Weblog Assignment #4

Similar to #1-3: Choose one of the sites below, and write two paragraphs about it, the first linking to it, and telling about the site itself, the second telling your opinion. If these sites are not interesting to you, choose another one from the first three assignments, and use that one! Some of these have a lot of reading- but the main point- what the site does or says, is most important.

PEER PRESSURE & DRINKING

http://www.madd.org/tuhijo/en_act_friends.htm
MADD- Helping your child deal with peer pressure

http://www.ias.org.uk/resources/publications/alcoholalert/alert200502/al200502_p23.html
Parents, not peers, responsible for binge drinking

GRAND THEFT AUTO & VIOLENCE

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39007
Violent video games blamed for Va. Tech killing

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/24/DDG4PPCNHL1.DTL
SF Gate- Video games blamed unfairly for Cho's killing

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/60minutes/main678261.shtml
CBS- Grand Theft Auto made this guy kill three people?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021104-384808,00.html
Vice City- the next Grand Theft Auto

http://www.slate.com/id/2164379/
Cho- about the guns

TRANSPARENCY

http://friendsofatr.blogspot.com/2007/04/taxpayer-coalition-press-release.html
Government Transparency Movement is Growing! - Americans for Tax Reform

http://www.wmd.org/wbdo/oct-nov03/access.html
World Movement for Democracy- Transparency movements worldwide

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-04/24/content_858172.htm
China agrees to more transparency

FOOD TABOOS

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0419_040419_TVfoodtaboo.html
Food Taboos around the world

http://library.thinkquest.org/18802/everfood.htm
Food Taboos

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

http://www.careerjournal.com/jobhunting/jungle/20050330-jungle.html
Social networking sites catch eye of employers