Links to articles.

this one is where i got most of my topic from:
http://www.cracked.com/article_20927_5-ridiculous-things-media-blamed-video-games-for.html

where i got the GTA (grand theft auto) topic:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-parco/violent-video-games_b_3945609.html

where i got the portal 2 topic:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/behold-the-dumbest-video-game-controversy-yet/#!XTucq

i got my entire topic from the first link, but i did more research on the other 2 links. also, you might want to copy-paste these links to actually go to them. thanks for reading...again.

HOMEWORK

BLAMEING EVERYTHING ON VIDEOGAMES

There are alot of things that get on my nerves but this is up on top! poeple and the media will look for anything and anyone to blame when it comes to things like shootings or suicides "oh, call of duty was the reason that guy shot and killed 20 poeple at that school!" or "this guy killed himself because of battlefield 3!" and then thier going on about "WE NEED TO BAN THESE EVIL VIDEOGAMES BEFORE OUR CHILDREN DO THE UNTHINKABLE!". when things like shootings and suicides happen poeple will look for anything or anyone to blame other then themselves. parents of a person responsible for the shooting will blame T.V , movies or videogames other then themselves. but i wont blame them, its pretty much human nature for poeple to look for something or someone to blame. but when they put ALL the blame on videogames thats when you've gone too far. they only think "videogames are the reason we have violence in the world" that is bullsh%t. violence has existed before our ancestors could even walk on their hind legs! also, its pretty much all about mental illness.  you dont let someone with a mental disorder play a game about shooting, give the person the ability to buy a gun anywhere with ease and just let him go crazy! the reason WE (or at least everyone whos a gamer) arent grabbing guns and killing ourselves or others is because we build strong mental barriers between reality and fantasy. something usual shooting perpetrators dont have too much of. not only are shootings and suicides are being blamed on videogames but also DISEASES! poeple are blameing dieases like rickets! the reason their blameing rickets on videogames was because of a study that said "rickets is caused by lack of calcuim and vitamin D, something you get from natural sunlight. kids these days dont get enough sunlight because they tend to spend more times indoors on things like computer games." thats all the media needed to put the blame and hurt on videogames. and then thiers poeple getting offended or even traumatized over something in the game. one example is portal 2 where the villain "wheatly" tries to insult the hero "chell" by makeing fun of the fact that she was adopted. now, that sounds pretty bad right? well the thing is "wheatly" was made in the game to be a comlpete idiot and mostly for comedic relief of some sort. unfortunatly for "VALVE" the company who made the game, there were poeple who's feelings get hurt way to easily started to complain how portal 2 is full of hatred for adopted children. one last example is how grand theft auto encourages drunk driveing, violence, raisism, car surfing and other miscellaneous bullsh$t. first off, your an idiot or mentally ill if you do something that you do in grand theft auto. second, grand theft auto is suppose to be an exageration of THE REAL WORLD! everything in the game DOES HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE! and yet poeple and of course the media are thinking all these things only happened and started happening because... you guessed it! VIDEOGAMES! so if your one of those people  who thing all of our problems are caused by videogames. do us all a favor and GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! you dumbsh%t...

thanks for reading.

homework

well, the first thing i'd like to point out is that alot of words change meanings or even thier spelling over time. this can be either caused by useing the specific word differently or incorrectly but catching on. an example being the word "literal" meaning "takeing words in thier usual or most basic sense without metaphore or exaggeration". now (or at least its what i've heard) the meaning of the word has changed so that you can use the word for emphasis rather then being actually true. another word is "meat" it use to refer to all foods and food types but has later on changed its meaning and had it narrowed down so you can specify more food types like fruits or vegies. and then theres mixing up words such as "aurol and oral", "ascend and accent", "prescribe and proscribe", "restfull and restive" and so on and so forth. and slang is a completely different story so i wont poke into that for now. anyways, the whole "sell-out" thing...i really dont know too much about it to explain it too well. but what i did explain was kinda the point of the article. thanks for reading.

