360 Degrees: Do violent video games cause aggression in kids?

One if the most popular past times for americand kids are video games. Countless of children spend hours on end pressing buttons to achieve a goal that has been set by the game. Unlike television, the child is actually controlling what happens on the screen, this makes playing video games a lot more intimate than just watching television. This interaction has risen questions about whether or not violent video games can cause aggression. Many parents are worried about this theory and want to know if they should let their kids play violent video games or not. I personally do not believe that violent video games cause aggression. I think that kids who play video games and get into trouble are born with an inclination to be mischevious. I think it's unfair for people to blame video games for aggression when it can be multiple factors, such as their environment and upbringing. If anything, video games give kids a way to vent their frustrations.
As I am writing in support for not blaming video games for aggression, I cannot help but remember the countless times I have been left pissed off over dieing or losing in a video game. I can get incredibly frusturated over something as insignificant as a video game. This gives me a different opinion about the affects of video games. I guess more research needs to be done to figure out whether or not violent video games really do cause aggression. Also, I wonder if playing video games actually is a good way to relieve oneself from frustration.

Connections: Two Leaders

In class, we watched Martin Luther King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech. It was easy to see how good of a speaker he was. All of his words were spoken with belief and conviction, the energy from watching just the video was amazing. This speech reminded me a lot of Obama's speech at the inaguration. Not only because both speakers are African American, but how similar the impact of their words had on the crowd. In Martin Luther's King's time, an idea of having an African American president was absurd. But now after forty years, America is welcoming their first African American president. Many of the dreams that Martin Luther King mentioned in his speech have come true, even one that was not mentioned.