How does this text make you think about justice in the world?
This article is about teen offenders being tried as adults. One teenager, 17, took his own life because he was tried as an adult in a drunken manslaughter. This helped the juvenile justice experts in their decision to help these unsuspecting teens. States all over the country are not taking such drastic measures and are ensuring that teenage offenders do not get sentences like adults. This makes me think that justice is not always fair and can be unreasonable.
Juvenile justice experts say, according to the article, that teenagers' minds are not fully developed. So even if they commit a crime when they are a teen, it doesn't mean they will become a criminal when they become an adult. So it's not fair that they are locked up with murderers and cold criminals. This information stopped the government from sentencing teens to adult sentences to scare them off the streets. This happened 20 years ago, since then people are trying to keep juvenile offenders in the juvenile system.
But some people don't agree with all these ways to keep teens out of prison. Some people think that its not fair to the victims of these crimes to let their killer or offender off so easily. People are worried that teenage offenders will start getting off to easy and keep doing crime.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
What's the Deal With Iran? By Patricia Smith
What really hard things are happening in this text? Are they happening in the world now? Where?
Iran and the U.S. have been rivals since 1953, we have been trying to find a way to make peace between us. The U.S. thinks that Iran has plans to fire nukes, and that is not good. Iran and the U.S. are trying to make treaties and agreements so that doesn't happen. Some people think that this is a bad idea while others support the peacemaking. Young adults from Iran want freedom like the ones in the U.S., so they support this.
Iran has a problem with the economy that's making living hard. The U.S. put economic sanctions, rules made on another country's economy, on Iran. I guess this is another why Iranian young adults want to go to American. They did this because of the nuclear problems they were having with Iran. I guess they did this for leverage on them or something along those lines.
This article is happening right now, its about a deal on nukes between Iran and U.S. America thinks that Iran is planning a nuke attack on us and they want to prevent it. The deal is that the U.S. will ease the economic sanctions if Iran pauses their nuclear program for six months. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu does not agree with the deal and called it "a historic mistake." While others such as Asal Khalilpour, think its a miracle. He said "After i read the comments saying a deal was made, tears started rolling down my cheeks in happiness."
Iran and the U.S. have been rivals since 1953, we have been trying to find a way to make peace between us. The U.S. thinks that Iran has plans to fire nukes, and that is not good. Iran and the U.S. are trying to make treaties and agreements so that doesn't happen. Some people think that this is a bad idea while others support the peacemaking. Young adults from Iran want freedom like the ones in the U.S., so they support this.
Iran has a problem with the economy that's making living hard. The U.S. put economic sanctions, rules made on another country's economy, on Iran. I guess this is another why Iranian young adults want to go to American. They did this because of the nuclear problems they were having with Iran. I guess they did this for leverage on them or something along those lines.
This article is happening right now, its about a deal on nukes between Iran and U.S. America thinks that Iran is planning a nuke attack on us and they want to prevent it. The deal is that the U.S. will ease the economic sanctions if Iran pauses their nuclear program for six months. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu does not agree with the deal and called it "a historic mistake." While others such as Asal Khalilpour, think its a miracle. He said "After i read the comments saying a deal was made, tears started rolling down my cheeks in happiness."
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Blue by Rachel Duke
Who has power in your text? How does that power get shown?
In the story "Blue" by Rachel Duke, a blue blop, named Lulu is bullied because of her color. Basically Lulu is able to accept herself the way she is. The other blops realize that they were being mean and unfair to Lulu. Then they all make after Lulu vents in her head and forgives them.
At the beginning to the middle, the other blops have the power. They bully Lulu, screaming at her and ignoring her.They don't allow her to play with them just because she is blue. They basically control what she can and cannot do. But that changes toward the end of the book.
At the end of the book, when Lulu tried becoming like them , she realized that she doesn't look like herself. So she starts to accept herself the way she is, and shes blue. The other blops confront her angrily saying she never asked to be one of them, but Lulu lets them know she didn't like being bullied. When the other blops think it over, they realized she was right so they apologized to her in hopes for her forgiveness. She thinks about it and agrees, so now none of them have power of each other, they are all equal.
In the story "Blue" by Rachel Duke, a blue blop, named Lulu is bullied because of her color. Basically Lulu is able to accept herself the way she is. The other blops realize that they were being mean and unfair to Lulu. Then they all make after Lulu vents in her head and forgives them.
At the beginning to the middle, the other blops have the power. They bully Lulu, screaming at her and ignoring her.They don't allow her to play with them just because she is blue. They basically control what she can and cannot do. But that changes toward the end of the book.
At the end of the book, when Lulu tried becoming like them , she realized that she doesn't look like herself. So she starts to accept herself the way she is, and shes blue. The other blops confront her angrily saying she never asked to be one of them, but Lulu lets them know she didn't like being bullied. When the other blops think it over, they realized she was right so they apologized to her in hopes for her forgiveness. She thinks about it and agrees, so now none of them have power of each other, they are all equal.
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