LUIGI CAP ADVERTISMENT (assignment)

LUIGI CAP: this luigi cap belongs to me and i want to sell it (not really). it has the texture of a stuffed animal but is perfectly wearable and in good condition. its unique (in a way) because mine has wings on the sides. though i've worn it before it has no wear and tear and is in excellent condition. its somewhat brand new because i bought it not too long ago (a week ago) im also not sure if its hand-crafted or not. its also not second handed because it never came with packaging. so, now its on the market for about $300 (mexican or pesos, probably about $23 USD) i make a slight profit and you get a luigi hat. its a win-win! call this number if you have any questions or if you want to buy it: 395839849302903879793791645816489348533446093840384038409839439857296617386486492492637493748503021029383783759375938001029235392738919836785617678618768916311509 (im not really selling it so go away!) thank you for reading this.

homework

HOW HUMANS TREAT ANIMALS:

well. when it comes to pets some owners treat them with respect such as guard dogs, others with love and compasion for any household pets and sometimes very cruely from abusive or lazy owners. when it comes to the wild sometimes thier treated like pests like racoons and opossums or as just "game" for hunters like bears, dear, elk, etc. or in farms thier treated like livestock for food, milk, wool, furs, etc. or in a circus for tricks, entertainment and atractions like lions, tigers, zebras, etc. its pretty much where they are that matters in the subject. i mean, you cant take a tiger in the wild and keep it as a pet and not expect it to kill you! or set free an animal born and raised in captivity to roam free and know how to survive. its pretty much about location and population. like in china/japan, i dont know if its a stereotype or not, but some say they just eat anything they consider edible due to overpopulation. and in places like canada or anywhere frigit animals like seals are hunted http://alexlimongamboa.blogspot.mx/2014/04/homework.html for food and sport and wolves for sport and fur. and then thier are the endangered species like pandas and rhinos who are being protected (hopefully) by that areas populations. so...yeah. thats pretty much all i got. also, my sister told me that everyone thought i was looking up everything on the presentation. i wasnt, i was reading my last blog post about it (not the sealing thing, the economic collapse thing). i just wanted to straiten that out. thanks for reading.

Homework

this is what seal hunting or sealing is:

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in six countries:Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Russia. Seals are hunted also in Finland and Sweden to prevent fisheries damages. Canada's largest market for seals is Norway (through GC Rieber AS).The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) regulates the seal hunt in Canada. It sets quotas (total allowable catch – TAC), monitors the hunt, studies the seal population, works with the Canadian Sealers' Association to train sealers on new regulations, and promotes sealing through its website and spokespeople. The DFO set harvest quotas of over 90,000 seals in 2007; 275,000 in 2008; 280,000 in 2009; and 330,000 in 2010. The actual kills in recent years have been less than the quotas: 82,800 in 2007; 217,800 in 2008; 72,400 in 2009; and 67,000 in 2010. In 2007, Norway claimed that 29,000 harp seals were killed in its seal hunt, and Russia and Greenland claimed that 5,476 and 90,000 seals were killed in 2007, respectively.Harp seal populations in the northwest Atlantic declined to approximately 2 million in the late 1960s as a result of Canada's annual kill rates, which averaged to over 291,000 from 1952 to 1970. Conservationists demanded reduced rates of killing and stronger regulations to avert the extinction of the harp seals. In 1971, the Canadian government responded by instituting a quota system. The system was competitive, with each boat catching as many seals as it could before the hunt closed, which the Department of Fisheries and Oceans did when they knew that year's quota had been reached. Because it was thought that the competitive element might cause sealers to cut corners, new regulations were introduced that limited the catch to 400 seals per day, and 2000 per boat total. A 2007 population survey conducted by the DFO estimated the population at 5.5 million. It is illegal in Canada to hunt newborn harp seals (whitecoats) and young hooded seals (bluebacks). When the seal pups begin to molt their downy white fur at the age of 12–14 days, they are called "ragged-jacket" and can be commercially hunted. After molting, the seals are called "beaters", named for the way they beat the water with their flippers.The hunt remains highly controversial, attracting significant media coverage and protests each year. Images from past hunts have become iconic symbols for conservation,animal welfare, and animal rights advocates. In 2009, Russia banned the hunting of harp seals less than one year old.

what i think of it: 

to be honest, you cant change the way an entire country thinks or is. you can go to any of these countries and protest,complain, etc. all you want but there are going to be many who will just shrug it off or just ignore it. there will be some poeple who will agree sealing is bad and should be stopped but there will be many who think it should continue or just wont care. thats all i have to say about it i guess...

for global studies

My printer doesnt work for now so i hope this will do for G.S.

Coming Economic Collapse

Greece is deep into a whirl of political, social and economic woes that do not seem to fade. Problems are never solved -- instead they multiply and become part of everyday life. This keeps the country into a vicious circle of poverty, political instability, social degradation and underdevelopment.

