POST 12: School shootings in the USA

This website has a LOT of information about the Columbine High School shooting from the 4/20/1999, the information we can find on this website goes from a resumé of what happened to 911 calls transcripts and videos of the event. I think that the call transcripts and the videos are very interesting because when reading the transcripts for example , you can see the people's reactions to what was happening and you realise that some people don't always react the way we could think they would. This makes me think about how I would react if I were in such a situation and  I think that in such a situation you really learn what kind of person someone is because in your daily life you can pretend to be someone you're not , for instance, in their daily lives some people act like thugs but maybe in a situation like this they would be in shock and cry. The videos are also something I find interesting because you can see how it really happened because in some movie like Zero Day (2003) -which is a film that gives us a good idea of how things happen- still isn't the same as seeing the tapes from the event which are much more shocking.

Eric and Dylan in the school cafeteria during the event.

Students in the cafeteria running away after being alerted of the threat.

The partially-detonated propane bomb in a duffel bag left behind by the shooters blackened the floor and set off the overhead sprinklers.

As this website shows us the three main reasons for school shootings are :

-They want revenge on the people that hurt them.

-Other kids make fun of them , pick on them or bully them.

-They don't value life.

Out of the three main reasons , the two main ones are because people want to get revenge on bullies, so for all you bullies out there reading this,stop, now. It might make you feel good but it might also get you killed so if you don't do it to have a clean conscience , do it to save your life.

The Irack

A brief History of communication

This video as the title says,is a brief history of communication, it starts by showing us how people use to communicate through face to face communication and finishes by showing us how people communicate today via computers and smartphones.
Communication is an essential thing in the development of mankind, since the dawn of time humans have been searching for ways to communicate faster and more precisely. Let's travel back in time, as we said before mankind could only communicate by face to face contact, and now we can communicate with people thousands of miles away with just pressing a button. But from one to another what happened? Men learned that by drawing on walls they could transmit messages and keep them there for a very long time( e.g. we can still find today in some caves drawing from cavemen). Then men trained pigeons( and many other birds as hawks) to travel hundreds of miles to take a message which made messages more intimate and the author could choose who would see the message. After this , humans created smoke signals which where a lot faster than pigeons but less discrete. Man then changed the history of communication with the Morse language. With the Morse code men could secretly transmit messages (and this was like all forms of communications are at first, a military project) secretly and at a very high speed and best part is that these messages are coded so the enemies (in military cases) could not know what the messages meant even if they intervened them. From the Morse code which you could only send letters came the telephone booth in which the first time ever , you could have a instant voice conversation with someone miles away. From that was invented the radio in which a person could make thousands of people hear him, which was replaced in the television where someone could make people watch things and hear them. After came an invention which could seem a throwback but is actually a machine which let people send pictures and documents almost instantly , this machine is called the fax. And finally the two most used machines nowadays where invented, the computer and cellphones which now evolved into smartphones because they give us all the qualities of a cellphone combined with the ones of a computer.

Communication is so important and nowadays we can communicate with whoever we want and even when we want and almost for free, just by having an internet connection at home we can Skype with anyone we want around the world as long as they also have an internet connection and a smart device which let's them access Skype. We can also share pictures and any type of document we want with anyone we choose. That is the biggest advantage of technology nowadays , thanks to it's development we can now cover the two issues of communication, which are for it to be fast and discrete as before communication was either fast or discrete and that caused lots of problems.

To sum it all up, I think that the video was very well done because it was very simple but in the same time shows very well the history of communication and the fact that the video is short is just shows us how fast communication has evolved and how fast technological progress is.