Violence in Video Games leading to Aggressive Personalities in Children

The following articles were found and discovered for use in the fourth essay. I came upon these essays while researching on google scholar. I realized how important these articles are to me because each pertains to the thesis our group has designed for our essay, that being how video games have an affect on society. By reading these articles I have supported a comprehensive and specific thesis based upon the content found within the materials. For example, as discussed in my second article, "...violent crimes have also been linked by the news media to violent video games," (Anderson). As this suggests, the negative impact video games have upon society is supported by the list of crimes given in addition within the article.

Each of the articles discusses a method of which to gauge aggression in children. I feel as though this so called "General Aggression Model" could be of benefit to our paper and especially my portion, which revolves around shooter video games. In these articles it is discussed just how violence in video games can cause aggression in individuals and in turn play to some extent a negative impact on society as a whole. As the next article discusses, prolonged use of shooter video games may cause individuals to become more hostile (Barlett). I can see that both of these articles will substantially prove my our thesis to be correct and significantly support what I have to say about violent video games and there impact upon society.

Works Cited

Anderson, Craig A., Douglas A. Gentile, and Katherine E. Buckley. Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy. New York: Oxford UP, 2007. Print.


Barlett, Christopher P., Richard J. Harris, and Ross Baldassaro. "Longer You Play, the More Hostile You Feel: Examination of First Person Shooter Video Games and Aggression during Video Game Play." Aggressive Behavior 33.6 (2007): 486-97. Web. 13 Apr. 2010. .

Possible Paper #3 Article

http://www.lambtonhealth.on.ca/child/media.asp

I'm discussing this article particularly for the support it provides in the creation of an argument for paper 3 because this mentions the ways advertising focuses on children and targets the youth with food and beverage ads. Many of the foods and beverages being dealt to children, who will be the future consumers of many of the high fat/sugar and low protein/vitamin products, are surely causing early on set diabetes and even obesity in children and adults. Being subjected to nearly 40,000 food and beverage ads a year, a child is merely seen as an opportunity to profit both in school and at home. Without methods to teach kids proper nutrition and health habits those children being advertised to will evidently fail to live without these advertised products. A top manager of an advertising firm said, “It isn’t enough to just advertise on television…you’ve got to reach kids through the day – in school, as they’re shopping in the mall…or at the movies. You’ve got to become part of the fabric of their lives”. While advertising companies spend massive amounts of money on influencing their food industry upon children it often comes at a great health cost to both the child, adult, and everyone who remains to be healthy. To me, the youth seems vulnerable since they don't know any better and it is wrong that companies must take advantage of this fact to make a profit because theoretically if a child lives longer a company should make more money in the long run. Of course, with products being made highly of high-fructose corn syrup, fat, and sugar ultimately these companies do not care about the longevity of a child's existence but only their ability to distribute their products amongst our population as quickly and efficiently as possible. I believe this article was intriguing and I thought by touching on a few of the key points I would be able to reflect upon what I've read to begin creating my argument for how a community can affect the eating habits of a person.

Reading Ch. 18, 19, and 20

Within these chapters assigned for reading, Pollan discusses his ambition to create the perfect meal and creates a rule set. The ideology Pollan attempts to create his rules around result from the research he’s done thus far on the fast-food industrialized meal. His concept of cooking the meal himself and attaining a food source from each edible kingdom seems to be symbolic of the freedom in America which allows choices to be independently made. Amongst his peers and friends whom helped him attain his food successfully Pollan serves as a representative of the hunter and gatherer community found in ancient past times within Afro-Eurasia and America. Although focusing on providing sustenance for his small representative community Pollan goes above and beyond in creating the perfect meal. As defined by Pollan the perfect meal exists in a society where each member can contribute to the goal of the community itself. Whilst Pollan spent hours on end reaching to attain abalone and inevitably many calories, he redefines the food itself in the industrialized world. No more could Pollan be dissatisfied in his result than he was in attaining that cheap fast food meal with empty calories for his family to be consumed in ten minutes. Duly Pollan achieves his goal of making the perfect meal when he separates himself from consuming the concept or notion of a food item since he reveals that the impossible task of gaining enough abalone for sustenance of an entire nation and veers more along the lines of complacency in living freely in the American Dream. Pollan was opportune in his environment without taking complete advantage of its fruitful bounty that nature provides each of us with.

Readings Due: 2/09/10

Within the assigned readings, I found that the word “organic” was mentioned a few times. The word organic is now owned by the U.S. government to be a certification process through the USDA. Although “organic” often refers to the method of growing certain foods or creating sustenance without use of chemicals, the definition itself is misconstrued most times and becomes misleading. The harmful truth of this certification process lays just under the “diesel fuel coated foods” which owner of PolyFace Farm, Joel Salatin, describes as indisputably not organic by his definition of the word. At PolyFace Farm the organic method which he defines is evident due to the satisfactory lifestyle provided to his animals for they rely amongst each other’s natural habits of sustaining nutrition. Not only are his animals happy and healthy, but also they do not remain closed off to the world in the mockery of what today’s standards consider organic growth in an indoor crowded facility where “organic” fed chickens are standing up to their bodies in fecal matter. To this extent, Salatin is relying upon his animals to do the work at PolyFace, as opposed to the industrial agrarians working towards upkeep of protein output at the end of the day, and his 550-acre farm reaps arable benefits duly to his responsibility in his method of farming. I feel as though Salatin has redefined the true meaning of organic farming in a just manner and his wholesome method reveals itself to be a catalyst in an environmentally responsible habitat for creating sustenance.

Reading Response #1

Due to my understanding of the readings which have been assigned I have deduced incite under the knowledge gained by assessing Michael Pollan’s, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, carefully. Most importantly, corn’s ability to be produced at a massive scale under the sun’s light gives this photosynthesized monster a large scale advantage. For such a large scale production, a cost-effective method of creating minimal sustenance exists for a not so large population relative to that of India’s or China’s. American’s are consistently provided with massive amounts of surplus nutrients. Over-nutrition ultimately leading to poor health due to these poor diet options poses problematic health concerns to nearly every average American. Because the U.S. produces so much corn specifically in the corn fields of Iowa it is no wonder as to how these rich calories enter the diet of every average American in sometimes sly ways. Even soda beverages contain the high-fructose corn syrup which causes obesity in excess amounts of consumption, thus heart disease and cancer from poor health choices have become an eminent concern for our nation’s well being. Supposing that every American lacks the responsibility to remain physically active at every point within their life how is it that our nation’s continuing down a path of sure doom, apparent under the rising health care cost provisions?