Are Video Games Becoming To Intense And Violent

Are Video Games Becoming To Intense And Violent?

By: Taylor McGoey

Teacher: Ms.Lee

Video games are a part of many kids lives nowadays. Teens and children find video games entertaining and a great activity while bored or to do on spare time. While most kids and teens are having fun with these games, many games send off negative and harmful messages to their brains. Games can be good and they can also be bad. These two games listed below "Mortal Kombat" and "Grand Theft Auto V" are intended for older audiences for their explicit content. 

Mortal Kombat is a first person fighter game which users have to use tactics and fighting combinations to win against the opposing side. With the game being a first person fighter game, the creators of the game made a mode in which is called fatalities. With the fatalities users can perform a sequence of button combinations that allow their character to present a gruesome and bloody move to the opposing side. With Mortal Kombat being so gory and very violent it has been banded in many countries around the world including Germany, South Korea and Australia. 

Grand Theft Auto V on the other hand is a first person open world interactive game in which users can choose from various missions located within the map. As all of this sounds entertaining and fun, most missions and interactions are not what they seem. In the Grand Theft Auto series most players are encouraged to become the biggest badasses possible. With your character you can go to strip clubs, shot innocent civilians and even kill and run away from cops. The game is much different from our real life society which doesnt allow this and has set rules, in GTA 5 their are no rules you live the way you want with no rules. With GTA 5 being a game of complete violence and massive destruction, many countries have decided to ban the game these countries include; Brazil, Thailand and North Korea. 

Women Portrayed In The Media (Syntha-6 Protein Shake Ad)

Women Portrayed In The Media (Syntha-6 Protein Shake Ad)

By: Taylor McGoey

Teacher: Ms.Lee

The media is inescapable.  Everywhere people go, they are surrounded by all forms of media (television, internet, radio and advertisement).  Media controls our society, and can have different effects depending on the viewer.  The Syntha-6 ad is likely designed to have a different effect on women, men and teen viewers.  A woman viewer is given the message that in order to be considered desirable, she needs to fulfill the media’s image of the ideal woman.  For example, the bottle in the ad is shaped like an hourglass.  This suggests that an ideal woman has an hourglass figure.  The ad implies that if a woman drinks the protein shake, she will achieve the ideal body shape.  The Syntha – 6 ad targets the male viewer in a sexually suggestive manner.  The ad implies that if a man’s girlfriend or wife drinks their product, she will look like the model shown in the ad.  As well the ad reads “Shake well and enjoy”.  This may be a reference to a woman shaking her body in a suggestive way.  The ad is designed to have a similar effect on a younger audience such as teenagers. The message is that if you drink the protein shake, you will soon have the “perfect body” shown in the ad.  However, this is an  can be a unhealthy message for most teens who are trying to find their true identities in society as a young adult growing up.

Women Portrayed in the Media, As Sex Objects (John White Shoe Ad)

Women Portrayed In The Media, As Sex Objects (John White Shoe Ad)
John White Shoe Ad
By: Taylor McGoey
Teacher: Ms.Lee

Ever since the 1900's media has had a big impact on influencing the audience on what they believe to be the "ideal" life. With this unrealistic life perception media has influence their audience to what they believe to be the ideal figure for women. With this false accusation, more female teenagers and young adults are trying to achieve this "ideal figure". With this thought in mind many female teenaged girls and young adults are trying to achieve the "ideal figure". Media also portrays women as passive and abused characters within ads. Shown in This "John White Shoe Ad", the female portrayed fulfils the role as the ideal women. The women presented in the ad shoes, shows the ideal women features of big breasts, and a good figure. Also shown in the ad, is the women's posture and body language. As seen in the ad, the women shown is fully naked covering her breasts in a way that seems like she is being taking advantage of by then man. She is also holding a male shoe, this indicates that she is the caregiver and "maid" of the dominant figure which is the male.
In conclusion most women portrayed in the media are presented as the less dominate figure, usually dominated by the male figure, this is not the case women in society should be treated differently and shown differently throughout media and society.