THE POWER TEAM!

In this article I was surprised at what it was about. I thought it was going to be boring and I was going to be uninterested in it but once I started reading I was shocked that I was interested in it. I also found it a little weird that this was going on in some churches I mean if it drawls people into the church then why not! This article was about a group of men that called themselves The Power Team and what they do is, break blocks of ice, break out of hand cuffs, break through cinderblocks and other things like that, but when they break through these extremely tough things they say that God has given them the strength to do so instead of taking the credit themselves. They sell tickets to people who agree to listen to their teams testimonials, asking for money and for prayers and in return for that the people get to see the man doing these strong acts. These acts not only take place in the church they also take place in circus like tents, but when they do take place in the church it helps to bring people either back to the church or it helps start people going to church. This group also likes to let the people who come see them know that my doing activities and keeping yourself busy you will stay away from all the bad things in life that are looked down upon by the church. The main focus of this group is to help people see that it is easy to pray and to believe in God and also it is easy to stay away from the bad things in life.

info on my research paper

The question I want to answer in my final paper is, are people born with crime in their genetics or do people become criminals because of their surroundings.

            There are two major causes for someone to become a criminal which are they inherited it or they have been around it sense birth that it becomes a part of their life. I believe that criminals come into this world innocent and by them growing up around criminals they become one themselves.

After doing research I have found out that a large amount of scientist and therapist both feel and think the same on this topic. They say that crime is born into you. By that they are saying that if your mother or father or both parents are criminals you will have an urge to commit crimes more than others who parents are criminals. On the other hand there are also a large amount of scientist and therapist that believe that crime is not born into you. They say that you are born innocent and by having both your parents, just one parent or even a brother or sister, or any close family member that is involved in crime increases your chances of fallowing in their footsteps and becoming a criminal.

            I need to find out more about the children that come from criminal parents, I need to look into their crimes and their parents crimes and see if the crimes are similar or if they are nothing alike. I need to look more into where these children have grown up and in what kinds of conditions have they lived in.

            I feel that when you are born you do not know right from wrong and they way you learn this is from your parents, and when your parents are doing wrong and a young child see’s them doing so and not teaching you the right way to do things  the children themselves then learn how do to things the wrong way without  even knowing they are doing anything wrong and before they know it they are not just taking things from kids they are committing crimes and doing time in jail before they know it and once they get out they are right back to doing things the criminal way.

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Wasserman, David T., and Robert Samuel. Wachbroit. Genetics and Criminal Behavior. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2001. Print.

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klosterman/gabriel

For my thoughts on the reading from Trip Gabriel I feel that plagiarism is definitely a problem when it comes down to it because it is clearly wrong to take someone else work and try to pass it off as your own. But, not a really huge problem I feel that it does happen more than I know of but I also feel that it just does not happen as much as some people think it does just because so many students now a day’s know what will happen to them if or when they get caught and to take that risk just for a few sentences is not worth it at all in my opinion.  Sarah Wilensky said it best when she said “the main reason it occurs is because students leave high school unprepared for the intellectual rigors of college writing.” I believe that what she said it 100% the truth. I know when I first came out of high school and had a big paper do I was thinking to myself “ o man, I don’t know if I can do this” because I wasn’t sure what I was doing was plagiarism  or not and luckily it was not.

After reading “Ha ha,” he said “Ha ha.” I can understand why Klosterman feels the way he does about laugh tracks that they are old and nothing about them are real. As much as they might sound real it is just a person pressing a button to make the laugh sound and yeah it is real peoples laughter but it might be peoples laughter from 1986 and you can just tell because it sounds old. But most likely when the fake laughter goes off it sometimes helps the views laugh at what just happen or when the view is laughing sometime you do not even hear the laugh track. I can honestly say that I never really thought about a laugh track before I read this article and as I am writing this I am watching “Seinfeld” and everytime the laugh track goes off it is annoying me because I am thinking about of it now and I can totally see why Klosterman does not like laugh tracks!

annotated bibliography

Felson, Marcus, and Rachel Boba. Crime and Everyday Life. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, This book shows us how crime can touch everyone and anyone in both large and small ways. It also shows us how opportunity is one of the key parts for crime to happen, but it explores ways that we can get rid of or reduce crime or criminal behavior by getting rid of this time of opportunity to finish the act. This book encourages students to take a closer look around them and to see all the kind of crime that accurse. The author and co-author in this book use the latest research on criminal behavior in hopes to give students a fresh perspective on crime and how to reduce it. it also has new coverage on bar problems, gangs, and bar hopping and expanded coverage of technology, Internet fraud, identity theft, and other Internet crime that occurs.

Attached to Technology and Paying a Price

After reading Matt Richtel’s article about technology it really opens my eyes to how many people really are obsessed with the internet and all the other electronics in this world. For me I don’t spend much time on the computer just for the fact that I am a college student and have a million other things I have to be doing then just playing on facebook and checking my email. Don’t get me wrong I do have a facebook and I do like to add pictures and talk to people on it but I don’t like it take over my life or school work. Yes, I also check my email a decent amount but that is only because all of my professors send info throw our email. When it comes to the weekend I barely ever go on my computer and rarely check my email.  But as for Mr. Campbell in the article he and his family were completely attached to their electronics and the internet, the family could not even take a vacation without one of them sitting back and playing on the internet or a video game. Throughout the article Mrs. Campbell seemed like she was the only family member that was not addicted to electronics but at the end it says how she let two batches of cookies burn because she was too busy sending text messages and checking her facebook. As for me and text messaging I do text a large amount of my day and I do multitask with doing my work and texting. I never text and drive just for the simple fact that I am not that good of a multitasker.  

getting to know me

My name is Devlyn Valencic, I am 22 years old and I like to party and have a good time with my friends and family. One thing about me that is different from others is that I can NOT whisper at all! And as of right now I am very sick and I do not like it at all, I hate being sick!!