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Some people believe that violence on television and computer games has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Some people believe that violence on television and computer games has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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The influence of TV shows and computer games on our society is one of the most debatable problems. Many people criticize the modern entertainment industry for making us more aggressive and prone to violence. However, I believe such conclusions are slightly far-fetched and not based on the facts.

First of all, watching something on TV does not necessarily lead to copying it. Numerous analysis shows that a propensity to criminal behaviour results from individuals’ upbringing, childhood traumas, or even inherent psychological features. None of these can be developed overnight by simply watching a bloody movie scene.

Secondly, the fear of increasing violence in cinema and games does not correspond to the analytical evidence that the amount of violence all over the world is in fact steadily diminishing (despite the misleading impression created by the mass media). While we watch more and more gory images on our screens, the similar instances in the real world become more scarce. This obviously does not support the view that the movies we follow are responsible for crimes and violence.

Finally, even if we accept the view that violence is somehow inherent to our personality, watching TV and playing games can in fact help us overcome this “dark side” of ours in a peaceful way. For example, killing murderers and monsters in a virtual world can relieve our need to demonstrate a dominant and cruel attitude in the reality. Moreover, the bloodsheds paid attention to in the movies are more likely to make a person a strong competitor of crime rather than stimulate him to become a criminal himself.

Comprehensively, although it is difficult to predict individual attitudes to violence on the screens, the evidence rather shows that not only it is not responsible for combativeness in the real world, but on the contrary, it can help to fight the inappropriate behaviour. If we look at the matter from this perspective, the violent games and shows have a potential to make a positive contribution to the society and must be supported rather than prohibited.

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Some people believe that violence on television and computer games has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Some people believe that violence on television and computer games has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Nowadays, some individuals argue that social media and PC games have brought violence to community. However, others disagree that these trends are not related to how people act. In my opinion, I strongly agree with the first statement. In this essay, I will outline some effect of my view.

First and foremost, It is known that spending hours either watching violent movies or playing fighting games has contributed to change in some individual's behavior. Especially, children try to copy unconsciously what they see on TV and in videos game. This problem brings a lot of drawbacks to their life. To illustrate that there is some evidence showing that the film " Spider-man, Iron man, and many films by Marvel Studio", has brought more cruelty in our community. Moreover, playing violent games has more impact on people than watching TV. For instance, workers and students wasting time and money playing games can lose themselves and worthless. Some people rob others of money to update their characters in game. If these things increase gradually, the world tends to become unculture and no one trust to rules.

In conclusion, violence brings many adverse effects. Government should consider and ban on humans who do not have enough age to watch movies or play games concerned about violence.

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Some people believe that violence  on television and computer game has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Some people believe that violence  on television and computer game has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Some people believe that violence on television and computer game has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Some people believe that violence on television and computer game has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Nowadays, movies and computer games are popular activities for people in our daily life. It helps us switch off thoughts for a while and relax, but it also negatively affects people. Some people believe that violence on television and in computer games is harmful to society. However, others disagree, they think that these factors have a significant influence on people’s behavior. In my opinion, I agree with the first one and in this essay, I will outline some bad effects that movies and games bring to people and society.
There is some violence that movies and computer games have on people. First of all, exposure to violent games is especially dangerous for children with weak nervous systems. They will have serious psychological phobias that can lead to acts of self-harm both physically and mentally such as injuring oneself. For example, some of the children who are addicted to video games also suffer severe mental consequences. They become autistic, avoid social contact, and even angry with people around them. In addition, children who are heavily exposed to this type of violent content may develop a distorted perception of violence and its actual frequency in real life. This leaves in their heads the impression that this world is too dangerous and full of bad guys. People with such a worldview are more likely to interpret a vague or unintentional gesture by another which is hostile behavior directed at them. Besides, scenes of real violence, often repeated and unpunished can give rise to imitation psychology.
In conclusion, violent films and games can bring many drawbacks to people and society. The government needs to prevent and has deterrent measures to set an example for others

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Some people believe that violence  on television and computer game has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Nowaday,thanks to people's demand of entertaining,films and computer games are invested strongly.Several of them contain a lot of violent sences which are supposed to have  a damaging effect on society.on the other hand,someone else deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior.In my opinion,the content we watch can directly affect to our thoughts.
First and foremost, people,especially children not having enought awareness of films and Cp games often tend to copy actions they see on Tv to real life.If those actions are violences,it will be very dangerous to our society.People who spend too much time watching Tv or playing violence games can not realize which is virtual life,which is real life .That will bring about a lot of adverse effects.
What is more,violent films and games cause many pessimistic emotion to viewers.For instance ,they could become less sympathy with victims of violence.The reason is that they become desensitized when watching too many violent films or games.A recent study has discovered that consuming a lot of violent TV shows, many people have lower blood pressure and heart rate in response to real depictions of violent events.
In conclusion,violent games and films will bring back many drawbacks.Goverment should censorship carefully all the violent films and game before they are released.

