{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38658888","dateCreated":"1304693321","smartDate":"May 6, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mekster","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mekster","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222961126\/mekster-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38658888"},"dateDigested":1531973991,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"response","description":"Do violent video games cause behavioral problems? This is a very often-asked question by adults who have kids that play video games. Parents often believe that violent video games might cause a violent behavior in their offspring and therefore do not buy them violent video games to be precautious that their kids will not be violent in the future. I also believe that kids who are violent will be attracted to violent games and try to learn from them to be more violent in real life. Most people who play video games from ages 8 and above play video games for about 2 hours each day and this is a lot of time for a kid\u2019s brain to absorb what it sees on the screen. Just like watching violent movies can create an image in ones mind that it would be \u201ccool\u201d to be the war hero or to be a great fighter, a video game is the same and children tend to copy those actions. I would say that violent games can cause behavioral problems.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38633632","dateCreated":"1304643313","smartDate":"May 5, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Linndzy","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Linndzy","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1290198368\/Linndzy-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38633632"},"dateDigested":1531973991,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Lindsey Pent","description":"All around the world people use computers for almost everything on a daily basis. Most jobs even necessitate the worker to know how to use a computer and email. For a teenager in high school a computer is almost everything. It provides social networking, a fast and easy way to do written home work assignments. Computers also never stop advancing and developing because people want to and need to use them more and more for all kinds of different things. Some people can\u2019t even go a whole day without their computer and checking their social networks, that is how dependent we are on computers, and it\u2019s too much. People should be able to go without things such as a computer. But because we need them and use them for so many things it makes it just that much harder to go without them.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38633628","dateCreated":"1304643309","smartDate":"May 5, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Linndzy","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Linndzy","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1290198368\/Linndzy-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38633628"},"dateDigested":1531973991,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Lindsey Pent","description":"All around the world people use computers for almost everything on a daily basis. Most jobs even necessitate the worker to know how to use a computer and email. For a teenager in high school a computer is almost everything. It provides social networking, a fast and easy way to do written home work assignments. Computers also never stop advancing and developing because people want to and need to use them more and more for all kinds of different things. Some people can\u2019t even go a whole day without their computer and checking their social networks, that is how dependent we are on computers, and it\u2019s too much. People should be able to go without things such as a computer. But because we need them and use them for so many things it makes it just that much harder to go without them.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38626046","dateCreated":"1304633327","smartDate":"May 5, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jsutton26","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jsutton26","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222961183\/jsutton26-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38626046"},"dateDigested":1531973991,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"ban cigarettes ","description":"The government enforces rules and rights to protect the health of its citizens, but at the same time, the government is permitting the biggest assassin of the world to be right around your corner. Most of the governments in the world bans drugs and has rules about alcohol for minors, but governments ignore the fact that cigarettes are one of the main causes of death in the world. According to regional health promotion officer of Ghana, Mr Kumbatazie, \u201cdeath from tobacco is more than death from HIV\/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis\u201d. In my opinion, cigarettes should be banned. Scientific research has demonstrated that smoking cigarettes not only harms the smoker but also can harm the people who are nearby and breathe the smoke. According to Abbey Grace Yap the action of putting a cigarette in your mouth can have immediate effects on your system, such as: raising a person's blood pressure and heart rate, stimulating and then reducing the brain and the nervous system, and weakening the sense of taste and smell. After a time of smoking, the effects become more damaging to the individual\u2019s body. The smoker can start suffering of impotence or infertility, faster aging, respiratory tract infections, emphysema, heart attack and other coronary diseases, different kinds of cancers (lungs, throat, mouth, bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervix, and stomach), stomach ulcers, peripheral vascular disease due to a decreased blood flow to the legs. (http:\/\/www.smokingadvice.info\/smoking-advice\/effects-of-smoking.php<\/a>). Smoking and inhaling cigarette smoke damages the health of citizens and because the governments concern on individual\u2019s health, they should ban cigarettes throughout the world.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38572582","dateCreated":"1304557269","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"ereiche","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ereiche","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1226183145\/ereiche-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38572582"},"dateDigested":1531973991,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"kire...torture","description":" As generations pass, the human race evolves, betters itself, discovers, and creates solutions to old conflicts. Nowadays, some of our ancestor\u2019s past actions or solutions to their issues may seem ethically or efficiently incorrect. Torture was used regularly by many generations. It not only involves the actions of inflicting physical punishment, but also includes the practice of causing severe mental pain. Even though our ancestors utilized maltreatment techniques as a regular-day instrument with several purposes, it is clearly wrong and shouldn\u2019t be allowed under any circumstance whatsoever.
