Parents can 'relax', study shows violent video games don't impact youth aggression.

 Text title: Parents can 'relax', study shows violent video games don't impact youth aggression.

Text type: Article

Text creator: Brittney Deguara

Text purpose: To inform parents that violence in-game does not affect youth aggression.

Date: 08/11/21

Summary

This article says that a study shows that violent games do not meaningfully increase the players' aggressiveness. A New Zealand-led study, published in the Royal Society Open Science, and Dr Aaron Drummond found that violent games don't lead to an increase in youth aggression. A meta-analysis experiment was conducted with 28 existing studies, which featured around 21,000 participants who played violent games for longer than three months. In conclusion, with their study they recommend the parents to be more relieved. However, rather than worrying about whether if it's violent or not, he says that parents should look out for the contents of the game. This is because some games need some maturity to be responsible.

Critical Literacy Question: Why are you reading this text?

Study shows that violent games do not affect youth aggression. For instance, the article "Parents can 'relax', study shows violent video games don't impact youth aggression" claims that violent game doesn't necessarily mean they would affect the players' behaviour in the real world. This means that parents can relax about what their kids are playing. However, the author of this article tells that that they should be careful of the content. I am reading this article because I have a similar situation at hand. 

Squid Game: How a hyper-violent Korean series became Netflix’s biggest hit - Reflection Section

 Text title: Squid Game: How a hyper-violent Korean series became Netflix’s biggest hit  

Text type: Article

Text Creator: Robert Moran

Text Purpose: To inform its audience that Netflix's biggest show is the now-infamous "Squid Game"

Date: 19/10/21

Summary:

A violent, blood gushing Korean show has made it to the top of Netflix's charts! It's a show about indebt people who are in need of money are introduced into a brutal, death, money game. Each death would add up to the prize money. There's a total of 456 players. The players are said to play 6 games, on who stands at the top will win the prize money all by to himself/herself. However, the winning player was too traumatized by the fact that many people died for just a sum of money for him. At the end of the series, he got in contact with the people who are controlling the game. Then a sudden dark screen moves in place. This means a second season would probably come out.

Critical literacy question:

In whose interest is this for?

This article is mostly to let the public know that Netflix's biggest show has changed. Netflix is one of the most-watched and well known watching app worldwide. Therefore, having its biggest show changed had an effect on many people. For instance, some audiences might have different biased shows. In conclusion, this article is really for Netflixs' customers' interest.

Butterflies by Patricia Grace - Reflection Section

 Text title: Butterflies

Text type: Short story

Text creator:  Patricia Grace

Text purpose: To evaluate that people have different perspectives.

Date: 09/29/21

Summary:

In this short story, the author begins with a girl getting her hair done by her grandmother. The girl was recently started living with her grandparents and this morning she was getting ready for school. Both of her grandparents are caring for her and wanting the best for her school. As she arrives home from school, her grandfather was hoeing the cabbages and her grandmother was picking up some beans. Both stopped their work to go to their granddaughter and ask her about what her story was about. She began reading. It was a story about a girl killing some butterflies. Whoever, her teacher wasn't so pleased with the story since the teacher thinks that butterflies are beautiful creatures. As the girl gaze in confusion, the grandparents answered "because you see" the grandfather said, "your teacher gets her cabbages in the supermarket". This means that they view butterflies as pests towards their vegetation.

Critical literacy question:

What does the author want us to know?

The author wanted us to know that everyone has different perspectives. For instance, the teacher's response towards the girl's story was the opposite of what the little girl's perspective perceives. Meaning that the teacher sees butterflies as elegant creatures whereas the grandparents see them as pests towards their garden.

Killed By a Knife by "Tom Ensor" - Reflection section

 Text title: Killed By a Knife

Text type:  Short story

Text creator: Tom Ensor

Text purpose: To show the understanding of figurative languages through the use of a short story.

Date: 21/09/21

Summary

In this text, the narrator talks about how he felt through slitting through the neck of an old sheep. This sheep was on their farm for years now and he was given the opportunity to kill it. At first, he felt as he was a candle melting away with nervousness. looking through the sheep's eyes at it trembles with calm fear, the narrator held it and quickly slit its trough. At the end of the short story, the narrator talks about regretting what he has done to the old poor sheep.

Critical Question - How are children, teenagers, young adults, and adults constructed in this text?

In the text, "Killed By a Knife" by Tom Ensor, young adults are portrayed as if they were sensitive killers. For instance, in the last two sentences of the short story, the narrator talks about how the blood came running down from its trough and the last sentence "I rose in a dace, hardly believing what I had done". This means that the narrator was ordered to kill the poor old sheep, and hesitated so to do it. However, at the end, he still did it but regretted it.

Reflection Setion: The little girl

 Text title: The little girl

Text type: Novel

Text creator: Unknown - This is because we've only read an extract from the novel.

Text purpose: To motivate people to be an individual and follow their dreams.

Date: 06/08/2021

Summary:

The story has a father that has 4 daughters and it is viewed on one of his daughters named Jo March. Whoever, in their society women, are expected to do lady stuff such as, cleaning, making tea and cooking dinner. Jo March was different, she didn't give up on her dreams. So she decided to write a story and send it to a big competition. She kept it a secret from anyone else before renouncing what she has done. When she was about to give up, a letter came up and said that she has won the competition. She was shocked. She excitedly showed everyone the delightful news. Even her mother was happy. Whoever, her father expected her to do better despite winning the competition. Eventually, at the end of the story, she would become a book writer.

Critical Literacy Questions:

Why are we reading this text?

- Our class studied this text because it had many extensive vocabularies and was written like in the olden days. Also to help us understand more complicated written texts. For instance, I know new words such as adequate, linguistic and stupendous. Adequate means acceptable in amount, linguistic means relating to language, and stupendous meansextremely impressive.