Whats going on

Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today - Ya

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Ah, what's going on

In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on

Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Tell me what's going on
I'll tell you what's going on - Uh
Right on baby
Right on back

In the song Whats going on  by Marvin Gaye, he expresses two topics. He shows racism and segregation which is one topic and he shows war. In the first stanza he says, "We don't need to escalate You see, war is not the answer For only love can conquer hate You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today." i think he is saying that we still dont need to go to war, and we dont need to escalate the problems that have already been here. he is also saying to make love not war because love solves more problems. he also mentions people dying in war. i think that people in other countries dont deserve to die.

       He also mentions the racism and segregation (its not as intense now like it was in the 60s). he says in the song, "picket lines and picket signs". usually this means that on the picket signs have phrases that say white only or colored people not allowed. the picket lines are there for seperating the blacks from the whites.

I think this song is good to show people now how it used to be and to show people now how it still is. I think that this song may be short and alot of the words are kind of meaningless but the words that mean something really pack a punch. i think this song is about racism which is a really strong topic and about war which is also a strong topic. we have never had war with another country in America, we only had war with ourselves and until we have war in America, we will never fully understand what war is like.

And even racism itself is a strong topic. Blacks were slaves at one point and when they gained their freedom they still weren't treated equally. just 4 decades ago were we seen as absolutely equal. there still is a lot of racism but more hidden then we can see. we can go to the same schools and alot of people are friends with people who arent the same skin color. so we are not seperated by picket fences or told to get away with picket signs but it is still more under lying.

The truth behind videogames (revised version)

The book Fun inc., by Tom Chatfield had many pros and cons to video games. The whole book fun inc. is about the misunderstood and unknown facts about video games. You can Learn things from the assassins creed series and bad video games can cause seizures and make you take on some bad personality traits.

The bad facts about video games are mind blowing. They have to put seizure warnings before a lot of the games because they tend to do that to to kids sometimes, especially if they sit too close to the television. They also put those there because if something like that were to happen they can't get sued because there was a warning for it. Another thing that can happen with usually violent videogames, is a child would find it so realistic to the point where they would feel the urge to do it in person. For example a child in Mississippi played a game where you go and shoot police in the sheriffs office and get points for it. The boy wanted to to try it in real life but after they tried to calm him down at the sheriffs office and after three fatally wounded cops they had to shoot him.

But there is good news too. It actually speeds up children's reaction times Dr.Fitzgerald from Yale college says. Kids who play videogames often have speedier reactions and ones who dont play have slower reaction times. Also some games have things that kids can learn from even though it is covered with violence. For example the Assassins Creed series is of course about an assassins journey but in every game you meet historical characters and go through time periods, for example the revolutionary war. You meet people like Machiavelli, leonardo davinci, Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Addams in all of the different games according to Ubisoft programmers. And the non violent games help kids expand their imagination.

I think that overall there are pros and cons to video games. That probably would make games neutral but yet give some leveling to some parents and might give them second thoughts, too. I for myself play video games and I think that I have might have gotten quicker withmy reaction times and I might have learn something from the video games I play.

The truth behind videogames

Recently I have continued reading the book fun inc.. The whole book fun inc. is about the misunderstood and unknown facts about videogames. I think that many people would see videogames in a different light if they read this book. Hopefully adults would see them better than they are. The book gives pros and cons to video games which I thought was interesting.

The bad facts about videogames are mind blowing. They have to put seizure warnings before a lot of the games because they tend to do that to to kids sometimes, especially if they sit too close to the television. They also put those there because if something like that were to happen they can't get sued because there was a warning for it. Another thing that can happen with usually violent videogames, is a child would find it so realistic to the point where they would feel the urge to do it in person. For example a child in Mississippi played a game where you go and shoot police in the sheriffs office and get points for it. The boy wanted to to try it in real life but after they tried to calm him down at the sheriffs office and after three fatally wounded cops they had to shoot him.

But there is good news too. Not all hope is lost. It actually speeds up children's reaction times.
Kids who play videogames often have speedier reactions and ones who dont play have slower reaction times. Also some games have things that kids can learn from even though it is covered with violence. For example the Assassins Creed series is of course about an assassins journey but in every game you meet historical characters and go through time periods, for example the revolutionary war. You meet people like Machiavelli, leonardo davinci, Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Addams in all of the different games. And the non violent games help kids expand their imagination.

I think that overall there are pros and cons to videogames. That probably would make games neutral but yet give some leveling to some parents and might give them second thoughts, too. I for myself play video games and I think that I have might have gotten quicker withmy reaction times and I might have learn something from the videogames I play.