1. I fear that speaking about the subject of my taking charge assignment may blow my cover as anonymous. If you know me in real life, and know what I like and dislike (more along the lines of what i like), you should know who I am. If you do discover who I am, please don't tell anyone.
(=3)
2. It's a pretty general topic, one that has been going on for around three decades now, after the technological revolution. I'm talking about the video game revolution, of course, and the controversy around video games released in the 90's and 00's like Wolfenstein 3-D, Doom and Grand Theft Auto. The basic problem with how videogames are viewed today are that they are the cause of violence in school systems, school shootings and general society. Unfortunately, for the naysayers like Jack Thompson, an attorney that is extremely anti-videogame, there is no proof as to these allegations. People arguing for the claim that videogames are the cause of school shootings cite Columbine and the two children involved in the incident, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who both played the DOOM series frequently. Even more try to show that they made a custom level that pertained to their school, which has been proved to be untrue, as shown on this website, showing all levels that Harris created before the massacre
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/doom.asp
Nonetheless, just because a game is violent does not give the reason to create a sweeping generalization about all video games. Some games are incredibly pacifistic, like Super Mario Bros. or Pokemon, enjoyable by all ages. Video games like Manhunt, or Grand Theft Auto are labeled M (for Mature) because developers assume those who play the games are mature enough not to take the game for a reality-based situation. Those who DO go on shootings that have some sort of video-game related past should not first have the assumption that video games caused what they did. After the Virginia Tech shooting, the first question toward the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, that I heard on the news was to whether or not the person in question played video games. This was later proved untrue, but shows exactly what kind of mentality people have about a simple electronic toy; video games.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Cutting Close Redux
Again, the blog is due in less that 5 hours.
Man I need to stop procrastinating like this.
I don't even have time for lunch now, class in in 3 hours.
I read other peoples blogs and they haven't updated yet either.
This should be interesting.
Man I need to stop procrastinating like this.
I don't even have time for lunch now, class in in 3 hours.
I read other peoples blogs and they haven't updated yet either.
This should be interesting.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
ddoouubbllee lleetttteerrss
If anyone sees double letterss, like what happened in the word "letters", it's because of the new keyboard I have. The keys are membrane sensitive, so if I don't press down hard enough, it counts each letter twice, one for the push down and one for the pop-up. I will use spell check, but I may miss a few letters if I'm laazy. I dooubt thaat will happen, howwever.
Transparency Begets Trust in the Ever Expanding Blogosphere
Part1:
Dear God what have I gotten myself into. To begin I must give a disclaimer. I am completely cross as to the way that I explain myself in part 1. The ability to be random will show itself to great extent, whether you want it to or not. I tend not to curse. Hooray. (=3)
->Basically what my article, named in the title above, is about how blogs are becoming more of a common "interest" then those of actual brand-name news websites, such as the New York and Los Angeles Times. I believe that this is entirely true, however, due to the nature of the assignment I have been given, I must instead find some small part of it to argue, whether or not it is entirely a very large portion of the mentioned article. I plan to do so (argue) with what seems to be some pretty basic point-outs that may actually have a very large impact. We'll see.
Part 2:
When a person looks at a blog, they see an area where information has been posted and/or published. This information may or may not be true. Say the Blog poster has not taken the time to cite his sources or give any background information. There could be many reasons as to why he/she has not. If the blog poster was an eyewitness to a murder or even that happened not but a few minutes ago, then obviously, citing sources would be impossible. However, if the poster simply did not cite sources to an event that happened around a month ago, who is not to say the person reading the post can't do a small amount of research himself? If a blog post looks fishy, as if it may be fake, the first thing to logically do is to make sure it isn't, through personal research.
J.D. Lascia also wrote in his/her article "Why do many readers find bloggers more believable than mainstream news organizations?" I believe the reason for this is because blog posts are from normal people, like most of the population. Therefore, the masses feel a sort of relation to the poster, understanding what they have to say, and thus accepting what they have to say for granted. Of course, if the blog is completely incapable of being read, using words in "leetspeek"or a failure of capitalization and punctuation, one can assume that the post itself is not to be trusted. After all, how is *my* post to be trusted more than anybody else's?
Dear God what have I gotten myself into. To begin I must give a disclaimer. I am completely cross as to the way that I explain myself in part 1. The ability to be random will show itself to great extent, whether you want it to or not. I tend not to curse. Hooray. (=3)
->Basically what my article, named in the title above, is about how blogs are becoming more of a common "interest" then those of actual brand-name news websites, such as the New York and Los Angeles Times. I believe that this is entirely true, however, due to the nature of the assignment I have been given, I must instead find some small part of it to argue, whether or not it is entirely a very large portion of the mentioned article. I plan to do so (argue) with what seems to be some pretty basic point-outs that may actually have a very large impact. We'll see.
Part 2:
When a person looks at a blog, they see an area where information has been posted and/or published. This information may or may not be true. Say the Blog poster has not taken the time to cite his sources or give any background information. There could be many reasons as to why he/she has not. If the blog poster was an eyewitness to a murder or even that happened not but a few minutes ago, then obviously, citing sources would be impossible. However, if the poster simply did not cite sources to an event that happened around a month ago, who is not to say the person reading the post can't do a small amount of research himself? If a blog post looks fishy, as if it may be fake, the first thing to logically do is to make sure it isn't, through personal research.
J.D. Lascia also wrote in his/her article "Why do many readers find bloggers more believable than mainstream news organizations?" I believe the reason for this is because blog posts are from normal people, like most of the population. Therefore, the masses feel a sort of relation to the poster, understanding what they have to say, and thus accepting what they have to say for granted. Of course, if the blog is completely incapable of being read, using words in "leetspeek"or a failure of capitalization and punctuation, one can assume that the post itself is not to be trusted. After all, how is *my* post to be trusted more than anybody else's?
Woo.
Cutting it close.
Blog is due in 5 hours. I should probably get get crack-a-lacking.
Oh.
And this is my Blog, Letters that make Words.
Words also make sentences, and fragments. Possibly run-ons, if punctuation is LAZY which I think is is being right now because of it's realization of it's importance and it's use in the structure of everything said, typed, written and telepathically conveyed. Curse you run-on sentences! Without punctuation, your life would be one GARGANTUAN run-on sentence.
So yeah. Tick tock.
The clock is ticking and I gotta read.
Cutting it close.
Blog is due in 5 hours. I should probably get get crack-a-lacking.
Oh.
And this is my Blog, Letters that make Words.
Words also make sentences, and fragments. Possibly run-ons, if punctuation is LAZY which I think is is being right now because of it's realization of it's importance and it's use in the structure of everything said, typed, written and telepathically conveyed. Curse you run-on sentences! Without punctuation, your life would be one GARGANTUAN run-on sentence.
So yeah. Tick tock.
The clock is ticking and I gotta read.
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