Bowling for Columbine

a)Michael Moore's thesis: The goverment's actions of violence affects the behavior of young people
b)He supports his thesis by showing the government creating bombs and missles and showing the actions of violence they do and then they show the actions of violence of teenagers today and adults as well. Like in the video they show a couple of teenagers that invaded Columbine high school and threatened everyone and killed many students and a few teachers as well with really no reason other than the thrill and adrenaline. They had no reason to do what they did but because they had the weapons to do it with, they thought they would take advantage of that. Some of the ways he displays these actions are through montage, archival footage, talking heads, voice over 911 calls, animation and subtitles.

Editorial

Abortions

Would you kill your own baby? As obvious as the answer may seem many people do it, and do not realize what they are doing. Studies show that 45% percent of women get at least one abortion before they are 45 years old. Abortions are a huge deal these days, in earlier times if someone got pregnant they had the baby. In these days people are given so many choices and opportunities to help them but what some don’t understand is that while they are helping themselves, they are definitely not helping that child. What some people don’t know and probably should is that while the abortion is hurting the baby it’s also hurting them. Abortions can often cause physical and mental health problems and cane make having a baby later in life difficult or impossible. Most people use the excuse of “I’m not ready to take care of a child this child deserves better” when in reality the child may deserve a loving family and someone to care for them but killing them never gives them the chance.

           

            If someone becomes pregnant by rape, this may not be the case but still has the same effect on the child’s life. It may not be your fault that you got pregnant or your choice but the child should not be punished for someone’s bad choices. Now if someone has not come to the realization of what abortion is or what it does for the child now you may be aware. Some of the people who will read this will not understand what the message of this editorial is they are unfeeling of this topic. So it begs the question if one of them got pregnant and had to make the decision of an abortion, would they have the baby or have an abortion.

            However it is understood why someone would want an abortion. Maybe having a baby or being pregnant could hurt your reputation, give you a bad name, make you fat, moody and hungry but you should be able to suffer nine months of being fat to save a child’s life and give that child a home and a family and the chance to have a life. What if your mother had gotten an abortion, you wouldn’t be here and you would have not been given life, what if she took that away from you? If not being able to take care of the baby is the issue, there are other options or choices given to a pregnant woman. There is always adoption, have the child and give it to a family who may be unable to have children. Not only is it great for the baby but it’s an amazing gift to a family that can’t conceive themselves.

                       

            If you know of anyone having an abortion or still contemplating try talking them out of them explain they’re options and help them explore them. You could be saving a life and your friend’s health.  

Articles

Loonie for Riderville

Who: the Royal Canadian Mint and the Roughriders
What: unveiled a $1 in-circulation coin
When: Thursday September 2nd
Where: in Regina
Why: to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the CFL team.

Catching vandals presents opportunity

Who: RCMP
What: identified 8 youths
When: Recent
Where: Camp Tamarack
Why: for vandalizing thousands of dollars of damage

Nipawin welcomes new doctors

Who: Nipawin Health Centre
What: hired three new doctors
When: they began work on Tuesday September 7
Where: Nipawin
Why: shortage of doctors

Parts of a newspaper

Parts of a Newspaper

Ears:

-Hermit harbours secret in film

-Vanier cup quest begins for Huskies

Graphic:

-Film

-Football

-Football

-Lady in a harness in a air

-Truck

Cutline:

-Heather Kuttai is all smiles after rappelling down…for Easter Seals

Deck:

-Gov’t commissions review of Sask. Potash industry

Photo credit:

-SP Photos by Gord Waldner

Index:

-Annie’s Mailbox…..B2

-Arts & Life…..B1-B4

Jumpline:

-Cont’d: Please see Kuttai/A9

Lead:

-Heather Kuttai rolled her wheelchair to the roof’s edge of the 22-storey Carlton Tower on Thursday, her chair’s tiny front wheels bumping against the raised edge.

