Violence In North American Society

Aside from the fact that there is multiple factors that contribute to violence in North American Society, these are four that I think are most significant. Drugs and Alcohol play an enormous roll in violence from basically the beginning of time. Some people who use drugs and drink intoxicating amounts of liquor become so inebriated that they cannot control certain decisions they make. Examples are drinking and driving, "bar fights", gang shootings, prostitution, ect. Often dependence on alcohol and drugs can be inherited or affected depending on your background and where you are from. Some people start to experience violence at a very young age and are exposed to abuse through out childhood. This can teach children that violence is okay and tolerated which is the opposite from the truth. Entertainment is a big contributing factor to violence in present day in North America. This includes movies, music, and TV, while one might think it has nothing to do with entertainment, reality is young people especially are influenced by the media. Now a days, it is not rare to watch a movie with horrific murder scenes, and parents allow their children to watch these movies at such a young age. Music commonly includes verses incorporating some sort of violence, and although if you listen to a specific genre of music does not classify a person as being "violent" or "non-violent" people are highly influenced by that. In the end there has always been violence in North American Society and there is no way our society can eliminate violence as a whole, but there are many ways we can control the amount of violence there is going on.

The Ultimate Decision

Of Mice and Men

Film Review

If you were faced with an incident involving life or death of your best friend, what would you do? From the famous novela "Of Mice and Men" written and published by John Steinbeck in 1937 comes the movie based on the book. The movie was released October 2nd 1992 set back during the Great Depression in the 1930's, directed by Gary Sinise and screenplay by Horton Foote. Two best friends try to accomplish their long loved dream of becoming owners of a farm, while working on a ranch and saving every penny. Actor Gary Sinise who plays George Milton, the bossy, mean, best friend of Lennie Smalls played by John Malkovich, set out to work on a ranch. These two best friends are faced with many struggles and conflicts throughout their journeys. Lennie Smalls (John Malkovich) who is mindless and unintelligent depends and relies on George Milton (Gary Sinise) to help him at the ranch. George has to deal with many difficult conflicts involving his best friend. When Lennie gets himself into a bit of a struggle involving Curly, the bosses son and Curly's wife, George is faced with the most difficult choice. In the end George has to make the decision life or death of his best friend Lennie. How will George take the situation into his own hands? And will Lennie and George's dream of having their own place to call home be demolished?

Nominated for Global Palm.

Two Stars

Amy Heggs

Sunny!

February 5th 2009
Five year anniversary!

Super Powers

Weather Manipulation

If I could have any super power in the world, I would want the power to be able to manipulate the weather. Weather Manipulation is a type of super power, this power gives you the ability to change the weather by mind. I would love this power becuase if I am sick and tired of winter I could manipulate the weather into being sunny for a day. I would be able to stop thunder storms, natural disasters (ie tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and more) which in turn would help out a lot of people who are killed and injured in these cases. If it was foggy out one day and I really wanted to go riding in the nice sunshine I'd use my mind power to change the weather. I chose this super power because honestly I wouldn't really want to have a super power because that defeats the purpose of life. Life is supposed to be about not knowing the future, to be happy, to go through struggles. Having a super power alters the definition of what life should be. And with a power you would use it selfishly which could in turn affect a lot of animals or people who need certain types of weather to survive. I think if I had the power to manipulate weather I would be very stressed out because I'd be worried about altering living things exsistence (like plants, animals and humans) and also in turn could alter the economy.