Weekly article 3

I personally believe people should know what their government and all governments are doing the good and the bad. Julian Assange does not only try and make our government transparent but also governments around the world. If the former Soviets could have seen this while they were under Stalin the citizens good have found some way to assonate Stalin, millions lives could have been saved. I believe Russia and China will both know this information with or without wiki leaks. Just as I’m sure we have information on them. However I did not agree that the soldiers were acting like the war was a video game. To me it looked like they were trying to defend themselves. If people can see what is going on then they can know the true costs of war. I don’t believe a government will kill him because if they do this will give more fire to his cause. One thing I’m concerned about is that wiki leaks will become controlled by a nation and the country will use the great power as a weapon to turn a countries’ people against it. I think countries such as Japan would feel ashamed if they knew what happened in World War two with the Chinese. The mass killings by the Japanese to the Chinese should be learned more about in school. I feel this is one of the biggest world issues and one I have not learned much about, or discussed in school. It may be that we don’t focus enough on Eastern history in our textbooks. I would understand doing a little bit more Western than Easter because we live in a Western civilization. However we cannot only study one of 20 chapters on Easter civilizations. I understand teachers have limited time, but we only get to learn about social studies for three years. I mention this because we need to see more of what Eastern civilizations did right, such as China which I consider the greatest civilization in history. We should know the good the bad and the awful about them as well. I think we don’t focus on the East for two reasons one to make us seem better and two to not offend Eastern people. More transparency would give us a much more accurate look at history so we can see the good and bad about all nations around the world. For example may Malaysians actually invent a large portion of what the Chinese claim to have invented, China could get away with this by using its power. I don’t see any other way to make history true than to have a wiki leaks. This way the future will know who everyone really is. I can see why it is controversial I may have a new opinion it the future. I would like to look more into it. I can see how there are good points for both sides. After all though I’m sure someone else has witnessed the shootings we saw in class and would use this to recruit any way.

How to treat the prisoners

I believe the current way of interrogation by the United States is about as good and well balanced as a country can be. If we are too harsh people will hate us more than they already do. If we are not tough enough they will not give us information. I believe the people should be water boarded. It will not harm them and it will grab their attention.

Us declaration of War WW1

I believe the US has a strong and stern tone focusing on ideals. The German one feels like they are saying we were asking for it, and they will defeat us easily. Both letters sound a bit arrogant. I think the Germans said don't help England and do what we say. To me it sounded like Germany wanted to teach us a lesson.

weekly article 2

I believe the government should not sensor games for several reasons. People can tell the difference between reality and a video game. There is already a rating system in place that keeps kids from buying inappropriate games without a parent. There is a large video game industry that will suffer if this passes. Video games should not be censored.
Video games are on the television and real life is well in real life. Everyone knows cartoons are fake and so are video games. Kids can also tell the difference between a controller and a gun. Gun games have been out since the days of the SNES and Sega Genesis, So we can see that they had very little impact on kids shooting real people. It is also common knowledge that people die in war. No one can deny this making games more graphic only show more of the dangerous sides of war that will make kids fear it not want to take real guns and shoot people. To the people that think that video games have became worse in recent years look at mature games from previous consoles and they’re pretty much the same as modern ones except the new ones have better graphics. In fact that is one of the main complaints gamers have today hardly any gaming companies have try new and unique things like they were from 1999 until 2001.
When one looks at a video game on of the first things everyone sees is the rating, the include Ec for early childhood, E for everyone, T for teen, M for mature, and A for adults only. Much like movie theaters how to see an R movie the child must be accompanied by a parent and anyone under 17 is allowed into an Nc-17 movie, Kids can not buy a rated M game without a parent and are not allowed to be sold rated A games. No one is complaining about movies so are games really that different. This rating system is created by parents for parents which makes it even better, than a government made list. If the government does censor video games then mature adults would not be able to play them. It is also unconstitutional in that it would limit freedom of speech to censor video games. The rating system is already working great!
Many people in the US work for gaming companies why should we limit them and let foreign companies keep on doing the same thing, this would give us an unfair disadvantage. People will have to be cut because their projects will be canceled. In this poor economic time we should try and keep as many jobs as possible not use the government to destroy them. Our gaming industry also helps us to advance in simulators that can be used for training for pilots and race car drivers. War games help us to push the envelope in graphic and audio realism.
In essence video games are very important to many Americans and deserve the same rights as movies.

Dog fighting

Dog fighting is a dangerous and not very effective way of fighting. After playing Dog fight I noticed how hard it must have been to master flying and how the shooter only had a limited amount of time to shoot. It also was hard, like you said in class not to hit the wings which would make the plane go down. It must have been hard if there where multiple planes going against each other. The pilots were probably screaming at the gun man and really scared.

cause and effect of casualties in World War 1

There were two main factors causing the high casualties in World War 1, First is the advancement of technology, second is Trench warfare. Machine guns allowed more soldiers to be shot down more quickly. Chemical warfare caused soldiers to be disabled and later killed. Flame throwers killed many wounded near the end of a victory. Trenches made it easier to get gassed.