Economical Footprint cont'd

A day of conserving really changed the way I effect the planet. The first time I took the test my footprint showed that I need 4.8 earths to produce the energy I use. The second time I reduced it down to 3.7. It may not seem like much but if everyone did what I did, the earth would be around much longer.

Economical Footprint

After taking my quiz to determine my footprint I realized that it would take 4.8 earths to accomidate everyone if they all lived like me. I didn't realize the damage i was doing to my planet. So in the next 24 hours I will eat less processed foods and more salads and fruits, I will do less pointless driving and try to cut back on the amout of trash I produce.

NO technology cont'd

I went a whole day and a little over without technology and I almost went crazy. At work I was so bored cause I couldn't text while I was there I didn't use my lab top all day or night and that was even harder because I had homework to do but skipped it. I didn't watch tv which was not that hard I rarely do anyways. I am so glad I don't have to live without technology everyday, my world would fall apart.

NO technology

START

I am going to live without my cell phone for 24 hours. I have been without it for two weeks now due to non payment because the economy sucks. i will also stay off the computer and any other means of technology till 113o am tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Challenges

In the up coming years myself and my friends and family are going to have to face many challenges. One challenge that sticks out and effects me and my family is the economy. My parents have worked hard their whole lives to provide for me and my three siblings and have done very well in doing so, but now cause of the inflation of gas prices and the prices of everything going up my parents are struggling. Now that I am older I hold a steady job of about a year valet parking for resturants. My bills get paid by the amount of tips I get each night I work. When I first started this job I was doing really goood. I could pay my bills and still have some left for entertainment, but because of the economy the price of going out to eat has sky rocketed. No body can affored it like they use too. So now I am working twice as hard to make the same as I did a year ago. I have tried getting another job on many different occations but all the spots are filled because people are needing two or three jobs to keep up with their expences. So one challenge I have faced and plan on facing is our struggling economy and the rise of prices.

Thesis

Thesis #1: Grand Theft Auto goes above and beyond using bad ethics in their game, the game uses many of the ethics society does not allow and puts them all in one game. From drugs to sex to killing for money this game has it all.

Thesis #2: Although Grand Theft Auto is rated M the games still wind up in the hands of minors. Many are afraid that this is leading to the cause of violence in the streets among young adults.

Thesis #3: There has always been violence on the streets but now and days there seems to be more and more, from the shootings at Columbine to Virginia Tech. Many say that video games are to blame for these actions, but does a video game really have that effect on young kids or are video games the perfect canidate to place the blame on?

Free write

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2181/ethics_of_game_design.php
http://www.epinions.com/review/Grand_Theft_Auto__Vice_City_for_PlayStation_2/content_97763102340

The first article I chose was from the website Gamasutra. This articles main focus is on is the ethics of the video game Grand Theft Auto Vice City. It talks about what game designers have to focus on and go through to make their video games appropriate and to be approved by the law. They argue that their games are protected under the first amendment and that they are no worse than any R rated movie or rap-music CD. The artical also talks about the games ratings, and how even though the game is rated M for mature it is still being accessed by minors. The designers argue that the soul purpose for the game is for players to have fun, it is not intended for them to go out and live the life of the game.

The second article came from Epinions.com. This article is a review of the game GTAVC and mostly just tells the readers about the game and what to exspect. The writter calls it the most unethnical in exsistance. He then goes into details of gameplay and makes comments on it, they are his personal opnions of the game. He talks about the purpose of the game, the weapons and cars a player can choose and the houses one can buy. Basically the whole purpose of the review is to summarize the game detail by detail in his own words.