...Don't Blame Video Games The video game error is somewhat new in this modern society. Although they are entertaining, the contents have become more violent and disturbing as technology has become more advanced. Today, the popularity of violent video games has caused an increase in controversy. Parents feel that some games are too violent; However, I believe violent video games do not cause an increase in aggression in teens. Besides the violent contents, video games has positive sides. For example, "Rainbow Six" series have become one of the games that require a solid teamwork. The player acts as the leader of an elite squad which consists of 3-4 members. At the beginning of the game, players can choose how to infiltrate the terrorist compound, either by planting an explosive on the door, using a fast rope from the rooftop, or simply breaching into several doors to create a surprise attack. These options push teen’s skills to the limit by forcing them to master the sense of logical thinking and strategy formations in which formal education does not offer. Video games are also a tool of social interactions. Sometimes Friendships are developed through playing video games and helps keep them away from drugs and violent activities. Most of the video games today have either multiplayer or online capabilities or even both. For example, I made friends with a lot of individuals from playing "Uncharted" online. The game focuses on eliminating the other team, so teamwork has...
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...rp The Blame Game In Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, a teenage boy is going through the process of growing into an adult. Holden deals with all the struggles of a teenage boy while he deals with the death of his younger brother. Holden is angry at his death and blames his parents and other adults. Therefore, he is petrified at the thought of growing up, because he does not want to be like those adults he considers flawed and phony. As a result, he does not carry out the responsibilities of a boy his age, but watches adults and explores adult behaviors in his struggle to grow up. Because Holden continues to fail in his battle to gain maturity, he looks to his future as an adult and becomes petrified at the thought of becoming one of them. Consequently, he tries to stay young to avoid the process of becoming an adult. He is obsessed with childhood and is wedged between a world of the innocence of children and the complex world of adulthood. Holden is stuck at a crossroads where he must choose what he wants to do. But since he is becoming older everyday it becomes evident to Holden that he will soon fall into the same status as adults and be forced to make the same compromises that they do. Holden is told that "life is a game" and that he must suck up to people and listen to authority if he ever plans to be successful in life. Holden does not want to take responsibility to communicate with others that want to help him. For example, When Dr. Thurmer, tries...
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...The Blame Game The blame of childhood obesity has become a silent war in America against the Big Food Corporations and the World Health Organizations. The article, Junk Food Nation, written by Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor provides a deeper insight of this subject matter. They believe the correlation between what is driving the Administration’s policy to support Big Food cooperation’s instead of World Health Organizations is large infusions of cash. The article explains how, although obesity in America’s youth is a developing concern, it is often down-played and blamed on other factors such as lack of exercise. Blaming other factors, and providing expert analysis of the situation makes it difficult to place blame on any one cause of the epidemic. The ideal solution to the concern at hand would be acknowledgement of the problem, and genuine efforts from the government/Big Food cooperation’s to work together for the betterment of the health of the youth. One would expect as obesity is a continuing rising issue in today’s society that cooperation’s would ban together to save our youth from the sting of being over-weight. However, this criterion was barely met. The government scratched the surface of the issue by acknowledgement that obesity was an issue. Ruskin indicated, “Kraft announced it would no longer market Oreos to younger children, McDonald’s promoted itself as a salad producer and Coca-Cola said it won’t advertise to kids’ under12.” Some cooperation’s even...
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...Are Video Games really to Blame for Violence of Children? Kid violence and video game violence: Is there a correlation? When a child commits an act of violence, there are times when video games are brought into the equation of the cause. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the crime, violent video games are being blamed directly for the violence of children. There has been research done to learn more about the effects playing violent games on children’s behavior. Since children learn through repetition, repeatedly watching acts of violence over and over again will have an adverse effect on a child’s mind. While the debate continues of whether violent video games are the cause of child violence, one thing that is certain is that parents need to be educated about the effects that playing unsuitable games can have on their children. Cases that seem to show a link between violent video games and children’s behavior are countless. In Jacksonville, Florida, a little girl accidentally shot herself with her father’s handgun (Warford). When Action News asked the little girl’s mother, Lachrisha Holmes, how the little girl even knew what to do with the gun, her mom replied, “I walked past my son and saw her on the computer and they were playing game called ‘Maria Wars,’ they were disassembling a gun” (Warford). Holmes said that she isn’t blaming video games but wonders if that is how her daughter learned what to do with a gun (Warford). In Marble Falls, Texas, a thirteen-year-old...
