Essays about Addiction Page 5

In recent years, video games have become a topic in parenting and development often coming under fire for their potentially harmful influence they have over child and adolescent behavior. With up to 91% of children aged 2-17 having played or playing video games, is understandable that researchers and parents alike, want to investigate potential harmful…

Ever since the Columbine school shooting, video games have been received high, but inconsistent, amount of coverage, often on the front page of news within the United States. However, whenever it is shown, it is often to mainly news reporters’ scorn. Many video games, especially violent shooters, such as Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto,…

Media depicted violence has been around for over a century now and has evolved from literature to comics to film and finally to video games, and each stage of progression has been met with societal backlash. In the past ten years however, the rise in mass shootings has caused many politicians to point a finger…

As a mother of two very different boys, my ideas of how the world works and how it should work is probably different than most parents. I have one son who can play a video game and go about a normal life, and another who seems hopelessly addicted and will lie and cheat to get…

Video games provide a way for gamers to immerse themselves in a digital world which can provide many benefits, some of these benefits help the whole world and some primarily help the gamers who use the games. Despite contrary belief, video games actually decrease violence and without video games, violence would increase in the real…

Teaching Us to Fear presents the argument in defense of video games and disprove the myth of video games leading to real-world violence. The authors analyze how moral panics have affected scientific research on video games. The thesis is that video games do not have connection to real-world violence, but that people use it as…

Adolescence can be summed up as a time of growth, excitement, experimentation, opportunities, and vulnerabilities. This is the one age group that are leaving their immature childhood ways and ideas and coming into adulthood by making their own decisions, being more aware of things in society, becoming more independent, and being more attentive to their…

In 1865, under the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery was officially abolished in the United States. However, Black Americans have continued to experience forms of legal servitude through vagrancy laws, Jim Crow, and most recently, the War on Drugs. Beginning during Ronald Reagan’s presidency – fully embraced by his successors, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton –…

Illegal drugs have been a very prevalent issue in the United States for decades, with almost no clear solution to stop the spreading and use of them. With the epidemic of opium currently ravaging the U.S, it all stemmed from a colossal failure in the 1980s: The War on Drugs. While the intent of the…

The research conducted, was a general view of gathering information on the significance of what drugs consumption and possession has on the general society. Sharing the overall history and importance of drug prevention in America and what are laws and regulations in place in containing drugs in the streets. In addition, sharing what the criminal…