Trayvon Martin

On February 26, 2012 a 17 year old black male died in Florida which caused so much diversity in America. Trayvon Martin was walking home from the store one day with nothing but a bag of skittles and a bottle of ice tea. He was just going home to his father and that's when George Michael Zimmerman shot Martin and ended his life. Zimmerman is a Hispanic man that followed Martin saying he felt "threatened". Zimmerman is apart of a Neighborhood watch so he is liscened to have a gun. Martin was on the phone during the night he was walking back home, he was talking to his girlfriend. Martin had a hoodie on and people think that was the cause that he had got shot that night. Police say that they cannot arrest Zimmerman because they do not have enough evidence that it was not self defense. Both Martin and Zimmerman called the police that night and when they arrived the 17 year old boy was dead laying on the floor with only skittles and ice tea, with a bullet in his chest.

I think that this is so outrageous that this young man is dead. He did not deserve it all. Martin was unarmed and he is only a teenager, how is he suppose to harm a grown man and succeed with it? It is such a shame that this grown man can shoot an innocent teenager and not be sent to jail. People have been reporting this as a racial issue. Even though Zimmerman is a hispanic male he has traits of a white male and this is probably making him safe and not going to jail. If it were Martin alive right now and Zimmerman dead, Martin would be guilty until proven innocent but it is vice versa for Zimmerman. Some people say that because of his hoodie he had gotten shot because "thugs" were hoodies on their heads but as I learn more about it in research it was raining that night and if it is raining why wouldn't you make a quick run to the store with a hoodie? This is just another proven case that their is still racism out in America.

I hope the best for martin's family and i strongly hope that Zimmerman gets what he deserves which is to be in jail for manslaughter. RIP Trayvon Martin.

most births outside marriage

The article writen by Jason Deparle and Sabrina Tavernise is talking about how people have children without being married. Most women are having children before they are married. This is affecting the children that are born outside marriage in a bad way. The article says that usually people have children after they are married but now people are having children without being married. According to "The shift is affecting children's lives. Researchers have consistently found that children born outside marriage face elevated risks of falling into poverty, failing in school or suffering emotional and behavioral problems."

I think that you should get married before you have children because it is tradition. If you are married your child might come out better because they will have both their parents. When you are not married i think you are less committed and you will break up faster but if you are you will work things out because you are married with your partner. It would be better for the child to grow up living in the same house with their mother and father. I think people are not getting married before children because they are scared of commitment and scared of falling in love and getting married. I think i will get married before having a child unless it was an accident i would never abort my baby but i will try to get married while a the baby.

kony 2012

There is video that is getting millions of views on youtube about a guy named Joseph Kony. Kony is a man who takes children from there home and use them as sex slaves and force them to be a soldier and go into war. He also forces them to do labor. The video was about how to try to tell people about Kony and what he was doing. The United States now put a stop to this and they have captured Kony. Kony has been active since 2003 and people never knew about it until now. King5.com said "Kony is Joseph Kony, a mad warlord who's been leading a rebel army fighting the Ugandan government for decades. " Kony was on the top of the list for united states for them to capture him. He has killed millions of kids and put them through to much that a kid should not be going through.


I think this is bad. I watched the video and it was a very sad thing to watch. When the little boy cried about how he lost his brother i felt sad for him and all the other little kids that lost their family because of Kony. I don't understand why someone would want to do this to children. I am glad that Kony is arrested and he isn't doing what he was doing anymore. I think people should now raise awareness of what he was doing because it's said that the world didn't know about it till he is now captured.