The most prominent justice issue presented in this movie is this idea of insider trading. The trading of stock with hidden information that the general public is not informed about. Its not only about insider trading, but the ways of proving someone guilty of this crime. As one can imagine its extremely difficult to prove what a person has heard by word of mouth. How can a justice system convict a person of hearsay, when we are highly rooted in providing solid/hard evidence towards one another? Gordon Gekko really isnt seen as a villain in the movie yet more so as an antihero. The movie is drenched in moral and ethical issues between the three main characters, yet is seen as secondary to the white collar crime. It really gives you a great example of a victimless crime.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the sequel to Wall Street that came out in 1987. The plot is centered around a relationship between this guy named Jacob and Winnie. Jacob works on Wall Street, while Winnie attempts to establish a web cite she created on the map. The kicker is that Winnie is the daughter of Gordon Gekko, a highly respected man within Wall Street once upon a time. He was found guilty of using and abusing insider information to enhance his profits. The movie starts off with him getting out of jail and having nothing. Long story short, he manipulates Jacob into using insider information to ultimately steal 100 million dollars from Winnie that he left in her name before he went to jail.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Speaker Guest
Overall I thought the guest speaker was very informative. Her presentation was well rounded and covered many aspects of suicide. I was actually quite surprised on the number of suicides per year. I was expecting a lot more. Also, it was pretty shocking that 80% of people have thought about suicide at least once in their lifetime. I dont know if thats sad or alarming to be quite honest or both. She also said most suicides come from people between the ages of 18-25. What is happening between these ages, college? Does this mean our universities are putting way to much stress on their students? In my opinion I think they are. Personally I believe there should be limitations on student work loads. That no college in the U.S. should be allowed to break.
Her presentation seemed to cover almost every aspect and emotion involved in suicide. I almost thought I was at risk when she mentioned the fact about people staying in bed all day. I mean on the weekends I rarely leave my bedroom. To say the least she was very informative. In all seriousness its important to understand the symptoms of suicide. Suicide is an extremely hard idea to grasp for some people. I believe it should be mandatory for all people to take a class like that.
Her presentation seemed to cover almost every aspect and emotion involved in suicide. I almost thought I was at risk when she mentioned the fact about people staying in bed all day. I mean on the weekends I rarely leave my bedroom. To say the least she was very informative. In all seriousness its important to understand the symptoms of suicide. Suicide is an extremely hard idea to grasp for some people. I believe it should be mandatory for all people to take a class like that.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Halloween Prank
http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20101101/NEWS02/11010307
This article consists of a triple homicide. Early sunday morning 3 bodies were found in a local barn. The 3 bodies consisted of a father, a mother, and a son. Early sunday morning one of the other came home from a friends house thinking it was a halloween prank from the night before (the family had a barn party saturday night). After soon realizing his family was murdered he called the police. Not to long after the police found the other son in a local hotel. It didn't take long before they found out that he had murdered his own family. The son had countless run-ins with the law prior to this murder. The police were quoted saying, "he had violent past". Motives are still unknown along with the weapon.
Does the media use Halloween as an excuse to influence ratings? In essence does the media stretch stories to help connect a reason to an action? In my opinion I believe they do. Im sure there is an influx in homicides during Halloween because of the costumes. Im sure there are days where there are just as many murders as Halloween accumulates that dont get the same publicity because of the randomness. Being able to provide speculation with causality has to help media ratings without a doubt.
This article consists of a triple homicide. Early sunday morning 3 bodies were found in a local barn. The 3 bodies consisted of a father, a mother, and a son. Early sunday morning one of the other came home from a friends house thinking it was a halloween prank from the night before (the family had a barn party saturday night). After soon realizing his family was murdered he called the police. Not to long after the police found the other son in a local hotel. It didn't take long before they found out that he had murdered his own family. The son had countless run-ins with the law prior to this murder. The police were quoted saying, "he had violent past". Motives are still unknown along with the weapon.
Does the media use Halloween as an excuse to influence ratings? In essence does the media stretch stories to help connect a reason to an action? In my opinion I believe they do. Im sure there is an influx in homicides during Halloween because of the costumes. Im sure there are days where there are just as many murders as Halloween accumulates that dont get the same publicity because of the randomness. Being able to provide speculation with causality has to help media ratings without a doubt.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
BILLYYYY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g&ob=av2e
So for my free post I decided to analyze Billy Joels song, "We didnt start the fire". Basically the song is one big time line. The significant events that he decides to sing about are between 40s and 80s. Throughout the song his lists events/tragedies that society has been dealing with for a long time. The chorus of the song is "we didn't start the fire", referring to his generation. The fire is all the turmoil society has been dealing with sense the beginning of time. To blame one generation for all the problems in the world is ignorant and not realistic. The generation before ones is the main cause for the problems the current generation has to deal with. In essence the problems keep rolling on to the next one.
