Assassin's Creed Brotherhood by Finn Clark

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

    Are stealth action games a favorite?  Well, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is a game you might want to buy!  Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is  by the Ubisoft Company, and the game is for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and for PC.  

This game, although it can be frustrating at times, is very fun to play. You are a character who is in present day but is revisiting his memories as his ancestor, Ezio who was an assassin.  The point of the game is to find and assassinate Cesare Borgia who is trying to take over Rome. In a series of missions, you build up more assassins to help you in the war of the Borgia. You help your friends you made in the first game, and meet Leonardo Da Vinci who has made these awesome devices to help the Borgia and you have to destroy them.

They did a very nice job putting in the third person but the jumping kind of glitches when you jump and land on a ledge.  It’s like the camera faces you when you jump, then can’t make up its mind and switches from front to back at least 3 times.  The genre of the game is action and rated M for Mature for sexual content, blood, intense violence, and strong language.

The online multi player for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is the first of its kind and I think that Ubisoft did a nice job with the multi player graphics as they did in the campaign.  The most suspenseful thing about Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is that you are assigned to a person you have to find and kill, but that there is the fact that someone else is coming after you and you have no idea.  You wouldn’t really understand the plot of the game unless you played the first Assassin’s Creed, like when I bought the third game, I was very confused on what to do, but then by the next day I was already half way through the game.

This game for me was very addicting and I couldn’t stop playing it, it was so well made. I would definitely recommend this game to all people who like stealth and action games, which is I would guess is every Call of Duty gamer.

   

Pirates of the Caribbean By Finn Clark

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Have Pirates of the Caribbean ever interested you?  Well the director had decided to come back for more!  In the new movie of Pirates of the Caribbean Johnny Depp is taken captive by the infamous Black Beard to find the fountain of Youth.  The film was in theaters everywhere on May 20th 2011.  This action motion picture was surprisingly not as bad as people say, it’s just that story line went a little off track since the last movie.

The pacing of the movie was very fast and maybe that is what got people so off track about twenty five minutes into it.  the movie for me went from the governors house to fighting himself to being taken captive by the Black Beard. This movie could be funny at times but it could also be serious. The things that made me crack up at times is like Johnny Depp just makes a random joke or does something crazy like jumping off of a cliff.

The suspense in the movie wasn’t great at all. The movie was pretty much action, running, and gunfire.  The acting in the movie was very good and the actors was very nice choosing.  Johnny Depp had come back from very many funny movies he’d been in, to finish the Pirates of the Caribbean series of movies, but there might be another one.  The special effects of this movie were absolutely amazing. There was obviously a green screen for the setting but the setting of the green screen just took my breath away. They probably used so much wire for all the stunts. Many times had Johnny Depp have to jump from something or have a fight over the fountain of youth or his so important ship the Black Pearl.

This movie overall was very funny and confusing, but it takes awhile to just get to the point.  I wouldn’t like to recommend this movie to people who can’t sit through long movies that make no sense.

Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 Comparison

Finn Clark

11/30/11

Playstation 3 Vs Xbox 360

    There are two very big companies going head to head right now, and those companies are the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, but I am still wondering, which will I choose?  What I’m looking for are some good gaming options, online multi-player, and the how much everything costs.  I order to find a good comparison chart for the two companies is google search comparison chart for “Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 comparison chart”Scroll all the way down until it says “techblog.dallasnews.com”, it will also show the Nintendo Wii, but just ignore that. But I still wonder, which is best?
 

the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 are the same price, but the PlayStation 3 has online multi-player, wifi, but not a wireless upgrade      ( because it doesn’t need it). The Xbox does not wifi but it is an extra $100 to buy it, and the online multiplayer is $50 a year if you want to buy the gold membership card, but its $12 for three months, the wireless upgrade is and extra $100. So the total price for the PlayStation 3 is $300 and for Xbox is $450 for everything.

The Xbox 360 does not have web browser or a wallpaper setup while the PlayStation 3 has both. Xbox also does not have a motion sensor controller and the PlayStation has the dual shock 3 sensor. Which means that you can use it as a wireless controller like a Wii remote.

After looking at the comparison chart  and going over all the facts, I choose the PlayStation 3. The things I would be missing is the PlayStation 3 has only one USB port when the Xbox has 3, and the Xbox has just a little better graphics than the PlayStation 3. The features that sealed the deal are the Blu-ray player, online multi-player, wifi, wireless Internet, and the better HDMI. By the way, I already have a PlayStation 3.

Character Sketch by Finn

Moving to California and Making Friends

Finn Clark

10/21/11

When I hear the word “friend”, Garrett A. comes to mind. He was the first friend I ever made when I moved to California. We met when I started playing soccer in Arcata for Mad River United. Garrett has long brown hair, hazel eyes, a fat lip that he still has, and was kind of chubby. His mom talked to my mom after we became friends and suggested going to Trinidad School.  