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...Mike Bozzo Professor Katie Robinson English 102 5 October 2014 The Blame Game The Downfall of Oedipus and Othello Both Othello and Oedipus are dramatic plays of tragic circumstances. Although written at different times and by different types of writers, each play has some of the same elements. Deceit, violence and self-destruction reign throughout. Each features men of great power reduced to nothing. However, the downfall of Oedipus is the work of the gods; the downfall of Othello is self-inflicted. Little is known of Shakespeare’s early life, but by 1592 he was well-established and successful in his vocation.(Folger, xxiii) By the time Othello was first performed, the author was already one of the most popular playwrights of his day and many of his best plays were already behind him.(Folger, xvi) His career spanned about 20 years. (New Folger, xxvi) Othello was composed between 1601 and 1604, with its first performance being in 1604. (Folger, x) The play was very popular and records indicate it remained popular through the seventeenth century. The source of the play was a short story from the Hecatommitchi, a collection of short stories by an Italian named Giovanni Battista Giraldi, published in 1565. (Folger, xi) The specific story is from a section of the collection titled “The Unfaithfulness of Husbands and Wives.”(Folger,xi) The main type of imagery used in Othello is that of animals in action, preying on one another. (Shakespeare’s Imagery, 335) In the play...
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...partnership in kite flying competitions. One day, after Hassan has been missing for several hours after setting off to retrieve Amir’s kite, Amir decides to go looking for him. Once Amir locates Hassan, he finds that he is being surrounded by the local bully, Assef, and his two henchmen. While Amir watches, the three boys violently assault Hassan. After the assault, Amir refuses to speak with Hassan and treats him with hostility as if he had done something wrong. In actuality, Amir was in the wrong, and deep down he knew it. Amir could have prevented the boys from assaulting Hassan by standing up to them. Yet, when his best friend needed him most, he was too afraid to take action. Amir, refusing to take responsibility for his mistake, pushes the blame for the incident off of himself and onto Hassan. In turn, the deep-rooted relationships the two boys shared is shattered and they grow increasingly distant as the film progresses. Amir eventually comes to terms with his mistakes; however, it is many years later after Hassan has...
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...Present Education as I see it: Someone approached me to teach his ward some mathematics or rather to supplement what could not be comprehensively deciphered from the notes from the plethora of private tutors (I don't know whether the notes are photocopies of age-old yellowish original manuscripts written in the last century and passed on from generation to generation). I am not blaming the notes or their authors rather I have the highest regard for both. But what a young impressionable mind in early teens need to appreciate is the beauty, thrill and magic of a subject. For example, in Mathematics the student should be exposed to and told about the interconnecting web that different streams of mathematics offers and how an insight of the interconnection of different streams of mathematics makes learning a seamless fun and that cannot happen if the teenager is considered as a raw material in a factory devoted to production of identical finished goods at the highest production rate attainable so that in given time the maximum number of students are churned out through the machine called a tutorial. I was horrified when I found that the student in question is reading from a book of MCQs which is like a question bank and not even sure of the name of the text books let alone read, read and ingest, digest and internalize the contents of the text book that has been the text book to students for the last hundred years or so and still considered to be the last word in the subject. ...
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...Hensch To make a choice is easy, but to make the right one can sometimes be very difficult. To speak one´s mind and stand up to your opinion can also be thought, especially when being in a large crowd, but sometimes it is the most important time for doing so. In the old days watching a musical or going to the theater was entertaining enough; it gave people a chance to relax and enjoy their time off, but now thing have changed. However, the cinema and musicals are still entertaining but the tings we find amusing have become more and more bizarre. This contemp-orary short story “Hensch” which is an American short story published in 1997, bring up the to-pic “entertainment” for discussion; have too many boundaries been crossed? Have we lost our innocence and dignity in the search of a cheap thrill? The most relevant themes in the story are: entertainment, moral responsibility and passivity. These three themes come together very nicely in the story and they play a big part in shaping the readers impression of the audience´s opinions towards Hensch and his performance. The knife thrower, Hensch, is the main character of the story, but throughout the text we gain very little knowledge of him. He is very mystical and does not speak a word during his act; of course this is done to make him an anonymous, but still a central character for the story. Susan Parker, the girl next door, symbolizes the whole community´s loss of innocence. Du-ring the show, they did not protest...
