Friday, October 24, 2014

Nerf blaster post

This article definitely brought back some great memories of having Nerf wars with my neighbors. We would each have our own arsenal of Nerf blasters to use for our cause. We had a ton of fun pretending like we were agents in various armies across the world. With that being said, this wasn't necessarily my favorite article we've read. I didn't quite understand the point of the essay and I felt as if the author was giving me a boring lecture about the history of Nerf. I do agree with a lot of the points he made however. I agree that Hasbro building these Nerf guns is a tough engineering task. The engineers had to develop toy guns that had enough power to have fun with yet they had to be weak enough that they were safe to use for kids. I felt that the structure of this essay that the author used was very linear and boring. It seemed to me like he was just going through the history of Nerf like a lecture. While this may be a viable structure for a lot of essays, the topic of toy children’s guns as a huge business is something that I think can be made much more interesting than this author did.

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