 I started Trinidad in the third grade and was shy, but Garrett had my back. The year after that I started making all kinds of friends, like Caden and Kirk and all different people, and Garrett was there the whole time. Over the years I started hanging out more with my friends, but not as much as I hung out with Garrett, I had a lot of fun. Now I’m in seventh grade and Garrett and all of my other friends left Trinidad School and went to Pacific Union.

I begged my parents if I could go to Pacific Union but they said maybe and they’ll ask my sister if she wants to go to Pacific Union too and she said no. A few days later they weren’t accepting any more out-of-district transfers. I was devastated. We still hang out all the time because I see Caden walking around Trinidad, Garrett and Jeremy at four thirty to pick up Jeremy’s sister, and Kirk because he is on my soccer team . I will hang out with some of my friends this year and graduate next year with the class I have been with since the third grade and go to Arcata High School.

Character Outline for The Mifits

Misfits Character Outline and Essay

    Joe Bunch shows caring by being with others when they are down and tries to comfort them.  Four kids in the small town of Paintbrush Falls where they go to middle school have been called names since kindergarten.  The book, Misfits by James Howe is about the four kids: Joe, Addie, Skeezie, and Bobby.  They have been called names for different reasons.  Joe for being gay, Addie for being so tall and smart, Skeezie for being so unclean, and Bobby for being chubby.  The gang of five, or so they call themselves, are trying to make Paintbrush Falls Middle School a name free place where nobody will be called names. Joe has some problems showing responsibility by having troubles and not trying to work them out. James Howe makes it so he has to work out his own problems by confronting them.

    Addie has some problems with showing respect to the teachers in Paintbrush Falls.  An example is in the book on page 36-38 where it says that she is arguing with Ms. Wyman about saying the pledge and also saying its a free country and she doesn’t have to do something if she doesn’t want to.  This shows that Addie doesn’t have respect for a teachers authority.

    Bobby shows caring by helping people with their problems and giving them advice like with Joe liking Colin, and by the end of the book Joe starts going out with Colin.  This shows that Bobby tries to help others with their problems and is nice to people.  Another example is that Bobby wrote a speech for the third party about no name calling day, where people think of the worst name they can call people and completely forget it so others won’t have their feelings hurt. It turns out after they lost for the third party, the principal had talked with Bobby about making no-name day, no-name week and that was what they did for the rest of Paintbrush Falls Middle School history.

    The way James Howe was able to make Joe confront his problems was sending letters to Colin, and Colin was sending them back to the right locker but Joe thought it was Kelsey who was sending them.  The way Joe confronts that problem is that Joe asks Colin if he wants to go out and maybe go to the dance together, and Colin says yes.

    Reading The Misfits made me change my perspective of bullying and name calling and I think kids can really make a difference to a school if they really wanted to.  It made me think that names can really hurt people. If they don’t do something about it, that it will stay with them forever. It will make them feel hurt inside and they think that that is really what people think of the person that is being called names.

Moving to California and Making Friends

When I hear the word “friend”, Garrett A. comes to mind because he was the first friend I ever made when I moved to California. We met when I started playing soccer in Arcata for Mad River United. Garrett had long brown hair and was kind of chubby. His mom talked to my mom after we became friends and suggested going to Trinidad School.

    I started Trinidad in the third grade and was shy, but Garrett had my back. The next year I started making all kinds of friends, and Garrett was there the whole time. Over the years I started hanging out more with my friends, I had a lot of fun. Now I’m in seventh grade and Garrett and all of my other friends left Trinidad School and went to Pacific Union.

I begged my parents if I could go to Pacific Union but they said maybe and they’ll ask my sister if she wants to go to Pacific Union too and she said no. A few days later they weren’t accepting any more out-of-district transfers. I was devastated. had lost my best friends for a whole entire school year.

Technology Assignment

The most websites I visit is mostly game websites, youtube, or Facebook. I haven't gotten on facebook lately, mostly because I just got a cell phone and I got all of my friends cell phone numbers and I can text them all the time I want because my cell phone has unlimited text but limited talk. So that means I can only call my parents after school to ask them something, or they call me. I think that in ten years most of the technology that we have today will be almost all touch screen, except for the cars which will be probably still be on the ground and putting bio-fuels into the world. In fifty years i would think that all of the technology will be either touch screen or motion sensed which will be really annoying since they can detect most of all movement. Like radios, cell phones, computers, and such. I also think that the Apple Company will expand most of its products and its profits to become very expensive and the products most bought in the world. I also have a game system that I can only use on the weekends. My parents rules. I also have a laptop that I use weekly and have to stop using at eight o' clock.