Thanksgiving

       It’s that time of year again where we all sit around our table filled to the brim with food and family around every turn and we say what it is we are most thankful for. This year I am thankful for the pilgrims who traveled long and far across the ocean and landed their great ship upon the shores of freedom, to escape prosecution from the Catholics of their native land.  Once they were here they decided to spread their freedom to the native savages that did not know any better. In this wonderful time of giving they gave many blankets to these people in hopes that the small pox that was laced in every stich would kill off the Indians. Then after their wonderful gifts of a warm death they took all of the food the Indians had saved for the long winter. Once the food was safely in their bellies they then caringly bought the land from the small pox infested Indians, but soon they couldn’t pay their rent, because they were too sick. The wonderful Pilgrims told them to either get out or find the money. The Native Americans couldn’t sell enough cookie dough so they were forced to find a new home. Once they had traveled far and long and thought that they had escaped the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims kill them anyways.  

            I am proud to be an American so I may celebrate this wonderful holiday with all different types of people. I also enjoy Thanksgiving because every year it gives me great present ideas for Christmas.

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The Death penalty has no room for error; once it has been acted on there is no going back. The system does an okay job at making sure that there is not arbitrariness by making sure that the guilty phase and punishment phase are done as two separate trials. I do not think this is enough, in my opinion no one should be tried for capital punishment unless they plead guilty. If someone dose plead guilty then I believe the best way to execute them is with one bullet in the middle of the forehead so that the moment the bullet connects with the human they are already dead and can not feel anything. I do not like any of the ways they execute people because I do not feel like it is human enough (except for lethal injection which is very expensive).

Bogges. dead or alive.

Clifford Bogges had to be executed for his own well being. I believe in determining whether or not Bogges should have been executed for the murder of two elderly men, his intentions mean everything.  Bogges claims that in killing the men he had done it for the cash and that he had no other choice. If I was going to kill someone for cash I would hold up a store and clean out their registers, not kill someone. Killing someone would be the last thing on my list of robberies. I believe that although Bogges was a very talented artist he was also a very confused man who had only one intention, to kill. When Bogges is killing it felt natural to him, he didn’t do it out of rage or anger when he killed the old men he took his time and did it carefully to make sure they were dead. He is a very talented actor but he was caught and nothing in my mind tells me otherwise that if he was not stopped when he was more people would have been killed. When Bogges was caught he basically gave himself up, which leads me to believe that he, has killed more than twice, but did not let the truth out about his hobbies until he became comfortable with it. A person like Bogges will never change it just comes natural. Some gay people claim to be changed for good by the church and claim to be straight after sexual rehab. Although these people might have been changed, they are still gay. Bogges claimed to be changed but some people just can’t change who they are, he was still a killer it’s in his DNA.  The simple solution? Bogges had to be killed because he was a murderer, not because of the family. There is no room for emotion in a court room. The family will just have to get over it, like they would have to get over any other death in a family.

Where is the line between harassment and having a thick skin?

On September 22, 2010 Rutgers student Tyler Clementi posted on his Facebook "Jumping off the GW bridge sorry." This was posted 3 days after Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei placed a camera in Clementi's room and live streamed a recording online of Clementi having supposedly gay sex in his dorm room. Both Ravi and Wei have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy after allegedly telling all of Clementi’s online friends to watch the video.  “Under New Jersey's invasion-of-privacy statutes, it is a fourth degree crime to collect or view images depicting nudity or sexual contact involving another individual without that person's consent, and it is a third degree crime to transmit or distribute such images. The penalty for conviction of a third degree offense can include a prison term of up to five years.”  Aaron Katasky wrote. With the internet and technology at its highest peak in the 21^st century spreading information can take only a matter of seconds, and destroy someone’s life even faster.

In my opinion Tyler Clementi over reacted to a minor situation, although it seems as if this whole future is ruined because his potential bosses might see these videos, his chances of landing a successful job were still very high. He should have confronted his roommate as he posted the videos, and settled it at that moment. I don’t think bullying is a major issue, especially not at my high school. If someone is getting bullied in my mind they probably deserved it; if they didn’t deserve it then they need to stick up for themselves and break some noses. The only way to get a bully off your back is to get onto his, and if there is a large size difference…well the solution is simple. Get bigger friends.