My game topic is about Civil Law. Civil law is cases about non-criminal actions. It deals over disagreements over contracts, divorce, child custody, property ownership, and damages of personal property. A civil court is a place where people can solve their problems with other people peacefully. The function of civil law is to provide a legal remedy to solve problems. Sometimes civil law is based on a state or federal statute; at other times civil law is based on a ruling by the court. My partner and I chose this type of Civics because we think that kids need to understand the legal ststem at an early age so they'll undersrand what really happens in a courthouse. I also researched some cases containing civil law. For example, Your best friend’s parents get a divorce. The judge awards custody of your friend’s sister to the mother and of your friend to the father. The friend and sister want to live together. They ask a lawyer to change the custody order. This information will be used to educate the young players of our game "The Hot Pursuit." We will put this information into questions as the player navigates through the game. There will be multiple choice answers. http://members.mobar.org/civics/ExamplesCivilLaw.htm
My favorite part of American history is 9-11. We all know the official story of September 11th: four jetliners were hijacked by groups of four and five Arabic men armed with box cutters, who proceeded to fly three of the four jets into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Subsequently the World Trade Center Towers, weakened by the impacts and fires, collapsed into piles of rubble. The FBI had compiled a list of hijackers within three days, and it was so obvious that Osama bin Laden had masterminded the operation from caves in Afghanistan, that there was no need to seriously investigate the crime or produce evidence. The "retaliatory" attack on the Taliban would soon commence. There were very brave people on that plane and still to this day they are remembered even though they died of a tragic death.
In this past unit, my partner and I have learned how to animate objects and put sounds onto our game. We finished the adding animation unit and are moving on to adding sound. In adding animation, I learned how to make an object in my game move. I made my car go across the screen. Now, I'm going to try to make the car have a sound. The tutorials were very helpful in these two units and I've learned alot from them. I liked the adding animation unit best because my team worked very hard on that car and we put a lot of time into it. Adding aniamtion was a terrific experience and I hope I do really great on adding sound.
