Reader Response: When you have to shoot first

I myself am a person who rarely ever resorts to violence and would certainly second guess myself if I was ever in the position to have to kill somone. After reading this, I agree with the author that in both situations, there was no time for the shooters to think and that they did exactly what needed to be done. Im not a fan of war or anything that really goes along with it but I very much respect what our troops are doing. I feel that it takes a very strong willed and extremely tough mind set to do what these people do.

Reader Response: Armys war game recruits kids.

When an adult turns into a parent, there number one priority is to care for their child in anyway necessary and raise them how they feel is right, hopefully as respectful and caring human beings. So why parents seem to be getting so upset about the Armys free video game "Americas Army", which is intended to turn children 13-21 to want to sign up for the army, I feel is rediculous. You as a parent have the authority so if you are upset at the Army for this video game, dont be, be mad at yourself for allowing your kids to play this game and take some responsibility.
I personally have no problem with the Army publicizing itself through this video game. If kids want to play the video game and in turn they want to join the Army, then the game has done what it was intended to do and more power to the Army. Being someone that never played video games at my own house growing up, I dont think I would be influenced by a video game to do anything, other than sports games. I feel that parents are looking at the easy way out and blame the Army for their kids playing these games when they should just not allow it and thus eliminate the whole problem. Parents are getting lazy and allowing there kids to stay inside and play video games which is probably the leading cause to having our country be a very obese country. Take some repsonsibilities parents, or dont have kids.

Reader Response: The Butterfly Effect and the Enviornment: How tiny actions can save the world.

In this article, Brian Clark discusses the importance of the animal, the butterfly. While reading this, I found out many new things about this creature that I knew next to nothing about before. It explains how the butterfly effect is a term that has leaked into popular culture because of time-travel stories, but whats its actual meaning refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions to chaos theory.
The butterflies that most of us know as being beautiful creatures that fly around aimlessly really do effect our world more than most of us would think. A particular point of emphasis with talking about butterflies importance is biodiversity; biodiversity itself protects us, humans from effects of agricultural catastrophes like the Irish Potato Famine, the loss of species results in significant changes in natural habitats that can hurt us badly down the road. As we all know the enviornment is not getting any better anytime soon, these butterfly effect is similar to that fact that tiny changes we make will indeed make a difference. Some possible ways that the article suggests is: cut out bottled water, use compact flurrescent light bulbs, buy a new monitor for your computer rather than upgrading a more less enviornment friendly lap top. This article really put alot of things into perspective about changes that need to be made to better our world, I hope everyone can go out and do there part.