Weekly news No.14

Leicester explosion causes kills five innocent people.



Mary Ragoobar aged 46 and her two sons Sean 17 and Shane 18 were killed when the shop in Hinckley Road was destroyed on Sunday. They lived in the flat directly above the shop. More people were killed in the incident but no names have been released yet. By the sounds of the incident it was a fire that started this and the fire was an accident. Witnesses say they saw the third son be pulled out of the rubble and is in hospital being treated now. 

A lot of witnesses have said that the family was really nice and that they were the last people that deserved this and that they wish the third brothers recovery is fast and that they hope he is okay after all of this.

Police are still investigating to find out what happened and why the building blew up and from all evidence at the moment there is no sign of any terrorist action and that this was just an unfortunate accident.

There hasn't been many incidents on fires since Grenfell tower and this could be due to high awareness of the risks that fire can cause and that the UK government are testing more and more buildings to see if they have any big fire hazards to try and prevent incidents like Grenfell and this to happen.

Overall, I think this is a very tragic event that shouldn't have happened especially as what seemed top have been a small accident which may have started the fire cause five people to die and more to be injured. 

Weekly news No.13

Video Games and the effects they may have.

From doing some research on games their is a mix between whether games are good or bad for you. For example one website gives some "scientific benefits" that games can have. These include: 

• 3D games can increase memory capacity. They got a certain amount of people to play 3D Mario games and others to play 2D Angry Birds. After playing these games for x amount of time the people who played mario seemed to do better on some memory based questions and this may have been due to being more engaged in a 3D game always having to remember certain parts of the map instead of just going left or right like in a 2D game.
• The next benefit was that games are good for pain relief because you draw your attention away from your injury and end up focusing on the game so much that you can almost forget the pain is there.
• Following this is that games may help people who have dyslexia read. Some people think with subtitles on in the background it could passively help or due to playing a fast paced game it can increase their attention span meaning they can learn to read as fast as any other person or significantly increase the speed at which they are currently at.
• Tetris may help limit trauma. People who were in hospital were asked to play about 20 minutes or so of Tetris and they asked the people who had played it and 30 people who didn't about how they felt. The majority of people who played Tetris said that they weren't as traumatised as they were before. This could be due to the simplicity of it and that it is a calm and very chilled game.
• This one seems to good to be true but games may increase your intelligence. By playing certain games and having to memorise different things to progress can help improve your memory.

However when it comes to gaming unfortunately it isn't all just good effects, there are negatives to go with it. Like everything else when done excessively it is unhealthy.

• To much gaming can cause some bad health problems because if you spend all your time gaming then you aren't being active and getting enough exercise then you may become obese or have some other health issues. 
• Also gaming may cause poor relationships between family and friends. For example if they aren't going out due to gaming they won't form any friendships and they may not know how to form friendships or other relationships when they are older. Also if you play games then you may not be communicating with your family enough because you spend so long gaming.
• Depending on what games you could be playing it could cause you to be more aggressive and act out more violently. If in games for example Grand Theft Auto you go around beating everyone up, then over time you may start to think it is okay and act it out in real life.

Below is a link from BBC news discussing whether games can make people violent or not. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33960075

Overall though I don't think games cause people to act out aggressively or do bad things because we all have boundaries and lines which we can see what is right and what is wrong so doing anything bad would be the persons fault not and not what they've seen in a game and thinking that they can get away with it.

https://www.sciencealert.com/6-scientific-benefits-of-playing-videogames/

https://www.livestrong.com/article/278074-negative-effects-of-video-game-addiction/

Weekly news No.12

Katie Price wants Mp's to do something about online abuse after her son Harvey is a victim.


 

The video above is one of many videos about Katie Price talking about online abuse.

In the video she talks about wanting to go to schools and educate children on the matter of online abuse and how harmful it can be which in my opinion is really great because there has been a lot of people who have committed suicide due to being a victim of online abuse. Also I think she wants to make everyone aware that if you are a victim of this there is people to talk to about it to try and make yourself feel better and to try and solutions to try and prevent online bullying.

She has said that she is going to campaign to make online abuse a "criminal offence". Her son Harvey who is 15 years old is autistic, partially blind and has prader willi syndrome which is a genetic disorder which can include things like weak muscles and slow development.

I don't think Harvey has depression but mental health issues in the UK has increased and has said that roughly 1 in 4 people will suffer from some form of mental heath issue. For example around 120,000 people got help for mental health treatments and 20,000 of those were children.

Katie Price has said:

"They know he hasn't got a voice back and they mock him more... I just think they find him an easy target - just to pick on.

"But I'm his voice. I'm here and I am going to protect him."

She has made complaints previously to the police but nothing was able to be done due to no laws specifying what classes as legal and illegal. 

Overall, I think if she can make online abuse illegal and have action taken for it then this is a step forward for everybody because a lot of people can start feeling depressed, lonely and can even lead to suicidal thoughts or even just suicide.  

Faye Stereotype work.

Negative views on muslims.

Muslims are majorly showed in the media in negative ways always being called terrorists and being generalised amongst everyone. A lot of the time it isn't even Muslims who cause crime it will be a terror group that everyone immediately calls a Muslim group. We see this in a lot of our news/media and this links into the hypodermic needle theory were we see this so much that we either almost start to believe it or we actually believe it. This has caused a lot of trouble throughout a lot of situations such as Muslim people being kicked of planes because others don't like sitting near them because they are "scared" or "afraid". 

This is an example of Muslims being showed negatively in the media and the upsetting thing about this is that it was someone who has just "converted" to a Muslim. Due to this newspaper being published by The Sun they could have been anyone but if they looked like a Muslim then they would just label him/ her as one.

I do think that Muslims in the media are evolving because we are all realising that it isn't always just Muslims doing all these bad things. During the time when ISIS was in the news every week every one would instantly think that they are Muslim group and that all Muslims are like that when in fact this was not the case and Muslims wanted nothing to do with them but as we kept seeing it in the news aspects of the hypodermic needle come in as we keep seeing it so we end up starting to believe it. This is a shame because there was cases of innocent Muslims getting hurt by people because they thought they were associated with ISIS.

Overall, I think that Muslims in the media are being shown negatively and especially last year they were being shown as if they were like the devil however I do think that we are evolving and realising that the media is wrong to just generalise all Muslims as terrorists.