Thursday, May 1, 2008

Video game

According to "f," WILLIAN (2000), " In 1974 Atari employees Bob Brown and Harold Lee propose a home version of 'pong’, able to be hooked up to any tv set. In 1975 they cut a deal to sell the system under the Sears tele-games label. The order was for 150,000 units. Bushnell has nowhere near the facilities to produce that many in the time sears wants them, so he taps a venture capitalist for a $10 million line-of-credit to expand."(p. 7). Since 1949, people have designed video games. In the beginning, video games were very simple, but they needed a big machine. Nobody wanted to play them. In 1971, Nolan Bushnell was developed, but it did not sell well. In 1974 Kee games designed 'tank', which was the most successful and popular game in the world. After that, video games became more and more popular. In those days, more and more people are playing video games, and there were some problems came out. Video games are very bad for people's health. We should stop playing the violent video games because it will abet people in crime. We should stop playing video games too much, especially for children; heavy video game use by kids will slow brain development. We should stop playing games because it’s like drugs; more and more people are addicted to video games right now.
In "Computer and video game history," Mary Bellis states, "In 1952, Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University of Ambridge on human computer interaction. Douglas created the first graphical computer game- a version of Tic- Tac - Toe" (para. 1). Willian Higinbotham designed the first video game in 1958 that was called "Tennis for Two," in 1962, Steve Russell created Spaceward, which was the first game played on computer. In 1967, Ralph Bear designed Chase, which was the first video game played on television. In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney wrote the first arcade game. In 1972, they started to design Atari computers. In 1975, Atari re-released Pong, which came out in people's life. In 1976, Channel F was created and it was one of the first games that used electronic systems. In 1980, Atari designed "Asteroids" and "Lunar Lander," which were the first two video games that were published in the Copyright office.
First, we shouldn’t play the violent video games. In "Game over for China's net addicts" the author states,” ‘the effects are the same,’ Tao said. 'Some addicts drop out of school, some mug people for money, steal and sell their families' things to keep playing games. Some end up killing themselves because they feel life has no point’. Addiction to the Internet is blamed for most juvenile crime in China, a number of suicides, and deaths from exhaustion by players unable to tear themselves away from marathon game sessions"(2007, para. 18). Video games encourage people to break the law and try what they play in violent games. They think they can get money from people who are not stronger than them. In the games, players can kill different people who have low level or bad equipment. In the game, there are no rules. People just look at who is at high level or strong. In "Violent video games cited as bad gifts for kids" the author states (2004) "publish standards for marketing video games that encourage or reward players for performing acts of violence and brutality, and that depict images demeaning to women and minorities; place M-rated games in a location separate from other games in stores; post signage describing the video games ratings systems; and evaluate and report on their enforcement and compliance programs of policies to prevent minors from purchasing violent video games…"(Para. 8). It mean the violent video games can affect your life habits, You will use same feeling to think about people and tings that happen in your life. You will use same way to solve that problem too. The violent video games are like minors, it let juvenile crimes easy to happen in normal life. Especially for young people, they do not have good personal control ability. They are easy to accept some new things, but they cannot separate bad and good things. It is easy try to break laws because of an impulse.
Second, we should stop playing video games because heavy video game use by kids will slow brain development. In "Heavy Video Game Use by Kids May slow Brain Development" the author states, “Is a task such as the Kraepelin test a fair comparison? I believe that it is more than fair. Adding single digit numbers is a very mundane task that does not sound like it would require much of the brain. If video games use even less of the brain than the simple task of adding single digit numbers, then imagine how much less of the brain that they use than more complex activities such as socially interacting with peers. Frontal lobe development is necessary for learning to control behavior, as well as for developing memory, emotion and learning.” It means when children play video games; they just use their eyes to look at changing in TV screen and listen to songs. They don’t need to use their brain to think, remember or have emotion. Most of time brain doesn’t work or just works in a small area. . If you don’t let your brain be active, your behavior will be affected by what you play. In “Heavy Video Game Use by Kids May slow Brain Development” the author states “He appears convinced that children who play computer and video games excessively will not develop their frontal lobes and may be more prone to act more violently as they grow up. His research findings bolster earlier findings that violent video games contribute to violent behavior.” (2001, papa. 5). Many video games have violent now, if children play too much of those games, their behavior will become violent and irascible. They will not have a mellow attitude to solve problems, only violence. It is the most important time to stop playing computer games.
Third, we should stop playing games because it is like drug, more and more people are addicted to video games right now. "At the end of 2006, China had 137 million Internet users, an increase of 23.4 percent from the previous year. Of users under 18, an estimated 13 percent -- or 2.3 million -- are Internet addicts, according to a 2006 study by the China National Children's Centre."(2007, Para. 13) More and more young people are addicted to Internet games in China right now. A number of juvenile crimes are also caused by Internet games. Some violent games affect people’s minds and become a real killer. Internet games are like alcoholism and drugs. Most young people lose their dream and want to kill themselves. The online games are like alcoholism and drugs. They give people a virtual place to do what they want. They will kill other players and not need go to jail. They come to love to play this game all day. If they don’t have money to pay for the game, they will steal things to sell or rob people. A number of juvenile crimes are also caused by Internet games so we should help them and keep them away from games. If people play a lot of violent games, they want to try it in real life. Maybe they will kill people just for their cyber swords or virtual money. They become crazy and adapt to breaking the law, especially if they don’t have enough money to play games. In "Game over for China's net addicts" (2007), the author states "With education perceived by many parents as the only means of advancement in an ultra-competitive society of 1.3 billion people, some lock their children up to study and ask teachers to assign them extra homework.” (para. 27) That means the parental pressure is also useful to help children break Internet addiction. The children live in society so family, school and government should get together to help children break video addiction.
In conclusion, these days, every child plays video games and computer games at home; they take much time playing games. Their life is the game. They do not use their brain as usual, they do not study or do some exercise. They will become sick and slow. Many violent games are very dangerous, which will encourage children to commit crime and change their behavior. Government should use laws to limit violent games and Internet bars. Parents should help their children to pick good video games to play and limit their time. Children should go outside to do some exercise and hang out friends, not play games the whole day. It’s not that video games are bad; some games can also improve your health. In “Computer Games Are Good For Your Health” the author states “ At the same time, WVU monitored health indicators throughout the period, including weight, blood pressure, body mass index, arterial function, fitness levels and attitudes towards exercise.”(2007. Papa. 3) We should balance our time and choose a good video game to play.
References
William, hunter(2000). From ‘pong’ to ‘Pac-man’. Retrieved
April 29, 2008, form http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/pong.html
Mary, Bellis (n.d). Computer and Video Game History. Retrieved
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Reuters. (2007) Game over for China's net addicts. Retrieved
April 29, 2008, form http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/200703/12/content_825231.htm
Kevin Hawkins. (2004). Violent video games cited as bad gifts for kids. Retrieved April 29, 2008, form http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=284415
Heavy Video Game Use by Kids May slow Brain Development. (2001, August). Heavy Video Game Use by Kids May slow Brain Development. Retrieved
April 29, 2008, form
http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/familyresources/a/videojap.htm

