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/

Wonky Physics, Nasty Levels Ruin Sonic the Hedgehog 4

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is an epic fail. They have brought back 2D and it has terrible graphics. The bad part about the game is that you can only see 3 inches infront of you. The game is pretty much made so that people can just run straight through the levels with the occasional jump to reach the finish. In order to run you have to have a lot of room to catch speed because Sonic runs like he is stuck in mud, which makes it hard to beat Bosses because of their fast attacks.

Bowling for Columbine Argument

Argument:  Is it too easy to get a gun in the U.S.A, it is resulting in homicides and violence


Topic Sentence: The evening news is showing that guns and violence are scaring citizens

Example: In Michael Moore's movie, Americans lock their doors at night while Canadians don't because Americans watch more crimes on the news.



Topic Sentence: The second amendment allows Americans to legally carry a loaded weapon

Example: If everyone has a loaded gun with them, who is actually safe?



Topic Sentence: The stores sells guns and ammunition to anyone who asks for it

Example: When Michael Moore walked into K-Mart to buy ammunition, they let him.

Help! My Smartphone Is Making Me Dumb — or Maybe Not

People are getting hooked on social media, researchers are still trying to figure out if multitasking is good or bad, it may be good because we can do more things at once but it also distracts us from doing a proper job. Although cell phones and the Internet are distracting it is said that infants are much worse because they need more attention. People who text and drive are putting a lot of people in danger and themselves, studies have shown that texting and driving is more dangerous than calling and driving but 98% of people admit that they still do it because they "have to".