Response to Chuck Klosterman

When I first started reading this article by Chuck Klosterman I didn’t know what to think. It took a little bit for him to get to the point he was trying to state. I never really thought about laugh tracks before this and I didn’t even know they were called this. I just thought they were put into the TV shows because the writers and producers wanted them to be there and wanted people to laugh after what they thought was funny. For me, I am not really for or against laugh tracks. In some cases I think they make the show and when there’s one and it’s not funny which happens a lot, I don’t laugh. I don’t have a strong enough opinion about them to be for or against them. I thought it was interesting what Klosterman said about how people over in Germany don’t laugh out of obligation like Americans would. Soon as I finished reading that paragraph I realized how much I laugh at things others say because it just feels like the right thing to do even if I don’t find it funny. I’m gonna try to work on this! The Friends dialogue in this article was hard to interpret reading it then watching and hearing them talk. I still think if they would get rid of the laugh tracks on some of the TV shows, they would still be just as funny and I would still laugh.

Topic Introduction

I have been wondering about this question since I was 21. I have a pistol permit and I have been curious about if someone breaks into your house do you have the right to shoot them to protect yourself. So pretty much here is my question, if someone was to break into your house with a gun when do you have the right to protect yourself without getting into trouble with the law. I know a decent bit about this topic but have heard so many different stories on what you can and cannot do. So I would like to find out the truth behind all of this. In my opinion, if anyone enters your house without permission you should have the right to shoot them if you felt threatened. I have heard that the only way you could shoot someone who broke into your house is, if you had no other way of getting out of the house or if all entrances are blocked. It is not right that if someone broke into someone’s house in the middle of the night the home owner can’t protect his family because he is to worried about getting into trouble with the law.

Also, I might think about doing this research paper on search warrants. I would like to find out when the police do and don’t have the right to enter you homes.      

Response to Matt Richtel

In my opinion technology is a very good thing, but not for Mr. Campbell in this article. It does show the bad effects that technology has on people who abuse it. I can’t believe that people can get so caught up on the internet that they could miss dinner plans! Another shocker was that he neglected his family and chose to let the internet consume his days. I thought the part about how multitaskers took longer than non multitaskers to switch among tasks was interesting. Finally, it was strange to hear but also did make sense after thinking about it that people who play video games have better reaction times and also are able to pick out details of amid clutter.

Intro

My name is Adam Basile and I am a sophomore at  IUP. I am creating this blog for my English 202 Research Writing class at IUP. This is my first blog post ever and after this class is over hopefully it will be my last. I had a facebook account but got rid of it a few months later. I'm not  into communicating on the internet. Let's see if blogging changes my mind.