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BLACK
FRIDAY
By: Matt Kerr (Experienced Shopper)
Ah,
November. The leaves change color, the weather gets colder, and friends and
families of many different races and backgrounds come together, laughing,
tossing their heads back and letting out good, hearty laughs. A large caucasian
male wearing a clean apron carves a beautiful turkey for his family, and then
gathers around the household plasma-screen television with his relatives to
watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
Parade on ABC. Oh, America. However, with the meaningful and lovely holiday of
Thanksgiving, comes another event. A brutal day where millions of Americans
nationwide are trampled, shoved, and sometimes even killed. I’m
talking, of course, about Black Friday. On every Thanksgiving evening at
midnight, swarms of people stampede through stores such as Wal-Mart, Target,
and Best Buy, screaming at inanimate objects,
wrestling large women for Tickle-Me-Elmo dolls, and possibly setting the
aisles and various shoppers on fire. I write this as a warning for you, for I
have been victimized by the hell-bent consumer holiday that is Black Friday.
The
year was 2006. I was just a mere boy. Everybody wanted one of those really
awesome Motorola Razor phones, including me. My aunt Janine looked at me right
in the eye and said “Sweetheart, how
about I get you one of those cool phones?”
I was so happy at the time.
“Heck yeah,”
I said, as I did two backflips and skateboarded around the
room. She chuckled.
“Kids,”
she said, a glimmer in her eye. I then watched as Aunt
Janine entered Radioshack amongst a frenzied crowd. Boy, how selfish I was.
Moments later, the store was completely demolished, burned to the ground. The
firemen recovered only one item from the disaster: A Motorola Razor. It was
attached to Aunt Janine’s hand. She didn’t
make it.
Black
Friday is horribly dangerous to all. Please take time to recognize the
disasters that the event brings upon millions of Americans every year. Keep
your loved ones inside and stay hidden, preferably under tables and large,
protective objects. There’s no telling what
kinds of riots will come about this year, especially with the release of the
Xbox One and PS4.
Ask.fm
By: Nessa
Garcia
A few years ago, a website called
"Formspring.me" was created. Its purpose was simple and seemingly
innocuous: allow online users to ask each other questions.
How
fun! Maybe teenagers, the targeted demographic, will ask each other what their
favorite color is, or, or, maybe they'll inquire when an acquaintance's
birthday is so that they can surprise them with chocolates--especially with the
option of anonymity! ...I think you get where I'm going here. The simple
purpose resulted in unspeakable consequences, ones that managed to awaken the
ugly beast of cyberbullying and provoke its most horrendous actions. In 2010,
the suicides of three English teenagers were linked to hate received on their
Formspring accounts.
Fortunately,
people began to boycott Formspring and one-by-one, fed up teenagers closed
their accounts. Life was hard enough to be creating a platform that would
inevitably attract reckless insensitivity. The gradual result was a mass
self-eviction from the unforgiving city of Formspring, never to be seen again
as the company eventually closed down due to inactivity. At least, this is what
I thought.
Recently,
"ask.fm" has become extremely popular. You may wonder what its
function is, imagine that it's a forum to ask the FM radio business some
queries, or question who exactly this "fm" may be. Wait, you don't
mean to tell me that...that ask.fm offers the SAME exact "service" as
Formspring did? Now NINE adolescent suicides are
linked to this website? That U.S. laws don't
apply to this company because it's founded in Latvia?
In
history class, I, amongst others, are constantly reminded about the value of
learning from the life before us, whether that be from events in the 18th
century or in the past week. Simply put, we learn from history's mistakes so
that we won't repeat them again. In this sense, our judgement becomes stronger
and more skeptical to products that feed on human drama. Let's be honest, these
companies sure know what
draws people to their websites, and it's not
questions about peoples' favorite colors. All I'm asking is that if you or someone
you know currently has an ask.fm account, delete it.
Life's
final exam will reward you for remembering and learning from the past.
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