Running head: NEGATIVE IMPACT OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES 1 Critical Reflection Week 12 We live in a world that is full of enticing things such as the desire of eating delicious foods, wearing fashionable clothes and living a luxurious life. However, getting the money to fulfill all those desires is the challenge. Many have been forced to live an expensive life they cannot afford. They end up straining instead of using the little income they get to acquire knowledge and reflect on things they would do that would help them generate an extra coin. This weekly reflection will help anyone out there to consider integrating critical thinking in all their day to day activities. One has to strive hard so that they can fulfill their desires. However, the thought of working hard is sickening to many. They only want to sit and play video games such as Zapper or Power Glove are considered to be among the violent video games. These games, unfortunately, may have negative consequences on people. They are addictive and they are highly linked to the change of behavior of a person which may be an aggressive or violent behavior (Sherry, 2001). Children are likely to be affected where they become anti-social because the only interaction they have is between them and the game. Parents are therefore required to increase their parental control and look out for those with trigger warnings. Unfortunately, the games that have trigger warnings don’t prevent the gamers from playing. Instead, their curiosity is increased. Such warning falls on deaf ears. On another perspective, these trigger warnings have been used in schools as a way of sensitizing on upsetting material that may be harmful to students. However, there is so little that this sensitization can do because everyone is exposed to worldly evils. The internet, media, NEGATIVE IMPACT OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES 2 movies and the games are likely to expose disturbing content. The only possible solution is guiding and counseling the students. It is advisable that a friendly environment is created where certain disturbing topics can be discussed and this would help in managing reactions. Reference Sherry, J. L. (2001). The effects of violent video games on aggression. Human communication research, 27(3), 409-431. Critical Reflection Week 10 The author of A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift is offering his opinion on how to end poverty through this writing. In his view, he points out the challenges that he sees in the society that is related to poverty and offers the solutions to them. Swift further sights the challenge of the burden to the parents of the children in having to feed them and raise them. Moreover, he looks at the projected overpopulation by children of the poor as another challenge. Therefore, in his opinion, he sees it fit if parents would sell their children after a year of upbringing for eight shillings (Swift, n.d). According to his idea, this will give the poor people some income as well as relieve them of the burden of continuing to take care of their children after the first year. He then concludes that the children will be used to sustain the other people when used as food. The proposal by Swift at that period showed that he was skeptical of new ideas. It should be noted that the 18th century was considered as the age of reason because the advances that had been made in the field of science and technology made people believe that there was a need to use science and technology as solutions to various challenges in the society. However, Swift’s ideas and answers seemed to be the trend of the time as it was considered as the Age of reasoning. By proposing that the children of the poor are sold for food could also be regarded as unethical and against the norms of humanity. Additionally, Swift’s opinion can also be seen to disregard the value of the poor population in the society. Critical thinking reflection week 4 After learning of week 4. I feel like the problem is not really if i will buy a computer or not. It is more about am i a gregarious guy or not. Am i willing to fit into something that most of people will do like using computer. It is easy to know a guy in real lift that not a person in the eyes of very funny people, but no lonely people who do not travel with people. Dude has its own circle, it’s their favorite circle. Often you see such a scene, a group of people seems to play, play games, crazy games, drink gambling together. In the commercial street of the school, in the small party dormitory, in the classroom meeting, there are always people who look like funny people, they seem and what people can play to drink to drink vomiting. But afterwards, to complain involuntarily, complain that this life is empty. I want to say why you want to do what you do not want to do? In the university this mixed environment of people is how lively it is because he installed people with him. Some people, we all collaborate with the organization, but in the back of the company, the table is different, living more tired. And those greedy people never know where the problem is. We can not choose their own roommate but can choose their own friends.The bedroom is the beginning of autumn, gregarious, is the beginning of the elimination.Four of them, three people see Cang teacher, fewer four people do not see it is not funny.Four people among the three people who play the game, the fourth do not fight is not terrible.People are afraid of loneliness, so single single lonely people choose a funny one. Allegory of the cave reflection After read “Allegory of the cave”. I did not know what does it mean. But i read it again, i was starting confuse. If the guy got to outside and know the truth is wrong. So what is truth and right to do? If i was the guy what i should to do? People is stuck in their body. They do not know each other. Maybe they do not even know who they are. The direct experience of the human is not about what is real, is what people known and experienced. People have facial features. Through the facial features people have a visual, auditory, smell, touch and so on. In addition to facial features, people also have a feeling of organs – heart. The feeling of the heart is spoken directly in the spoken language as a feeling. For example, bad mood, pain, depression, happiness, happiness and so are the feeling of heart rather than facial features. To be sure, people believe that their eyes see things, believe that they can touch, hear, smell something. People has the basic and physic feelings. Although the heart feels everyone has, but people do not have enough sense for the importance of the heart and the effective use of this sense organ. The so-called “peace of soul” is the heart of the sense organs to measure the results. When you say that you should take care of the principle of things, many people will argue: what is peace of the mind? I would say “no cheating in a relationship or exam, treat people nice, follow my own work etc.”But people start to give up on it. Because it is too hard to follow or is easier to cheat. People giving up on heart slowly. After heart is gone. The rest is only facial features. What makes human different with animals. It is heart. We can not never let go of heart.