Friday, October 24, 2014

Pro-gun vs anti-gun essay

The compare and contrast essay that Im writing about is comparing the two sides of the gun control debate. In the essay Im going to start off by saying some of the things that the anti-gun side has tried to ban, such as the magazine sizes of some firearms. Next im going to say that they had tried to even ban a certain type of firearm from being purchased by the public, and then I will follow that up with some of the laws that they have tried to pass in the past. After I am done talking about that i will say some things about how they are trying to ban guns through the UN and start off doing it overseas. I will also go in to how the presidential cabinet has been stacked with an anti-gun commitee to better their chances of banning firearms.

Once I have finished talking about the attempted bans and what the anti-gun committee is trying to do I will go into the pro-gun side of the argument. Im going to talk about all of the different ways that they have shut down every bad thing that this anti-gun force has said about firearms and how they have proved all of their facts to be false. I will also talk about how they have said that it is our right as U.S. citizens to be able to posses firearms.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Ted Talk, “Brain Magic”, the ted talk that I watched was about how a trained professional can get into people’s minds and use them for their senses and control the other person’s senses. The ted talk was set up like a magic show but it wasn’t a standard magic show where you see a guy pull a rabbit out of a top hat, he had actually used people for the magic. For example, he did a trick that he called voodoo trick where he selected two people from the crowd and had them stand on the stage in front of the audience. He then had one of them close their eyes and not to think or do anything. While she had her eyes closed he went up to the man and touched his back twice. He then told her to open her eyes and asked if she had felt anything and she surprisingly said “yes, you poked my back twice.” He then had her close her eyes once more and took the man’s arm and started poking his forearm, and after he did this he told her to open her eyes again. Once more he asked “did you feel anything?” she then said “yes you were poking my forearm” she had even pointed out the area, then he said “I never touched you, only the man.”

This Ted Talk that I watched wasn’t really a process analysis like we were assigned to watch, but he did somewhat tell you how a trained professional could get in some one’s head and do these things.it was interesting to watch because you wanted to tell yourself that it’s magic and there’s no way possible that magic is a real thing. But after watching it and looking back on it you then think to yourself how could these things happen, because there is no logical reasoning to back it up. This Ted Talk really left me wondering what I just watched because I had no clue on how any of the things he shows could have happened.