James, Brightman. (2007, February 5). Computer Games Are Good For Your Health. Retrieved April 29, 2008, form
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2007/id20070205_745178.htm?chan=innovation_game+room_top+stories

Mcdonald’s

Mcdonald is one of the most populate restaurants in the world. Although it becomes successful company, it hurt many people in the world. When you see the golden arches, you’re probably on the road to the pearly gates. (Castelli,1998). Mcdonald help people save time, but make people become fatter and fatter. Mcdonald has made American people become super fat country in the world. That is very bad for our health. If when you become fat, many diseases are waiting for you, such as high blood pressure and heart disease. Mcdonald always use green washing to misleading customers. McDonald’s advertising has been misleading regarding its fat content. (Barnard,1993). The first healthy killer in US is heart disease that is caused by fat. I don’t like Mcdonald.
Mcdonald’s is one of the most famous restaurants in the world. Mcdonald’s are successful because management can catch customers’ heart. They use low price, best taste and small gifts to compete in the market. We provide food that customers love, day after day after day.people just want more of it. (Kroc, 1995). McDonald is the first fast food restaurant in the world and also it speeds up American economic speed. It grow up with American, it supports a lot of working places for teenagers. It’s no secret that the majority of college students don’t know how to make their own food, or it could be that they are simply too lazy, but one way or the other, there is always good restaurant. (Dangling, 2008). McDonald is a normal restaurant, people like it.

