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Police to Tweet day's worth of incidents

Britain's police force has decided to tweet all of the incidents that they deal with for 24 hours. They decided to do this, because they don't want people taking them for granted, and assuming they're just doing the same things people see on T.V. They want people to know all the stuf they deal with and lots of the proccesses they have to go to. They did their day of tweets one week before the goverment decided to make spending cuts.

Bowling For Columbine

Thesis: The U.S.A. is more violent than most other countries.

NRA:

The president of the NRA avoids the consequences of letting people own guns. 

Example: Michael Moore confronts Charleton Heston about the little girl who had been shot and he claimed to know nothing about it. Michael asked him to apologise to the people of that town for holding a gun rally just after the incident and he got up and walked away. Michael followed him around his home and Charleton just kept walking. The whole time Charleton was being interviewed he avoided questions about how violent America is due to the availability of guns. 

American news:

News in American is all about death and murder, and portrays fear into Americans.

Example: In the documentary Michael Moore compares American news to Canadian news. They show some clips of American news, and it is all about death, murder, and violence. They then show some clips of Canadian news, and it talks about simple things we Canadians like to know, and it’s not all about death. Michael Moore talks to an American news reporter and asked him, if he had two choices: a baby that just drowned, or a man with a gun, which would he pick. The news reporter said “Always the man with the gun; Always.” Just that little interview proves how the American news likes to portray fear into their people.  

American history:

The south park clip shows us the history between America, and guns and violence.

Example: Throughout the whole “A Brief History of America” clip, the narrator says how scared the Americans were.  The narrator, a little cartoon bullet, starts by telling us about the pilgrims, how they left for the new world so that they would not be scared anymore, and how they killed all the Indians there, because the Indians frightened them. They then killed lots of British soldiers so that they could be free and passed the amendment that all men had the right to own a gun. The narrator then moves on to the point of slavery, because the Americans were scared of work. The slaves started uprising and soon became free. The Americans were still scared and paranoid, so the created the KKK and the NRA. Eventually they got so “scared” that they created suburbs where they could be “safe”. This little clip shows us just how paranoid and violent the U.S.A. is.

Don’t leave that laptop on your lap

Don't leave your laptop on your lap for too long, or you may develop "toasted skin syndrome". It is a skin condition which develops when too much heat is applied to your skin for too long. It's the same effect as too much sun exposure. Many people have reported cases of mottled discoloration on their skin. One woman develop this syndrome, because she spent about six hours a day working with her laptop on her legs. Other cases of the same discoloration have occurred by using a heating pad for leg injuries. The heat may cause skin cancer, but it's unlikely computer use will lead to cancer since it's so easy to avoid prolonged close skin contact with laptops.

Traveling To Italy

The Travel Club is traveling to Italy and Greece in 2012. On March 30th the group will fly to Rome, Italy and ten days later, they will return. A three day optional extension is yet to be decided. The current Grade Elevens and Tens are the ones eligible for the trip. Approximately twenty five to thirty students will go. Exact numbers are yet to be defined, because they are not sure who is all definitely going. The whole group is excited to go see a different part of the world.


About half of the trip will be spent in Italy. The first three days will be spent in the country’s capital, Rome. While there the group will see things such as the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica, Forum Romanum, the Coliseum, Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain.


On an optional Florence excursion the group will watch the golden hills roll by on their trip there. While in Florence they will see Michelangelo’s sculpture of David, one of the only bridges to survive WWII and the Duomo, or dome, that fills Florence’s skyline. They will see many historical, artistic and amazing places while there.


The Coliseum, one of the most famous ruins of the ancient world, is a highly anticipated part of the trip. At one point in time the Coliseum was used as a huge arena for gladiator fights, mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of battles and dramas based on mythology. In its prime the building could hold 50,000 spectators. Now, it is but a ruin, yet still an important part in Rome’s history and connections to the Roman Catholic Church.


The Pantheon, built in 126 AD, is another very popular tourist attraction. Its large dome is an impressive architectural feat. It is the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height and interior diameter are exactly the same (43.3m) an impressive feat for the technology considered at the time it was built.


Touring to the ruins of Pompeii, and the cities of Capri and Brindisi will also be a great experience of the Italy landscape and culture.


And that is only half the trip. The other half will be spent in the wonderful country of Greece.