Argumentative essay

Outline

Topic: CAUTION: videogames are warm guns for children

Pattern: Thesis statement:

PRO idea 1

            PRO idea 2

            CON(s) + Refutation(s)

            Conclusion

I Introduction

A.    comments and point of view

    1 why videogames are bad for children

 B general information

      1 research

      2 how children are involved

II How videogames influence children

  A principal research

      1 statistics  

      2 reasons why children tend to play videogames

   B types of videogames

      1. Violent videogames

   C kind of behavior the videogames cause

      1. Principal behavior

      2. Effects

III reasons about why videogames are bad for the education of the children

  A. techniques used by videogames, why they should not  play

      1. Principal techniques

      2.  Reasons why they should not play

  B. real cases

       1. Why children said about the crimes they did

IV counterargument and refutation

A.    counterargument

        1 reason why videogames are good for children

B.     refutation

1        reason why videogames are bad for children

  V conclusion

CAUTION: Videogames are warm guns for children

Videogames are entertainment for children but videogames are also violence and destruction, children are exposed to all this kind of environment that produces secondary reactions, children do not have the necessity of videogames that fill their minds with violence, they do not need to watch and learn how to kill someone or how to use a gun. About this situation, there are many studies in E.U and Japan which show what kind of videogames people tend to play; these studies are always made in big countries but, what about Mexico? our country, this time the competitive intelligence unit have made some studies that show which console are the most used in this country. In this investigation the competitive intelligence unit takes into account the last three consoles in the year (Xbox, Wii and Play Station) and according to this study the most popular console is the Xbox among Mexican players that has a 61% of preference then with a 22% of preference is the Wii and finally the Play Station with only a 17% percent. All the companies in charge of these consoles have excellent strategies in marketing; they have many commercials on T.V which involve the audience and made them buy their products and technology in other words they use the T.V as the principal resource for selling their videogames also they used famous people for convincing the audience.

There are some categories in the videogames, but not all the categories are used by children, according to “la Universidad del pais vasco”  the videogames are divided in five categories: fantasy and violence, sports, general topics, human violence and Educational, the study shows the following percentages.

Fantasy and violence           32%

Sports                                   29%

General topics                       20%

Human violence                    17%

Educational                               2%

This study shows that children prefer violent videogames, but why do they prefer that kind of videogames? The answer is easily to find out; the reason is because companies use the correct marketing such as commercials, famous people and phrases that work on their psychology.

There are some violent videogames played by children that have images with dead people or people killing other people, some videogames with high content of violence are:

1- Resident Evil 5 (2009; Xbox 360, Playstation 3)

2- LittleBigPlanet (2008, Playstation 3)

3- Mass Effect (2007, Xbox 360)

4- Manhunt 2 (2007; Playstation 2, Wii, PSP)

5- Resistance: Fall of Man (2006, Playstation 3)

6- Bully (Canis Canem Edit) (2006, PlayStation 2)

7- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004, Playstation 2)

Just for mentioning some of them, these videogames have bloody and strong contents on them, this kind of 

games make children different. One important point of this topic is that children change their behavior because 

of the videogames; they think they can do what they do on their games and they really do it, they become rude

 and antisocial, they are angry and all they think is to play their favorite game, also they do not have the same 

energy for doing physical activities and they have lack of creativity on school, there are some cases where children 

have killed people in the real life, they are imitating their videogame avatar. Children spend a lot of time playing 

videogames, according to some studies made for funk (1993), he offers a classification about how many hours, 

boys and girls play videogames: