Unfortunate Farewell!

   Well the time has come for this semester to end, and although I am happy that this is one semester down, I am not happy to be leaving this class. I have truly enjoyed all the time that I spent in this classroom. From all my classmate's being kind, to you, Natasha, who was always willing to help, and always knew how to make the class fun and how to actually have a point to each lesson. With the time we had to do our essays and reviews, it was much easier to stay calm and attempt to get a better grade without stressing. I came into this class expecting it to be endless amount of pointless writing that would show me nothing that I need. But it was the complete opposite, it showed me exactly what I do need.  
   I learned that to wright about something you need to put everything you have into it, you need to believe yourself an go from that. I also learned how to use numerous forms of writings to make my point about something, or to show how I felt about something in my own perspective. I feel that I am now a more educated writer after taking this course, and that it has set me up for success in my future English classes. I wouldn't recommend that you do anything different as a professor. I think you do everything right, you know what gets the students talking and what interests them. Your blogs, and essays always revolve around us as students and something that truly either means something to us, or is making a difference.
   The expectations I had for myself, as well as for you as my teacher, were over achieved. I learned far more then I thought I would in my first college English class, and was able to retain a lot of useful information for the future. As far as you, as my professor go, you passed my expectations. The first day I thought you were going to be extremely mean and that this class was going to be horrifying, but that quickly changed. I think it is safe to say that throughout all my years of school, you have been my favorite English teacher.

Joe Paterno!

   There are many different views on this issue, and I myself am on the edge about it. Sandusky defiantly deserves to go to jail for a long time, then maybe he will understand how if feels to be on the other side of  a rape crime. I however don't think that he should get lethal injection because then his life would just come to an end, I think he needs to suffer for a very long time. As far as Paterno goes, I am not quite sure what should be done.
   When Paterno was told about the incident with Sandusky and the young 10 year old boy, he went to who was above him with the issue. That was the right thing to do, however when nothing was done he didn't make sure that the issue was heard about. This is the issue many people are having with Paterno, that he did not see to it that some charges where put on Sandusky. Like I said I am in between the fences because I think he was both right and wrong. Yes, I agree with him 100% on telling the person above him, but I dont agree that he did not go furthur with the issue when nothing was done. Like you said, there is a law that may possibly be passed soon, which I think should be passed because it is very wrong that many people knew about this and said nothing. Paterno should have lost his job because he should have said something to authorities, however he should not be getting all the heat (although his is Penn States legendary coach). The people in charge at Penn State need to see to it that everyone that was involved, or knew about this, gets fired. However, Paterno never even saw the act first hand, he heard it from someone else, so maybe his job should have stayed in place? Like I said I'm on the fence. If they do not fire all the people involved, then this would be horribly wrong, being that Paterno would be the only one to get fired, when he probably did more about the issue than some other, such as McQuery, who saw the act first hand. This law needs to be in place so that issues like these will, hopefully, not arise in the future.

Sexting!

     I really don't think that kids really quite understand what they are getting themselves into when they click the send button on there cool touch-screen phones. They don't think about what the consequences could be by sending the vulgar image they have on their screen to all their friends. Parents can enforce more and more what their moral standards are, but the truth is that if the kids don't want to follow those standards; they are not going to. Everyone has their own mind, that is why we are distinguished as individuals. What may seem wrong to one person may not be to another. Parents may often feel they are to blame if their kid gets caught sexting, or doing something else that is wrong. This is very sad because half of the time parents are not to blame, and it is heart-wrenching to see them take the blame. I believe that kids just do things by impulse and excitement, not in an attempt to do something illegal and break heavy consequent laws. The laws that have been set to play I believe are very reasonable and appropriate. They need to be in place so that kids will begin to realize that there are consequences to their actions. I believe one of the biggest factors in sexting would have to be technology. Now a days you can do pretty much anything just from your phone without others knowing about it. This is the problem at times with the sending of inappropriate images. Kids send pictures to each other thinking that know one else will get a hold of them. The government alone can pull up all the text messages and activity that you do on your phone. Another major issue with the technology is that you can send things to anyone, which is often where kids are getting many of their charges. They receive an image then send it to 10 other people. Then, they are not only able to get charged with having child pornography but they can also be charged with distributing it to other. Charges do add up. Eventually, with these new laws in place I believe the crime in this field will decrease, however, there will always be those few that just don't get it. These crimes would also greatly decrease if image sending was removed from cell phones, that would be the best solution, i think. I do feel that technology is the issue with sexting.

Would You Abandon Your Child?

   The idea of a mother killing her newly born son, or old son, is sickening to me. I just don't understand how you can kill something that is yours just like that. There has to be something wrong in that girl from the videos brain, nobody in their right mind can kill there baby in a dumpster and stuff them in a gym bag. Although I don't believe that Safe Havens Law in States, which I didn't know existed, are a great concept. Simply due to the fact that they give those irresponsible mothers a means of disposing there children, "the right way". There is no way to get rid of your child, "the right way", you had it, now deal with it. Many people probably do kill there children, hundreds of thousand of people, and nobody will ever know how many do. One reason may be due to the fact that they are unaware of the Safe Haven Law, although it is not likely. Speaking for myself I had no idea about these laws, or how they work in Florida. I do think that a possible reason they do not have so much attention to them is because they would, without a doubt, have an overcrowded line of mothers waiting in line just to give their kids away. With this line, people would quickly find out all about this law, if they didn't know about it before, and start a boycott the size of the Martin Luther King Jr March back in the day. I can bet money that at least 3/4 of the mothers in that line would have a smile from ear to ear, just knowing that their problems are going to all fade away at the simple end of the line they are in. I think that if you honestly could not take care of your child, that you decided to have either knowing or unknowingly, the best way to go is adoption rather then abortion, murder, or even this Safe Haven Law. This is a way different form of giving your child away, then giving it to the State. With an adoption the mothers are getting rid of their problems but are helping others at the same time. There are thousands, maybe millions, of adults out there that are unable to have children so they try to adopt a child. At least here, the horrible concept of giving your child away, although I am sure these mothers don't care, would go to the good for someone else. These Safe Havens are in my opinion a good final option to have for some mothers, I just don't think it would ever be my option. What these mother's really need to learn how to do is get some birth control and use a condom.

Blog Response #1

  Having my thoughts read by everyone does seem kind of strange. Wondering what people are thinking as they  read every word I type. Are they thinking I'm crazy? Weird? I just don't know what they are thinking and that does make me a little uneasy. But for me to completely block everyone else except you out of my blogs with a security option just wouldn't make me feel so much better either. What could it possibly be that I would not want everyone else to hear? What's the point of trying to get a point across if your just gonna block everyone out. For that, you might as well just save your fingers the soreness from typing an just keep your thoughts in your head. Blocking my blogs will just prove that I'm hiding my true self and don't want others to know the real me when they read what I truly have to say. For me its not like that. Although I may be a bit unsure about the whole concept, I enjoy being myself. Showing the world, not just you, all the crazy, stupid, often strange things that I have going on in my mind because, honestly, it just doesn't bother me what other people think. I am who I am and just as quickly as I can click for others not to see my blogs with a security option, they can click the backspace and not waste their time on my personal thoughts.