i think that is movies good and bad good because they teaches us alot of things and bad because
so many people leave the good tings and take the bad things like violence
الجمعة، 30 أكتوبر 2009
action movies
Action Films. Good Or Bad ??What place does violence have in the movies? Well, Ibelieve that violence has a place in movies dependingon the particular film and what the director of thefilm is trying to portray. If the director usesviolence in his/her film and there isn't any reasonbehind it, then I would disagree and say that violenceshouldn't be in THAT particular film. But in a movielike "Saving Private Ryan", Steven Spielburgreplicates the actual events of D-Day on to the bigscreen by creating a violent-like scene to get theviewer of an understanding of what U.S. troops had togo through. In other films, we see violence used totest the human soul and to see if he/she/they couldovercome trials and tribulations. In the film"Independence Day", Earth was attacked "violently" byaliens; therefore, leaving behind a planet that wasalmost completely destroyed. The humans, aftersurviving the attack, joined forces with others aroundthe world and destroyed the alien invasion to regainEarth. In those two cases, I would agree and say thatviolence should be in the movies. The role of violencein films has been a big one. In some of today'smovies, its seems like the films portrays violence,but don't back it up with some reasoning orexplanation as to why the character is doing whathe/she is doing. "Shootfighter" is movie that comes tomind when I talk about movies with violence withoutreasoning or explanation. The movie is about twokarate instructors and their master going down toMexico to fight in an illegal shootfightingtournament. During the course of the movie, youwitness people getting sliced up and their heads cutoff with ninja swords, a fighter raping a girl becauseshe wouldn't do what she was told by the rapist, andother fighters...
الخميس، 22 أكتوبر 2009
my reaction about the essay
i think that evey things in this essay is right even if i did not read all the essay butits true and to make every thing klear vist this wep site http://www.walkingpaper.org/275 take care bey
great essay about video games
Video Games Are Good For You by “Juniorette”
Video games are widely known as an excellent source of entertainment, and are, according to some, better than watching TV because of their interactivity. What a lot of people don’t know is that they can be good for those who play them, and are easy to obtain and keep, since most games and systems can be kept together in one area. They come at low cost, usually under thirty dollars.
There are several genres of video games. RPGs, or role-playing games, often include the task of completing quests. The characters in the game are your party, or your team, and there are frequently three to eight in a game, though only some of them may be able to fight at a time, and players have to balance their teams to use all their skills effectively. MMORPGs (Massively-multiplayer online RPG) are online RPGs where people all over the world create custom characters and interact with other people in the game world, joining together to form their own parties and complete quests. In racing games, up to four players, depending on what game, race against each other on different tracks. There are the classic games that are like NASCAR, and there are others that use characters from classic video games of other genres, like in Mario Kart Double Dash. Fighting games are exactly that. There are some that even have their own small plot lines, where the goal is to defeat the strongest character and win the prize. In strategy games, the player controls a wide range of characters that they act as tactician for and direct around a map to defeat an enemy or accomplish a mission. In sports games, the player controls a favorite basketball or football team that they lead to the championship, or a single character, such as in golf or skating games. There are genres to entertain nearly everyone who wants to play a game.
Some parents might think that watching TV is a better way to spend your time than playing Halo 2 (a popular first-person shooter MMORPG). Aaron Schmidt, reference librarian at Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs, IL, had this to say on the subject:
“I think games are much more interesting than TV. TV is a ONE WAY operation going from the TV to the viewer. Games are a TWO WAY operation, back and forth, where the viewer can change the world and story. Games let people be creative and interact with their world whereas TV tells people what to think.†(Schmidt 2005)
TV also typically costs more than a video game. With the game there is only one payment (unless it’s a subscription to an online game), but you need to pay continuously to use your TV. Books are an excellent source of entertainment as well that parents might choose over games or TV. Schmidt had this to say about books vs. video games:
“I think books are great, and I think video games are great. Many people don’t realize it, but there can be just as much reading in video games as in books.â€
Schmidt also said that the reason some libraries, including his, is that kids like video games, librarians like kids in the library, and therefore, they have video games.
