Fix The Shading On The Children's Faces!

i think it is just plain stupidity for someone to tell an artist to change the color of the child's face. it is up to the artists preference and the artist is taking into considereation of trying to find an inbetween that would represent children. i agree with Jackie when she says that you cannot change the color of the skin you were born with. what kind of message will this send to the children? that its wrong to be a darker color than some of the other people? they are going to start thinking badly of themselves and others who share the same skin tone as them. it is not fair for them to be treated like that even if its not directly, it is sending the absolute wrong message to them and they will carry on that message to others. its just a vicious cycle to keep racism going instead of trying to help iliminate it.

We Cannot Chuse But Hear

to me this sums up the oil spill exactly! gallons upon gallons of oil are spilling out each and everyday going into the 59 day into the oil spill crisis. it is unmeasurable how much we have damaged marine life, everyday there are news stories of birds and other sea creatures coated in oil so thick you can hardly make out what species they are. i know that the president has gone above and beyond what he can do for the situation but i honestly think BP has not worked hard enough to try to permanently fix the issue. instead of just killing it completely they were looking for ways to cap it but still get oil out of the spill. how can they possibly still think of wanting to get oil out of the situation when thousands are being affected and animals are losing their lives. the seafood industry is losing thousands of dollars everyday because they cannot get seafood that is unaffected by the oil spill. i think BP is going to end up going bankrupt and will no longer be in this country after this incident.

Quiz10

Quiz9

HB2281

i think that people should be allowed to freely express their culture and pass it on for future generations without the fear of always being targeted not only by everyday people but by governemnt and law officials. culutre and languages is what makes poeple unique from the rest; they dont always follow things exactly the same and they have different customs. taking that away from a person is like stripping them of their identity and forces them to be just like everyone else; where no one is different. this is supposedly a free country, we should not have to limit our culture practices just because it is "out of the ordinary" or different from what others, especially law and government officials, see as what is right and what is wrong. they are there to enforce laws not to judge others or condem them based on the languages they speak or the culture they have.

Si M Mourii, Ou Pral Mouri!

I agree completely! instead of investing millions of dollars for things like off shore drilling and such that, as we can clearly see, is absolutely dangrous to the environment and the health of not only the animals but the people as well. we should be figuring out ways to convert or massive landfills overflowing with waste into an alternative fuel. we could never possibly run out of waste and it would help us to eliminate or at least condense the landfills by significant amounts. if there are people who know how to do this then we should be going to them to see how they are doing it so that we can benefit from it as well. this is to protect and save our future!

Reflection Paper16

I understand intersexuality to be a person who has the mixed characteristics of a female and a male. Transsexuality is when, for example, a woman who is physically female feels that she is not a woman, or “thinks like a man.” The study of these topics has been useful to me because it makes me more sensitive to people who are like either of those cases. I personally do not have any problem with people who are intersexual or transsexual I think it is rather remarkable. I had heard of both situations but I did not know of the full details of them both but now I am more informed and have become rather fascinated by these topics. I would imagine that with both cases the people with those issues are bothered by them because maybe someone said something to them or they think it is wrong. They also are made fun of by their peers and sometimes even family members. In no way do they have it easy some of them can’t even tell you for sure whether they are a man or woman because they don’t feel like either of them or they are confused as to what to say. Transsexuals are ridiculed more than intersexual people because they cannot hide or cover up how they feel. For the women people just see it as being a tomboy but for the men I think it’s much tougher on them because in a “man’s” society looking or acting like a girl is degrading. They are called multiple names and pranks are played mercilessly on them just because they express how they feel. Intersexual people have a harder time finding a partner because of their issues, they too are ridiculed by those who find out and are verbally attacked because of something they cannot help, in both cases of intersexual and transsexual. It makes them think that there is something wrong with them like they are warped and possibly even monsters. I think that women are more understanding of both issues then men because women do not have the type of standards that men do; the “man code” as they call it. I think that it causes trauma to either party and creates depression and possibly even psychological problems for them.