Teaching Kids To Kill

Connections:  Connections you can get from this text is how children of this generation are known for playing video games they're not suppose to. For an example I have a nephew who is around the age of 7 who plays a lot of violent video games for his age and it can be shown. He likes to hit others and sometimes acts as if he has a gun and pretends to shoot at others. Many children are influenced by video games, but many children aren't like that. I played my fair share of violent video games as a child, but I think it mostly depends on if your parents raise you in a sense that you should know right from wrong.

Challenges: Challenges that I have thought of from the video and from the text is that you can't blame these people for the killing they have done. They were just victims due to the fact that these young children are impressionable for example Ishmael was young and was put to war due to the fact he was told that it was good. I believe that kids who murder aren't at fault here and the ones who are, are the adults who manipulate young children into doing certain things.

Concepts: The key concepts in this article and video is that you seen many people who have been used and abused for war. Many of which don't change their lifestyle, but in Ishmael's case you see what he has to endure to become what he is today a successful man. The writer Lt.Col. Dave Grossman was saying that many of the problems such as rape, mass murders, violence were due to media and the evolution of television and video games. 

Changes: The changes that should be made to the world is that there should be more censorship on video games and what can be put on the television. This is due to the fact that many children are influenced from what is seen on media. Media plays a big roll to the everyday lives of many people and should have better control. Also, we need to change the amount of children going into war and start educating many countries about this. Many children are put as risk daily for unnecessary wars and should be getting an education instead.  

Philippine Insurrection

http://www.war-memorial.net/Philippine-insurrection--3.3

           

Years: 1899-1902

Battle deaths: 20,500

 

            The conflict known as the Philippine Insurrection or Philippine-American war started in 1899. In December 1898 the U.S bought Philippines for a sum of 20 million American dollars. This was after the Spanish-American War. The U.S tried to make Philippines an American colony, but the Filipinos were fighting for their independence since 1896 and declared independence on June 12. Soon on August 14, 11,000 troops were sent to occupy Philippines. After Emilio Aguinaldo was named the first president of Philippines. He then organized a congress in Malolos, Bulacan to draft a constitution.

 

            This is related to other text because of how countries came to be. For example how Canada started a confederation and had their first Prime Minster. How this relates to me is because I’m Filipino and my parents told me how Philippines came to be. Starting with how Philippines was named and how the first president was named. This is related to the world because it can show aspects to other countries on how to start an independence for many countries.

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