The political system in Greece is fragmented, does not work and is unable to generate new ideas to move the country out of its misery. We see a recycling of old and unproven ideas, people moving up and down within and across political parties, and core politicians elevated to leader status with no clear direction in mind for the country. New parties are formed from party dissidents with no distinct and useful deviations from the stereotype doctrine of the two main parties (PASOK and New Democracy).

The left has not changed its tune in light of the country's march to the edge and has not offered any serious and viable solutions. The communist and other, smaller parties have never managed to advance in importance in the parliament and remain stagnant in the polls. The parties seem to be concerned mostly with winning re-election and continue their reign with no remorse or consequences.

One way to get the country moving again and implement fresh, new ideas on combatting widespread corruption, gross (human and real) asset mismanagement, union gridlocks and renewed negotiations with the troika (composed of the European Central Bank, the european commission and the international monitary fund) is for the Greek premier to assemble a group of Greek technocrats, preferably living outside Greece and free from political aspirations and connections, and found a new political party. The new party will have ample time to come together and properly form by the next elections in view of the expected failure of the main parties to form a one-party government. At the same time, the much smaller parties would have an opportunity to develop, promote new ideas (here, the role of the media is crucial), be known to the wider public and become future power contenders. It is time for Greeks to vote out of office once and for all the two main parties and reduce the influence of the other parties that instigate and merely complain about everything rather than contribute to the country's welfare.

The many and compounding social problems in Greece have demoralized its people and pushed them to the brink of despair, denial, crime and social degeneration. People when asked about their and their country's future respond by saying that everything is hopeless; no one offers any help to them and certainly their politicians are doing nothing to correct the situation. Voices of reason and action still exist, but they typically run into a brick wall because the political system (with its arms such as unions and adamant supporters) either is incapable, indifferent or unwilling to act and thus problems persist and multiply. Problems such as illegal immigration, poverty, and abandoned cities still plague the country with no end in the near (or even distant) future.

One idea for initiating a change is for small groups of people everywhere to get together and take charge of issues around their community. For instance, they could get in touch with local authorities (municipality and police, for example) to organize patrols around their neighborhoods, keep them clean, safe and drug-free. In that way, little by little, slowly but steadily, neighborhoods, communities and, by extension, cities will be claimed back by its residents. The success of such initial movements would spread around the country and be replicated to other pressing issues such as poverty and environmental damage.

Finally, the severe economic problems of the country are an impediment to its development and growth. Greece was always (in my opinion) a developing (and mainly agricultural) country, but its current problems are pushing it to underdevelopment status. Policies designed by the troika and implemented by Greek politicians do not seem to work and do not contribute to the country's reversal to sustainable development. In this case, all participants are to blame, not just Greek politicians. The troika, with its leader, Germany, with its procrastinations, indecisions, and half-measure austerity policies imposed on Greece, shares a lot of the current situation. For example, the latest insistence on imposing a further reduction in wages and salaries in order to improve productivity, although necessary initially, cannot bear fruit when not allied with other countermeasures such as the breaking up of monopolies, oligopolies and other dislocations in the market.

Wage reductions are not a panacea for enhancing productivity. Prices remain stubbornly high, the working environment is depressing, work incentives (not necessarily monetary) are nonexistent, and, as a result, aggregate demand is being severely dampened. This situation cannot foster increased and new production and higher revenues for the government to put the country back to the path of development.

One idea is for consumers to seriously organize, demand better quality and rightly priced products, and establish sovereignty. Existing consumer-protection organizations are unable to combat organized interests emanating from intermediaries and retailers. A feeble movement currently under way to bypass intermediaries and slash prices needs to be done in an organized fashion in collaboration with the relevant authorizes in municipalities to avoid emergence of new corruption and exploitation of citizens. Another idea is for unemployed professionals (such as farmers, marketers, accountants and agronomists) to get together and cultivate the land and perhaps develop a new or unique hybrid seeds and secure a new market niche.

Change must come from somewhere, either from the Greek citizens or from the government. Since the latter is not a possibility, at least in the short run, it is time for every Greek to put a little stone in rebuilding this beautiful country of ours. In addition, the new government's mandate should be for the people and have the ability to renegotiate the stabilization program with its European partners on an equal basis, not as master-servant. In that way, the long-run benefits will accrue not only to Greece but also to Europe. So there is still hope for Greeks and their country.

Nikiforos T. Laopodis, Ph.D., is a finance professor at Fairfield University's Dolan school of Business.