Monday, September 24, 2007

Essay continued

I forgot to add that my paper is suitable for the intended audience because it involves them. The adminsitration is the ones who are trying to eliminate the rollover plans and we, the students, are directly affected by the loss of money.

Essay

The directed audience of my paper is the BGSU administration and the students of BGSU. My essay discusses the expensive meal plans and how we should not be forced to purchase one and if we are forced to, our money should rollover. One way i paid attention to my audience was by citing a fellow student. Their opinion gives credibility to my essay and shows that most students are alike in the fact that we want more of a selection for food, some more healthy food, and our money to rollover to future semesters. Allowing the audience to take an active participation in the essay elminates some biases and keeps them reading.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Hillary vs. Grand Theft Auto

Johnson's position on video games is ridiculous. He believes that the rising popularity in video games has had a positive effect on today's youth. He points to crime rates, SAT scores, and even the declining rate in hijacked cars as evidence to support his point. He uses all these arguments to go against Clinton's argument for controlling video games. Johnson believes that the investigation is as ridiculous as an investigation on the raising rate of crime due to football. Johnson believe that video games are a mental outlet for children, while Clinton argues that they influence our youth to do the bad things that they see in video games. Johnson also believes that the growing rate of children who are playing video games is a direct correlation to the times. Johnson saids that because our world is becoming more and more technological, children will be better equipped for the changing work force. I do not agree with Johnson's arguments because they are based on bias facts and he is fabricating information and facts to further advance his point.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Clinton vs. grand theft auto

The author is a business man defending his product against the poilitician who wants to strengthen the rating which would bring down the sales, decreasing the profit for him. So of course he would take a stance against the critiques Hillary Clinton has for grand theft auto where he states that she overlooks the game noticing only the terrible things and not the good side. Although it may need a stronger rating, perhaps mature, she fails to notice that there is no real evidence that games that have stealing, or killing has any effect on the gamers or real crime, but in the last year or so crime has decreased. He supports his product by countering her assumptions by even mentioning that in truth the game is a healthy let out for the gamers to experience all of this in the game, to be sastified and not do in reality.

Letter to Clinton-Tim Fisher

The letter written to senator Clinton was way off base, and also poorly written. I originally agreed with Johnson's assesment that the senator was incorrect in researching the effects of video game violence affecting young children. However, he then began to randomly throw out ideas into his letter, some of which he never even concluded. For instance, he begins discussing how football helps foster violence in children. I didn't agree with this assesment, but I would have been interested in hearing his points. He never finished these points though, and it greatly took away from any possible influence this letter would have had on anyone. All in all, this was a very poorly written letter that completely misses the boat.
Johnson has a lot of problems with what Senator Clinton had to say. I believed his strongest arguement against her was the fact that violence actually has gone down since Grand Theft Auto has come out. As strange as that might be, maybe the fact that people can do harm in a video game actually helps society. He also brings up a point about High School Football. It is something many many kids are involved in, and he make a valid point at how kids are taught to somewhat hurt the other kid on the other team. Th points definately make you think.

Hillary Vs. GTA

Johnson finds many things wrong with Senator Clinton's argument for controlling video games. He mentions that the video games give the minds of the kids playing them more of a "work out". He says that it is better to think about managing a team in the madden video game than to sit on the couch and cheer for a team. He also states that crime rates have dropped since that games have arrived on the shelves. Finally, he mentions the fact that since "Grand Theft Auto" has come out there has been an extreme fall in crime rates.