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Is Venezuelas agression towards the United States a threat?

Venezuela has been hostile against the United States of America for a while because of false allegations that the United States army had been in involved in his captivation and an attempted assassination of the President Hugo Chavez. Venezuela’s hate towards the US makes America a possible target especially with the amount of missile and fire arms. They have a strong air force and army. Their aggressive behavior with the United States only puts us in the hot seat as a target. With their ongoing relations with our enemies in Cuba it only makes us more vulnerable for possible attacks. Cuba too has missile sites and is in bad relations with the United States because of our isolation of them. To add to this, Venezuela, our number one oil supplier, has raised the oil prices, making it more difficult for us to negotiate with them and forcing other OPEC countries to raise their prices as well. Today Venezuela is vulnerable, tomorrow who knows who will join the new axis of evil to fight against the United States. It is important for the United States to seek its own interests for the people, and today, as has been stated, it is proven that Venezuela is a major threat to the United States and whether we act today as a super power country or tomorrow after Chavez has attacked, Venezuela will always be a threat as long as the leader is in power.

Can technology invade ones privacy?

From what I understood of the reading is that the dynamic book can be a channel for everyone’s creativity, it lets people all over the world to share and express their feelings and imagination through it. At the beginning I was asking my self, can a person control this dynamic book? I mean what if he or she thought of something and didn’t want to share it with anyone else but themselves, would it automatically send their thoughts to other people? “Imagine having your own self-contained knowledge manipulator in ..” Do we want to imagine that?
But then when I started reading more and more, I realized what this dynamic book can actually look like. Its not just about thoughts and feelings, its about your own memory, everything you have saved in you stored just in one small device. But at the end, its just too DYNAMIC to be true.

Can art bring us back to reality?

9’ Scripts from a Nation at War is a collaborated documentary that depicts the lives of ordinary people in Iraq. It is supposed to portray the conditions of different kinds of individuals and their struggles with the politics of the war. Of these individuals there is a student, detainees, soldiers, prisoners, artists, journalists, Europeans, Americans and about almost every kind of individual one can think of. Though we are supposed to be enlightened by their ideas and impressions of the war in Iraq and understand where we stand as individuals with this war, we are also facing the harsh realities of the war. 9’ Scripts from a Nation at War is giving us a different view of the world and the war. We begin to realize they are more than just individuals but they are also war victims. Whether psychological or physical, the violence they faced and endured makes the documentary more sensitive to the issue of the war in Iraq. This makes us wonder how have we been influenced and how have we changed with the birth of the war? Each individual in one way or anther, whether positive of negative, have had some kind thought of the conditions of the war. Some of these ideas have been so strong that they in fact gave us a different view of the world. This documentary keeps us thinking in how we have changed with the war. This piece of art has brought us back to reality.