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From my standpoint I don't know all the facts or the true nature of this child soldiers involvement in the war. Neither do I know if they were forced or demanded to volunteer to fight in the war. However, what I do know was that they killed people, and that on it's own warrants a sentence to jail. This entire debate seems rigged to me. One side benefits the logical thought process and one side benefits the moral thought process. One thing that is apparent is that after a war it is unlikely that the losing force will be welcomed by their opposition. Even being extradited to live in another country could be a risk for the country extraditing them. However, when I think about it this way, what is the right thing to do? I immediately conform to my moral beliefs. Regardless of their crimes they should be shown mercy. It may be that it isn't the most beneficial option or even the most popular, but it is the right one. After reading the text concerning the implementation of chi...

Jonah Wimmer Mr. Mongardi Media Literacy 10/2/17 Blog Post #7 The project deadline is approaching and while we haven’t came up with any records (yet), we have succeeded in carrying out our mission statement; to persevere while attempting to complete ridiculous world records. With Jacob in Australia and my dependence on his ability to send me our videos, it’ll be hard create content to upload to our YouTube channel. So for the first time in this project, our execution of iste standard 2a, has suffered due to poor communication. This roadblock, Jacob not being present, allows for me to stretch my ability to problem solve and practice critical thinking; iste standard 4. During this time I can work on a script for the impending Ted talks and try and continue the work we’ve done. Personally, I think that I can break a world record. Maybe not by March 8th, but someday, and someday soon. That doesn’t mean I’m going to be like Ashrita Furman, devote my life to the completion of world re...

This week Jacob and I have tried to get better at the balloon record by practicing catching and throwing technique. We came to the realization that we needed a more effective way of catching last week, too many balloons were just getting popped on the grass. His failure to catch my throws correlated with my inaccuracy and the brand of balloons. We've tried two brands of balloons, one of which worked much better and was less prone to popping. The other was much stronger and easier to fill up with water, it definitely helped to have the stronger balloons. Otherwise we thought it might be wise to get someone really good at throwing and have them throw the balloon, probably someone older with more experience. Then I could catch the balloon and it would go farther with increased accuracy. If two people could be fielding the ball at once the action of actually catching the balloon would be made much easier. We learned that the amount of people trying to catch the ball was strictly lim...

This past class we attempted yet another record, this time Jacob trying to break it. Despite our lack of practice I'd say we did well. The record we were trying to break required us to rip over 76 parcels of A4 size paper clearly in half. With scavenged scrap paper we lined up 80 pieces, a hopeful amount. With the few leftover pieces we decided to go over ripping technique and efficiency maximization. We decided to line the paper just over the table and for Jacob rip it at the edge. However we didn't get much practice so our results were of our own making. Jacob managed to rip 65 pieces of paper, 11 under the record. Afterwards we analyzed our results and made note of what we did good and what we could improve on. For starters, the paper was reinforced by ink. The paper we had found had on it pictures with lots of ink and that made the paper much harder to rip. After Jacob’s attempt he suggested I give the record a go because during a race to see who was faster at ripping I won...