Economic Lifestyle

Ecological Footprint "End"

My start score was really bad in my opinion. However, I tried to reduce it within 24 hours. I cut out my meat consume and only eat vegetables. I also try to use paper less when taking notes in class. Beside that, I take my best to recycle. I reduce my electricity use by not having television on while playing on computer and turn light off when I don't need it. In addition, I reduce my water use by taking shorter shower and do dishes faster. Because I have to drive for school, so I cannot cut it back. However, I don't go to anywhere beside school. I think it is not hard to reduce my "planets score" within 24 hours. But in a long run, this can be a problem to me. If I keep up with it, I think I can do it. However, it takes time for me to change my lifestyle.

Ecological Footprint "Start"

Start. My point is 6.6 ^_^

No Technology "End"

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It wasn't that hard to not using communication technology in one day. It just kind of bore without internet, television, and music. I can survive fine without it because I mostly spend my time with people around me. I think I active more without using communication technology. It is because I go out more like shopping and eat. However, without communication technology I was clueless about the news going on in the world. I think that communication technology is that really important that I cannot survive without it. It is just for entertainment. However, communication technology does help me knows more about the world and get quicker acess to the information and the people that I want.

No Technology "Start"

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"One Challege"

I think the most important thing to me and my family is safety. I and my family always want to live in a safe environment since we been lived in a war in the past. I think that if I can live in a safe environment, I can work hard for living. I am and my family are immigrant and we came here with nothing. However, we work hard to have a living here. Now, we have house and car live many other Americans. But if we have lots of money but without safety, we can lose it anytime. My grandfather had lots of money, but everything was gone within a night because of the war. So, I think what most important is safety. I think we can only build our live or our wealth only if we can live in a safe environment.

Thesis Directions

1. The actions of Nikko Bellic is consider as unethical. It is unjustified. Even though he needs to make a living, but harming innocent people is wrong.

2. Grand Theft Auto 4 contains many unethical issues. Some teenagers have imitating it by commit crimes. Policy makers and game industries should have plans to prevent this game leads to violence in teens.

3. Robbing and killing are major things in Grand Theft Auto 4. Sometimes the one that get rob or kill is innocent.

Video Games Articles Free-Writing

"Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked"
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html

This article make a good argument that all 8 things that usually exist in public's perception about video games are myths. The author use good sources to support his opinions. He uses reference to prove that video game does not cause violence in youth people. Even though the author states many people who play video games do not have any violence actions, but there are some people that commit crimes are addicted gamers and their violence actions are influenced by video games. It is also interest that he points out that adults are primary market for video games. It is because when people talk about games, they usually think it is children's thing. This has show that video games is no longer children's thing, but it is more likely adult's thing. This is why many new popular games are restricted to players of 17 age or older. Another point in article is women gamers are growing in large number. In addition to participate in gaming, women are tend to be more confidence in dealing withs challenges because they are influenced by those independent and powerful female warriors in games.


"Video Game Addiction"
http://www.theparentreport.com/resources/ages/preteen/kids_culture/130.html

Video games have many sides in our lives. They have both good and bad sides. For preteens, playing video game can be a good fun way to learn in spare time. Almost today's preteens have exposed to video games since they are little. Video games exposure usually considered as a way to spend spare time for kids. When the technology is more advanced, video games considered as a way to learn for kids. Gaming industries today produced lots of video games for learning purpose that target kids. So, it is a good side of video games that let kids having fun learning in their spare time. However, there is opposite side of playing video game. The article states that the bad side of video games is addiction. Kids can get addicted when they play video games. If this addiction happens, it is no longer fun way for kids to spend their times. The article has warn parents the signs of addiction and what should be done. This article is a good source for parents to prevent their kids from video games addiction.

Thesis Statement & Outline

Thesis statement:
The produced of Darfur is Dying and Food Force is more than entertainment purpose, but it also for education purpose for the players to learn what is happening in the real world so they can give out some helps for those people in need.

Outline:
I. Introduction
II. Body 1, explain about Darfur is Dying and its education purpose.
III. Body 2, explain about Food Force and its education purpose.
IV. How these 2 games are more effective to educate kids than books and tv.
V. Conclusion

Analyzing Games

"Activism The Public Policy"

"Activism the Public Policy" is a persuasive game. It is the kind of game that influence players to take action through gameplay. In this game, the player has to do many activities at once to improve the public policy issues within the limited time. I played the game and I only survive for 5 minutes. It is hard to follow and do six activities at once. However, it does give me some experience while playing it. In this game I can make many mistakes and still be fine, just play another round. But I think if some body in one of these positions in real life make any mistake, it would be a big problem. The gameplay is easy. What difficult it is too many to do at once and it's hard to follow. I learn that even though the gameplay is easy, but in real life activities is much harder. While play this game, I'm thinking about those people who really do these jobs. I learn that it's not easy for them like it seems to be. Overall, I think this is a good persuasive game. It influence me and let me learn something. Even though I didn't passed the game, I still like it.


"Deliver the Net" and "Food Force"

"Deliver the Net" and "Food Force" are both persuasive games because they influence my emotion and my point of view while playing them. They both have one common point. That is to help those in need. In "Deliver the Net", the mission is to deliver the bed net to help those who living in Africa from malaria. Having the nearly same idea, "Food Force" deliver food to those who hungry. While playing them, I try to deliver net and food to those people as fast as I could to win the games. However, there is no winning or losing in these games. At the end of each games, a message will come up to tell me what is happening in real life. Those messages cause me to think about those who in need, and I really want to help them. They change my point of view about the world. That is there are many people who still living in poor, and many places on earth are way worse than the place that I'm living. I think these games are to educate people things that happening in real life at the places that worse than our place. There are many people who are in need, and these games show us how we can help them. They advertising their organizations and asking those people who play the games to help by donate few dollars to them.