Many people think that video games are the cause of more violent, aggressive behavior in kids and teens. “I’m convinced that violent video games do contribute to adolescents’ becoming more violent, having more hostile feelings, and [experiencing] more desensitization,” Joanne Cantor, recently retired University of Wisconsin professor said. “I think the kids distinguish pretty clearly between the cartoonish nature of a video game and reality,” John Beck, author of a book about video games, said. “I grew up with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd shooting at each other’s heads all the time.” (Anonymous 1.)
Games can be good tools for learning and developing one’s mind. Some wonder how learning in school can be more like a game by using some of the learning principals found in games, such as interaction (simulations of how the student could apply the problem to real life, perhaps), creativity (customizing what the problem is about), being pleasantly frustrating (the student might want to solve the problem because it interests them more), or performance before competence (showing that the student can do something at all before doing it well) (Gee 2-4).
Video game programming and design are now college majors. EA (Electronic Arts) Games, the no.1 video game maker in America, was hiring people from college who had no experience in game design and the wrong art and computer training. “For 20 years, students came out of school and they had to kind of unlearn what they had learned in computer science…the stuff they had learned in art was inappropriate…we had to do a lot of training internally,†Bing Gordon, the Gordon, the company’s chief creative officer, said. The gaming industry was starving for talent. This changed when video game design, programming, and script writing programs were introduced into colleges (Schiesel).
A good game is an interactive structure that requires players to struggle towards a goal. Without interaction, it’s just a puzzle. In some RPGs (role-playing games), players have to figure out a puzzle with clues they get by interacting with NPCs (non-playable characters), or by physically doing the puzzle on the map or in the form of riddles.
Without a goal, the end result of the player’s actions, there’s no point in playing. In many RPG games, the players have several goals over the course of the game that they have to complete before they can win. Without a struggle, the game’s just boring. It’s not fun to walk right through to the end of a game without having to accomplish goals or fight any monsters. Some ways to create struggle to make a game interesting include puzzles, such as riddles, sliding puzzles, and mazes; obstacles, like bosses (a strong enemy character the player has to fight at the end of a level) and the normal monsters found everywhere; and violence in the form of fighting, or a character being attacked in a cutscene (a sequence in a video game that the player has no control over, and is used to advance the plot and portray dialogue) (Costikyan).
Games are wonderful sources of entertainment that come in all kinds of forms. They provide a unique, interactive, and complex activity, at low cost and zero risk. Their design, script writing, and programming are becoming college majors. Games are even better than TV in some ways.
Video games are widely known as an excellent source of entertainment, and are, according to some, better than watching TV because of their interactivity. What a lot of people don’t know is that they can be good for those who play them, and are easy to obtain and keep, since most games and systems can be kept together in one area. They come at low cost, usually under thirty dollars.
There are several genres of video games. RPGs, or role-playing games, often include the task of completing quests. The characters in the game are your party, or your team, and there are frequently three to eight in a game, though only some of them may be able to fight at a time, and players have to balance their teams to use all their skills effectively. MMORPGs (Massively-multiplayer online RPG) are online RPGs where people all over the world create custom characters and interact with other people in the game world, joining together to form their own parties and complete quests. In racing games, up to four players, depending on what game, race against each other on different tracks. There are the classic games that are like NASCAR, and there are others that use characters from classic video games of other genres, like in Mario Kart Double Dash. Fighting games are exactly that. There are some that even have their own small plot lines, where the goal is to defeat the strongest character and win the prize. In strategy games, the player controls a wide range of characters that they act as tactician for and direct around a map to defeat an enemy or accomplish a mission. In sports games, the player controls a favorite basketball or football team that they lead to the championship, or a single character, such as in golf or skating games. There are genres to entertain nearly everyone who wants to play a game.
