OUTSIDE READING #21

My blog this time is on the movie All My Sons. Personally I really didnt like it. I thought som of the acting was really bad and it could have been a lot better. I didnt really like the ending i thought it was kind of depressing when Joe shot meself. . Also I thought that all the actors made the characters seem different. I didn’t like the movie also because the whole story took place in the backyard. I think that there needed to be more scenes in different places. I think they should have had more scenes from the book and just not placed it all in the backyard.

OUTSIDE READING #20

On startribune.com their was an article called Man charged in shooting at Minikahda Club. So I read it because I have been there before so it made me interested. It explained how Joseph Conrad Rice, drove by the club and fired a total of 6 times at the big glass doors. He is being charged with drive-by shooting and reckless discharge of a felony. Joseph, 63, has been arrested three times in the last week. Once for not paying his cab fare for a bail of $60. Another for making terroristic attacks with a bail for $3000. The last arrest was when he shot the door which he is being housed in jail for and he will have to pay a $100,000 bail. He has been said to have a drinking problem. I think this is sad but somewhat funny. Especially since he shot at Minikahda in a red farrari.

OUTSIDE READING #19

I read an article on startribune. com called Rise and fall on Target. For the last 4 years Target has been having better discounts then Walmart but since November 2007 Walmart has been gaining more business while Target continues to loose more and more business. With how the economy is, Walmart has positioned itself so that it has better and cheaper prices for families that don't have or have very little income. Walmarts stock prices have gone up 13% even though Dow Jones has had record breaking lows. When Target was newer in 2003 Walmart was starting to bring in designer clothes and raised their prices because of the loss of customers. Target will not be the only ones selling products from the Apple Store, now Walmart will be selling iPhone's which will bring Walmart a even better outcome for incoming consumers. I personally like Target better then Walmart because there isn't a Walmart anywhere near where I live and because I feel like its really dirty in Walmarts, and i have been to plenty of Walmarts to know. The Walmarts in other states tend to be much cleaner then the ones here.

OUTSIDE READING #18

I read an article on cnn.com called Pennsylvania Teen Charged with Plotting to Kill School Enemies. Richard Yanis, a 15 year old at Pottsworth High School made a plan where he was going to take his dad's three handguns loaded with extra amunition in his pocket. He would alert a few of his friends he had to go home and then he was going to enter the school and kill every person who was in the school. A friend reported this almost attack and stopped it before anything could result of it. Yanis didn't have a record of doing anything bad and seemed to be a somewhat normal kid. I find it scary that a normal kid would think of and could do something like this.

OUTSIDE READING #17

I read an article in the People magazine called a Cyberbully Convicted. Its all about the case of Lori Drew who was seen to have led to a teen's suicide by cyberbullying on the site myspace.com. Myspace is a place where anyone can go, make a profile and upload pictures, write about themselves, and communicate with they're friends. Lori Drew is the mother of Megans best friend Sarah. She had created a profile and called herself Josh, pretending to be a boy. Lori could be charged with three Internet related misdemeanors which could lead her to a 3-year sentence and a $300,000 fine. The end result is not final yet. Lori has testified by saying that since Megan suffered with depression she was probably already suicidal which means that she thinks she had nothing to do with Megan's suicide.

OUTSIDE READING #16

I read this article on CNN.com about this 19-year-old's suicide and the reasons why he did it. This article was written by Oren Dorell. In this article, Oren talks about Abraham Biggs' suicide on his webcam and how other viewers could've helped Abraham finish what he was going to do. Biggs' father, Abraham Biggs Sr., said those who watched, and the website operators, share some blame in his son's death. "I think they are all equally wrong," he said. "As a human being, you don't watch someone in trouble and sit back and just watch." Although this is true, other viewers said they called the police while watching, but the police were to late. Briggs was found dead in his father's bed from overdoses of several medications. Other viewers didn't take Briggs seriously because they either thought he was joking or said that he had threatened to kill himself before so they didn't take him seriously. This was a really unfortunate event, hopefully this doesn't lead to more videotaped suicides. The author stresses his concern for this throughout the article.