Weekly article #5, ♥

        When dealing with the subject of violence of video games mimicking war, like “Call of Duty”, I believe everything people say is exaggerated. Video games such as these are really only for entertainment purposes. If parents or other people think that video games with that amount of violence are too much for them to handle, then they should stay away from it. These games only show a very small example of what truly happens in war, even the amount of blood when shot in these games would never compare to the amount in an actual event where someone is shot. Yes, people will continue to say that the violence is too much, but commercials are shown on TV every day encouraging people to enroll with the Marines or join the military. But yes these games do diminish the amount of violence, but for the specific reason that people do not see the reality of what it is really like in war. If a parent truly believes that their child could be affected by what these games display, it is very easy to stay away from it. Some parents even say that their children may try to mimic what occurs in the game. But the way I see it if you have a child who is able to get to any type of weapon and do things with it then that is called bad parenting, not video game violence. It seems as though some people are trying to find something to blame for anger or violence in their own children or people they know, or maybe even in themselves, and in this case it is games like these. No game tells the player to go out and copy what you see, every one controls their own actions and they are the only ones responsible for what they do, not a game. I think that that is the reason each game has its own rating, it warns you of what is in the game or just how intense it gets. From being someone who has played “Call of Duty” there are even parts in the game that warns you before you play it. The game even asks you if you want to skip any parts, so everything done is by choice. The rating is a clear restriction to anyone who may be offended by these games or anyone who thinks that they are just too intense for anyone. It’s a little crazy itself to blame any video game for being too violent, there is a reason they are called games, entertainment. Either way people should know to look into whatever they are trying to buy anyway, if they do this it would easily solve any problems with people who buy games not knowing the contents that they contain. Videos games that mimic what occurs in war can never be too violent or explicit. The graphics and events in these games has such a diminished level of violence that they could never be compared to the real violence of war.
   
    Video games are different from actual people in war i admit, but each has it's own morals. Also, when you're playing Call of Duty and you die, you could just hit the button that says "play again." But in the case of someone actually fighting in the war, they don't have the type of button where you could just redo it and be alive, instead they die without any changes if shot or bombed. People need to realize the difference. But Call of Duty being just a game should exist because i don't see a reason why it shouldn't.


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The one and ONLY letter..

   The frustrations of just having the letter for the soldiers only life line pretty much sucked. I read some of them, and they say that they find the letter in the bottom of the box and sometimes find them really late. Also, some say that one of their friends write them that they are sick. The soldiers must get really frustrated on how long it takes for their letters to be sent or received. Also it must make them really sad because if a person wrote them that they are currently sick, that person could have already died for what ever reason and the solider would have never known or even had time to write the back a letter. Having that one life line must of caused a lot of stress because now-a-days if i don't talk to my boyfriend for one day, i flip out. I could imagine what they went through missing all of their loved ones, and not knowing if they are okay or not. Mostly, they are mad because they have no clue whats going on back in town, or if their girlfriend has moved on. There are plenty of reasons why one messily letter could pretty much piss off a solider.

It's about to be a WHAAAT? DOGFIGHT!

   Playing the game "Dogfight" I could imagine what goes through the pilots head. It's very difficult to do more than one thing at once. You have to focus on flying and getting to where you can shoot the plane at the direct spot. It's pretty hard. You also have to worry about where your going because you could crash in a split second. The pilots were probably going crazy with their heart racing every second. Every plane probably went down because it really is difficult. I even got shot down by the airplanes while i was playing because it's hard to aim at the planes. The pilots definitely had a hard time with this if in a game it's even hard. The game shows that flying a plane in air isn't easy at all and drove the pilots nearly insane having to worry about every little thing that could jeopardize their life at any given moment.

A place called, (bum, bum, bum) GALLIPOLI!!

   In a place called Gallipoli a lot of casualties took place between Turkey, and Britans and their allies. These casualties were caused in war, people died of being shot or injured. Also, people died of fires, and bombs that they threw at them. Also people died on ships because other ship targeted them and shot a bomb to blow it up. They also used arrows to shoot to kill people in World War 1. Because of these casualties, World War 1 became one of the largest landing operations in history, and also one of the bloodiest battles.