CESL

I have studied CESL for 6 months. I think CESL is a good place to study English because teachers are very kind and classmates are friendly. It is unbelievable that all of the world people together to study. We have different culture and different background, but we can exchange our opinions with English. CESL likes a big family. There are no age difference and sex difference. There is saying in China: if you meet a friend, you are the luck dog. We come from the whole world so we should treasure our friendship. I also have some advices for CESL. The first one is CESL can organize more activities for traveling. The second one is CESL should give us more Toefl classes per week. The third one is teachers should give more help to shy people and let them try to talk. I think traveling is a best way to make people relax and know each other. Traveling also improve our knowledge of American cultural. I think we should have more Toefl classes because we come to CESL is we want to improve our English skills and study in USA. Toefl is one required that we come to university in USA. We should do more Toefl practices. I think many students are the first time to USA so they are too shy to speak English. CESL teachers should give them more encourage. I think they are very helpful to CESL.

The Wikipedia has three bad influences

The Wikipedia is very popular right now. It likes Google and Yahoo that you can search information as quickly as you can. Also you can put your opinions on it. It is very useful and quickly to find some sources, but it also has some bad influences. The first one is the Wikipedia gives people too much freedom so every people can write anything on it. The second one is the Wikipedia gives people unreal information sometimes. The third one is the Wikipedia affects education of school students.
The first one is the Wikipedia gives people too much freedom so every people can write anything on it. The Internet is the other society so we should keep it clean. If people get too much freedom, they can write some bad discussions and put it on Wikipedia. When people look at it, maybe they will believe it. Wikipedia articles can be written and put their articles by anyone at anytime (Wolverton, Wikipedia, Vanguard, 2007, Para, 7). People can put violence information and instigate people to against the government, for example, some people want to separate Xizhang out of China so they put said that they will try to rush torch of Olympic game right now. Some people believe their opinions and commit crime so Wikipedia should limit people’s rights.
The second one is the Wikipedia gives people unreal information sometimes. Anyone can put their articles on the Wikipedia so some information just depends on people. Maybe they will change something to prove their opinions. You don’t need real name and all of your personal information so people don’t afraid that police will find him one day. “ The internet will never be like the school library. Nor should it be. Its value as a communication medium lies in its openness and diversity”(Lengel, 2006, Para, 12). It is not like library book, or in the newspaper, or on television because all of this media are well mediated (Lengel, 2006, Para, 12).
The third one is Wikipedia affects education of school students. The Wikipedia supports too much information and sources that students can easily get what they want. “This website has grown into an immensely useful resource for background information on a wide range of scientific subjects, and can serve as a quick reference for any number of scientific facts” (Parry, 2008, Para, 6). They do not need to think too much by themselves. Students had poor skills of assess the relevance and authority of information sources by themselves (Bilodeau, 2008, Para, 11). Students will become lazy of thinking how to independent thinking and they just pick information from the Wikipedia. Sometimes there is some unreal information in it.
Although the Wikipedia is very useful in our life, we should know how to separate good information and bad information. The Wikipedia should limit people’s rights and keep the website clean. The teachers should help students know how to think and pick ideas by themselves.
Reference
Jason Wolverton, Wikipedia Wisdom, Valley Vanguard, Jan. 22. 2007. It was retrieved on April 23, 2008. http://www.svsu,edu/clubs/vnguard/stories/1141
Jim Lengel, Authority, Teaching with Technology, 2/07/2006. It was retrieved on April 23,2008.http://www.powertolearn.com/articles/tecaching_with_technology?article/shtml?ID=12

