My essential question for my research paper is: Is the over stimulation of violent video games causing teen violence? My essay will be organized conceptually, meaning that I will crunch the numbers and statistics about the over usage of video games in teens, how this has impacted them and increased violence, and how it can be solved. I chose this topic because being a video game owner, I have noticed that some players on my friends list are online for excessive amounts of time like 4-5 hours a day, school or not. It seems to me that something that is being used so much in excess has to have some type of effect, like increased violence in teens. Some players I don't know personally seem to be impacted in some way by the use of violent video games, and I want to see what the exact correlation is.