Wednesday, January 25, 2012

summary

In the video about video games, the speaker says a lot of interesting facts about video games.  First off she states that the people who play video games combined spend and average of three billion hours of playing time.  She says that when video gamers are playing, they tend to solve video problems faster than when they get a problem of education.  She states that the future is suppose to be made not foreseen.  This is very true because know one can predict what is going to happen to this future, we just have to wait as time passes and take action to change our future.  "everyone's life is based on video games" says the speaker.  over five million people go onto the wiki of world of warcraft which is way more than how many people get on wikipedia.  according to the speaker, people get more friends due to the fact that they beat someone in a video game.  Back in the day, dice where used to play games. so where ever you maybe or what time frame your in, video games where there!

Monday, January 23, 2012

rhetorical precis

In the book "Good Reasons", they attempt to show the author  what an argument actually is and how it is used throughout literature.  They do so by showing the evidence of writers trying to change reader's minds by convincing them of the validity of new ideas or the superiority of a particular course of action.  the purpose of this book is to show readers what an argument is based on as well addressing opposing arguments.  The intended audience of who they are trying to convince is the young and old readers and writers by the way they state and talk about the arguments.

Patriots Have no shot against the Giants! Just Ask Them

I chose this blog because I am a die hard sports fan.  I lived by sports all my life, and as for what the title of this blog says, it is absolutely true.  In my eyes, the ravens deserved the AFC championship.  They played harder than the patriots did.  As for the coach saying that they played their hearts out, I think that is false.  The ravens are the team that played there hearts out that ended with a mistake by the field goal kicker.  I believe that the outcome of this game will show the ravens on top!

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/the-patriots-have-no-shot-against-the-giants-just-ask-them/#more-96239