Teaching Kids To Kill

Connections:  Connections you can get from this text is how children of this generation are known for playing video games they're not suppose to. For an example I have a nephew who is around the age of 7 who plays a lot of violent video games for his age and it can be shown. He likes to hit others and sometimes acts as if he has a gun and pretends to shoot at others. Many children are influenced by video games, but many children aren't like that. I played my fair share of violent video games as a child, but I think it mostly depends on if your parents raise you in a sense that you should know right from wrong.

Challenges: Challenges that I have thought of from the video and from the text is that you can't blame these people for the killing they have done. They were just victims due to the fact that these young children are impressionable for example Ishmael was young and was put to war due to the fact he was told that it was good. I believe that kids who murder aren't at fault here and the ones who are, are the adults who manipulate young children into doing certain things.

Concepts: The key concepts in this article and video is that you seen many people who have been used and abused for war. Many of which don't change their lifestyle, but in Ishmael's case you see what he has to endure to become what he is today a successful man. The writer Lt.Col. Dave Grossman was saying that many of the problems such as rape, mass murders, violence were due to media and the evolution of television and video games. 

Changes: The changes that should be made to the world is that there should be more censorship on video games and what can be put on the television. This is due to the fact that many children are influenced from what is seen on media. Media plays a big roll to the everyday lives of many people and should have better control. Also, we need to change the amount of children going into war and start educating many countries about this. Many children are put as risk daily for unnecessary wars and should be getting an education instead.