Bran

          I really loved this chapter, simply because it shows what type of people are in the book. And it introduces what type of punishment is given in such situations. The part that really got me is when they came upon the direwolves, which haven’t been spotted south of the wall in over two hundred years.  This chapter touches a little bit on the treatment of women and how the wildlings take women and carry them off to be sold. But the focus on most of the chapter is to describe the type of people they are and also a little touch of how they treat animals. The children find these, at first, five puppies and pretty much beg to keep them. The father is hesitant because these animals grow up to be so called monsters, but the children beg and even say that they know of a dog that had lost pups so she would have milk for them. These children are intimidated by their farther and know to respect him, and they do it in just the right way this time, the father allows them to keep the pups. But only after Jon related the pups to his father’s (only being his father by marriage) children, three males and two girls, even including the baby. Then when they were leaving Jon heard a cry by the mother direwolve who was dead. He had found another pup who was odd from the others, it had white fur which the others had gray, almost to look as if it were a “step child” he said the pup would be his. This chapter will stick to me, simply because I am a huge animal lover, and I can just imagine these puppies and the love these boys had for them!

Tyrion (II)

Tyrion goes to the Winterfell's library and reads about war. As he is leaving to go eat, he runs into Hound and Joff. Joff was complaining about how the wolves have been howling every night and its been bothering him. Tyrion then slaps Joff and insists that he goes and finds Lord Stark and apologizes for what happened to Bran. When Tyrion gets to breakfast he sits and talks to Cersei about how he thinks Bran and his wolf have some type of connection that is keeping him alive. I think Tyrion has more knowledge than what people credit him, and he knows that. This chapter in a way can relate to the mistreatment of people in a society. Tyrion finds it very disrespectful that Joff is talking about how annoying the wolves are instead of making sure that Bran and the rest of the Stark family is okay. That's why I believe Tyrion slapped Joff. That's also why I like this chapter. Tyrion is someone who is looked down to in this society, but he doesn't hold that over his head. He still believes in what he thinks is right and makes sure everyone knows it. 

Bran

In this chapter the old man from the Wall is found and they end up beheading him. His father Eddard, explains to Bran that he did it because that way if he couldn't bring himself to do it, then the man didn't deserve to die, but they did it out of pity. Then they find direwolves on the side of the road. They then divide them up between the siblings for them to take care of. I think this part of the book is important because it deals with justice. Justice is an always changing thing depending on society at the current time. So it was important that Eddard was the one to kill the man since he handed down the punishment himself. That way if he couldn't do it, it wasn't a just punishment. Also the direwolves are important because they haven't been seen in forever so it means a big change is coming but they don't know what. I liked this chapter because it helped reveal what kind of people the characters were and their morality. Which is good because it was much easier to hide true intentions back then as you didn't see people as often and communication was hard.

Violent Video Games- This article was based on the findings of research tests on groups when they were exposed to violent video games and whether the impact was positive or negative. There are three types of studies: experimental, correlational, and longitudinal. In order for a study to be "conclusive" it can not be solely based on just one of the three studies. Meta-analysis (a combo of the three studies) is a technique used to draw general conclusions that aren't based on a single method of research. Many began to believe  violent video games had a direct influence over school shootings, but they had failed to realize that the shooters had several risk factors for aggressive behavior. Lastly, the article goes on to talk about public policy, the three pillars of responsibility, how video games can be used as a tool for education and should not be viewed as an all good of all bad activity.

Weinstein and Tarantino: Weinstein, a long-time supporter and producer of Tarantino's violent films vows to back away from them altogether. He's passionate about what he sales, his company, and about the people and political causes he supports. O'Hehir believes before Weinstein decided to completely back away from violent films he gathered opinions and concerns from other producers as well as studi heads. Some of whom may share his concerns about violence in the media. In some aspects he broke the silence about this discussed topic of Hollywood filmmaking.

Columbine: Marilyn Manson speaks out on who really is responsible for violence in America. Is it religion which is our first form of entertainment, the news, or is it actually music? This article brings to light his real motives in his songs and how he is not afraid to inspire people to be creative and shows them it's okay to break the mold, don't always follow the program. "We're the people who sit back and tolerate children owning guns, and we're the ones who tune in and watch the up-to-the-minute details of what they do with them." He also goes into detail how the media makes criminals "folk heroes", by giving them the attention they went by putting them on every magazine and newspaper cover. With the evolution of the Internet there is no longer an escape from the "mall" that's now America.

I believe all three articles bring their own unique components of the similar argument about violence in the media. There is no set reason why they're there, but we all know violence will always be here! There may be ways to censor it and keep our children from experiencing it before their time. Entertainnt is not to blame for ones individual actions. Media also makes criminals the "heroes" of their time. It's up to us to determine what we think is right and what is wrong. Don't let some rich hypocrites decide your life for you. 

