Articles

Article 1:
Summary: This article is about video games that have violence in them. The first commercial video game, Pong, was released in 1972. The type of evidence they provided was researchers on the effects of video games, the history of violence in video games, experimental studies, correlational studies, longitudinal studies, early research compared to recent research, amount of play versus content of play, media violence as a risk factor for aggression, and they used graphs. The way the structured their essay was put it into sections.
Reaction: I learned that males get into more fights than women do due to the violence of video games. My beliefs did not change because I always thought that violence in video games caused aggression.

Article 2:
Summary: This article is about movie violence. The media violence is messing with the minds of children. The article also says that gun manufacturing and gun sales have exploded in the United States in the last few years, but gun violence has reached its lowest level since 1981.
Reaction: My beliefs did not change because I always thought that violence in movies was messing with the minds of children. The violence in movies is causing children to fight in school because they are trying to act like the actors/actresses in the movies.

Article 3:
Summary: This article is about Marilyn Manson speaking out about violence. He is talking about the high schooling in Littleton, Colorado. The articles says that sometimes music, movies, and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
Reaction: My beliefs did not change because I always thought that guns in the US were always bad when it came to people just using them for shootings. I understand going hunting for animals, but there is no reason that you should shoot people. That is just the craziest thing that you could ever do.