Some parents might think that watching TV is a better way to spend your time than playing Halo 2 (a popular first-person shooter MMORPG). Aaron Schmidt, reference librarian at Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs, IL, had this to say on the subject:
“I think games are much more interesting than TV. TV is a ONE WAY operation going from the TV to the viewer. Games are a TWO WAY operation, back and forth, where the viewer can change the world and story. Games let people be creative and interact with their world whereas TV tells people what to think.†(Schmidt 2005)
TV also typically costs more than a video game. With the game there is only one payment (unless it’s a subscription to an online game), but you need to pay continuously to use your TV. Books are an excellent source of entertainment as well that parents might choose over games or TV. Schmidt had this to say about books vs. video games:
“I think books are great, and I think video games are great. Many people don’t realize it, but there can be just as much reading in video games as in books.â€
Schmidt also said that the reason some libraries, including his, is that kids like video games, librarians like kids in the library, and therefore, they have video games.
Many people think that video games are the cause of more violent, aggressive behavior in kids and teens. “I’m convinced that violent video games do contribute to adolescents’ becoming more violent, having more hostile feelings, and [experiencing] more desensitization,” Joanne Cantor, recently retired University of Wisconsin professor said. “I think the kids distinguish pretty clearly between the cartoonish nature of a video game and reality,” John Beck, author of a book about video games, said. “I grew up with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd shooting at each other’s heads all the time.” (Anonymous 1.)
Games can be good tools for learning and developing one’s mind. Some wonder how learning in school can be more like a game by using some of the learning principals found in games, such as interaction (simulations of how the student could apply the problem to real life, perhaps), creativity (customizing what the problem is about), being pleasantly frustrating (the student might want to solve the problem because it interests them more), or performance before competence (showing that the student can do something at all before doing it well) (Gee 2-4).
Video game programming and design are now college majors. EA (Electronic Arts) Games, the no.1 video game maker in America, was hiring people from college who had no experience in game design and the wrong art and computer training. “For 20 years, students came out of school and they had to kind of unlearn what they had learned in computer science…the stuff they had learned in art was inappropriate…we had to do a lot of training internally,†Bing Gordon, the Gordon, the company’s chief creative officer, said. The gaming industry was starving for talent. This changed when video game design, programming, and script writing programs were introduced into colleges (Schiesel).
A good game is an interactive structure that requires players to struggle towards a goal. Without interaction, it’s just a puzzle. In some RPGs (role-playing games), players have to figure out a puzzle with clues they get by interacting with NPCs (non-playable characters), or by physically doing the puzzle on the map or in the form of riddles.
Without a goal, the end result of the player’s actions, there’s no point in playing. In many RPG games, the players have several goals over the course of the game that they have to complete before they can win. Without a struggle, the game’s just boring. It’s not fun to walk right through to the end of a game without having to accomplish goals or fight any monsters. Some ways to create struggle to make a game interesting include puzzles, such as riddles, sliding puzzles, and mazes; obstacles, like bosses (a strong enemy character the player has to fight at the end of a level) and the normal monsters found everywhere; and violence in the form of fighting, or a character being attacked in a cutscene (a sequence in a video game that the player has no control over, and is used to advance the plot and portray dialogue) (Costikyan).
Games are wonderful sources of entertainment that come in all kinds of forms. They provide a unique, interactive, and complex activity, at low cost and zero risk. Their design, script writing, and programming are becoming college majors. Games are even better than TV in some ways.
الأربعاء، 21 أكتوبر 2009
Dirt blog
hi and welcom every one today i want to talk about gladiator and he meas when he takes the dirt so i see it like this when maximus picks up the dirt i think he means that he is concted to the land that he stands over and he fells like he is a part of that land this all about the firstQuestion and about the other one i think he feels like in some day he will be dirt and Ash like thePriest says ashes to ashes dust to dust show me the man or the woman u could Trust i hope that i did not make long and tall for all of u take care and see ya
الاثنين، 19 أكتوبر 2009
HELLO EVERY ONE
hi may name is abdullah and new student in tiep in Texas Austin and i like basketball and video games and i like to have fun i came here to U S to study english and to get my dgree from college and this is my gmail if any one hant to ask about any thing abdullahalharthi6@gmail.com so that is all take care every one bey
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