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International Essay Content for Young People(2008)  
     
Children’s Category Honorable Mention

Invasion of Computers
(Original)

Clarissa Sakura Costen
(Age 10, UK & Japan <Living in UK>)
Park Road Primary school in Timperley
& Japanese supplementary school, Lymm

 

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The largest problem about children is that they never really go out to play outside. Instead, what they do is muck around lazily on the computers. The computers may be fun when you are
a child, but when you get older, you regret playing on your computer so much. All you do is watch the screen silently, and the only noise that echoes around the room is the click click click
from the mouse and the faint tapping on the keyboard. Doing this does not involve talking or thinking. As you can do anything you want on the computer, you may get short-tempered and get extremely frustrated if someone disagrees with you. You also may not be able to communicate to other people as you are not used to it. The computer does not involve walking or running so when you get older you can not walk for very long and you can get a heart failure.

Also, you do not use your brain in these processions because as I said earlier, all you need to do is click and then type anything. This rots your brain and does not get any of your scores in math or English go up and the only change is that your scores go down, going on the computer is actually a waste of time if you want to get your grades up and into the sky.

Going on the computer makes you eyes bad. Who wants to go on the computer despite having to get glasses? That means that you can't see what others can see, which is very unfair and you can't eat hot foods with your glasses on because they get steamed up.

To stop this, I though of making a device that counts how many times you have skipped. When you reach 100 skips, you can play a game on the device: catch the skip. This way you will get sunlight and you can still play on the computer. This also prevents heart attacks and keeps you fit. To stop people from not being able to communicate to others when you are older, you could attach microphones, earphones and a camera to the computer. Then you can talk to people on the computer and you can see their faces too, finally, as I think that going on the computer game does not raise your performance, an easy, fun way to make you use your brains is a spot-the-difference game. At first it is at easy level, but as complete each level, the time
to spot it in gets shorter and more things get added to the picture. When you finish all the levels, your name is added to the `Champions of the Universe' list. When your name has entered into the list you can compete against other people who have also entered the list. The names are also put in order and at the end of the year, the person who is at the top of the list is called the King/Queen of spot the difference.

I have also made up rhymes to remember to not play on the computer too much. E.g. ‘Outside, inside, sunshine, outside'. This reminds people to go and play. ‘1h computer so 2h fresh air'. This shows that fresh air is important. In these ways you can remind everyone to not go on the computer for a very long time. You could also use them on advertisements for outside playing equipment or save-the-planet, switch-off-that-light (or electronic stuff). This is my plan to stop children getting short tempered, risk from heart attacks, unable to communicate with other people and stupid.