Friday, August 31, 2012

Summary & quote

    "Video Games Make Society Less Violent" by Brandon Nadeau is about how voilent crime rates have gone down scince video games have become a bigger part of society. Some people say video games promote violence .  An experiment is shown that proves that movies makes people more likely to commit violent crimes that games. Lastly he shows testimonials about how when people play games they don't even think about doing those things in real life.
   Brandon Nadeau, author of "Video Games Make Society Less Violent" says , "It appears the rate was highest in the Nintendo era, a time when video game violence was at a minimum"(274). It is apparent that not only do video games not cause violence , they might actually help stop it.
    Brandon Nadeau, author of "Video Games Make Society Less Violent" says , "Maybe the best evidence aginst the entire violence inspires violence movement is myself"(274). Nadeau ,by being nonviolent, shows that playing violent video games does not cause violence.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Informative Summary

   "Head injurys in football" by New York Times is about how helmets have evolved to protect players from head injurys . The article stated how dangerous the game was in its early years because of head injurys . Then it explained how they changed equiptment to prevent head injurys . Lastly it told how dangerous the game still is and how the game can still improve to make it safer for players heads.