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\nThese abusive tendencies resemble the pass totalitarian governments, where a complete subservience to the state was required. Such subservience included violent techniques, since the state needed to control everything. Clearly, such methods are antic, inefficient, and are not the solutions to problems, but cause some instead. Torture creates resentment in the victims and makes them want revenge. Instead of using violent tactics, people should adapt and solve their issues peacefully through a civilized way. It is true that this is a harder and longer road to go through, however, it is the right way to go in order to evolve and keep on developing a civilized nation that used its ancestors\u2019 tendencies to better itself.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38767838","body":"Thanks Erik,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1304963884","smartDate":"May 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"38569976","dateCreated":"1304554656","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"dmarin464","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dmarin464","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1225941095\/dmarin464-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38569976"},"dateDigested":1531973991,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Law Enforcement Cameras","description":"Law enforcement cameras are not an invasion of privacy unless in any time of bathroom. As government\u2019s duty to decide what\u2019s best for their population, enforcing the law is important in order to make sure everyone is following the rules. Law enforcements aren\u2019t everywhere and can\u2019t see everything, so if there are cameras around to capture a crime, courts can use them to find the truth of the event. Cameras in schools or shops can\u2019t be an invasion of privacy because one would be around commercial or educational institutional where theft is discouraged and thieves will have a harder time committing the crime unseen. On governmental streets, cameras aren't an invasion to privacy because the government, with its law enforcements, is to make sure to provide the best safety conditions in the cities.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38767800","body":"Thanks Daniel,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1304963848","smartDate":"May 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"38566448","dateCreated":"1304550077","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"hansel.andrew","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hansel.andrew","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38566448"},"dateDigested":1531973991,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"will's response (gay marriage)","description":"9. Should gay couples be able to marry?
\n Gay couples should be able to marry whomever they want. When kids grow up in the US, they learn one simple but important rule \u201cEveryone is equal.\u201d So, how is everyone equal if certain people don't get to be with the people they love? I feel very strongly about this because one of my family friends was gay and he could not marry the man he loved, he committed suicide last November. He was an amazing, creative, funny man who always joked around with my sister and I. I have friends in Maryland that are gay but for some reason people don't accept them. If someone is gay, why do people treat them with such disrespect? People use terms like \u201cfag\u201d and \u201chomo\u201d just to use as an insult, why, I wont ever know. I do know that any person who reads this will not say to a black person's face the \u201cn\u201d word. I ask you this why all of the discrimination against two people marrying for love when thats what everyone does? What I am trying to say is that if a person isn't allowed their constitutional rights and be who they are naturally, people tend to be unhappy. We separated the Church and State a long time ago, this law is based on a religious point of view. People need to have their freedoms to be happy, and since this is not a law based on the constitution then it should be abolished in the states that it has been passed in.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38570594","body":"Will, I really like your response. I'm sorry for your family's friend's passing. This really is a huge problem not only in the U.S. but around the globe. Nothing gets me angrier when people use one's sexual orientation as an insult or offense. I really support your argument.","dateCreated":"1304555184","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"dmarin464","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dmarin464","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1225941095\/dmarin464-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38768926","body":"I support it as well...
