For my persuasive speech, I chose the topic ‘Video Games Cause Teenagers To Be More Aggressive’. Some people tend to think that video games can help improve alertness and coordination. Also, some feel that there are no effects whatsoever. But what most people aren’t aware of is that video games can cause teenagers to behave aggressively in real life situations and there are quite a number of incidents that prove the fact that video games does in fact cause teenagers to be more aggressive.
As expected, the males are the ones who played violent games such as Grand Theft Auto, Bio Shock, F.E.A.R and so on. For my survey, I wanted to find out if my classmates are aware that video games can cause aggressiveness in teenagers and do they agree with it. Majority of them agreed that teenagers who play violent video games can be aggressive. Even those who played violent games like Grand Theft Auto, Doom and so on, agreed too. According to the answers, some said that players tend to express their frustration when they lose a game by being aggressive towards others. But when it came to the question where I asked do they think that playing video games can help stimulate the brain’s development. The amount of students who agreed and disagreed were quite the similar amount. The ones who said it does stimulate brain development also added that playing the video games can help one increase their concentration level and their alertness. One student also said by playing these kind of games in makes the players to think critically.
All of them agreed that parents should monitor the number of hours their children spend playing video games. Some also said that parents should do more than just monitoring the hours to make sure their children don’t try to imitate exactly what they do in those violent video games.
For my last question, I asked if it is healthy for teenagers to play violent video games every day and everyone answered no. Most of them had the same opinion on teenganers who play violent video games every day; they’ll get hooked to the game and that will lead to the teenager developing aggressive behavior. Some also said that when teenagers play these games on a daily basis, they could develop the mindset that being violent is acceptable since they are doing it every day and it becomes normal to the player.
Based on the survey that I carried out among my Presentation Skills classmates, I can see that although some do agree that playing too much of violent video games can cause aggressiveness in teenager, many of them thought that playing video games can stimulate a player’s brain development. Based on my research, yes, playing video games can cause a player to increase their alertness and concentration level, but it really depends on what type of game are they playing. Playing violent video games definitely isn’t going to help anything but cause a teenager to be more aggressive. Games like Guitar Hero can help improve alertness, increase the concentration level and also make their coordination better, but not by playing games like DOOM, ManHunt, and F.E.A.R.
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