Tayvon Martin

Recently there has been news about this African American boy, Tayvon Martin. He is a Young boy was killed by a man named George Zimmerman. They say that Trayvon was walking home from the store, when George claimed he was suspicious, just because he had a hood on. They also say that George shot him because he was black. Somethings are crazy, people are still getting harmed because of their race. several people in that area called into the police to tell what's going on. They could hear Tayvon screaming help in the back round of the call. The police still didn't arrest Zimmerman for what he did. This makes me sad because even though this man shot and killed someone who was unarmed, saying it was self defense did not get arrested yet. Someone who had done something minor would get arrested on the spot, but this is a huge situation and the suspect is still out living free without no consequences. Even if it was self defense, Zimmerman should still get arrested because he shot somebody. I don't even believe it was self defense because on the 911 calls, when he called he was chasing after Tayvon when the officer  on the phone told him to get back in the car and not chase him. He continued to chase after him. The things that happened that day in their neighborhood is crazy. I don't like that Zimmerman can still walk around freely after killing someone that was unarmed, all he had was an arizona iced tea, and Skittles. The man basically killed him because he was black. I thought Racism died out years back, but i guess it's still alive. Zimmerman should be sent to jail for what he did, and should not be able to walk around freely. Like anyone who has done something wrong, he should be sent to jail. Point blank!

PhotoShopped Or not

We read an article about whether models and celebrities photos are photoshopped. Steve Lohr wrote an article saying how models and celebrities have their photos photoshopped. I don't think that they should do that because that make girls who are unconfident females that that's the only way to look. It make females think that if you don't look like the models and celebrities in the pictures, then they don't look pretty. Those pictures may make them feel unconfident. Imagine if all the celebrities kept their pictures the same way that they look in real life, then everybody would feel okay in their own skin. In the article they said, " We are not trying to stop everyone from using it all together, only if a someone's photo is drastically edited."I don't see why people feel the need to photoshop their photo's, your already famous, so what's the need to try to make yourself look better than those who are not. That just makes others have low self esteem. Everyone thinks that the celebrities and models are so perfect, but they're not. they're just like us, they have imperfections too. If those pictures wasn't photoshopped then you could see the imperfections they have. I don't think there should be any photoshopped pictures because it may make a lot of girls insecure. People should just leave their pictures the same. Models always try to make their pictures skinnier than they really are. They are already skinny which makes people feel like that’s the only way they could been a model. Their photoshopped pictures make it worst. 

More Births No Marriages

Lately there has been a lot of births outside marriages. Jason DeParle and Sabrina Tavernise wrote an article about why people don't want to get married before they have kids. According to the article having kids outside of marriage used to be Illegitimacy. Now it seems to be the new thing that everyone is doing they say it is becoming normal. "They said that there has been more that half of births to American women under 30 occur outside of marriage."They basically say that the reason a lot of people refuse to get married is because of the cost and how much it cost. They also said that some people don't get married because some of them already live in the same house together, so it already seems like they are married. They also say that the child may have a bad childhood because they don't have both parents in the same household I honestly don't think that having married parents is better than not having married parents. My parents aren't married and they don't live together. But i still live the same life as other children. I get to see my dad when i want, I can go stay with my mom sometimes also. My parents don't argue like how the article tries to make it seem as they do. Although i don't mind having split up parents I sometimes get tired of moving back and fourth. The best thing about slit up parents is having two houses to go to. The article should have asked some of the children that have split up parents to give them some ideas of how there life is.

Joseph Kony

Have you heard about Joseph Kony and what he's doing lately? Joseph Kony is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Joseph of Kony whose actions of terror held large portion of Uganda hostage for over 20 years. Joseph Kony whose actions of terror caused 2 million to flee their villages and homesteads in the Acholi and Lango areas of Uganda and settle in squalid Internally Displaced People Camps.  Joseph Kony who enslaved 35,000 or more children, kidnapping whole boarding schools under the cover of the night.  Joseph Kony who slashed and burned villages, settlements and even refugee camps, killing, raping, kidnapping and keeping a people under the yoke impending terror.  Joseph Kony whose LRA dismembered, cut off lips, ears, fingers, hands, feet off of the innocent to keep them in fear.  Joseph Kony who impoverished a whole region of Uganda through oppression and intimidation, through sheer terror.  Joseph Kony, who took young women, called them his wives, beat them into submission, raped and impregnated them, scarring them emotionally for life.

Facebook is Using You

We recently read an article in class called "Facebook is Using You".  Law professor Lori Andrews, gathered information saying how people should be careful what they write online. She says that because of the things that you lookup on google or what you type in an email will be used against you some how. She says that most likely if you look up "Loans" on google you may be excluded from certain credit card companies. She also said that what you write in a email to some one may be used against you. The minute you write about how someone as diebetes or some one is sick pop up may start to appear on your computer screen daily. Like an ad for cures for diebetes, will pop up on the side of your computer screen. Facebook also "uses" us to get paid, the things you write in you bio on Facebook like if you write that you like guitars, there will most likely be ads of buying guitars on your computer screen. Its basiclly they use us every time an ad comes up. They get paid when the ads come up on facebook, email or even google.