Questions

a) Technology may or may not make us more productive, it depends on what you mean by productive and what the situation is. If the situation is school or school work then no, it is more of a distraction. But if you're referring to an office job then yes it helps us a lot. For example: a student is supposed to be doing phsycology but instead he/she is playing with their phone which doesn't help us learn at all. 

b) "Multi-tasking"/"task-switching" has a lot of consequences. The most common consequence that most people know about are developed by driving and doing something else, like talking on the phone or even drinking. To drive and think that you are able to text or drink at the same time is not the proper thing to do, it normally ends in a car accident because a person who is text messaging and driving looks away from the road for 4.3 seconds at a time on average. Multi-tasking also shrinks the human brain causing memory loss and stress. When people multi-task it usually ends up that they do a sloppy job at one of the tasks.

c) Our elders are correct, young people now-adays don't know a lot in-depth because we have access to the Internet which doesn't cause us to think as much as human kind used to. But the evolution of human and technology relationship is always changing, so in theory we are not getting dumber, we are getting smarter, just most of our learning skills are directed toward the use of technology.

Wikileaks

Wikileaks is a website that allows people to post things on the Internet to show the world. The problem with this is that secrets can get out and in this case it did. A guy sent in private documents and the U.S government is very angry. People may be mad at him for sending all those private documents and getting them published, but there must be a reason for him doing this. The U.S government should just man up and admit his mistakes instead of hiding them from the world. I personally think that Wikileaks is okay, it is a sign of freedom of speech.

Gifts for the Gamer

Anyone who plays video games usually doesnt wait till Christmas or their Birthday to get a video game that they really want, they will go out and buy it on the day it is released. Gamers don't want a video game as a gift, because chances are that they already have the games that they want. So instead of getting them something that they will never use, try getting them an addition to their gaming system. A Udraw for the Wii or a PS3 or Xbox Move would be a good gift, or maybe a bigger screen T.V. =)

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Donkey Kong Country Returns is a video game for the WII, it was released on November 21st 2010. The game company Retro Studios created this game in 2D to bring back the great times had playing Donkey Kong on Super Nintendo Gaming System. The game is created to test the players curiosity and creativity. In the levels, instead of just running straight through it, you can find hidden treasures buried in the ground. You can also find the letters K-O-N-G to get a reward at the end. The letters are placed in plain sight but figuring out how to get to them is the tricky part. This game isn't the type of game to make you want to give up and just run through the level, it was created with clues/hints leading you to special rewards, you just got to be creative.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops sold 5.6 million copies in the first 24 hours of the game release, making it the biggest entertainment launch ever. This breaks the previous Record of 4.7 million copies sold by Activtion, the game was Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

The menu screen in Call of Duty: Black Ops is not like other menu screens. That’s because it lets you play a classic adventure game. At the main menu screen it will show a guy sitting in a chair, when he gets up if you press the square button on your PS3 controller the screen with move toward the computer sitting in the corner and allow you to type in 2 secret words to get hidden games and acheivments.

Bowling for Columbine

It is too easy for U.S citizens to get guns, resulting in homicides and violence. Every year 11,237 people are killed by guns in the U.S, 381 people in Germany, 255 people in France, 163 people in Canada, 68 people in U.K, 65 people in Australia, and 39 people in Japan.  It may have something to do with the fact that news reporters only showed the low lights in that specific part of town, scaring everyone into owning a gun “to feel safe” but the truth is that no one will be safe, for example, on the news a reporter says at 55:32 “What you do know, may kill you.” After that there is a report on how “an escalator may kill you or a loved one.” They called it “the stairway to danger.” If it was more difficult for  U.S citizens to get guns news reporters wouldn’t be scaring everyone into getting a gun.

The U.S citizens think that there are more murders and violence in U.S because “Canadians don’t watch as much violent movies” as shown at 1:10:50 in the movie “There’s no poverty in Canada like there is here” as shown in 1:11:29. At 1:40-3:12 in the movie it shows Michael Moore walking into a bank, opening a trust fund and receive a free gun. At 42:38 people in the U.S blamed Marilyn Manson for the shooting in Columbine high school because it was said that the killers all listened to his music. At 22:42 in the documentary it shows this General standing in front of a missile explaining how the U.S only use the missiles to protect their country while Michael Moore states “And the U.S just bombed another town that no one can pronounce”.

In the documentary, Michael Moore shows that people in the U.S lock their doors at night or when they leave the house because they are scared that people may break in and steel their stuff, as in Canada nobody locks their doors because nobody cares enough to do it, they say “I would rather have people just walk in and take something rather then break in and steal something.” Again on the news a reporter exclaims “one out of five American citizens has a mental disease, advising people to seek help now.” With everything that U.S citizens see on the news I don’t blame them for carrying a gun.

At 56:05 George W. Bush makes a speech in the documentary saying “Today the justice department did issue a blanket alert, it was in recognition of a general threat that we received, this is not the first time the justice department has acted like this, I hope it’s the last, but given the attitude of the evil doers it may not be.” This statement made must have scared all the Americans, given more the reason that they all own guns. This includes a 6 year old boy who shot a little girl because he found the gun at his uncle’s house and brought it to school.

At 1:37:05 Michael Moore goes and interviews the president of the NRA, the president of the NRA claims that he has the right the own a gun because of the 2^nd amendment, when Michael Moore asking him why he had a loaded gun he just kept repeating himself and getting all defensive. When Michael Moore keeps attacking him with questions, he gets up and walks away, he simply doesn’t care about the fact that a little girl was shot by a little boy, heartless. If the president of the NRA had cared a little bit he could have made a change.

Feeling sad makes us more creative

Studies have shown that feeling sad actually does make us more creative in some ways, or maybe even having some sort of disability like bipolar. Although creativity doesn't only come from depression there are a lot of studies that prove it also comes from stress. People who are sad are usually lonely so it gives them a lot of alone time to paint creative things like Van Gogh, although he only sold one of his paintings he still became famous and later on killed him self because of depression. Being alone isn't always a bad thing like people say, i say quiet time is golden time because it is the time that i get to sit down and relax and write a few poems. People who feel vulnerable and have no one to talk to that they trust have a lot of time to think about everything, creating amazing writers and perfectly fitted words for the setting. Most famous poems or skits are written by someone who has a history of depression. The poems and skits are usually about love and/or family. In a sad moment the brain triggers the creative part, letting all the words flow out onto one piece of paper. People have done studies on individuals who are very creative and found out that most of creativity comes from the feeling of "being nothing."


I have found some of my information on these two sites below. If you would like to know more i recommend checking these sites out:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2659536/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/feeling-sad-makes-us-more-creative/