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This article explains why some people fight to ban violent video games. It also discusses the correlation, or lack thereof, between gaming and acts of violence

The NRA is stuck between a rock and a hard place.  They are blaming violent video games for the recent shooting, but many gun manufacturers work with video game makers to promote their products.

How mental illness effects gun violence. It is not video games it is the untreated mentally ill.

Companies are figuring out that employees are filling up their hard drives with internet games. These games are causing their work computers to have less space and not have enough room for work-related content.Monitoring their employees will eliminate the downloading of games and illegal music.

A new regulation is preventing children to play freeze tag because bureaucrats decided it was too dangerous. The health departement, after a Law of 2009, made a list of all risky recreational activities.

Music labels learned that less restrictions on digital music have increased their sales. However, video game developers are using stricter DRM policies to attempt to deter piracy.

The article talks about how the educational system need to be more then just math, english, and science but also teach children active life skills and young adults life skills for the future career they may want in the future, teaching that the SAT's isn't the best approach for testing, very well written article that I enjoyed reading.

On this topic, so many things to say. I have to admit here the educational system is very different than other countries. What really surprised me, was that the classes like history, biology, chemistry, geography..are optional. I really don't understand how you expect a child to learn and get some general knowledge, if these classes are optional. It is most likely that the child would chose none or one maybe, and then we think oh, the child can learn from internet or TV. But, the child would rather play a game online or watch a movie. The educational system needs readjustment and the curriculum changed in some classes where you have only dry material to study. We live in a society where technology is everywhere in all forms, we should take advantage of that, and create something more attractive to kids with the purpose of learning, almost like a game. I am sure that will attract children, and it will even encourage competition among them. For example, some of the educational apps, we see on all devices.

Information of a recent event that just passed this year, the Olympics, and how the LGBT tied into certain controversies there with the Russian government. As Russia is against homosexuality, as with their leader Putin, a great turmoil it looked into on how homosexual athletes are treated and looked this year in the games.

America at the Crossroads is a series of articles that examines aspects of American culture that are of concern to people of faith. For a high school student in small-town Texas, it doesn't get much better than Friday Nights. It's one of those rare instances where the attendance at a high school football game can exceed the city's population limits.

Is the loss of civil liberties worth the convenience of technology?

Technology has and will always be a huge part of my life. Having grown up with a brother heavily into gaming, programming, and IT work I got to see first hand the in's and out's of how the web works. It all comes down to how you manage your own security. Of course, there will always be the paranoia of being monitored but that has been happening for a long time. It all comes down to being cautious with what you do alone and or over technologies.

This book captures the many facets of information gathering by digital dossiers. It reminded me of the recent unveiled programs called Tempora and Prism used by the United Kingdom and NSA. The extent of these programs capacity to siphon user data iset deeply guarded and not known in detail, however the dossiers gathered by our internet traffic on an individual basis should alarm users. I belive privacy is priceless, if I told my grandfather who passed in 2006 the extent we divulge our personal information on social media he would probably find it unbelievable. He was born in 1920 became an officer in the United States Air Force and served in WW2. The idea of privacy has changed with each generation. The way we perceive the handheld devices we all carry as young as the age of 5, may seem to our greatest generation who is currently exiting our society as a mere tracking device for big brother. This reading was very informative.

This article aims to inform on Project G.O.A.T. and the reason behind the 15 painted goats in the International Plaza in Tampa. Project G.O.A.T is a awareness campaign for human trafficking and the 55 goats placed across Tampa Bay is meant to bring awareness to their cause. The article also mentions that the goats will later be auctioned off with the proceeds going to organizations that fight human trafficking.

This Article is about individuals who are Ebuka Ufond, Kia Nurse, Larissa Crawford, Andreas Robinson, Daenah Campbell and Mukisa Kakenb. These six individuals were interviewed about their work, futures goals, and making history.