Is Video Games Really Bad For People?

These days in class, we are discussing whether or not video games is a harmful thing for people, especially for young adults and children. Most people will argue that video games such as those contain violence, are becoming increasingly popular in young age children. Playing violent games may be associated with a tendency to behave more aggressively. Children who played a violent video game displayed a higher level of aggression than children who played a nonviolent game. However, it should not be believed such simply because these children shows more aggressive thoughts does not mean that they were more likely to behave in a violent manner. Although majority people (most of them are parents, teachers and educators) advocate the position that video games cause violent behavior in children and adults, there are also many supporters who support the opposite belief.

Other negative effects of video games may include taking time away from a child's studies or homework and decreased social skills. But video games is not as bad as people think that will influence students’ life. Researchers from University of Michigan found that game players and no-game players spent the same time period with their parents and friends. The more time boys and girls gamers spent on playing video games with friends, the same time they spent on the other activities. Despite possible detrimental effects of excessive video game playing, there are educational benefits to playing video games in moderation. Our society cannot just believe video games is not good for people. We should see the both sides of this modern society’s production.

My experience of writing my research paper

This is my first time to write a real research paper in my life. It is interesting that my first paper was not written in my first language, but using English. Like the book project few weeks before, we also have to read a lot of materials as well. If the book project was a challenging for me, this time the paper is a more challenging work for all of us. Because we are not native speakers, reading academic papers, journals and other professional materials sometimes will confuse us. For me, when I read what I found in the library or from the internet, sometimes, some professional words and expressions made me have no sense. Although I will study finance in Concordia, and I have some knowledge about it, I still cannot know some explanations when I read the book A Cost-Benefits Analysis. I really worried about my paper at the beginning. In the end, however, I finally found that these professional papers were not as hard as I thought before. I learned how to explain a thing well from some papers and how to paraphrasing articles as well. I also got great help from Marley and Scott and I learned how to write a real reference list in English by reading Lipson’s book.

Actually, I didn’t satisfy my paper and my presentation after I did them. I didn’t do my best because my body’s problem. I believed that I can do better next time if I fell better than those passing weeks. In the passing few weeks, I think I improved my speaking skill because when I did my presentation, I wasn’t so nervous as I did before. But the practicing time is too short, therefore, I forgot some important parts and some linking words when I presented. I hope next time, I can do a better job than this time.