worse.
Victims of bullying have said that they would sometimes come home and start crying in their rooms, just like how a boy named August would always end up crying about how he is always teased at school about his demented face. Bullies and victims of bullying usually have trouble focusing on their school work as the bully usually feels as if he or she are too cool for school. According to ABC news, either 30% of students are bullies or victims of bullying. There are an estimated 4,400 deaths per year due to suicides, among every suicide of young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts due to bullying. Kids who are bullied can experience negative physical, school, and mental health issues.
Kids who are usually bullied are more likely to experience things such as depression and anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and eating patterns. They will even have a loss of interest in hobbies they used to enjoy, these issue most likely to follow up into the child’s adulthood. They will even have health complaints. An organisation known as “Stop Bullying.gov” says that bullied children are most likely to have decreased academic achievement-GPA and standardized test scores-and school participation. They are most likely to miss, skip, or drop out of school. According to the website against bullying, they say that bullied children may use violent actions. In 12 or 15 school shooting cases in 1990, the shooters have had a history of being bullied. This is just like how Roy, a boy who cares about a group of owls in a construction sight is bullied by a boy named, Dana Matherson. As Roy and Dana have been fighting since the start of the school, it only ended until Roy took action by punching Dana in the face on a school bus, this breaking Dana’s nose.
Bullies and bystanders are also affected. Bullies are most likely to engage in early sexual activity or be abusive toward their romantic partner, spouses or children as adults. Bystanders are also affected as there will usually be an increase use of tobacco, alcohol or other drugs, increased mental health or may miss or skip school.
Bullying affects almost everyone involved, these clear reasons are why bullying is an issue to be concerned over. With people like August, a kid with a demented face who are treated as outsiders, we all have a reason to be concerned over bullying. Treated as an outsider, he was always dealing with bullies and popular kids. He would always be called names like “Ogre” or the “Hobbit”. Only lucky to have his friends to defend him like how they defended him at an environmental camp, without them, he would be toast. With a negative or violent output towards the result of everyone involved in the bullying activity, it is crystal clear reason why bullying has no benefit and there isn’t any reason why bullying can literally burn someone from the inside forever. Some people get bullied everyday, for racial color to facial disorders.
Bullying happens on an everyday notice, it even happens to the major characters of books, like Katniss and how she has to deal with the bullying of the capital, or how August has to deal with the bullying of people at his school. Bullying is a detrimental reason why kids are afraid and scared everyday, and for that reason, bullying has to stop, no matter how easing it is to do it or no matter what reason it is for bullying the victim. Bullying is like cancer, destroying the soles and heart of everyone involved.
Picture this, a dark night at Katong Park. This wasn’t the right time and environment for a fight to start. However, the wind and the silence was broken when a friendly kids soccer game turned into a living horror. Two teams were going against each other, one of the teams were called Homies FC and the opponent was BSFC. The team captain of Homies FC was found scrambling with bruises on his head after a fight with the opposing team members. A witness of the fight says that the team captain of Homies FC was found scratching a teammate on the opposite team. It was after a violent argument of teasing and cursing that the argument led to dripping blood from the opposing teammates lip. The dripping blood from the opposing teammate led the older brother to vigorously smack the team captain of Homies FC. The hard smacks to the head and a blow to the stomach left massive bruisings, it was only when the brother was out of breath that the whole team of BSFC made a run for it. The wet ground and the dark clouds watching over the fighting victims only made the afternoon more horrifying. With an unpleasant environment, the night couldn’t have gotten any worse.
Victims of bullying have said that they would sometimes come home and start crying in their rooms, just like how a boy named August would always end up crying about how he is always teased at school about his demented face. Bullies and victims of bullying usually have trouble focusing on their school work as the bully usually feels as if he or she are too cool for school. According to ABC news, either 30% of students are bullies or victims of bullying. There are an estimated 4,400 deaths per year due to suicides, among every suicide of young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts due to bullying. Kids who are bullied can experience negative physical, school, and mental health issues.
Kids who are usually bullied are more likely to experience things such as depression and anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and eating patterns. They will even have a loss of interest in hobbies they used to enjoy, these issue most likely to follow up into the child’s adulthood. They will even have health complaints. An organisation known as “Stop Bullying.gov” says that bullied children are most likely to have decreased academic achievement-GPA and standardized test scores-and school participation. They are most likely to miss, skip, or drop out of school. According to the website against bullying, they say that bullied children may use violent actions. In 12 or 15 school shooting cases in 1990, the shooters have had a history of being bullied. This is just like how Roy, a boy who cares about a group of owls in a construction sight is bullied by a boy named, Dana Matherson. As Roy and Dana have been fighting since the start of the school, it only ended until Roy took action by punching Dana in the face on a school bus, this breaking Dana’s nose.
Bullies and bystanders are also affected. Bullies are most likely to engage in early sexual activity or be abusive toward their romantic partner, spouses or children as adults. Bystanders are also affected as there will usually be an increase use of tobacco, alcohol or other drugs, increased mental health or may miss or skip school.
Bullying affects almost everyone involved, these clear reasons are why bullying is an issue to be concerned over. With people like August, a kid with a demented face who are treated as outsiders, we all have a reason to be concerned over bullying. Treated as an outsider, he was always dealing with bullies and popular kids. He would always be called names like “Ogre” or the “Hobbit”. Only lucky to have his friends to defend him like how they defended him at an environmental camp, without them, he would be toast. With a negative or violent output towards the result of everyone involved in the bullying activity, it is crystal clear reason why bullying has no benefit and there isn’t any reason why bullying can literally burn someone from the inside forever. Some people get bullied everyday, for racial color to facial disorders.
Bullying happens on an everyday notice, it even happens to the major characters of books, like Katniss and how she has to deal with the bullying of the capital, or how August has to deal with the bullying of people at his school. Bullying is a detrimental reason why kids are afraid and scared everyday, and for that reason, bullying has to stop, no matter how easing it is to do it or no matter what reason it is for bullying the victim. Bullying is like cancer, destroying the soles and heart of everyone involved.
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