Final OR

I am finally done with my outside reading book. it was very good, i enjoyed the character developement and his easy but capptivating writing style. one thing i didn't like about the book was how it jumped from present day to the past with very little waring (just a small date by the title), this was annoying because it broke up the flow of the book and didn't add that much to the plot. Bringing down the house was still a great book and i highly recommend this book to any guy who likes gambling

Outside reading #2

Remind us of the title and the author, and how many pages you have read now. Then tell us what in the novel has surprised you. Give us a prediction about something to come.

The book i am reading has changed to Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. I was surprised how well their method of winning was. I think they will get caught at the end and get banned from all the casinos.

Research paper 3

One thing i was suprrised about was that you are more likely to be struck by lightning than to become violent because of a video game. this was shocking because people always are like you will get struck by lightning before ___________ happens to you and yet people still try to ban violent video games.

research paper blog 2

My topic is censorship in violent video games. I belive that it is bad but many people are for it, they think that violent video games make people violent in real life. this isn't true because there is a clear line between real life and the video games. Some people may become violent but the percent is way to small to make to make a difference (.00004%).

sources:

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/censorship.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070627135401.htm

http://www.calculateme.com/car-insurance-articles/car-accident-fatalities.htm

http://www.car-accident-lawyers-attorneys.com/car_accident_statistics.html

http://www.startribune.com/459/story/1354481.html

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMN0307-0-900&artno=0000117519&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=Y&ic=N\

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMN0307-0-900&artno=0000262456&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=Y&ic=N

Censorship in video games

My topic is censorship in video games.
I think this is a bad thing and should be stopped.

Censorship in videogames is not good because it restricts people's free speech, throughout history no one has censored art, literature or music so why censor a new form art just because it is more realistic.

What Price is right?

I think that the price of envromental contamination needs to be extremly high. Big companies that contaminate the envroment have lots of extra money. if you penalize them with only a small fine they will continue to contaminate. i belive that in order to stop polution we need to make an example of the company so that the other companys will stop too. also in extreme cases the people responsible for the contamination show go to jail.