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Some people believe that violence on television and in computer games has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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As you know, watching TV and playing computer games is one of the most widespread types of entertainment in recent times. These kinds of entertainment can help us relax, especially reduce stress. However, there is an ongoing discussion about the effects of violence on television and computer games on society. Some individuals believe that they have some damaging influences on people's behavior. Others disagree with this statement. From my opinion, I am in agreement that they affect people's behavior negatively. In this essay, I will mention my opinion about the statement.
On the one hand,  there are several reasons why I agree that violence on television and computer games has some adverse effects on people's behavior. First and foremost, it can be denied that they have some gigantic impacts on individuals, especially teenagers. According to scientists in the UK, if teenagers watch some action films regularly, they will tend to have more impolite and intolerable mannerisms. For instance,  watching many violent videos and playing violent games can be one of the causes of enhancing the percentage of school violence.  Moreover, these kinds of entertainment also cause an increase in the crime ratio. As a case in point, if some people neglect their work and merely spend their money on playing games, they can become unemployed sharply. If they are unemployed, they can do some bad actions such as crimes in order to earn money to play games.  Additionally, if the proportion of crimes increases, the recession in many parts of the world will be more and more intractable.
In conclusion, some individuals suppose that violence on television and computer games has many adverse effects on people's mannerisms. However, others disagree. From my point of view,  it is true that the problem of these factors make some people have some impolite and intolerable mannerisms.

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Some people believe that violence on television and computer game has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Some people believe that violence on television and computer game has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Some people believe that violence  on television and computer game has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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In those days there are a lot of entertainment: ”TV, comedy, movie,…” and video games and television is one of them. Those two kind of entertainment are often very violent, which come up to somebody’s mind that the people watching/playing this will copy the action in those kinds of entertainment. But there are still people disagree with that. In this essays I will discuss about those two opinions.

On the one hand, there are a lot of kids who are watching violent TV and playing violent video games they can definitely do something like that in real life.

On the other hand, the kid must be very very very addicted to the game/film they will do that in real life

In conclusion, I agree to the other hand. Because there are not that many kids who are addicted to it.

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Some people believe that violence  on television and computer game has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any sinificant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion ?

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Currently, there are many form of entertainment such as television, game, music....This is help us to relax and reduce stress. But also that, there are still some harmful effects. Some people show several arguments that violence on television and in computers bring some adverse effects on the public. Nevertheless, some people are not agree. In my opinion, I agree with the first one.

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Some people believe that violence on television and in computer games has a damaging effect on society. Others deny that these factors have any significant influence on people's behavior. What is your opinion?

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Nowadays, there are many kinds of entertainment, some of them are watching TV and playing computer games. It is the fact that there are both good and bad things that TV or computer brings. Some people show several arguments that violence on television and on computers bring some adverse effects on the public. However, others do not agree. They think that these factors do not have any big impact on an individual’s behavior. In my opinion, I agree with the first one. I will outline some ideas and prove my view.

First and foremost, violent or inappropriate information from TV or computer games have several direct effects on people’s mind. People tend to behave more violently and impolitely. For example, if a boy concentrates and spends too much time playing not only violence and also any computer games, he tends to be in his room alone and angry with anyone who annoys him.

Violence from TV and computer games leads to some wrong mimicry. People tend to copy the acts that they feel like or right. Everyone has a superhero dream. When they watch too many action and violent films, they are more likely to copy the acts that they watched and feel that their acts are cool but the fact is not like that. At school, violence from TV and computer games may result in isolation and the school violence rate significantly increase which leads to more and more negative influences.

Moreover, although almost human has great self-control, there are lots of people addicted to games and films as well. People spent too much time watching movies and playing computer games. They live in the other worlds and live in the characters’ life. They believe that they are the main character and every happiness and fortune will become with them. They are just delusional about their lives and themselves.

On the other hand, violence from television and computer games also affects the public. Inappropriate information might not only cause lots of crime which results in a higher crime ratio but also causes an imbalance in social security. If people want to spend money on their games but their families do not allow it, some disputations will be started and might lead to domestic violence. In addition, if people just stay at home, play games and watch Tv or go to work but are not focused, effective, and have bad behaviors, they are fired. If they do not have work but want to have money to top up their account on the games, they are likely to become thieves, swindlers even murderers.
Last but not least, to some extent, violence from Tv and computer might result in difficulties in the development of the economy and play a part in hunger and poverty. Investors will not give money to a region with a high crime rate which might lead to a lack of capital, residents behaving impolite, and many other reasons also creating hunger and poverty.

In conclusion, violence from Tv and computer cause a lot of serious problem for the individual and society as well. The local government might help by launching some campaigns to enhance public awareness about this issue.

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Scientists are unlocking the medical potential of venom.

A Michael decided to go for a swim. He was on vacation with his family in Guerrero, Mexico, and it was hotter than blazes. He grabbed his swimming trunks from where they'd been drying on a chair, slid them on, and jumped into the pool. Instead of cool relief, a burning pain ripped through the back of his thigh. Tearing off his trunks, he leaped naked from the pool, his leg on fire. Behind him a small, ugly, yellow creature was treading water. He scooped it into a Tupperware container, and the caretaker of the house rushed him to the local Red Cross facility, where doctors immediately identified his attacker: a bark scorpion, Centruroides sculpturatus, one of the most venomous species in North America. The fierce pain from a sting is typically followed by what feels like electric shocks racking the body. Occasionally victims die.

