Hell No We Won't Go

pg. 224 What Matters In America

Internet Cartoon

These two are ironically related, one could be that both the Statue of Liberty and Mexicans are illegal in the first place. Why is that? If one can't be here why should the other. They are closely similar due to the fact they aren't from the United States. The Statue of Liberty cartoon is very controversial within the people in boat. In reality the right thing to do is to take the Statue of Liberty back to where it came from. The bottom cartoon symbolizes a bit more of a racial comment. The Statue of Liberty wasn't white enough to stay in this case. Both of these picture deal with immigration and how they want to control it to lower levels. Every person counts as a number of how many are deported. Since the Statue of Liberty still stands so do the Mexicans. Deporting 3 million illegal Mexicans averages out to five Mexican front yards parties.

Must Read!

I read the novel "Hunger Games", written by Suzanne Collins. This book was published by Scholatics Inc in 2008. The basic summary of this novel is about a young lady named Katniss, and she lives in an era where the capitol overpowers the lower class. It starts off the same day the reaping is going to happen, and that is where they pull names from a bowl to see who will be playing the hunger games. It is a fight till the death! Katniss little sister Primrose was choosen, but Katniss insisted to voluenteer instead. Katniss was sent away along with a male named Peeta who was also from the same district. They both were eventually going to kill eachother but they were bothed being trained by the same people. The day comes up and the first thing Haymitch( the trainer) said was run away from the weapons. As they did what they were told people who weren't given that advice slaughtered eachother. After retriving later with weapons; one by one was struck dead in the forest. Eventually leaving Katniss and Peeta teamed up against the gathered group. Soon to realize the rules were changed and that there would only be one winner between either Katnis and Peeta. They managed to both win the title with the intelligence of commiting suicide and no winner. They took the title back to district 12 happy.

I would recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys the pleasure of forestry, and action that leads to suspense. Although I gave up most of the information, there are times when you actually feel the emotions of a certain character. You learn more about who they really are. I feel that the book was way better than the movie because I just pictured Katniss to be brave and not such a weenie like in the movie.

Are You Curious?

Just the other day in class we were discussing whether money brings happiness. In my perspective I feel that money does complete empty holes in life. The fact is you have to know how to use it, and to never let greed take over your life. Then the question came up, " did you guys know that they say that there is a lottery curse". This caught my interest so much that I didn't hesitate to look it up in a matter of seconds. On the web I found information about divorces, murders, and bankruptcy due to the lotto winners. Sometimes I daydream, but what if I didn't open myself up like they did? What if I paid all the bills I needed to and kept it a secret between just the family who lives with me? I also daydreamed if I would to be the first to put the curse to an end, but would you give it a chance and lose everything you love and desire for money?

Too Much Violence

Francisco Lugo

ENG 100

Instructor Mott

04 April 2012

I found this website to be very interesting. These types of questions are very difficult to answer, because it is more of an opinion rather than a definite answer. I actually got a little more insight about video games. When I was a child I have to admit that my mom would not let me play video games that involved dramatic violence. For example guns were prohibited if I wanted to play some sort of video game. As I got older I bought my first game when I was 18 and that included modern warfare two. I am actually proud to say good thing I didn’t play that game when I was younger, because now that I am mature I can view things different, without getting easily affected by violence.

I did not find it difficult to answer the questions that were given to me. My final decision to the image of video gaming was that it was okay to use it as a homepage. According to what I have read, I feel that video games are a new generation form of art. The reason for this is because it takes time to put all the details together and at the end it turns out to be media art. This involves new media technology, including digital art, computer animation, virtual art, computer robotics, and much more. The image that I found offensive was the art piece by Andrea Mantegna's St. Sebastian. This image involved the death of a saint, and to me it was a very strong image that had a lot of negative energy, and it consist strong feelings. For a video game, I don’t think that the art piece by Andrea Mantegna's St. Sebastian can relate to a specific video game, because now a day’s video games have a different perspective. There are the fantasy games, and then there are modern warfare games that may have a little bit more truth to our world. Yes one quote mentioned that the more you play, the more you are programmed to react in a violent game, if in this case violent games are all you play. It makes it easier to make actions like this when you are accustomed to consume violent acts every day. I find this true, because a lot of what we learn is used in practiced in our daily lives.