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I really did want to go to the event. Not because I support gun control, however. All across our nation people have protested for gun control. Just think about that for a second. People are protesting to have their own rights taken away. The rest of this entry will be the reasons on why gun control is stupid and completely useless and also why we even have the right to bear arms. All of my statistics come from the FBI crime center or other reliable sources. The first point that I want to touch on is the fact that guns do not kill people. A gun can physically not sprout legs and decide to kill someone. Also, a guns main function is not to only kill people. Often, a gun can be used to intimidate an aggressor to prevent an altercation from even happening in the first place. It is only logical to assume that if a possible defender has a gun, then a possible aggressor will hesitate because of the fact that he/she may be shot at after he initiates. But the world is not logical. Often there

One of the most interesting things to me in Purple Hibiscus is the fact that they are living in a very unstable Nigeria. I have previously learned about Nigeria before, but my knowledge is still very basic and limited in the fact that I never really knew much about the politics of Nigeria until just recently. In Purple Hibiscus , we see that the recent military coup is extremely oppressive in nature. We see people being jailed for criticizing the government (like Ade) and we see people being killed for nonviolent crimes such as drug dealing. I began to research so that I could understand just what coup occurred in the time frame of this book. I thought that if I could understand the government of Nigeria more, then I could better understand what exactly is happening to the people of Nigeria. One of the first things that came up whenever I searched about this topic was oil. Oil was the essential driver of these military coups. Each coup was driven by the greed for money and power.

I saw the gold gullies gushing over with the rainbow water I knew so dear. Now I see, The oil. I saw the lush water gush over the bright beaches. Now I see, The tar. I used to be down with the mainstream oil Now I see, Corruption. I thought I would see change, I see nothing. Assonance Enjambment Consonance

"You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor Lyrics Song One of the first main points that I would like to bring up this song is just the entire soothing melody of it. This fact will be used later in my explanation. One of the first tools that I see used in this song is euphony. The lyrics just seem to flow well and along with the music seems very soothing. The entire song, in my opinion, is spoken through the eyes of James Taylor himself (I will explain why later). Another thing that is crucial into understanding this poem is that there is a very interesting structure to it. There are multiple examples of enjambment that specifically call on words that are important to his point. The first and most obvious one is when he excludes the phrase "You've got a friend". The phrase is the main point of the entire song and it is important that he brings more importance to this. This brings me to the entire point and purpose of the song. James Taylor has already stat

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I am sad to say that War Strike 2 is essentially dead. War Strike: A WWII Story was honestly not very successful. And combined with school and family matter I don't believe that putting my time towards a game that will not be successful is worth it. Therefore, I have begun to work on something very, very large. Something that I believe will be more successful than War Strike. I also believe that the only reason I am able to do this is due to the math that I have learned so far during high school(and during middle school). I say this because a lot of the work I am doing involves working with terrain generation. My goal is to make a game about exploration and planetary battles. To make a more immersive game, I need terrain generation that is efficient and terrain generation that actually looks good. To do this, I am using an algorithm called Dual Contouring. For length purposes, I will keep my explanation of this algorithm simple. First, I create a 3d grid(like a piece of graph pap

I honestly had no idea what to expect for Launch day that was just this past Friday. I was honestly very entertained by the wonderful seniors that presented their presentations that they had been working on for over a year. I honestly can not stress the fact enough that these seniors really did put a ton of their time and energy into giving us a day that taught us wonderful and interesting things. This brings me to which Launch Day presentation that interested and inspired me the most. Most interested me the most was the presentation on how social media can influence the stock market. He gave multiple examples (such as tweets from Trump) that clearly showed that there is a correlation between how social media portrays certain stocks and the stock's price. What was more interesting to me, however, is when he began to talk about how an anonymous person made an actual AI that auto trades based on tweets and market strategies. Being a novice programmer myself, I began to research a b