Call of Duty

A lot of contraversy has sprung up with the violence and war like events Call of Duty portrays. I myself have a brother who plays this game and I think that it shouldn't be portraying the violence that soldiers actually go through in the war. Younger children like my brother, play this game and walk around like it's happening to them. My brother for instance, walks around the corner in my house and pertends to get blown up. I don't think he realizes that actual men and women could have this happen to them, he thinks it's "just a game". I don't think video games should be allowed to show war like events. I think that video games do not show the whole truth of what is happening in the war, although in some cases they are portrayed well (from what I know). I don't think it's fair to let something that is happening in real life have a reset button for the children and teens playing it. I think it gives them the idea that if they are in war, they are invinsable. In some cases however, games like Call of Duty are a "catch 22". Besides the violence and strong interpritations of war, games in general give you better hand/eye coordination. Games like Call of Duty, if played by a soldier were to play this game allow the soldier to "warm up" to what they are about to go through. At the same time however, it also reminds the soldiers that have left combat what they went through. In general I think Call of Duty has pros and cons. All and All, I feel like this game is innapropriate and unfair to those who serve our country.

Movie Imperialism

Inglourious Basterds is a movie that portrays imperialism. This movie is based on WWII and shows the control of a Nazi group in france. Imperialism means the policy or practice of extending a state's rule over other territories and or an instance or policy of aggressive behaviour by one state against another.In the movie, the Nazi soldiers plan on taking down the entire Jewish community. One by one they go through each house, finding some hiding and some straight out in the open and demolish every single one. Some run, most are found and killed harsher then before.
Young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus just watched a Nazi group murder her entire family, she was the only one who got away without being killed. A few years later she plans her revenge. Knowing that every "high-end" nazi is going to the theater to watch the premier of a movie, she plans the perfect attack. The event catches the attention of the "Basterds" (a group of Jewish-American soldiers). With the plan in action, they persue to defeat the Nazi nation by burning down the building.
Shosanna Dreyfus "gets close" to a few soldiers just to catch a sneak peak of what they are actually doing. After all is done, her plan pulls through as she demolishes an entire theater or Nazis.

Mr. WikiLeaksToMuch?

"Could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act." - Time Magazine

Wiki leaks insists they provide an inovative and secure way for anonymous sources to spread information to their writers to be published to the world. WikiLeaks priority is to spread information they think the world should know about; to publish the original source of material and news stories to the families and friends of the person to blame for doing something they view as wrong. They want the world to see evidence of the truth.

Wiki Leaks, to me, is showing too much yet just enough. The information is valid and should, in some cases, be known about in the commen world... not just the army or person involved. In this case, seeing a video about how the people who are supposed to be HELPING out country, make a game out of a shooting is heart renching. I think however, we as americans should know how our country is being defended. It is one thing to think that someone you're looking at could be carrying a gun to harm someone and or himself, but it's another story if you shoot them and bash them for what you thought they are. I wonder if the information we are seeing shows the government that they should probably change the way things are being taken care of? In this situation, I believe, we could have swarmed the area and taken the men down in a different way. We could have searched them for weapons or bombs before shooting them ourselves. They also took it to another level by shooting a civilians just trying to her. Could this situation harm our "friendship" with outher countries if they got a hold of the video? Or would they support our attacks on innocent people?

To me, WikiLeaks is a good source for information if they show information that is nessasary to show. Regardless of being hurtful for some people it is showing them the truth behind our actions. I don't think they should show personal individual information about each and every soul, but I think it is good to see what out government is doing and how they handle business if we American's "keep our cool" when we find out. I believe this site is one of the only ones showing what really is going on. I believe if this site continued on, our country would better it's self in some ways.

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Treatment of a prisoner

Finding ways to treat a prisoner could either be very difficult or very easy.If the prisoner listens to what he is told, it can be easy to distingush where the potential bombs are and where they are not. If the prisoner refuses to listen you have multiple options. First we'd send a translater to the scene to translate anything we couldn't understand. Then we'd bring in a specilized K9-Unit to help search out anything illegal. If nothing seems to go as planed, a long with more questioning, we'd use a more harsh for of punishment. These individuals would suffer conditions of  intense mental and physical torture.

Roaring Twenties

                   The roaring twenties were the "cat's meow". Lots of things gangsters thought were "apple sause". All this gave me the "Heebie Geebies". I didn't know a single "darb" then. You ask who's the"big cheese" of all this? It was the women. Nothing was "berries" at first. All the "molls" were mad that the recreated women were taking there thunder. This one girl told me a story about how a "Hotsy Totsy" had a nasty set of "gams". She walked into the joint like a "bearcat". They said it wasn't "copasetic" to have a women of such quality dress like that. Apperently her boyfriend "upchucked" his "giggle water" as he started at her chassy.