T Thought Police By Jason Howie

Teju Cole’s phenomenally written original novel majorly takes place in New York City. Cole character was easy to relate to because of his Nigerian American decent being that I am a Ghanaian American. Cole is a Nigerian American. He was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992 at the age of seventeen. Cole is also well educated and is a graduate student at Columbia University. I found it insightful how in the novel Cole met several various types of people, including other immigrants. He met and shared stories with a Haitian shoe shiner, at work in Penn Station; a Liberian, imprisoned for over two years in a dentition center in Queens; and a Moroccan student working at an Internet café. I enjoyed the fact that the narrator was well stocked minded. He touched on the topics of art, music, and interesting books. He had a very eclectic set of interest.

The title of the book Give a Boy a Gun, by Todd Strasser, both foreshadows events later to occur and possesses a secondary meaning.

Numerous individuals use social media to upload their favorite moments, judgments, or just a night out with friends, but a lot of people do so without truly understanding the problem behind showing too much information online. For instance, everyone has the option to enter in all kinds of information on your profile like name, birth date, and place of living, but according to Mike Hard castle’s article, he wrote that “you should not list your birth date or phone number” (Hardcastle). Social media is an impressive tool that our generation uses each and every day, but like everything else, it comes with a price. The risk of sharing too much information leads to attracting attention from certain online predators. In Mike Hardcastle’s essay, he certainly lists many cons on why someone should not list every detail about themselves online. I indeed agree with what he says in the article because it is true that “predators will always choose a readily available target over one that takes work to find” (Hardcastle).

Seven (or Se7en), a movie that was directed by David Fincher, produced by Arnold Kopelson and Phyllis Carlyle, and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It was released o september22, 1995, and won MTS’s best movie award that year.

Deathgasm Analysis Yesterday, October 21st, I went to see the movie Deathgasm that is directed by Jason Lei Howden. The movie began with a metal-head teenage boy named Brodie who discovers friends that are also into metal music, and they form a band called Deathgasm. Later, they find the old rock legend, Rikki Daggers, in an abandon house, and he handed them a sheet of music. They soon realize the sheet of music attracts demons to come into people who live there and a Satanic cult leader, Vadin.

Social Media is affecting our society in a negative way. From being the number one cause of divorce, ruining people’s careers, and being a haven for teen suicides, many misfortunes arise due to social media. People may not notice its damaging side effects yet it is slowly but surely proving detrimental to all involved in the game. By taking a step back and maintaining self-control, any human being immersed in the frenzy of social media can enjoy its perks without getting caught up in the whirlwind of unfortunate events.

In any story there is a central message or theme as the main idea. This story happens to have many themes conveyed by the way it's told. One of the themes in this story is that a promise must be kept. Another is the need to fulfill responsibilities despite the choices one makes in life. In this story many key and eventful literature are present.

In all honesty, despite the imposing impulse to expose ourselves today on social media we all must resist in order to preserve a reasonable degree of “personal privacy,” who cares about what the world will think or

Social media creates emotional responses, whether it’s feeling ignored, dissatisfied, comparison or loneliness. From not getting enough likes to the amount of friends one has acquired, people have their status quo right on a convenient site for all to see. With such easy access to these negative responses, there is no benefit from these sites for individuals who are already having a hard time to fit in. Seth Greenberg, an experienced journalist for, How the World Changed Social Media, backs up my claim of these negative emotions social media can create. He explains, “In the last five years, several popular news outlets like Times, Forbes, and New Yorker have cited psychological studies that social media may increase depression, dissatisfaction,

What is online about someone can bring negative consequences Murphy explains “you might not get a job because of a indiscreet tweet”(1). The internet can have a big impact on your outside life and might even get in the way of employment. Murphy also explains how “relationships are harder to establish”(5). It is hard to have a relationship and have it grow if everything about you is searchable the more you put put out about yourself on the internet the leas intimate things can be in a relationship. Murphy informs us on how “people are coming to understand how their online date might be used against them”(1).Posting online can have many more consequences. Employers and colleges now look to social media to check out possible candidates if there are questionable items that show up they might prevent a job

The claim opposers say is that social networks and media keep us close together and connected, but has connection really gotten better? Or is this a false sense of connection that social media creates. In a study done at Cornell University, Dr. Strogatz states that social media can make it more difficult for us to distinguish meaningful relationships in the real world. Due to the many easy relationships formed through social media, the brain will focus much of our time and a lot of psychic energy on these less meaningful relationships, and our most important connections will weaken and wither. Along with social implications, there comes physical health as well. Researchers suggest that due to prolonged and constant social media use, chances increase for weight gain, sleep disturbance, depression, and anxiety. The psychological effects can be devastating to the whopping 1 in 4 people on the Earth today who have a social media account of some form. All thanks to the power of the internet today and the ease of access it comes to many of us today. Another culprit of the implications with social media and the destructive force that is the internet, is cyber-bullying. Bullying isn’t new, but it has definitely changed over the years. Back in the day, children were usually bullied at school or in the neighbourhood. Today, with the increase of Internet, children are now being bullied at all times in all locations. In fact, according to reports at the Washington Post, nine out of ten teen facebook users have stated that they have seen bullying on a social media site. In addition, 54 percent of those surveyed claimed to have experienced bullying on the same exact site. The effects of bullying may appear subtle in the beginning. However, if it persists, the results can be very tragic. One of the most serious of these consequences is suicide. This can be in result of some people unequipped with

There are people that argue that social media is bad and that we simply shouldn’t have it and while these people are way in the minority now, they do still exist. There is a downside to social media ordinarily “teens now spend up to nine hours a day on social platforms” (Asano). The fact that we spend so much time on social media can definitely be a downside nevertheless it's not necessarily bad. Social media as a whole has changed how we communicate with each other all over the world. It used to be that we had to write letters or go straight to someone's door and talk to them, that changed when the telephone was invented, then people could simply dial a number and be connected to whoever they wanted. Now the preferred method of contacting someone is through texting or social media. Teens now prefer rather than using the actual messaging app on their phone to contact someone through their phone number to use Instagram, Snapchat and sometimes

Social media holds a power over the emotional state of a person. According to an article titled “Negative Effects Of Social Media On Your Health” by author Falcon states social media can negatively affect your emotional health.The negative effects overweight the positive effects because the majority deals with emotional abuse. For example, Falcon makes a point about how “face-to-face conversations have been removed” which can jeopardize with a person’s attitude. When people get comfortable talking behind a screen they don’t know how to respond in face to face conversations. There is a lot of energy put into a face to face conversation; that energy is emotion. There is a different reaction when people deal with emotions in person versus over social media. People won’t have that same strength, giving advice via social media as if they gave it in person. Also, when people get furious over social media they

One may choose to be a part of the social networking wave in this ‘digital era’ or may chose to distance themselves from this phenomenon, but there is no denying the impact of social

In recent years, social media has had a tremendous impact on the society as a whole. With just a few clicks, anyone can see what someone is doing, thinking, saying, eating, and even where they are at, almost at all times. Social media can bring friends and family that live far away from one another closer together. It can expand a person’s set of friends and their lifestyle. It can get them to experience new things, people, and cultures that they normally would not have known before. Indeed, social media can do great things for the planetary culture, but, could it be harming people at the same time?