Greenwashing is very bad for society

Greenwashing are very common right now. No matter it is a big global company or a small personal company. They use advertisements and celebrities to make their products as “green”. There are three disadvantages of greenwashing. The first one is consumers are tired of “green” and they don’t believe products. The second one is people do not want to change greenwashing and they become adapt to it. The third one is greenwashers become more crazy and only put their eyes on benefits.
The first one is consumers are tired of “green” and they don’t believe products. “ It’s little wonder that some consumers are experiencing whtat the Tennessee-based consumer research firm The Shelton Group calls “ green fatigue.” (Greg Campbell, 2008. Para. 8). All the companies use greenwashing and all of products are “green”. Can you believe that? Consumers have know become lose their confidence of products. “ The proliferation of “green” products- remember the chewing gum – remember the chewing gum- has distracted consumers from the important choices that could really make a difference, rendering them largely “clueless” about how to affect change.” (Greg Campbell, 2008, Para. 20).
The second one is people do not want to change greenwashing and they become adapt to it. If greenwashing is very common in the world, consumers will think it as usual. They will not want to change it. “ Few people are taking action to deal with the threat of climate change, although over the past 12 months the vast majority have come to accept that it poses a real threat to the world.” (Juliette Jowit & Robin McKie, 2007. Para. 2). If people do not change greenwashing, it will hurt human rights. Companies will lie to consumers and their products are not “green”. In the end, greenwashing will become right because no body want to change it.
The third one is greenwashers will become crazy and just put their eyes on benefits. If greenwashing can help companies make more benefits and people do not against it, anyone will work hard on it. On the other hand, they will do more greenwashing that can hurt consumers. “ Greenwashers manufacture and market popularity. If it’s manufactured fast enough, it doesn’t allow green consumers the time to check and raise concerns about the authenticity of corporate claims.” (Environmental Leader, 2007. Para. 2).

Greenwashing Is Very Bad For Global Ecosystems

According to “Time to stop the greenwashing.” Glen Barry said global economic healthy developing depend on global ecosystems. We should pay attention on destroying ecosystems and stopping greenwashing. The companies use greenwashing to earn more benefits, but governments do not have enough laws and policies to limit them. There are four ways to stop greenwashing and get ecological living. The first one is we need governments build some new laws and policies to limit pollute in environment. The second one is we should give environment time to rebuild. The third one is we should use new technology to change vehicle and reduce pollute in ecosystems. The last one is we should study to live frugal because we should know how to last our living.
The first one is we need governments build some new laws and policies to limit pollute in environment. Companies use greenwashing because governments don’t use law to limit them, so policies are very important. For example, laws said people mustn’t build chemical factories near lakes so the water scarce and atmosphere are very good. Laws and policies are control people’s behaviors.
The second one is we should give environment enough time to rebuild. Resources are easy to use up, but hard to regenerate. Although ecosystems can clear our pollution by itself, it also has its maximum. For example, gas and coal are unregenerate resources, we will use it up one day, but when we burn coal and gas make a lot of carbon dioxide. It will cause earth worming which is very big and hard problem right now.
The third one is we should use new technology to change vehicle and reduce pollute in ecosystems. A number of cars are running everyday so million of carbon dioxide and sculpture discharge into air. We should buy some new technology cars to reduce this pollution. For example, you can buy hybrid cars that use gas and electric. It can save your gas and more clean than normal cars. New touchingly is not only reduce pollution, but also reduce resources and cost.
Finally we should study to frugal. The resources are limited, we will use it up one day so we should know how to make it longer and more useful. For example, there was a biggest opencast in Shandong China in 40 years ago, but government do not know frugal and excessive exploit. Today there is now coal and earth’s surface has sank. We should study ecological living.
The greenwashing is very common in the world. The ecosystems are faced a big challenge right now. We should think about how to stop greenwashing and rebuild our ecosystems. Greenwashing is big problem that we should solve right now.
References
Barry, Glen. Time to stop the Greenwahing (Jan, 04, 2008). Retrieved
April 9, 2008, form
http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/2008/01/time-to-stop-greenwashing.html

Is that good to play Internet and TV games?

I am interested in weather play Internet and TV games are good after reading some articles. There are different opinions, one group of people criticizes it, other people support it. According to “Game over for China’s net addicts” people criticize it because games like drug, young people are addicted on it. There are many problems that are caused by net games, such as suicide and juvenile crime, especially for some violent games, if you take long time to play children will like living in invented world and they will lose their goals and their dreams. I always hear education organization criticize it in China. According to “Move, baby, move … healthy kick in video games.”(2008) Julie Robotham said it is good for children’s health. It can improve children’s blood pressure heart and help them lose weight. While children playing games, their heart rates and breath become faster. Furthermore their heart get more useful excise and become much stronger. Children play games is batter than watch TV because when they always compete and fire their calorie. On the other hand, it is best way to lose weight.
In my paper, I plan to argue with people are limited children to play TV and Internet games. First, children have their right to pick what they want to play and it is also a best chance to let them separate something is good or bad. Second, Internet games are one way to dismiss time, parents should teach the best way to play it, not just stop them to play. Finally, the games companies shouldn’t create so many violent games and government should build new law to forbid violent games.
I have found a lot of articles to tell us what are advantages and disadvantages of Internet games. Also, I have found many useful websites that will help me talk about how to prove my opinions. I still need an article about what do children think about Internet games.

