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One thing in this essay brought up a memory that I had from my missionary expereince in Oregon. The part of the essay where it says, "Indeed, by chronicling the past and present crimes of America, they (critics) hope to extract apologies and financial reparations out of Americans." Now I know that ALL Americans haven't exactly been the best throughout its existance but come on, something that happened over two hundred years ago should already be water under the bridge! So to get to what I am talking about. First of all I have no prejudice toward these people in any way. While I was in Oregon I met a lady who had some Native American heritage. Because of this she was getting money as a "reparation" for what had happened to the Native Americans so long ago as the US came in and started taking away their land. The amount that she was receiving on a bad month was about $9,000. Thats a bad month!?! She did not work and neither did her live in boyfriend of ten years. Every time we would go over to her house she would complain to us about how the US was wrong and how her people suffered for the wrongs of the Americans and how they weren't doing anything about it. Every year her daughter had a birthday she would throw the biggest party in town and rent bounce houses, Ponies for pony rides, massive decorations and a gift for each kid that came to the party, and Video recorder men to film the whole event and put together a video. She said to me that the government was going to pay for her daughters schooling too because of their heritage. Now like I said I don't dislike these people but when she is benefiting from something that didn't even happen to her and for her to complain that Americans are wrong and not doing anything to make things right? Give me a break! I don't have anyone paying for my school just because I was born white, I'm not receiving $9000 plus just for sitting on my butt all day. I didn't get massive birthday party for me with everything I wanted. No one has given me a new Home, new computer and Giant Flat Screen TV. I'm sorry but I don't think that is right that she should be complaining and I also think that the thing that happened to the Natives so long ago was a horrible thing, but doesn't matter any more because it happened not in this generation of time!
Personally I am glad that I haven't had everything handed to me. I am not lazy. I know how to do things instead of sit around and complain all day. I think it is horrible that the government has and is still giving to Natives for so long because it has just caused them to learn nothing except to sit around and drink. (not all natives of course) They have learned to be professional beggars of money. I'm not saying giving to them in the first place was wrong, but after the first two or three generations that had to deal with their land being taken from them the "poor me" fund should have stopped.

Dealing with Quotation Marks

So I have the problem of not knowing where to punctate before and after Quotation Marks. So for example; if I were writing my paper I do something like this: According to so and so he says "facts and information and statistics." and continues by saying "more facts and other mumbo-jumbo." What is up with these "officials".
Something like that. Anyhow, It is time to find out what I do wrong. HERE we find 7 Rules! Why do there have to be so many rules!?! So rule #1 tells me that the last quotation I did should have the period on the inside like this: "officials." I don't know why but it just is that way. Same with Commas. Rule 2 explains that ? can fall outside the quotation marks if it is not related to the quotation. Again don't know why. HERE shares how to use a comma before a quotation and when not to use a comma. Soooooooooo Confusing!!!

Modes of Writing

The mode I beleive I will be writing in is Proposition and opposition mode. This mode focuses on one specific topic and gives two opposing views points sharing for example, why something could be good and why something could be bad. Then shares with the reader the authors thoughts on which they side thier opinion agrees with.

A Second mode that I could write in is exemplification mode. In this mode it relates to the readers examples about a topic to bring the specific audience closer to the subject by sharing examples that they might relate to. Examples can also be used to make something that seems foggy to be clear.

Sources for the Research paper.

Anderson, Craig A., Leonard Berkowitz, Edward Donnerstein, L. Rowell Huesmann, James D. Johnson, Daniel Linz, Neil M. Malamuth, and Ellen Wartella. “The Influence of Media Violence on Youth.” American Psychological Society. 4 (2003): 81-110

Anderson, Craig A., Bushman, Brad J. “Media Violence and the American Public.” American Psychologist. 56 (2001): 477-489

Kirsh, Steven J., Mounts, Jeffrey R. W. "Violent Video Game Play Impacts Facial Emotion Recognition". Aggressive Behavior 33 (2007): 353-358.

Gup, Ted. “’Media’ Means So Much, It Means Nothing.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 48 (2001): 1p

Gadow, Kenneth D., Sprafkin, Joyce. “Television "Violence" and Children With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders” Journal of Emotional & Behavioral Disorders. 1 (1993) p54

"Facts and TV Statistics: "It's Just Harmless Entertainment" Oh really?." Parentstv.org 20 Mar 2009 .

"Why Study Media?." MediaBC 20 Mar 2009 .

"The Good Things About Television." Media Awareness Network 20 Mar 2009 .

"The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity." The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation February 2004 1-12.

"Does Watching Television Really Affect Cognitive Development in Young Children?." Knowlege@SMU June 04, 2008 20 Mar 2009 .

I Before E right?

K, So when I start typing a paper I have this horrible problem. Well, It's a problem because it is an exception to the rule of the I before E rule. When I go to type about someone and a possion belonging to them I type this: "They brought thier tent with them on the camping trip." Looks right, right? Wrong it should be, "They brought their tent with them..." why? I thought I was supposed to come before E except after C, like this: Believe, achieve, receive, relieve. Well, this is not true. There are a lot of exceptions to this rule. almost as many that do follow the rule. Check out Wikipedia.

Let's play 50 questions.

1. Who started the Television?
2. How many Television programs are on TV?
3. How long does the average person watch tv a day?
4. How old can a child get addicted to TV?
5. How many swearwords are used in an average 30 min program?
6. How many swearwords do kids hear a day from media?
7. when was the first swearword said on public tv?
8. why do people want to use swearwords on TV?
9. what kind of shows do people watch on TV?
10. Has anyone died from watching TV to long?
11. Has anyone died from playing Video games to long?
12. How many hours a day do people play Video games?
13. What do profesionals say about playing video games to long?
14. How has media influenced the average household?
15. How did people live without TV?
16. Do some people still live without TV?
17. Do people have a TV but not have streamed Programing?
18. How has TV been a help to us today?
19. how much learning does people get from watching TV?
20. How much Learning happens when people play Video Games?
21. Could Society function without TV?
22. What did kids used to do for fun before TV?
23. Has society become more paranoid from watching TV?
24. Do kids have more friends today than they did before TV?
25. How has TV affected the health of kids and people?
26. How has internet affected the postal system?
27. what were the perposes of the internet being created?
28. What kind of people funded the internet?
29. How high has crime jumped since the internet?
30. How high has the crime jumped since TV?
31. Does media inspire crime?
32. How many TV Shows have been made?
33. How many movies have been made since the start of movies?
34. What was the first movie ever made?
35. Should there be a ban on certain programs on TV?
36. Should stations have at least one educational program?
37. What would happen if all the TV Stations were neutalized?
38. How could media be reduced in peoples lives?
39. What could people learn in the time that people spend on tv each week?
40. How many books could be read by the average person each year with the time spent watching TV?
41. What should the job of the media be?
42. Do you lose more weight sleeping or watching TV?
43. Is watching TV really bad for your eyes?
44. Should news stop focusing on the bad stuff and start publishing positive stories?
45. Could uplifting stories, movie, and TV Shows reduce Crime?
46. How much money does a TV Station make?
47. What is the salary of a movie star compared to the average person.
48. Can I be done?
49. Does TV have an effect on how long you live?
50. Has TV made the US more prosperous?
51. Has TV Caused the US to go into debt?