Why I bring this song about is because I realistically wonder how big of an influence a song can be to the general public? Honestly if it wasn't for Billy Joel a respectable singer and song writer, I doubt this song would of even been recognized. So it brings up the next question, is the public listening just because of the artist or is the song really being seen for its deeper message? Realistically I have no idea how effective this song was in changing the world and our outlooks. Though this might sound kind of corny, but I do believe if it made a difference in one person life it made a difference in the world. People cant give up on changing the world even if it doesn't reach the masses.
So for my free post I decided to analyze Billy Joels song, "We didnt start the fire". Basically the song is one big time line. The significant events that he decides to sing about are between 40s and 80s. Throughout the song his lists events/tragedies that society has been dealing with for a long time. The chorus of the song is "we didn't start the fire", referring to his generation. The fire is all the turmoil society has been dealing with sense the beginning of time. To blame one generation for all the problems in the world is ignorant and not realistic. The generation before ones is the main cause for the problems the current generation has to deal with. In essence the problems keep rolling on to the next one.
Why I bring this song about is because I realistically wonder how big of an influence a song can be to the general public? Honestly if it wasn't for Billy Joel a respectable singer and song writer, I doubt this song would of even been recognized. So it brings up the next question, is the public listening just because of the artist or is the song really being seen for its deeper message? Realistically I have no idea how effective this song was in changing the world and our outlooks. Though this might sound kind of corny, but I do believe if it made a difference in one person life it made a difference in the world. People cant give up on changing the world even if it doesn't reach the masses.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Copycat
Scream and Natural Born Killers are movies with extreme cases of serial killers.
Its a pretty big shocker to think people would actually try to copy these two movies for the simple fact of the actors involved in each one. Were talking about Woody Harrelson here. The same Woody Harrelson that was in the movie White Man Cant Jump, enough said. How and why someone would try and replicate such a fictional story I have no idea. The biggest surprise to me is that these people feel like their actions are justified because they made a movie about what they did. Thats just mind boggling to me.
Realistically movies like Scream and Natural Born Killers will be made forever. Whether it is for better or for worse that these movies should be made is somewhat irrelevant. I have a hard time believing that there will ever be a statute that restricts movie plots. There will always be people in this world that will take fictional stories way too insanely. How can our world predict a movie that is dangerously copycatable? The answer is we cant. Its not the movie that is the problem in this situation, but is the people themselves. As long as we have people in this world, we will have "insanity".
Its a pretty big shocker to think people would actually try to copy these two movies for the simple fact of the actors involved in each one. Were talking about Woody Harrelson here. The same Woody Harrelson that was in the movie White Man Cant Jump, enough said. How and why someone would try and replicate such a fictional story I have no idea. The biggest surprise to me is that these people feel like their actions are justified because they made a movie about what they did. Thats just mind boggling to me.
Realistically movies like Scream and Natural Born Killers will be made forever. Whether it is for better or for worse that these movies should be made is somewhat irrelevant. I have a hard time believing that there will ever be a statute that restricts movie plots. There will always be people in this world that will take fictional stories way too insanely. How can our world predict a movie that is dangerously copycatable? The answer is we cant. Its not the movie that is the problem in this situation, but is the people themselves. As long as we have people in this world, we will have "insanity".
Monday, October 18, 2010
Pokemon
http://media.photobucket.com/image/first%20pokemon/sXeProdigy/pokemon.gif
When I looked at this blog entry for this week only one thing came to mind....Pokemon. When I was in elementary school I would watch this show religiously. Everyday I would come home from school and watch my two episodes before my mother forced me to do my homework.
After the first 25 episodes, they came out with a trading card game. Now being the little entrepreneur I was I started selling these cards in school. My friends and I would sell several cards a week to each other. The funny thing is we would never actually play the game. It was all about who had the best cards and what kind of leverage they had on one another.
In essence we wanted to be little Pokemon trainers that the show portrayed. The show itself showed us how to be these Pokemon trainers. The cards allowed us to carry out that dream. Everyone wanted to be a Pokemon trainer. Everyone and anyone wanted to be involved with Pokemon at this time. It was an elementary students drug. Looking back on this it is quite amazing how loyal and involved we were to this game. A kids imagination is quite a tool.
When I looked at this blog entry for this week only one thing came to mind....Pokemon. When I was in elementary school I would watch this show religiously. Everyday I would come home from school and watch my two episodes before my mother forced me to do my homework.
After the first 25 episodes, they came out with a trading card game. Now being the little entrepreneur I was I started selling these cards in school. My friends and I would sell several cards a week to each other. The funny thing is we would never actually play the game. It was all about who had the best cards and what kind of leverage they had on one another.
In essence we wanted to be little Pokemon trainers that the show portrayed. The show itself showed us how to be these Pokemon trainers. The cards allowed us to carry out that dream. Everyone wanted to be a Pokemon trainer. Everyone and anyone wanted to be involved with Pokemon at this time. It was an elementary students drug. Looking back on this it is quite amazing how loyal and involved we were to this game. A kids imagination is quite a tool.
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