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\nGood work,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1304965012","smartDate":"May 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"38503026","dateCreated":"1304463243","smartDate":"May 3, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nikki-wiki","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nikki-wiki","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38503026"},"dateDigested":1531973992,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Nikki Mora's Response ","description":"Should gay couples be able to marry?
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\nGay couples should be able to marry in every country or state. Your sexual orientation doesn't make you any less of a person and there for gay marriage should be allowed. Most countries in the world say that they are free countries, that their citizens have their liberty, but at the same time several of those countries do not allow gay marriage. Well, if the country is free and it is giving their citizens freedom then they should be allowed to marry whoever they want to marry and the country shouldn't care if it is going to be a gay marriage or if two people from different religions or races are getting married. Everyone deserves a chance to be with the person they love and if they want to get married they should be able to, governments and religions should not have a say in who gets married and who doesn't. No one has right to choose for someone else who they can and who they can't spend the rest of their lives with. If gay couples want to make their relationship official and legal they should be able to do so wherever they want. Gay couples are just as equal as any other couple, so banning a gay couple to get married is unfair.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38550898","body":"Great Nikki,
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\nOne question: what is the proper way to spell 'there for'?
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1304532697","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38658328","body":"'therefore' oops sorry Mr.Websty:)","dateCreated":"1304692798","smartDate":"May 6, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nikki-wiki","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nikki-wiki","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"38501200","dateCreated":"1304460831","smartDate":"May 3, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"arifishman95","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/arifishman95","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38501200"},"dateDigested":1531973992,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"death penalty","description":"1. Is the death penalty effective?
\nIn order to have a complete answer, we must define the purposes of the word \u201ceffective\u201d. In other words, we should ask ourselves \u201cfor who and what will the results be effective?\u201d I will dare to say that death penalty is perfectly effective for a bloodthirsty and revengeful society. I would also say that these two adjectives best describe our society. Two days ago, Osama Bin Laden was killed. What did the Americans do? They went to the White House to celebrate (a murder).
\nOn the other hand, death penalty should not be effective in a society where the purposes of the effectiveness are different. In a peaceful (and utopian) society, the effectiveness of the results would be based on the elimination of evils by using virtuous means. As far as I know, killing is not good in any way. As Marthin Luther King Jr. once said:
\n"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.\u201d Therefore, it doesn\u2019t matter what crimes a person committed, death would only bring more hatred, like a domino effect.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38550800","body":"Good Ari,
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\nWell-thought out and intricate.
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1304532599","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"38487160","dateCreated":"1304445085","smartDate":"May 3, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"AmandaTrejos","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/AmandaTrejos","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38487160"},"dateDigested":1531973992,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"amanda trejos","description":"Should the government have a say in our diets?
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\nEver heard to anyone saying \u201cwe are what we eat\u201d? Human beings have the tendency to eat as we please until our stomach hurts and then act like we have no idea what went wrong. We put food in our mouths but we don\u2019t investigate or ask what\u2019s in it, and that is a major problem. The government for one part should take more care of its population and advise them not to eat certain things and make them aware of all the chemicals and preservatives that are in certain meals such as in cans and in junk food. Changing humans habits and making them change their mind is extremely hard but if a superior (government) takes a stand and tries to deal with the problem then it is most likely for citizens to respond and agree. If it\u2019s a matter of health, then why should one argue with something that is willing to help you?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38550542","body":"Great Amanda,
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\nI would just like you to re-write the first two sentences as they are a bit awkward and confusing.
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1304532345","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38575276","body":"Many people don't know that many of our sicknesses are caused because of our poor way of eating. It's obvious that a package of chocolate cookies are going to provoke un easement in our stomachs meanwhile fruit, that contain sugar as well are not. We put food...","dateCreated":"1304560900","smartDate":"May 4, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"AmandaTrejos","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/AmandaTrejos","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"38768964","body":"Thanks Amanda,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1304965049","smartDate":"May 9, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}