Alyssa Anastasiades

PEER REVISION  Details of Paddocks rampage emerged, police recover the 64 year old killers cell phone looking for motive for this mass shooting. They find he has no criminal record but has bought 33 weapons since October of 2016. Most were rifles . he monitored feet traffic in the hallway of the hotel where he thought if he would reside to after the shooting. He shot at a crowd of 22,000 people, killing 58and injured. Stephen fired rounds at security guards in the hallway before shooting himself. The rest of the article seems irrelevant to me because the title is “Las Vegas Killer Stephen Paddock Was Planning To Escape After The shooting” the authors of this article goes into talking about Paddocks gun purchases and why there wasn’t a red flag at the store he purchased from. I don’t see how this relates to the topic. Kayla starts her blog off by introducing her article, authors and source. She then goes into summarizing the article she chose. She quoted the article...

Bruno Mars has always been one of my favorite pop singer/songwriter. Now more than ever but he does have some good oldies. The first song I have chosen is “ Grenade ” on the album   Doo-Wops & Hooligans . Bruno sings, “ Id throw my head on a blade for ya “  The hyperbole here is exaggerating about he things Bruno would do to prove his love to this girl. I especially like this song because I can feel his emotional attachment through his lyrics. The next song I have chosen is “ Versace on the Floor ” on the album  24K Magic exhibits alliteration. Bruno sings,  “ ooh take it off for me, for me, for me now, girl “ This line of lyrics is alliteration alone but he repeats this same lie twice in a row. Alliteration is the repeating of words or phrases and this would be a perfect example. Finally, the last song but my favorite, “t alking to the Moon ” on the album Doo-Wops & Hooligans Bruno sings, “or am I a fool, who sits alone, talk...

The NFL Were Never About Unity. That’s Actually a Good Thing My chosen topic is The clash between the NFL and President Trump regarding kneeling protests during the National Anthem. That article I have chosen is "The NFL Protests were never about unity. That’s actually a Good Thing" this article was found on MIC .  By Zak Cheney Rice, published Sept. 26, 2017. https://mic.com/articles/184742/the-nfl-protests-were-never-about-unity-thats-actually-a-good-thing#.udxwTMpOZIn Zak’s article he expresses how he doesn’t agree with their method of protesting “The NFL protests are not an example of unity” but does agree with the reasons, which is there should be no racism. He believes that they are taking steps “but the divides they’ve laid bare mark a step toward making us a more honest and moral country.” to make America a more honest and moral country but their protests aren’t examples of unity in which we need.           ...