end. I really did not do much different in the 24 hour period, than i normally do. I got up and walked to agos, then went to my lifeguard training class, then I walked back to argos, went back to my dorm truned the air conditing off! then did home work. I did as much as a fealt I could to shrink my carbon foot print for the day.

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END! What have I done over the past twenty-four hours with out the use of my cell phone, internet, and TV. I am taking a lifeguard training class this weekend so I left and stayed at the gym until nine then I met a friend a a pre arranged time and place to hang out before going to bed. I was up again at eight this morning to continue my lifeguard training class until three this afternoon. At which time I came back to my dorm and read a book for another class and began to work on a paper due Monday. So going twenty-four hours without technology wasn't to bad.

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assign 5

One challenge that people all around this country will face in the next four years is health care. Everyone right now will tell you that the system is broken, and that it doesn't work. Unfortunately many Americans today want to put no effort into fixing or changing the problems with the current American health care.
Now that we have a new President-elect Obama, one would hope that the heath care plans he promise Americans will be passed in congress. If history is any indicator then to be successful it will take him more than four years to accomplish this. The last time something similar to this health care bill existed it was a slow moving bill that was eventually vetoed by the Senate.
In my opinion health care is a right not a responsibility. It is not the responsibly of a small child to pick parents that will able to pay for his or her health care. It should be that little sick child right to be able to got to the hospital and treated with or without knowledge of his parents financial situation. As a ward of the state, criminal on death row have to be given full health benefits, but an ordinary citizen who has worked is whole life would not be consider for life saving surgery because of their health insurance.
As citizens I think the best way to curd this from getting out of control, or at least more so than it already has, is to look at other countries health care systems and using that as a model to design one that will fit Americans here at home. Other countries have made it work, the only problem stopping it form working here is a willingness not to at least try.
This problem not only affects me but all of my family and friends. I know that for my parents health care coverage has gotten more expensive over that last few years. I have friends that have no health coverage and they are not going to be going to the doctor unless it is a life or death situation. If done the right way this country can improve health care, in fact at this point America must do something lest we become known as the country with the best doctors, that know one can afford.

assign 4

The ethics of the video games are not the best they encourage the killing of taxi drivers as well as civilian, and some studies have shown that this is tricking over into real life and causing the unnecessary deaths.


The ethics of this video game are encouraging players of the video game grand theft auto to commit crimes such as stealing cars and robbing people. This game world however is slowly becoming the real world as some studies suggest.

Grand theft Auto is a controversial game which exploits and degrades cultural identities as well as increases racial and stereotypes.

assign 3

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6191591/p-2.html

This article basically outlines the plot of the fourth instrument of Grand Theft Auto. You begin the games as am emigrant(Niko Bellic), coming to live the American dream with your cousin. Upon arrive you find out that things are not as glameriouse as Niko's cousin (Roman) would have Niko believe. Niko Bellic's first task is to warn Roman when the loan sharks come so he can trick them and avoide paying them his debt. Next Roman has been rought up by the loan sharks and you must go save him. The Artical continues to disscusse how Niko has to save and looking out for Roman as he keeps putting him slef into very bad situations. Along the way there are incounters with stolen cars, hookers, pretty women, stolen money, gambling, loan sharks and much much more to keep the avide gamer occupied.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169738

The second artical I read I found extreamly intresting. Video games inparticualry Grant Theft Auto recive bad reputations for being a "violent" game, some news storys even accuse it of being the cause for violence. This artical displays the other side to violent video games. A family of five was driving when all of a sudden their Jeep fliped over. 11-year-old Audrey Plique who was an avide gamer reacted calmly to the situation first pulling her sisters out of the car then waving another car down for more help. Her mother says that because of Grand Theft Auto 4 she knew that the car could catch fire or explode, which is why she acted calmly and quickly to save her family.

assign 2

Thesis
Some persuasive video games, like Planet Green and Darfur is Dying use emotion and logic, to emphasize problems facing todays world.

Outline
Intro with thesis

Paragraph 1
Planet green use more facts than emotion! the player moves to different locations around town and learn little ways to help stop global warming. While it dose use emotion when it show the amount of damage that will happen if this change doesn't occur.
Paragraph 2
Taking a look at Darfur is dying, the creator relied more on emotions than in the previous game this time you are a refugee trying to evade capture to save your life and the life of your family. while at the end of each round fact and information about the genocide occurring there is presented.
Paragraph 3
Planet green and Darfur is dying use fact and emotion to ultimately point out that there are some major problems in the world and the only thing to do is take action.

Conclusion
The creators of there games new how to balance their use of emotion and facts to strongly encourage change in world.

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I began by playing the video game http://www.cityra.in/. Within the first 3 minuets it became obvious that this games purpose was more than just entertainment, but to teach players about importance and difficulty of urbanization. Every few minuets the game would proceed to tell me that I had put the homes to close to the land fill and that this area need a lot more parks than I was originally wanting to put in. This game fall into the category of Educational Games as it primary purpose is to teach with well as entertainment.

The second game I played was http://www.darfurisdying.com/. It became apparent as soon as I got to the wed sight that this was an activist web sight for ending the genocide in Darfur. Once I began to play the game this was confirmed as I was a small child running to get water for my family but having to hide all along the way from the militia. This games falls into the category of Persuasive Games, as it is encouraging its players to be come active in stopping the genocide.

Finally I played the game http://www.planetgreengame.com/. This game is clearly a Persuasive Games. It was the most boring game I played cause all it allowed u to to do was go to every day locations and learn how to reduce green house admission there for saving the planet in your everyday life.