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Summary Of John Leo When Life Imitates Video

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Marla would agree with this article “When life imitates video” by John Leo because it hits home for her because she has children and she is a very peaceful person. In the article it says “Adolescent feeling of resentment, powerlessness, and revenge pour into the killing games”. She a peaceful person and wouldn’t want her children to play those type of video games. I believe in general that it’s not the ideological she live by. Violence seem something that she will be against. Another example was in Colorado with two teens. They were influence by video game violence were they played around with pistol gun and ending up killing themselves. This is because of the negative effect the video game had that influence them in killing themselves. Marla will agree with this statement because she would …show more content…

So please for Marla sake avoid your kids form violent video games. There should be limitation when it comes to video games and we as people should reach out to kids and help them avoid violence in video games.
In the article Harmful Effects of Media on Children and Adolescents by Agarwal, Vivek; Dhanasekaran and Saranya. It talk about the influence of aggressiveness and violent in media that influence kids for several years. It’s been a long short and short term that influence violence and aggression that has been a negative impact on our society toward children. The purpose of this article is factors that may impact the risk of being influenced by this type of media and that is gender, age, family etc. Children these day spend a lot of time watching television, movie, playing games, internet etc. and

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