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April 15th, 2013

Today I want to express my thoughts on video games. They are very entertaining, but very harmful too. They gets us addicted and they can make us lose the perception of what is real and what is fictitious. Sometimes this misperception of reality could lead gamers to death. Nowadays gaming has reached a very high place in our daily living, to the point that everyone has at least one kind of video game console in their house. We are able to jump from the safety of our warm coach in middle of our room, to an exotic world full of fantastic creatures, and being inside of a warrior from other word. This seems to be very striking, and it is, I have to admit it, but it is as vicious as smoking cigars.

I'm preety sure that this affects people who surround me, such as my family,my brothers and my friends. The other night, I stayed on John's house and we played "Prince of Persia: sands of time" all night long, and the next morning, when I arrove home, he texted me telling me that "when he dropped a sandwich after playing this game, he ‘twitched’ his finger as he tried to retrieve it with his console.” Then I thought that it had probably been related with last night. Here we can clearly appreciate that one of my friends tried to “revert” time as the video game he was recently playing, something impossible in our world but reachable in fantastic worlds. And there are lots of similar cases, where people try to use video game’s tools in real life. Gamers get so addicted that they start to think that real world is in video games, and they live in a fantasy, so they feel the necessity to play games to “live” in their game. So, they get all the way around, and reality for them is completely confused, and they don’t want to stop playing, because they feel like they are in their real lives, and get so obsessed that it leads to aggresivity, step aside from society, and in very extreme cases,but luckily the least of them, madness and death. I'm afraid that someone I know could get so addicted that couldmake something wrong.

Video Game Addiction

Subtopic: Misperception of reality.
Text type: Journal
Sources: http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/harmful-effects-of-video-games-5618.html
               http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/21/fantasy-and-reality-can-gamers-tell/
               http://cameroncorniuk.hubpages.com/hub/viudeogameaddiction

Advertising quote analysis

“Advertising is everywhere you look, whether it is in the newspaper you pick up daily or on that billboard you see while driving down the highway. Some people may say that they are not in fact influenced by the advertising that is thrown at them each day, and that they do not fall into it, but everyone does.”

I think that everyone is influenced by advertising, maybe in different ways or different levels. In the decisions we make daily, what are we going to eat, dress, buy, how we are going to look, our hair style, what are we going to say, everything has an influence, because advertising is a mirror of society. Maybe a stereotyped society, but at the end, is what we want to reach. But why we want to reach that stereotyped image? Because everybody else wants, and if we reach that first, we feel better than everyone else. Some people may say that they are not influenced by  any type of advertising, but that's not completely true. The clothes they are using,  the style they prefer, maybe what they are eating, all that little details have been influenced, maybe in a very little scale, by advertising.


So then, does advertising influence the decisions we make daily? Yes it does, and we can't avoid it, because advertising shows us how we should be, behave, what to at, how to dress ourselves, and we follow that models because if we don't, we are different. But why being different is bad? Because the society doesn't  leave others to be different, and if someone tries to be different, society pulls them back.