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...successful in all aspects of life. It is evident that when you lack responsibility for yourself that it plays a part in the lack of success you may encounter in life. Personal relationships and careers can be affected when you do not take control of your actions. Taking full responsibility for your short comings and not blaming others for what you are not doing will lead to redirection into a positive and successful life. Listed below are 5 Keys to Success. 1. Stop the blame game. 2. Root out your irresponsibility. 3. Change your self-talk. 4. Keep on learning. 5. Don't be disturbed by the sore losers. Zimmerman, A. (2012). Association of Information Technology Professionals. Retrieved from http://www.aitp.org/news/100685/ Being irresponsible can lead to poor choices. One trait in individuals that are irresponsible is that they make impulse decisions. They don’t make the effort to investigate or gather information without doing the first thing that comes to mind. They use constant excuses and blame everyone but themselves for not doing the things that they are supposed to do. An example is receiving a bill in the mail that specifically gives you a due date that it has to be paid. It could be anywhere from 7 to 14 days, but instead of paying it early you decide to throw it into a pile of mail and forget about it. The next week you receive a notice saying that you will be charged late fees for it not being...
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...The Real Skinny In the article entitled The Real Skinny by the author Belinda Luscombe states that don’t blame models for being too thin. Look to the fat cats of fashion. After reading the article I believe the main idea the author is trying to make is that models are skinny not because they want to be, but because they have to be or they will not get any work. The people who make the big decisions in the fashion world wants all the models to be super skinny, but nobody will come forward and take responsibility for it. The author also states that consumers take a part in why models are too thin now days too. One of the first examples the author uses is when she talks about the modeling agencies, the motherly folks who inform the models that they can eat or work but not both, say it’s because photographers demand subjects with skin, bones and preferably nothing else. The photographers say it’s the designers who set the limits. The designers blamed the stylists, the people who put together the look for the photo shoots at the magazines. The magazines say its Hollywood or its advertisers. And the advertisers say people find their products better when on, next to, or usually just barely covering slender body types. By putting this information in the article the author shows the reader that everyone in the fashion world plays the balm game and nobody takes responsibility. The next example is when the author brings the consumer in by stating what do we the people say? Do we rise up...
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...I. If I were a voice, a persuasive voice, That could travel the wide world through, I would fly on the beams of the morning light, And speak to men with a gentle might, And tell them to be true. I'd fly, I'd fly, o'er land and sea, Wherever a human heart might be, Telling a tale, or singing a song, In praise of the right - in blame of the wrong. II. If I were a voice, a consoling voice, I'd fly on the wings of air, The homes of Sorrow and Guilt I'd seek, And calm and truthful words I'd speak To save them from Despair. I'd fly, I'd fly, o'er the crowded town, And drop, like the happy sun-light, down Into the hearts of suffering men, And teach them to rejoice again. III. If I were a voice, a convincing voice, I'd travel with the wind, And whenever I saw the nations torn By warfare, jealousy, or scorn, If I were a voice, a convincing voice, I 'd travel with the wind, And whenever I saw the nations torn By warfare, jealousy, or scorn, Or hatred of their kind, I'd fly, I'd fly, on the thunder-crash, And into their blinded bosoms flash; And, all their evil thoughts subdued, I'd teach them Christian Brotherhood. IV. If I were a voice, a pervading voice, I'd seek the kings of Earth; I'd find them alone on their beds at night-- And whisper words that should guide them right-- Lessons of priceless worth; I'd fly more swift than the swiftest bird, And tell them things they never heard-- Truths which the ages for aye repeat-- Unknown to the statesmen...
