Teaching Kids to Kill 4C's

Connection:
       The personal connections I made with "Child Soldiers" is when Mr. Ishmael said that the rehabilitation center that he was at after being rescued from the military he was getting off the drugs and was very rude to the staff there. This reminded me of my older brother who is currently in a rehabilitation center for substance abuse. Like Ishmael, my brother started taking drugs when he was small at the age of sixteen and has gone to three different centers but eventually relapsed every time. Now at the age of twenty-eight he is in rehab for six months and is determined to quit drugs. This is what Ishmael did even though he kept having trouble at the center he eventually went back to school and became sober. Also this interview with Mr. Ishmael connect to the article," Teaching Kids to Kill" they both are directed towards the extent amount of violence that kids are exposed to in civilization today. However, Ishmael faced a life or death situation, he was told to either join or be killed, but Micheal did it with the influence of video games and media violence.Therefore, this connection links the idea of taking purity away from young generations and making them ideal to violence.


Challenges:
         In the clip, Mr. Ishmael told the interviewer that the military officers gave them a choice of either being killed by the officers or to kill the rebels. In that case, this is something I would change because when they did stay with the military their personalities changed and in other ways became altered based on what the military wanted. However, if he had chosen to die instead he would've died staying true to himself. He did not now that he would be rescued and sent to USA to live and write a book.


Concepts:
         I think the key concepts that should be held from the text is that the parents or guardians of the kids should know what types of games are being played and knowing the age limits for the games. Also one other very important thing is that they should be reminded that this stuff is not real and is bad and it is only to be played during leisure time.


Changes:
       My perspective is neutral about media violence and video games because in the article the boy, Micheal's issue was preventable because its was the games that contributed to his thinking but his mind was set on what he did. In result hiss parents/ guardians should always reminded him of what reality is and does.