Monday, November 28, 2016

Venezuela Rising

The people in the Venezuela Rising video are clearly experiencing a huge amount of loss in a lot of aspects. Not only are a great amount of people losing their lives everyday, but people are losing the respect of their government as well. People are going against their government and protesting, and causing a huge amount of destruction, the government isn't really doing much about it. The streets are dangerous, so many people are losing their lives, and no one is really helping. It said about "14 people everyday are killed". That's a huge loss of life, and so many loved ones. Not only is there a huge amount of loss, but probably guilt as well. Guilt maybe from the government, and from the people who cause the destruction and are the reason for many lives being lost every single day. We can also see brotherhood in this. A protest is a group of people standing together, fighting for something that all mutually believe in, and in that, we see brotherhood. Overall, the situation that is going on there is just terrible, and we have to feel for those who are going through such a heart wrenching thing.

Thursday, November 3, 2016

What if the Zodiac was a woman?

Technically we dont even know if the Zodiac Killer is male or female, but I think more things point towards male. Like many people know, the Zodiac hasn't even been caught. They have had many male suspects with supporting evidence, but it always fell through. But can you imagine if the Zodiac was a woman? What aspects of the story would change? In my opinion if the Zodiac was a woman, it would be very obvious. The notes that police have would be very different. One note goes "She was young and beautiful, but now she is battered and dead. She is not the first and she will not be the last...(Graysmith168)." Not that a woman couldn't say another woman is beautiful, and not that they couldn't be as brutal as that, but I feel the Zodiac was twisted and not only like to kill, but also liked to sexually torture his victims. I feel in serial killers, the men like the control of raping and torturing his victims, and a lot of things point to the Zodiac doing that. "...her breast felt very warm and firm under my hands,(Graysmith169)." I don't think a woman would necessarily think that way. I feel when woman are serial killers it's more because a man has hurt them in life, and they just despise men. That's not always the case, but I feel it's pretty common. So, if the Zodiac was a woman, not only would the notes be different, but the crimes and the evidence as well. I feel like a woman would have a better chance of getting caught. There's so many things that could give it away that the killer was a woman, like longer hair(although some men do have long hair), makeup smudges, and just overall, I don't think woman would be as good with getting away with it like the Zodiac has.. or is? Another thing that proves it's not a woman, and would surely be different if it were is the handwriting. Again, not that a woman can't have bad handwriting, but most people would look at this and say it's definitely a males handwriting. There are many things about the Zodiac that would change if the gender of the Zodiac was female.