My partners for this project were Oscar and Jovanny and we decided to make the flashback project about carbon footprint in our community. In this project we explain some of the many ways in which we contribute to the increase of CO2 and we also give some solutions on how we can help to stop the increase of CO2. For the part I was in charge of the design and I decided to investigate how much CO2 we release in the Bay Area by wasting energy.
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My partners for this Podcast project is Oscar and Jovanny. Our topic is on how exercise help people release stress. Almost 100% of all people feel stressed everyday and we basically show how people can get rid of all this stress by just doing exercise.
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My PSA poster is focused on deforestation and it is an important issue because all trees are being cut and without them we wouldn’t be able to survive. Trees produce most of the air that we breath and they are also the homes of many animals. This topic has to interest other people because if we don’t do something to stop deforestation all living things on earth will disappear. All of you can help stop deforestation or at least to reduce it by just recycling all the things like paper, plastic cans, etc. In this picture you can see a forest that some years ago was completely green and now is totally destroyed.
When I think about positive and negative effects of media I immediately think about video games. Video games have a great controversy around the globe because many people argue that they are actually good while others say that they create negative effects on teens. One of the video games that brings negative effects to teens is Call of Duty, while Brain Age, another video game, brings positive effects to them.
“Call of Duty” is a violent video game because you use different kinds of weapons to
kill your opponents in war. Violent games like Call of Duty cause an increase in emotional arousal . When they start playing these kind of violent games they get very addicted to them and they can’t just stop playing them. You have to solve many challenges in war games but you have to solve them with violence. When I first played Call of Duty, I played it for like four hours straight and then I just started felt like I wanted to look for a gun and start shooting. What you actually learn in this war game or in any other video game that has guns is that you can solve everything with violence. Many studies also show that all kind of violent games, not only Call of Duty, produces increases tendencies in kids.
While there’s violent games that affect teens, there are also video games like Brain Age that might bring positive effects to them. Brain Age is a video game in which you can solve math problems, play a challenging game of rock, paper, scissors, and you can also test your memory skills. This kind of games help teens to build their brain and be smarter instead of leading you to get a weapon and start shooting with violent games. Research has been conducted around the world and they actually show that teens in schools show more improvements in concentration and behavior after playing Brain Age. Brain Age exercises your mind by just playing it and is a good way to entertain yourself using media that would not harm any of you.
Many teens would chose to play Call of Duty instead of Brain Age because one has action and the other is about school material. But there is one difference between this two games: one is that Call of Duty brings negative effects to teens by leading them to a decrease in self-control and Brain Age brings positive effects to them by building their brains.
