Sunday, November 15, 2009
Does Eminem's song lead to the high rate of gunshooting in U.S
First of all, Eminem himself has already read about these things and respond not even for once. He sang in the song "sing for the moment" that “They say music can alter moods and talk to you,but can it load a gun for you and cock it too?” The problem is not the music from outside or “hate” expressed by Eminem or any other rappers but the inside world of these American children according to Eminem and I’m thinking in the same way too. It’s a problem caused by not only one thing but all the bad things that are available for American children.
When I came to U.S. last year, I did a home-stay in the house of one of my mom’s classmate. They got two kids. Everyday, I saw them playing computer games full of violence which I thought are even too violent for me. Both of them are under 10 years old and to my surprise, their parents never cared about what they were playing. They are only children indeed that they even cried when watching the horror film. For them, violence means nothing. They drag the body of a man up and down until a release of it leads to a splash of blood and they finally laughed out. Will that memory influence their action in the future? Probably will and probably not, but one thing is for sure, they won’t be as frightened as a chinese children when they saw the same thing happens to a real man.
Although there are also many children in china who are interested in Eminem’s rap, we haven’t seen that many crimes commited by Chinese children as American children have commited. Take myself as a example. When I listen to the rap by Eminem, I only think that they are so aggressive and full of energy which can give me the incentive to work harder. They are just music and will never let me think of killing other people. Just like what Eminem said: “ parents think that if I ask the children to shoot themselves, they will definitely do that, but in fact, children are much cleverer than they thought.”
All in all, these are all not Eminem's fault. His childhood is also in the black area of Detroit where is full of crimes and violence. He once said: “ Could you imagine seeing a dead body with eyes opening widely on the way home? I swear to god I’ve seen it. In the following days, what I want is god bless me not to see it again.” Well, if Eminem’s rap let those children become a killer, then what Eminem experienced in his childhood shoud’ve let him become a killer too, but it didn’t, which means that whether the atmosphere influence a child does not depend on how pursuasive they are but the ability to defend the chidren themselves. The real problem that people should care about is how to establish a complete system to lead children to a right way of viewing violence and how to deal with them when such tragerdy like the childhood of Eminem inevitablly happened.
Friday, November 6, 2009
technology and lives --- research paper outline
reference book: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN MODERN EUROPEAN LIFE by GUILLAUME DE SYON
Research question: how does modern technology become a drawback in our lives?
Thesis statement: Although the modern technology has been playing a very important role in our lives since it started to step into every corner of this world; however, it deprived our access to a number of things that was priceless to us.
Introduction: the human history was changed totally when we started to implement different kinds of new technology into our lives. Although people at first didn’t want to accept the technology and even the technology is really expensive and excludable, eventually, every one of us began buying television, air-conditioner, and computer back home. After gradually adapting and even now addicting to technology, the question of whether the technology really improves our lives came into mind, in a time that is exactly when we really need to revise what we have done. For me, as a matter of what I observed, technology screw up our lives in a awkward way that people can see it but never be able to change it.
1st reason: technology occupies the valuable time of ours that too much of it were spent no longer in those things that are supposed to upgrade our living standard, but things that are more virtual and meaningless.
Example: 1. Computer games
2. Online chatting
3. TV series
2nd reason: the efficiency of technology made it possible that we can work on different task at the same time and we seem to enjoy being busy; However, we lost a lot of things that should be treated in a more gentle way.
Example: 1. Relationship with people beside us
2. True love
3. Mental health
3rd reason: as the technology is developing, we are now much powerful than any time we used to be, but we’ve never thought about whether we should play the role of “god” which not only disobey the god in terms of religion but also the real god, nature.
Example: 1. the environmental change of the earth.
2. We are much more vulnerable.
3. The self-recognize
Conclusion