B Luckily for Michael (who asked me not to give his Ml name), the bark scorpion is common in the area, and antivenom was readily available. He had an injection and was released a few hours later. In about 30 hours the pain was gone. What happened next could not have been predicted. For eight years Michael had endured a condition called ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic autoimmune disease of the skeleton, a sort of spinal arthritis. No one knows what triggers it. In the worst cases the spine may fuse, leaving the patient forever stooped and in anguish. "My back hurt every morning, and during bad flare-ups it was so horrible I couldn't even walk," he says.

C But days after the the scorpion sting, the pain went away, and now, two years later, he remains essentially pain free and off most of his medications. As a doctor himself, Michael is cautious about overstating the role of the scorpion's venom in his remission. Still, he says, "if my pain came back, I'd let that scorpion sting me again." Venom-the stuff that drips from the fangs and stingers of creatures lurking on the hiking trail or hiding in the cellar or under the woodpile-is nature's most efficient killer. Venom is exquisitely honed to stop a body in its tracks. The complex soup swirls with toxic proteins and peptides--short strings of amino acids similar to proteins. The molecules may have different targets and effects, but they work synergistically for the mightiest punch. Some go for the nervous system, paralyzing by blocking messages between nerves and muscle. Some eat away at molecules so that cells and tissues collapse. Venom can kill by clotting blood and stopping the heart or by preventing clotting and triggering a killer bleed.

D All venom is multifaceted and multitasking. (The difference between venom and poison is that venom is injected, or dibbled, into victims by way of specialized body parts, and poison is ingested.) Dozens, even hundreds, of toxins can be delivered in a single bite, some with redundant jobs and others with unique ones. In the evolutionary arms race between predator and prey, weapons and defenses are constantly tweaked. Drastically potent concoctions can result: Imagine administering poison to an adversary, then jabbing him with a knife, then finishing him off with a bullet to the head. That's venom at work.

E Ironically, the properties that make venom deadly are also what make it so valuable for medicine. Many venom toxins target the same molecules that need to be controlled to treat diseases. Venom works fast and is highly specific. Its active components-those peptides and proteins, working as toxins diabetes have been derived from venom. New treatments for autoimmune diseases, cancer, and pain could be available within a decade.

F "We aren't talking just a few novel drugs but entire classes of drugs," says National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Zoltan Takacs, a toxinologist and herpetologist. So far, fewer than a thousand toxins have been scrutinized for medicinal value, and a dozen or so major drugs have made it to market. "There could be upwards of 20 million venom toxins out there waiting to be screened," Takacs says. "It's huge. Venom has opened up whole new avenues of pharmacology." Toxins from venom and poison sources are also giving us a clearer picture of how proteins that control many of the body's crucial cellular functions work. Studies of the deadly poison tetrodotoxin (TTX) from puffer fish, for instance, have revealed intricate details about the way nerve cells communicate.

G "We 're motivated to look for new compounds to lessen human suffering," Angel Yanagihara of the University of Hawaii told me. "But while doing that, you may uncover things you don't expect." Driven in part out of revenge for a box jellyfish sting she endured 15 years ago, Yanagihara discovered a potential wound-healing agent within the tubules that contain jellyfish venom. "It had nothing to do with the venom itself," she said. "By getting intimate with a noxious animal, I've been informed way beyond my expectations."

H More than 100,000 animals have evolved to produce venom, along with the glands to house it and the apparatuses to expel it: snakes, scorpions, spiders, a few lizards, bees, sea creatures such as octopuses, numerous species of fish, and cone snails. The male duck-billed platypus, which carries venom inside ankle spurs, is one of the few venomous mammals. Venom and its components emerged independently, again and again, in different animal groups. The composition of the venom of a single snake species varies from place to place and between adults and their young. An individual snake's venom may even change with its diet.

I Although evolution has been fine-tuning these compounds for more than a hundred million years, venom's molecular architecture has been in place much longer. Nature repurposes key molecules from around the body-the blood, brain, digestive tract, and elsewhere-to serve animals for predation or protection. "It makes sense for nature to steal the scaffolds already in place," Takacs says. "To make a toxin to wreck the nervous system, it's most efficient to take a template from the brain that already works in that system, make some tiny changes, and there you have it: Now it's a toxin." Not all venom kills, of course-bees have it as a nonlethal defense, and the male platypus uses it to show rival males who's boss during mating season. But mostly it's for killing, or at least immobilizing, an animal's next meal. Humans are often accidental victims. The World Health Organization estimates that every year some five million bites kill 100,000 people, although the actual number is presumed to be much higher. In rural areas of developing countries, where most bites occur, victims may not be able to get treatment or may instead choose traditional therapies and are therefore not counted.

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The Bite That Heat - IELTS reading practice test

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Scientists are unlocking the medical potential of venom. A Michael decided to go for a swim. He was on vacation with his family in Guerrero, Mexico, and it was hotter than blazes. He grabbed his swimming trunks from where they'd been drying on a chair, slid them on, and jumped into the pool.