Corporate Gaming

This past reading was in some parts very interesting and in other parts hard to read. Since I am trying to be a business major it was interesting to see this author's take on business and corporations. In this reading it was said that the major businesses and corporations have money in everything including politics and the way people vote. Abraham Lincoln warned the people that America would no longer be free if the huge corporations were able to buy their way into office. On page 69 of the reading it says " they lobby legislators and bankroll election." "They manage our broadcast airwaves, set our industrial, economic, and cultural agendas and grow as big and powerful as they darn well please." If you stand back and look at all the advertisements that are run on television, they are all trying to get us to buy things that the corporations want us to buy. You are also supposed to vote for a certain politician because he will help the corporations out in the long run. We as Americans are supposed to consume things. We are to go to school, get a job, and buy things. That is what we are taught. We always need more and more, corporations always improve their products and convince us that it is better, so through their advertising we chose to consume this.
When I watched the Second Skin videos it made me very disgusted. I hated watching people get hooked on playing online games and throwing their lives away. It is so sad that sometimes the addiction to gaming can lead to death, as it did to a boy that was in the videos.I can understand that people with disabilities can find gaming online as a good thing because it gives them what they don't have. The people that get hooked on gaming just because they don't like their life is sad. I believe that people that get hooked on gaming so much should try to find more constructive things to do with their time. Instead of sacrificing their job, relationships, family, and friends they should just cut out the intense gaming.

About Me

My name is Bret Girton. I am a sophomore here at Ship. I enjoy hanging out with my girlfriend and my room mate, and other friends and family. I have a large family. There is eight of us all together. I have three brothers and two sisters. My brothers are twins and they are 18. My youngest sister is seven and my other sister is 12 years old. I also have a baby brother that is not quite one yet. I love to stay active. I do this by playing different sports, lifting weights, and exercising in general. Playing volleyball has to be one of my favorite things to do. ESPN is always the station that is on in my room. I watch Glee, Supernatural, and Smallville. I have a part time job while going to school here. I am in the process of switching my major to Business. I hope to one day run my own business. I chose to be in this class because I needed to fulfill the category and literature was the class a chose to complete it. The last book that I read was probably the The Order of the Phoenix in the Harry Potter series. Even though that may have been a while ago, i have a subscription to Sports Illustrated so I read that a lot. Sports is definitely my favorite to read about. I enjoy listening to all kinds of music, from rap and hip hop to country and techno. I love to watch movies of all different genres. I mostly watch mainly action and thriller movies. Literature in my opinion is anything to do with writing and is how people express themselves. I have always been told that reading will help to make someone smarter, it is my hope that I will learn to enjoy reading more and it will help to make me more knowledgable.