A Life of A ShadowDavid Slorski (210)    Censorship: Why is it bad?Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 (6 days 17 hours ago.) Viewed 8 times. Of coarse all these restrictions are intentionally made by either a majority or a powerful minority. So we can assume that sometimes censorship isn't really the reflection of the wants of the majority. Now if we apply this law to today we can easily see it. Lets take this assumption and look at its effects in the Television genre. Why don't we run through the process of censorship that will certainty accompany a show from the television station HBC that 1) uses the word F***, Sh** and C*** several times 2) will make references to drugs 3) will make references to sex 4) will have a slight amount of violence First the "bad words" are BLEEPED out. Then we also have warning labels to tell views that the word BLEEP will be used. And on top of that, organizations are restricted from supporting shows because of the "foul language" meaning that only "mature" companies can support said show. This is even worse because even if the show just has a few words BLEEPED out that means that normal products will probably be suspended and other more "mature" commercials will take their place. So instead of hearing about Mac and Cheese we will enjoy the benefits of a Penis Pump! As you may already see, this over censorship hurts not only the program but defeats the purpose of censorship. Next the references to drugs and sex. Now look, today in America we can already expect that a 14 year old knows enough about that stuff to know what it is. And said American should be talked to with their parents about drugs and sex. Don't let TV teach your kid, sit him/her down and tell them what you expect them to know and understand about the topics. I know its hard but would you rather you tell your child the details about sex in a calm relaxed atmosphere or would you rather have them learn it from a detailed episode of Law and Order? The main problem with censoring things with this topic is the fact that most parents are too lazy to teach their kids it and would rather just shield them from it. This is a bad idea because if you keep them away from it for too long you are just asking for trouble. If a person finds out what sex is at the age of 17 that is worse than letting them find out at 13 all the little details from a TV show. The mind matures thoughts as it grows and you can help with that process by teaching your children yourself. Another argument against this is to protect children that are far younger from being exposed to this stuff. But the choice is up to the parents to monitor their children. Its as easy as changing the channel. And the new technology of the V-chip lets parents enforce this. Finally to the hottest button topic of violence. Now with the new technology in special effects, the talent of make-up and the all out greatness of acting, we can make the tiniest and most accurate cuts to someone being disemboweled and make it seam almost real. I know that this amount of gruesomeness is not healthy for many people but I'm not going to go out and say that it encourages it. Someone has to already have serious phychological issues already to even think of replicating that stuff. And if they do have such problems they should be helped with mental institutions and medications. If you try to hide that stuff you are taking responsibility away from the people. Responsibility is what gives us the choice to do things and gives us motivations to do tasks like going to work or voting. But still violence is something that should be warned since it is very common. A simple warning label will do that lets parents know that said thing is happening in said show. It is then up to the parents to take the proper measures. Now lets go further into the topic of "bad words". I know that I'm going to be almost excoriated fro this but it is true. Words are just words. Saying the SH word is just saying the word. If it is repeated than it is up to us to again show responsibility and take the power away from the word. I'm not, I repeat, I'm NOT talking about racial slurs because those are used with hate and should already be banned. But what I am talking about is simple words that mean nothing. Saying F*** is just saying F***. It is impolite and if we just take the power away from it, we make it no longer a bullet but just a word. I'm not saying that it should become part of our regular vocabulary because having Taboo's in a language makes it more interesting. I'm not saying to use it more often, I'm just saying don't make it such a big deal. There are far more important things to worry about than if someone says this or that. What I've been trying to say this whole time is simply Take more responsibility. It is up to us to talk about this stuff and take away the mysterious and unknown power that it has over us. Finally the most important thing we have to remember is freedom of speech. In America we have both the gift and the curse of free speech. It protects the truth but it also puts a protective shade over racism and hate. We have to remember that we Must, I repeat, MUST embrace this right for better and for worse. 
