According to Ana Marie Cox, in “2013 the US lost 30 people a day to gun violence.” Guns are a tragic reality of the world.  Which leads to the question, do guns really kill people? Or is it the 9mm bullet Americans slide into the barrel that does?  Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine 2002 documentary digs through the controversial question, why are Americans so scared; relating it with gun laws. Moore’s uses humor, short clips and emotional peal, taking the viewers on a heart juggling, thought provoking experience.

This entertaining, eye opening film focuses on the Columbine High School massacre, exploring and suggesting why it happened. He uses mock-seriousness in majority of his interviews, asking basic and general questions anyone could give a reasonable response too, making the extremists (interviewee) look foolish with his answer.  His interviews with Timothy McVeigh will engage you with the concern of how easily it is to get supply to construct a bomb.

The only way to avoid starring in party pictures on Facebook is to skip the party. And who wants to do that?" says Emma Teitel in the article The New Paparazzi. People all around the word have put new faces on their peers and friends on social media; capturing parties, drinking and things they wouldn’t normally show to their employers. What is it about taking photos and posting them? Emma Teitel says “it’s the fear of missing out. A party you missed will haunt you forever in online photo albums.”  She explains her concerns for the media junkies.

ONCE ITS ON THERE, IS IT REALLY THAT EASY TO GET OFF? The younger generations don't understand, its easy to press a button and in seconds you have memwhat if you want to take it off?

Death in the air...

Step after step, gosh it feels like I'm climbing a mountain. It's exam morning; the halls have a silence that seems to echo in my head with the only sound being a distant drop of water from the fountain. It feels like death here. Walking past the boys’ washroom, it smells like it, too. I've never been too good at science, especially chemistry. In fact, the only chemistry I know is the one between my butt and the couch. I don't get the problems, the methods or the whole history behind it. I curse my alarm clock, the smooth sounds of the Black Keys waking up my hatred for this exam. "Shania Whitehead," the woman in a knee high black dress calls in a soft bashful tone. God, I hate her. Why'd I have to be on this list? It’s bad enough that I have to be here but they even assign a woman with less enthusiasm than a prisoner, who's ironically wearing death’s shade. Her silence and patience reeks with the soft sounds of pleasure, as students, one by one, drag their feet as they enter into what might become an insane asylum. It's quite beyond belief; everyone tries to adjust their bodies in the hard, cold, butt imprinted chairs. Nothing was comfortable. Papers are passed down, row by row; hands hesitate, grabbing the cool white sheet that could act like a razor to my future. "Everyone, I'm quickly going to read out the rules, so you know the dri…" I've heard it too many times. I rock my knee in a nervous motion.  I pick up the hard, blue, number two pencil; it feels like slivers in my thumb and pointing finger. This wasn't going to go well. I could tell that right now. People look around doing the usual sayings, "good luck." I feel like I'm in The Hunger Games movie, when everyone looks at Katniss and someone says, “May the odds be ever in your favor!" May the odds be ever in your favor- I know they aren't in mine. Unlike the movie, I had a choice. I could have studied but I didn't. I came to this exam completely unprepared and like the majority of the tributes in The Hunger Games, I know death roamed around my corner. RIP grade

Imagine this...

Imagine if Velma from Scooby Doo was actually real. What if someone had her thirst for knowledge and urge to solve mysteries? Well, there is someone. Young and always looking for answers, this describes the characteristics of none other than Shania Whitehead. You could even think of her as Lisa from The Simpsons, intelligent but enjoys music, has a strong relationship with her family and tries to support them. As well as, she helps them in making the right decisions. Family is everything to her. Listening to her family bicker and joke around is what’s given her such a strong quick witted mind. She’s much like Max, from the show Two Broke Girls. Both share the same passion for baking and joking around when they’re comfortable.  "It's not what you've lost, but it's what you find." Shania finds great inspiration from her favorite artist, Ellie Goulding. With beauty like a sunset, a strong writing hand, she idolizes her. Shania and Ellie share similar voices, a high range. With similar writing habits, Shania tries to follow her steps in becoming not only an astonishing song writer but also a poet.