Nameplate:

-The Star Phoenix

Head:

-Chair in the air

Cut:

Lady in a wheelchair and harness in the air.

By-Line:

Jeremy Warren

Dateline:

Thursday Sept. 2

relationship differentiality

The relationship between McDonalds and Disney World seems a little unfair. Kroc was trying so hard to be considered by Walt Disney to put McDonalds in his theme park. Walt has been trying to rip off Kroc by telling him to raise his fry prices by five cents and he would need to give the extra five cents to Walt. Kroc didn't want to raise his prices as loyalty to his buyers but i'm sure he could be easily persuaded if his job and company was on the line. Another way they are in partnership is after a new Disney movie comes out children obviously go see it and after seeing and loving the new cartoon they go to McDonalds where they have little toys with the theme of the movie that the child had just seen so they will want to have a happy meal with a toy which makes more money for McDonalds its all part of the evil scheme to fool children and their parents :P


The relationships discussed in the film we watched called "merchants of cool" some things are the same while other remain different. In today's society companies are always trying to get a good profit from their sales, they seem to be trying to rip off their consumers and giving them less than what they paid for and trying to influence them instead of selling quality. If they inform their buyers that its the "cool" thing to do and have some celebrity in their commercial also saying its "cool" of course the nieve teenagers will all fall for that in the hopes of becoming "cool" to fit in.

What is cool?

The definition of "cool" can be described in many different ways, it could be clothing, interests, hobbies, music etc. There is no actual defintion to the word cool because it is always changing, styles, "fads" and the "in" thing could change in a matter of days so no one really knows.

ex) texting: everyone texts now a days, very rarely do you find a teenager that picks up the phone to call one of their friends. Adults look at us like we're stupid when we sit around texting but we love our friends so much we talk to them ALL the time! :P As we get older we get so busy with our jobs and our schooling that we don't have time to spend with our friends as much as we like and this way we can talk and communicate and keep in touch. In our time this has become  "cool"

ex) Tight/baggy clothing: these days it is "cool" for girls to wear tight clothes and guys to wear slightly baggy clothes. It seems like guys do it to fit in and girls do it to show off their bodies. People are so concerned about self image now a days because everyone has become so judgmental. Clothing is very important to how you are treated in life so it crucial to how a person feels about themself. Before, tight clothes meant a girl was "slutty" or "easy" and baggy clothes made guys a "gangster" its interesting how everything has switched over so much that it just became style.

Branded Me

Guess, Roxy, Karv, lola and coco, Garage,

Shout out to my girl friend Debbie ! you're my world!!! :D

Guess

Associated with: I think of jeans
Target audience: rich people in their mid 20's
The image: mostly correct, Target Audience: correct
on the Guess website there are a lot of girls and guys and lots of purses, lots of red and black jeans and high heels.

Roxy
Associated with: surfer girls
Target audience: surfing teenagers
The image: mostly correct, Target Audience: correct
On this website there is a lot of water and beach themes and beach clothing. it gives off a very summer image.
Lola n Coco
 Associated with: cute and sexy underwear
Target audience: women who enjoy pretty undergarments (all ages)
The image:mostly correct again, Target Audience: correct but displays more older women
On this website there are mostly bras, underwear, pajama bottoms and shirts. There are some modelled by women and some just have a picture of the garment. There are a lot of bright and beautiful colours.

Garage
Associated with: sweaters
Target audience: teenage girls
The image: not so close, :P, Target audience: correct
On this website there are a lot of fashionable outfits and summer clothes, and sweaters. They model lots of t shirts and tank tops and have a little bit of jewelry.

Karv
Associated with: diamond studded
Target audience: teenagers - young adults
The image:not correct Target Audience: not correct
On this website the models are all pretty old in their late 20's it seems. The website does not show very much clothes from this brand there are only about three pictures, one guy in karv clothing a woman's pants and a picture taken inside the store of the clothing racks.