Permalink Comments (0) Dealing with the Final "Good Bye"Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 (25 days 11 hours ago.) Viewed 15 times. There is not doubt that sometime in each of our lives we will have to say that final Good Bye to someone or something that was critical in our lives. They may just drift slowly out of our lives or they may just disappear in a flash, we truly never know for sure. We may say good-bye after they have left or maybe before they themselves know they will go. And good-bye doesn't mean that someone is alive or dead, close or far away it means that things will never be the same with that person. They may move away to another place out of contact. They may just change from the person you knew and grew close to. They may die, or become incapacitated. You will still have to deal with good-bye. Now good-bye also doesn't mean saying it verbally, it could also mean just acting it out. It can mean so many things that all come down to saying some way "things are different". For each case of saying good-bye there is different actions that probably happen or just naturally occur when letting go. These situations are almost always sad and at the same time almost always a step forward in the road of life. I hope to show you what may happen when letting go in life. The Final "Good Bye" of a Friendship Friends are people that not only help us through life but also become part of our lives. They craft who we are and shape our wants, desires, and dreams. That is why saying that final good-bye in this situation is one of the hardest. Letting go of a true friend is the result of many things from death to just plain change. This wide variety makes it difficult to really find the right way for you to have that final good bye. In this situation you have to always remember the good times. Yes this sounds really cheesy but its true. If you remember the good times and always keep them with you, you are only letting go of one part of them. This is good because it is true in almost all situations in this category. If the friend died than you have a part of them always with you. If they just left than still you have part of them always with you. If they just become something that harms you and you find out is just plain bad for you, you yet again still have part of them always with you. If you remember the good all the time, than the final good-bye is only to the part that you can never really hold onto. The Final "Good Bye" of a Family Member Family is more of a living entity than just a group of individuals. It lives and breathes having each member being a vital part of it. Of coarse you may like different parts more than other and even some you may just down right hate. But the fact is that they are a part of it and when they leave it hurts the entire being. The only true way that a family member could leave totally is in death. And death already being a horrible and frightening thing only makes the situation worse. There is no way to completely deal with the death of a family member but there are ways to help. When they pass on try to remember just the little anecdotes about them. Those little stories piled together create and image of that person, an image that you can always hold dear. This is like the loss of a friend but with family the pain can be more intense because of the fact that they are family. That is why you need to remember both the good and the bad anecdotes to make a realistic image of them. If you see and make that image than you know that the time you spent with them was worth it. The lessons learned and the stories told will follow you forever. The Final "Good Bye" of an Experience This is most abstract and bigger than the other categories because it deals with time itself. This section talks about letting go and keeping with you the memories of maybe summer camp or a relationship. Letting go ranges wildly in the amount of strength needed in this section because experiences can last long or short times and can have large or small impacts on the person we are. They can also end and start nicely or cruelly. So a simple rule to saying good-bye to any experience is to look ahead at those ahead. Each and every experience in one's lifetime creates us. And if we stay on one for too long we miss out on growing and learning from the others. Nothing lasts forever and when we try to make them last forever we only end up hurting ourselves more eventually. So after that hard break up, or after that last day at camp just look ahead to the times in the future. Keep the lessons made in the past and move forward into the future.
Permalink Comments (0) Your Past Is NowPosted Monday, June 09, 2008 (29 days 18 hours ago.) Viewed 11 times. We all have wondered about our past, the decisions we made, reckless or delicately decided. And we all have done the "What if---" scenario. But really how many of us see the past acting in the present. Your probably had to read that over a second time to get it but in case it is too vague think about it like this. Let say every action in your life is like planting a seed. The seed depends on the action, how quickly it was made, how big a decision it is etc. etc. After time the seed will sprout from the past and grow in the present. It may grow fast or slow but it will affect you later on. It may change your whole life or it may barely change anything. The only thing that really matters is if you think about the planting and the reaping of that seed. Everything we do will effect us later on. No this isn't some "grand scheme" theory or "karma" formula. Its just basic logic. The thing is that many things in the past are so small it really doesn't effect us. But they do. It may be just a small memory passing by, or a chance encounter with a different way of looking at things. The past does come back to haunt us, but it also comes back to bless us. Forgetting that really sets you up to only see things in a macabre point of view. Now that I have my main point out I can move onto how the past lives on in the present. The point of this article is to have the reader come to bare that the past blesses the present. We get so caught up in the momentous bad things that we forget about the little simple innocent memories. We only remember a divorce, or a traffic accident, or a death and forget the tiny little ingenuous things that also make up the past. Like just the memory of when you were five and you caught a toad down near the pond or when you had a tantrum at the store because you wanted something. If you can look back and laugh smile and just see how far you've come... The past has blessed you. If you have read this article and remember something good in the past than I think I've done a good job. "Remember, if you start to forgit that you've come from somewhere. You forgit where your go'in" DLS
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