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. 

Facebook trouble?

In this article called "Facebook is using you" the author Lori Andrews talked about how Facebook is making money by advertising and that how people can look up what you do on the Internet and judge you by it. They talk about how you would get denied for something for the wrong thing you put on the Internet and what you talk about. You put a lot of personal information of yourself on the Internet and colleges, jobs and the IRS could deny you. The people you look you up are called "data aggregators". The article says "If I've googles "diabetes" for a friend or "date rape drugs" for a mystery story I'm writing, data aggregators assume those searchers reflect my own health and lifestyle.

I think that it is bad for people to look you up on the Internet and see what you are talking about. If you look up the wrong thing you could be denied of something and it could effect your life dramatically. After reading this i am more concerned about what i put online because if i write something weird it can affect me later in life, colleges might not accept me and jobs might not hire me. I think the main point of this article is that she wants to inform readers how people can search you u and how the Internet and what you look up can affect you. Also to tell you how you should use Facebook and other social networks carefully and be careful what you searched up.

back together.

Chris brown and Rihanna had a huge incident in 2008. Chris brown beat Rihanna in the car that day. After the incident Rihanna filed a restraining order against chris brown the same year. The news was filled with this news and everybody was so astonished that chris brown would do this.

Last year 2011, The restraining order was lifted and they called it off. Rihanna posted on twitter and asked her followers who should she have on her song "Birthday Cake", since the song was a half song. People said they want Chris Brown and it was done. Chris brown featured on the Birthday Cake remix song. After they declared that chris brown will be on the remix there were instant rumors that the old couple would get back together.

i think theres nothing wrong with them getting back together. if they can get over it, people should be able to get over it. There is no for sure answer if they are going to get back together so why is everyone even so hyped up about it. They just made 2 songs together and are now friends. They were at her birthday party and Hollywood Life said "At RiRi’s birthday party, it was pretty clear that she wanted Chris. 'Rihanna and Chris were very much together,' shares a witness. They arrived together around 1 am, and Chris stood by Rihanna as she cut into her birthday cake."

Criminal

In this article Michelle Alexander states that everyone is a criminal and that people who actually got caught commiting a crime get treated a different way than people who didn't get caught. She says "If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citizenship to those branded felons." She that people who are labeled as criminals get treated bad and can't get their full rights back. Some can't vote, get jobs or even get in college. She gives an example and says that Obama admitted that he did illegal drugs in the past and isn't judged as a criminal because he hasn't went to jail for it but others are judged as a criminal because they got caught for it.

I think that she is right, people should have rights to do things after they get out of jail but i think it should be determined on what they did and how severe there crime was. For example if you still a shirt or maybe even driving drunk and you get caught they will send you to jail and judge you as a criminal and you maybe will not get your rights back but you should. As to if you rob a bank or kill someone you  should get some of your rights taken from you and should be labeled as a criminal. There are people who still candy from a store and there are people who robbed a bank and still get away with it, they are still criminals because what they did was against the law. There should be a scale or way to take the amount of rights from someone for the certain crime they did.

Photoshop.

This article is about how some celebrities photoshop themselves to make them look skinny and better looking then they actually are. Photoshop can take away pimples off your face and even make you skinny. It can change your appearance in amazing ways. Photoshop can make a unappealing person look gorgeous.  Dr. Farid and Eric Kee are proposing a software tool that will measure how much the photo have been altered or touched by photoshop, They are making the scale 1 to 5.

I think that altering a photo to make it look like women are perfect will definitely make other women self-esteem low, ex specially teenagers. If a teen looks at a picture of there role model or a picture of an actress that gets a lot of attention they would want to be like them and look like them. If the person there looking at in the picture looks flawless and super skinny the teenager would think their fat and would probably starve their selves or throw up. Teenager girls are very insecure and they want to look like girls that get a lot of attention so they would do whatever they can to reach that goal. If the actress they are looking at isn't even that skinny in person why would you want a child to think their fat or not appealing.

I think altered images should be labeled that it was altered in the magazines because teenagers would get depressed and insecure about themselves so if they know that the picture isn't real, they wouldn't really care.