Video game Violence

ABSTRACT

Patrick Kierkegaard from the University of Nottingham says “there's no evidence to suggest violent video games would be any more likely to make someone aggressive than violent books ” , Dmitri Williams has conducted tests based on game “Asheron’s Call 2,” he has got into conclusion “no strong effects associated with aggression caused by this violent game,” which basically means there is no links between violent games and aggression behavior of the player. But Craig A. Anderson, a psychology professor at Iowa State University and director of its Center for the Study of Violence claim "We now have conclusive evidence that playing violent video games has harmful effects on children and adolescents," also Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine say that “brain scans of kids who played a violent video game showed an increase in emotional arousal – and a corresponding decrease of activity in brain areas involved in self-control, inhibition and attention “. Violence in video games has been discussed many times by different researches some of them see the links between games which contain violence and they connect that with aggressive behavior of the players but some of them do not see that this way .

VARK questionnaire

The VARK questionnaire identifies my preferred learning style as Aural and Kinesthetic and that is OK. I do agree with that .

My Results: Visual: 2 , Aural: 7, Read/Write: 3, Kinesthetic: 7.

Aural ( hearing ) which basically means I am a person that to take in information  should do for example :  attend classes , attend discussions and tutorials , discuss topics with others , and so on , this is what I do always  trying make the most of my time at university , my second top score – Kinesthetic , Kinesthetic  people usually learn by doing some sort of activity, experiments with the  things  , conduct test and investigate  to better understand how it works   and this is also something what I do. I find a lot of fun doing the work this way especially with the new software when I actually can  “play “ with it .  I think I did realize the results of VARKA questionnaire it just make me more confident about that  and show me slightly different  ways of learning things .

 

SWOT ANALYSIS : 

1. STRENGTHS 

• organized 
• focus on the work 
• communication
• good listener 

     2. WEAKNESSES

• maths
• writing ( spelling )
• lack a bit of self- confidence

      3. OPPORTUNITIES

• learn more about Internet security  and how it works
• new software 

      4. THREATS 

•  lack of time to do the work in properly way because of the part-time job 

Learning line

Hi my name is Mariusz Suchodolski . I am 23 and from Chelmsford . I have currently started my course Computer Networking at Anglia Ruskin University . I do also part-time job in meantime . I have been in UK over 3 years . I have been study English language in Chelmsford College for about a year , then I have started doing different sort of jobs from lift truck driving to become a cabin crew with Ryanair . I hope University will help me to develop my skills and give me ability to find a valuable job . I am interested in with wireless security , programming , web design , etc . On the left top corner  there is my Learning  line . Please feel free to add any comments. 

Saturday 26/09/09 Testing wireless security of my local network area . I use linux tools to check wireless security:

1. - airmon-ng to put network card into the monitor mode , 
2. - airodump-ng ( sniffer ) to monitor local available AP ; I focus on my access point ( linksys ) , 
3. - aircrack-ng to crack the password ,