References
Robotham, Julie (2006, April, 15). Move, baby, move… healthy kick in video games. Fairfax Digital news. Retrieved April 2, 2008,
From http:// www.shm.com Au/articles/2006/04/14/1144521509530.html
Reuters (2007, march, 11). Game over for China’s net addicts. Reuters news. Retrieved March 24, 2008,
From http:// www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK175279.htm

Monopoly and Oligether

Monopoly means there is only one company in a products producing area. For example, there just have one shoes company such as Nick so all the people wear Nick shoes. The government will use anti-trust laws to fight monopolies because the Nick can decide whatever price they want and company’s target is profit. If they can control whole the market, they will not think weather poor people cannot afford to buy their shoes. If people cannot wear shoes, they will travel around and change a new government. The consumers also have their way to against monopolies. For example, consumers will get together to travel around near company and get together against their products.
Oligopoly means there are a few companies in a products producing area. For example, the Shell, Morrow and other oil companies get together to control gas price. They will give same high price and some people cannot afford it. On the other hand, poor people cannot use cars or what relate to gas. People will angry and travel around. People also get together and do not buy gas and other oil products. Maybe some days later, all the companies have to reduce their price.

MY FEELING OF CARBENDALE

Carbondale is a small town of Illinois. Although it’s near Chicago, it is not as developing as Chicago. SIUC is here, so it looks like a university town. There are not so many interesting places such as bar, showplace and shopping more. The population of Carbondale is 25597, so it always quiet on the streets. At the first month when I been here, I think every things are very funny, because this is my first time to go abroad. After three mouths, I think Carbondale is very boring. There are not so many delicious restaurants and also a little expressive. In Carbondale people are very kind, church support us free lunch and invite me come to celebrate Christmas. The most different between Carbondale and my hometown is I feel I live in natural because green trees, beautiful birds and a number of animals are around me. CESL teachers help me a lot, not only English study, but also life problems. I made so many international friends in CESL. I like live in Carbondale.

video games can improve health

Video games can improve children's health
According to "Move, baby, move... healthy kick in video games", Julie Robotham said play video games
is other excise. It can improve children's blood pressure heart loss weight. he choired 21 boys to do the
research and found that it is batter than physical exercise for losing weight. he think video games is
way to replace time like watching TV, but it's better because it can keep children's weight. However, it can
not support muscle excise. Many parents like Marilyn Cullura that they think video games are bad and they don't
want their children to play it.
Playing video games are very common for children. it can help children against heart disease and loss weight because children
want to compete and take a lot of time playing it. furthermore, it is different from watching TV because children are more
exciting when they play games. but parents think it is bad because they think it can not excise children's body and children
will be addicted in playing games.
playing video games can help children against heart disease because children heart rates and breach become
faster when they play games so their heart will become stronger. for example, when I play a fighting game, I always
feel exciting and worried about my hero so my heart beat faster and I feel nervous. we should let children play video games because it
is a good way to keep away from heart disease, but it is a special excise so parents should let their children do
some physical excises stronger their body.
playing video games can loss weight because when you play games you keep your mind on it and become nervous.
your sweat go down and your muscle become tired. it is different from watching TV. when you watch TV, you just look
at it and relax yourself. sometimes people eating food while watching TV so they more calorie will stay in their body.
we should try to play video games because while you're enjoying games, you also easy to loss your weight.
Many parents think play video games are bad because they think children will addicted in it. If they think
play games is a way to take care of their children, they will change their mind. we should let children play video games
because it can improve children's health, but parents should take their children go outside and do some physical sports.
if children take too long time to play games, it is also bad for their eyes and body. The best way to help children
is we should tell them when to stop.for example, if children spend a long time to play games, he will forget to do his
homework and his vision will become bad.
play video games is a special excise,it can help children loss weight and keep away form heart disease.parents should
let their children play games, but they should tell them when to stop it.