You can also read the eighth grade winner's essay . By Gretchen Reider Two ways in which I have found that the media influences young people is through violence and sex. A lot of young people watch television or play video games. They often think that what happens on television shows and video games are the cool things to do. Young people might think that it is cool because someone they see is a star or someone they look up to is doing it.
Young people see violence happen a lot.
Violence can mostly be seen in movies or video games. I think that video games affect kids greatly because along with the young adults and teenagers, there are young children playing these games too. Most kids who play the violence-related video games often take things from that video game and act them out in real life. In movies there is a lot of action involving killing and gun use. Teens or younger children might act out a scene from a movie or video game in a pretending way, but you never know when a kid will take these ideas seriously.