Articles 1, 2, 3

Article 1
This article entails about the violence with video games linked to aggression in kids. With this research study it discusses the negative influences on video games and the prior history with them.With different ways, the research that is in the article defined ways on how the kids may respond to anger as quick conclusions to attack and anger towards a person. The whole article helps people understand that there may be anger associated with them but it always depends upon the individual. In my opinion to this article I do not agree with this at all. With my many years experienced with violent video games, I know it does not contribute to any anger at all due to the video game. But I am okay with the ratings of different ages for kids or adults to pay for.

Article 2
The beginning of this article starts with the surprise announcement that Tarantino does not want to make anymore violent movies. Tarantino feels like that violence in the media is rubbing off into the real world and is affecting it greatly. The article gave facts about shootings for 2013 and questioned if it was due towards the media. One more thing is that he talked about his kids and how he did not want them to be in the middle of all the violence. For this article I thought it was interesting on how they formatted it and how they used some examples to illustrate the violence.I just believe that the movies can not contribute to it and that it depends on the individual for what he or she is thinking at the time.

Article 3
For this article Marilyn Manson is stating his opinion on the columbine shooting and reflecting on violence. He also made a few quotes on what he believed "Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised." With this he is referring to the violence has always been there and people are now getting to see it due to the fact of television broadcasting it.He also talks about how the media twists and turns things to "turn criminals into folk heroes" by telling everything about that individual.In my opinion I believe that the media does try and twist and turn some events into their favor to gain higher views or ratings. Also, with what Marilyn said about the new age of television violence I agree with that statement due to the fact that it is true. 

Articles 1-3

            The first article was about the relationship between violence in video games and violence in people. The study showed that increased gameplay of violent video games increased violence in teens. I have heard of this study before, and I don't really agree with the conclusion. I used to play a lot of video games both racing and games like call of duty but I don't really have the urge to go racing or shoot people. I think it comes down to kids being guided by parents when playing these games and realizing that it's a virtual reality they're in and not in real life


           The second article was about how Weinstein was going to quit supporting violent movies like he has. The article explains that even if you cant relate the amount of media violence to violence in real life, the author says it does seem unhealthy. Even though he's made a lot of money on violent films, famously with his relationship with Tarantino, he says that he can't support the violence anymore because "that's not what he wants for his kids." The article then goes on to explain that we are a society filled with guns, being number one in privately owned firearms. However crime rates have been falling steadily whether or not we have guns or the amount of media violence. I again don't agree about the link between violence in movies and violence in real life. Proving that I feel is the statistics he provides in the article saying that crime rates are falling on a national scale despite the number of guns owned or violence seen in media.

             The third article was Marilyn Manson's viewpoint on the shooting in Littleton, Colorado. He says that music is not the blame for the shooting(they were blaming his music). He says that people have always had a tendency for violence and uses the story of Cain as evidence. He says that everyone should be held responsible for their own actions and that the media just looks for a scapegoat so they can idolize the kids who did the killing, as well as other notorious criminals over the course of history. The main point of his article is to point out that we are to blame for our own actions and that killing is killing, whether it be in Vietnam or Jonesboro or Littleton. I liked this article because it was more personal and he was blaming people not the media. I'm in agreement because I think that people will do what they want to do and that media isn't what causes it. If you set a gun on a front porch it doesn't shoot somebody of its own will. 

Article One: This article establishes the points of violent video games and how it can influence peoples behaviors and that it has negative effects for people who play them. The study was trying to show that kids or teens who play these games will tend to be more violent in there everyday real life.

 They mention all the ways that they came to these conclusions through all sorts of testing and that these games can change how the kids act. I see how one might think this is right but as a person that really only plays violent video games, It has not effected me, at least nothing I am aware of. If you ask me it really depends on the type of people that plays these games. If the person is very impressionable I would believe that playing these games would alter them in some way so you really just have to be carful about it, not everyone is the same.

Article Two: This article states that violence in movies can also have a negative impact such as violent video games in the first article. It talks about movie producers and what they think about all these violent movies and there impact on people who see them. Such as the producer Harvey  Weinstein who doesn't like making these movies because he is one of those people that does think violence has a negative impact in the world. I am starting to see how all of this violence is starting to impact the youth and I think you should know yourself if you can handle it or not. And people can be influenced by these movies, like if you go see a gang bangin movie kids might think that that is cool and want to do that. How ever I think that it is okay, I just went to go see American Sniper this weekend and had some pretty nasty violence in it, But that story is true! It actually happened to someone and depicts the horrors of war and all the hardships that that man went through, taking life's to save life's.

Article 3:This is the perfect example of what I mean by you have to be careful who views these violent games, movies, music and what have you. And these kids were very impressionable and looked up to Marilyn Manson. But I am sure they weren't the only ones that looked up to him. But they were the only ones who looked up to this man (or women) and committed  an act like this. It all matters on the person and how they perceive things. I think this is the most interesting one because I have discussed this topic before and there are lots of documentary's about this, after the shooting I do think the way the media viewed violence changed, the media all ways needs something to blame these things on, In this case the violence that's always around, and in the case of sandy hook, it was gun control. They need something to blame it on and cause controversy.