Reading Logs 6

Title: Playing video games is good for your brain- here's how
Author: TheConversation
Text Type: Article
Date: 18/09/17

In this article they talk about how video games can be good for you and it even helps with depression, fastens your reaction time and hand-eye co-ordination. They talk about how gaming is good for your brain in many ways.

In the article they talk about all the different thing video games do to your brain and how they help. For example, one area of the brain is called Prefrontal Cortex and playing games like Tetris activate that area of the brain and help with decision-making. Another area of the brain is called Dopamine and it gives you the feeling of reward when you finish a game or beat a boss. Most game developers put clues or as some call it "Easter eggs", where a developer puts something in the game that is not in plain sight and you have to connect the dots to find out what it is. So what is what will trigger Dopamine more because once you find it you will get the sensation of relief.

I can relate to this article because once I start playing a game I don't want to stop until I fully finish the whole game or get all the trophy. Just like in the article when they talk about the satisfaction of finishing a game and that you have completed all the way through I get the same feeling. When they say that people that play "shoot-em-up" games have better perception, attention and cognition in life.
This reminds we of another article I read, they talked about how 29% of gamer are over the age of 50 and the average gamer is 37. This shows that gaming is great because it keeps your mind active and learn new things and it makes your brain work more though out the day. In the end of the article they say gaming is another treat to depression so they created games like Jane the concussion slayer and many more to cope and help with depression, anxiety, brain injuries and more.

Artist Model

My Artist model is Akira Toriyama, he is a Japanese manga and game artist born in Aichi Nagoya on April 5, 1955. He is known for his design in Dragon Ball Z and all of his character design. But first, he created Shonen manga which aimed at teenagers ages from 8-18 and was the biggest comic of that time. Then Toriyama went on to make Dragon Ball Z and the series took off. Now there are seasons Upon sessions of Dragon Ball anime cartoons as well as comics. His wife is a former manga artist her name is Yoshimi Katō "Nachi Mikami" and sometimes helped Toriyama with his early work.
Toriyama likes Astro boy and One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Toriyama is influenced by Toyoo Ashida an animator.

Reading Logs 5

Title: Schindler's List
Author: Thomas Keneally
Text Type: Book
Date: 18/09/17

In the book "Schindler's List" by Thomas Keneally, Tells a story of how a rich businessman at the start hated and had no care for jews. Then once he sees what is happening to the jews in the ghetto he feels really bad and changes his mind. He starting hiring all these jew to work in his factory and ends up saving over 1,100 jews.

This book gave me an insight into the world back then in world war two and the Holocaust. For example, when Oskar Schindler is walking through the town where everyone lives but all there is are dead bodies, people hiding and nazi people walking around with guns. The author does this to show what is happening during World War 2 and the Holocaust were all the Jews are dying, hiding their kids and themselves from all the nazi with guns and the gas chambers. When Schindler joined the Nazi party and sees what they were doing where they were exterminating the Jews and gassing them, he started to hire all the jews to give them money and a new life and saved them from death and the gas chamber. He sends up saving over 1,100 jews.

This is relevant in today's society because in the novel when he is looking at the town that is destroyed and dead body's everywhere and people hiding to save there and there kids life. It shows what it was like back then in world war 2, with Jews and everything with hitler and how racist he was. For example during the Holocaust they killed innocent Jews and their family's. This shows us how greatful we should be here in New Zealand, and in our world today. Although  we have terrorists attacks they are nothing compared to the 6 million Jews that were killed in the Holocaust. In the novel they talk about Schindler seeing  the gas chambers and the Jews lining up to be executed and this show what it was like and how Germany affected the world back then.