High-Jinks: Shoot-Out By Guy Martin

Do you think that students should be allowed to play violent role playing games in school?One may believe that students should be allowed to play violent role playing games in school because it is an organized sport such as having referees and learning to hack devices which would make them seem more smart due to this game. But others may say that students should not be allowed to play violent role playing games in school. They say it could distract the students while in the school building. By using the story “SHOOT-OUT” by Guy Martin where the students are playing role playing games in school,whether it is bad or

Kids are allowed to do whatever they please. There are bars on the windows, music blasting, card games instead of worksheets. The constant comparison to a school to jail just goes to show how bad it really is for these kids and why they act up. Watkins did a superb job with his use of hyperboles to connect with the reader's

The text appeals to the readers for both of the examples through emotion (pathos) by describing the conditions that the students learn in and it shows how the administration doesn’t care about the well-being of the students. Mireya discusses Fremont’s academic and sanitary problems and in the court papers it states, “Some of the classrooms ’do not have air-conditioning,’ so that students ‘become red-faced and unable to concentrate’ during ‘the extreme heat of summer.’ The rats observed by children in their elementary schools proliferate at Fremont High as well. ‘Rats in eleven . . . classrooms,’ maintenance records of the school report “(Kozol 708).

The article “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out” by Guy Martin, researches the story of several New York High Schools, participating in an end of year activity that is involved with mediocre violence, made for kids to have some fun with their town, and their classmates. These role playing games are very beneficial for students to participate in, because they teach kids that team work, and extraordinary skills are needed to “survive”. Role playing games with simulated violence are diverting for kids, because they teach and allow kids to be boisterous. The game allows the students to plan, organize, and concoct a plan, for a game that involves nearly the whole city and school. As seniors in highschool prepare for graduation and adulthood, this game gives them the freedom to be kids again.

My goal for this writing piece is trying not to ramble about stuff to make the piece longer. Do you think having teenagers play a brutal role-playing game is good for them in the long term? Studies have shown that when children play violent games, they pick up on combative behavior, bad language and the way other people act. Imagine all the things they could take away from playing this game. Role-playing games with simulated violence is perilous for kids.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has graphic violence that may seem pathetic compared to the media of the 21st century American society. Violence can affect children and adolescents up to the age of 18 mentally, physically, and socially. As Zena Rudo, senior researcher at the American Institutes for Research with 35 years of experience, infers through her research, “Social learning theory suggests that violence exposure has effects on children's behavior through modeling and the positive and negative reinforcement of aggression... and through the development of coercive parent--child interactions” (94). Children exposed to violence can begin to behave aggressively and develop unhealthy relationships with their parental figures. Detrimental

Simulated violence is now starting to become a bigger issue in our society. Everyday, people are now starting to wonder if it is now starting to have a bigger impact on kids nowadays. Some kids are missing the last week of school and blowing off last week exams, also they are starting to take it to a whole new level by doing it when cars are in motion in the road. According to Guy Martin in his article “High-Jinks:Shoot-Out” (2009), “At 10:30 P.M. on a Wednesday, three of the four seniors, armed with walgreens-issue water pistols, stalked out Cohen’s house in a blue Toyota minivan.”

“Violent Media is Good for Kids” by Gerard Jones sheds light on why violent media/games have a positive influence on kids and why it should be encouraged. Many people think that any sort of violent games or media is bad for kids and can only lead to bad things. There are times for some when media and games become too violent and they stop associating with that, but for others it is an escape. A place where the world doesn’t hurt as much. “The world is uncontrollable and incomprehensible; mastering it is a terrifying, enraging task” (Jones para.

These pieces of evidence support the claim that role-playing games with simulated violence are dangerous and a threat to kids. In the text it states, “The idea was to use a cell phone to call the Cohens landline, posing as Cohen’s teammate Dominic, using Dominic's caller I.D…. ‘We want to get Cohen out on the stoop, or learn whether he's sleeping at home’ ” (Martin 1). Impersonating another student and stalking the other competitive students shows how using skills that are smart might actually be harmful.

Violent video games have been blamed for everything from bullying to school shootings. Critics of these video games believe they cause people to commit violent acts in real life. These critics, mainly comprised of parents and other responsible adults, don’t agree with what the video games portray. Others say the video games cause less violence and are an outlet for anger and stress. Although violent video games have violent actions in them, teenagers should be able to play violent video games because there isn’t enough evidence to prove they make teens more aggressive, it could prevent violence, and violent video games are a fun and relaxing way to relieve stress and anger.

There are games that literally replicate and give people the ability to score points for doing the very same thing that these students are doing inside schools, where you get extra points for finishing someone off who’s lying there begins for their life.” ( 6) There are several ideas that say young people benefit from these violent video games “Surprisingly, playing video games can help our physical, mental, and emotional health.” It helps them to improve hand eye coordination and thinking ability. These benefits are not worth the risk of being influenced by violent video games. (7) All in all the research and officials say that violent video games affect how children, teenagers and young adults act.

Bad Effects of Violent Video Games: Most of the bad effects of video games because of their violence they contain. Thus children who play more violent and dangerous video games are more likely to have increased of aggressive thoughts, behavior, feelings and decreased in prosocial helping. The effect of violence video games in children is worsened by the games’ interactive nature. For the repeated cases of violence in video games, the child is in control of the violence and experiences in his own eye by killing, kicking, stabbing and shooting in games. Too much playing of violent video game will make the kid socially isolated.

Because OR firstly, video games improve a child's ability to follow instructions, especially because many games entail completion of tasks (Gentile et al, 2009). Besides, children improve their problem-solving capabilities because these games have tasks that require quick thinking and use of sound strategies to move from one level or quest to another. Lastly, gamers improve their multitasking capabilities, because many gamers have to juggle different patterns and connect them at the same time to complete tasks (Ryan et al, 2006). Despite these advantages, the weight of violent video games negative effects is alarming, especially because of its long-term effects such mental ill health and

Some researches admit that violent games may cause adolescents to become tremendous. Studies showed that video games increase psychological awakening, it could also increase aggressive behavior, emotions and thoughts and finally let teenagers lose the sense of helping others. All these effects will be carried by aggressive young people. It’s true that video games are violent, but aggressive adolescents are more likely to be more attracted to it. Some games reward players for doing violent actions, so this will affect them negatively, letting them think that violence is normal.

Role playing games with simulated violence are a healthy diverting action for children. Obviously, too much of these games can have a negative influence as some say but certainly, if managed well role-playing games can be a good diverting and beneficial action for children to partake in. One such reason for this is that role-playing games with simulated violence can be a good outlet for children with lots of energy or violent tendencies. For example, a child who gets into fights a lot instead can play these games and release their anger out on the game instead of their peers.