Assignment 8- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Good- FreeRice.com http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1539

The first website i chose for a good part of the internet is called freerice.com. This internet site provides free rice for the world food programme. Basically a person can log onto the site and for each trivia question they answer correctly 10 grains of rice are donated to the programme to help stop world hunger. This is obviously a great site because it helps students lean new vocabulary terms while it also supports the fight to help end famine around the world. The trivia questions are mostly grammar and vocabulary based so they are a great way for a student to prepare for the SAT's. The site is a unique idea to help people who are starving while also reminding its users how fortunate we are to be able to not go to bed hungry every night like some people do around the world.

The Bad- Pro Football Player Tweet http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-stevie-johnson-north-korea-patriots-20130404,0,2171675.story

A wide reciever for the buffalo bills recently stirred up controversy when he made a tweet about north korea. Stevie Johnson the Bills number 1 wide reciever tweeted that if north korea was going to drop a bomb that they should drop it in foxbourough, massachusetts. Foxbourough happens to be home to the New England Patriots who are the chief rivals of the Bills. Obviously Johnson was not thinking when he tweeted (which is a problem for many proffesional athletes) however the tweet came at a very insesitive time because it had been rumored that North Korea had been planning on using some bombs they had created. This tweet happened before the trajic boston marathon bombings but regarless nobody should ever wish that type of event on a major city. Athletes and celebrities have a responsibility to be role models for our youths and this tweet is a direct example of how social media can hurt our country.

The Ugly- Man asks to be arrested for child porn he had http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-05-02/man-asks-be-arrested-over-child-porn.html

A man was arrested by police officers when he flagged them down and admitted to them that he had child pornography on his persons. The man, Patrick Paul Jones Freeman had claimed that he was being followed by people who wanted to hurt him because of the child porn he had. He was taken into custody and arrested for owning child pornography. Sotries like these are very sad and sickening because children are the most innocent people in our world. A child should not have a worry in the world and should never be taken advantage of by adult yet it still happens regularly. The internet provides places where child pornography can be down loaded and up loaded which is truly a shame. I am very protective of children and it sickens me to think that their are deranged individuals out their who was to see children in compromising videos. I hope that one day that we will never have to worry about children being used for such filth but unfortunatly I believe that this is just a situation where technology can truly hurt us.