The first day of class we were introduced to becoming a blogger and author. My first thoughts about this idea about blogging in a English 102 class was great. I was very excited for something different and new. Every English class is different but most are very similar. The idea that students create a blog and 50% of it is self generated topics was a wonderful idea. I enjoyed writing every single entry. My favorite was the self generated blogs. These were my favorite because it was a way I could express my personal opinion and share what interests me. Along with the self generated topics we has great topics that were instructed to us. All of them we were able to express in our own ways. No ones blog was at all similar. The topics may have been, but the views were all slightly different along with the content. Blogging was completely new to me. I went in with a positive attitude and for now I am leaving with a positive attitude as well. At first I struggled with the simple asp...
When you turn on the news or flip through a newspaper or magazines it seems that you always are hearing or reading about mass shootings occurring in schools or movie theaters. You hear on the TV and see the issues posted on social media. More laws are made to attempt to control the issues from not happening as much. Of course it is impossible to completely eliminate crimes such as these shooting. How safe is it really to enforce more gun control? The way I look at it, it's not safe at all. The more people cannot defend themselves in situations like this the more likely a shooter will commit a mass shooting or crime using a gun. If a person goes into a place where no guns are allow, the chances this person has to committing a crime and killing a lot of people are high. The chances a civilian has to protecting themselves, family, friends are very slim. People who are not committing crimes obey laws and rules that are being enforced by the government. When you go to almost any p...