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Violence In Television Today, many people believe that shows aired on T.V. promote violence in kids as well as the society, but this is all circumstantial. Of course every once in a while there will be a conflict in society between people or nations, but blaming this all on a show seems a bit more like avoiding responsibility than solving the issue. Violence shown in shows such as Criminal Minds or even The Simpsons is not the reason people fight today. If anything, having these shows opens up the eyes of the naive to what really goes on in the community outside of the perfect bubble of a neighborhood or school. Shows like these gives insight on tragedies and the people responsible for them. If seeing a character on a show beat someone else up makes people want to be more violent, then that is not an issue of the show's content, but of the mindset of the child or adult. Plots on popular T.V. shows are targeted to be relatable to the audience or else nobody would want t...

Yesterday morning at 10 a.m., Cyclone Victor hit the coast of the Solomon Islands and caused mass destruction across the community.  The cyclone took 20 houses, damaged numeral buildings, killed 6 people, injured 18 and made over 100 people homeless. The cyclone was spotted at 2 a.m. near Nauru by the meteorologists at the Nadi Weather Center. The center contacted the Solomon Islands government by 3 a.m. to warn them of the approaching Cyclone Victor. "We warned all the proper authorities," Nadi Weather Center Director James Jones said.  "It was a fast developing front that we could not have anticipated any faster." With the cyclone on the move, the weather center classified it's damage capability to better prepare the people. "The storm had sustained winds of 140 kph and was classified as a Level 4 Cyclone," Jones said. After  receiving knowledge of the storm, Government officials went into action to warn the people on the islands and get ev...

News This story was about how the Austin City Council just voted to remove the curfew of minors to relive some stress from both the minors and the officers. This new law allows minors to be out during the hours of 9am to 2pm and from 11pm to 6am. This change gives wiggle room to students with late night jobs and allows officers to focus on tougher crimes then just a night-owl teen. 1. Austin City Council member Ellen Toxclair, junior Han Vo, and council member Jason Stanford 2. "I don't think it's a good public safety policy to preemptively criminalize children who had no intention of committing a crime." -Ellen Toxclair 3. yes 4. quote Commentary This story talks about how "Bulldog Nation" has affected the school in a positive way and how our school spirit has increased because of it. It brings up topics like how easily we were able to accept a new thing that we originally made fun of, and how that can affect our sense of values. 1. only Pri...

1. Who were the sources? Neil Brien, Aunt Leardon 2. Summarize in 1-3 sentences the story: Neil Brien wend to a very strict, catholic school in Ireland growing up. The school had very strong and difficult curriculum, which pushed Brien to try his best and work as hard as he could. In the end, Brien enjoyed his school days and wouldn't change a thing. 3. How many paragraphs is the story? 34 paragraphs 4. How many words is the story (you can do this in the Google Doc itself)? 1027 words 5. How many direct quotes are there in the story? 19 direct quotes 6. How many different people are quoted in the story? 2 different people 7. Which quote is the most impactful of all the ones included? “It was extremely competitive between students,” Brien said. “In many classes, the seating arrangements were based on test scores.” This one was the most impactful to me because it really allowed me to fully comprehend how competitive this school really was. Compared to Bowie, most teachers go ...

1. Who were the sources? Kelle Shymkiw and Cathy Callaghan Noey 2. Summarize in 1-3 sentences the story: Cathy Callaghan Noey grew up in a military home as an army brat. She went through her life constantly moving and had troubles finding a permanent home due to her dad's constant re-locationing. In the end, she found that growing up this way taught her many important life skills and sculpted who she is today. 3. How many paragraphs is the story? There are 26 paragraphs in my story. 4. How many words is the story? There are 831 words in my story. 5. How many direct quotes are there in the story? There are 12 direct quotes in my story. 6. How many different people are quoted in the story?  quoted 2 different people. 7. Which quote is the most impactful of all the ones included? “Oh, yeah. It had a huge impact on my life. I was able to learn so many good quality traits from my dad. He made me motivated and responsible for my own life. Daddy really inspired me to join the army mysel...

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Short Answer: 1. Sean Foley and Andrew Nestor 2. He did this to make the lands for "public use" and because the protections were "too broad" 3. This was due to inflation and to keep up with th competitive wages for their staff. 4. Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson and Bryce Love 5. I would want to see "Wonder" because I read the book all the time when I was little and loved it. It's such a sweet story and I really want to go see it.  Long Response: Trump's tweet raised suspicion that he knew about Flynn lying before it ws released, which means he could've been  apart of that, too. What was also weird wa show he brought it up with security the next day and hoped that they could be so kind to "let this go".  I think that there is a possibility that Trump knew about this before they fired Flynn because he was very eager to have everyone try to forget this ever happened. He also seemed to be trying to get the people to feel bad for ...