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...for dinner and, out of excitement, the boy accidentally cuts his hand with the saw. He begs his sister not to allow the doctor to amputate the hand but inwardly realizes that he has already lost too much blood to survive. The boy dies while under anesthesia, and everyone goes back to work. Analysis Frost uses the method of personification to great effect in this poem. The buzz saw, though technically an inanimate object, is described as a cognizant being, aggressively snarling and rattling as it does its work. When the sister makes the dinner announcement, the saw demonstrates that it has a mind of its own by “leaping” out of the boy’s hand in its excitement. Frost refuses to lay blame for the injury on the boy, who is still a “child at heart.” In addition to blaming the saw, Frost blames the adults at the scene for not intervening and telling the boy to “call it a day” before the accident occurred. Had the boy received an early excuse from the workday, he would have avoided cutting off his hand and would have been saved from death. Moreover, a mere half-hour break from his job would have allowed the boy to regain part of his childhood, if only for a moment. Frost’s emphasis on the boy’s passivity and innocence in this situation is particularly significant in the context of the time period. After moving to England with his family, Frost was forced to return to America because of the onset of World War I in 1915, an event that would destroy the lives of many innocent...
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...People use to blame each other for a wide range of reasons. Usually we don’t think about the reasons of the behavior of people. We tend to come to conclusion according what we see. Paradigm shift is a good term that defines the movement from one way of seeing the world to another. After reading “The power of paradigm shift” I promised myself never blame people for anything. The story of irresponsible father was too impressive for me. Everyone thought that the man doesn’t care about the upbringing of his children and that his children disturb everyone. However, it turned out that his wife had died and the author saw, thought, felt and behaved differently. I remember that one time my paradigm was also shifted. One of my friends came from the USA and managed to meet nearly all our friends. Then, when the time came for our meeting, ten minutes earlier she called me and told that she can’t meet me. I was furious and I thought that she doesn’t want to see me. I thought that I would never have an arrangement with her as I thought that she didn't want to hang out with me. Then, the next day, I found out that her grandmother died on the day of our arrangement. I was shocked and felt very ashamed. I felt guilty for not trying to understand her at that moment. The day before I thought that she was the most irresponsible person I have ever met, however the next day I blamed only myself. At that period of my life I uncovered very important lesson for myself. One should not judge others...
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...Scapegoating has been around for as long as humanity because it is in human nature to gather as one and abuse a person who is different from the rest of society. In the article “What is Scapegoating”, the author delves into the process of scapegoating, claiming, “[Scapegoating] origins are in child and animal sacrifice; it is manifested through genocide and mass slaughters, such as the Holocaust … in schoolyards and work settings” (Colman 26). In other words, scapegoating was formulated by violence, and is continuing with violence, more specifically “through genocide and mass slaughters”. Genocide is defined as the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The person or group has an individualistic quality that sets off an instinctive action to hurt them, and destroy the quality. The Holocaust, an infamous historical example, clearly portrays how a group of people were mercilessly persecuted and murdered for being religiously different. Additionally, in “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, a short story about a utopian land with a cruel secret, the author depicts the idea of scapegoating in a shocking plot twist. There is a child locked away in a basement, and is the source of the town’s happiness. Everyone knows about it, but they do nothing, reasoning, “But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom … It is too degraded and imbecile to...
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...heart and mind we know that this is completely false. Responsibility is the road, not assuming responsibility signifies that we can’t accept to blame ourselves for our actions and current situations. Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled affirmed that one of the most difficult psychological conditions to treat the disorder of not taking responsibility for ourselves is the actual person - when the person really believes that is someone else’s fault for all her unfortunate situations. As you treat that person that always blames everything and everybody they need to get through their heads that they did it, they need to take responsibility for it and actions to fix what happened. A great example of not taking responsibility for your actions is just by watching a judicial trial caused by an adult that doesn’t take responsibility for the crime they have committed. Another great example are the people who love suing the fast-food businesses, but wait didn’t they drive to the place? Didn’t they order the food? And haven’t they eaten it already? No one from the company made they go to their business and no one forced them to buy or eat the food! So now that they are obese and have health issues should they take responsibility for themselves and stop blaming someone else for the actions they made in the past? In my opinion individuals that blame others for their past actions not just...
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