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The Effect of Video Games Annotated Bibliography
1) Carey, Benedict “Violent Effect on Video Games” NY Times .com March 2013 Web 26 March 2014.
2) Carey explains about the violent effect that video games have on kids. The amount of time kids play video games and the resulting behavior problems in school and even in crime. Related problems in the future. Kids become addicted to playing these violent video games, which should be controlled by the parents. Games are rated by the amount of violence. In addition, it is the parent’s responability to monitor these situations. Carey says too much exposure can cause future health problems and violent outburst.
Gentile, Douglas “The Effects of Video Games on Children” pedparents.com March 2014 Web 26 March 2014.
Gentiles explain the positive and negative effects of video games on children. Gentile warns that kids are spending more time playing a video game every day and parents need to do something about it before it goes out of hand. Gentile also does several types of surveys and experiments on children one that plays for eight hours while another plays for five hours. The author agrees that kids today are spending excessively much time in front of a game system and parents are not doing anything about it to stop it. Gentile also suggests that if parents do not do anything about it bad thing will happen to their kids including having aggressive behavior.
3) Reilly, Rachel “Violent Video Games make Children Grow Up Into aggressive adults” Dailymail.com March 2014 26 March 2014
Reilly describes video games as violent regardless of the age, gender, and culture. Reilly explains that video games today are nothing but fuel of aggressive behavior. Reilly does one experiment that s...

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...lso explains that video games send a message out to the people who play it for example Grand Theft Auto,
Call on Duty 3 These games have little respect and morality. Savacool did an experiment on violent video games and how many times a day and the numbers were shocking, 81 % admit they play video games every hour. According to a new study by Savacool, she did research indicates the effects of video games and the numbers again showed emotion, behavior, conflict were the top three. Savacool makes a great point by saying , “no one is immune to video games any more than anyone is immune to smoking cigarettes.” This is a great quotation because it talks about how violent video games are no different from drugs or cigarrettes.

problems than girls at developing behavior problems. There studies also showed that boys play video games for a total of 13 hours compared to

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