Heath Fair !!!

At Parkway West, we had a heath fair for the 9th and 10th graders. The people that were there gave out things that we could use to protect ourselves. They gave us condoms, lubrication, fruits, first aid kits, and also brochures for us to read so we can find out things about staying healthy, STD, drugs, being a teen parent, HIV, different illnesses, and just other things to keep us protected and safe. The people who were there told us how to stay protected and also about saying no to drugs. They told me that where they work they see a lot of teen mothers, children being taken from their parents, parents running away from their children, and even children being abused by their parents or guardians. Also, we had senior named Mattisse and talked to us about drugs, also he brung a guess speaker he also talked about drugs and how they can kill us. He just spoke about the bad affects of drugs even though it was okay at one time it still doesn't make him good. He said that the decisions you make would always affect you no matter what, and that the choices you make now will decide whether you get a job or not. He also made it clear to make our future the best and try to make it to the top and also don't let bad things get in our way. I have told you about what happened at our school Health Fair.

Women Losing Health Care in Texas

This article is about how health services are not the best, it talks about a clinic that closed in October along with over a dozen others in the state of texas. The financing for their health was cut by two thirds from the Republican-control Legislature. This act left many low-income women even more less of options, the inconvenience and cost is a problem too. Some of the clinics that were not affiliated to close and the ones run by Planned Parenthood said they were motivated by the fight against abortion. also, it is likely another shutdown will happen with the Medicine Women's Health Program. This clinic serves 130,000 women.  I think it's a bad thing that the clinics are getting shut down because of those reasons. There are a lot of women, young women at that are getting pregnant and they need the health care that they deserve. This should be somemthing that is changed, its putting a lot of people in a bad situation. Clinics should be always open for young women, because if they are not open there are going to be a lot of health problems. Health problems would be a major problem. If there is a stop towards these clinics not opening that would be much better. It would be much better because there would be less and less abortion problems in the world for women all ages or maybe not. I think that the closing of the clinics will get handled in a better way. This is what I think about women losing health care in Texas. 

Stop Kony

Stop Kony !!! This article is about a man named Joseph Kony in Uganda, Africa who has been abducting children and raping them. When Joseph Kony abducts the children he supplies them with weapons to kill their parents and other people. He has thousands of children in his army. Many kids cannot sleep at night because they're frighted by the fact they might get abducted. With this video they are trying to make it go viral, and basically make Joseph Kony famous. The mission in this video is to arrest him, and stop his wrong doings. In this video there was a boy Jacob who was a part of Kony's army, but he eventually escaped. Jacob was crying in the video because his brother was killed by rebels. Now Jacob has finally made it to the U.S, and is safe from the rebels. Now the only thing is to capture Kony, and the only way to do so is to make everyone know about him by spreading him around. At first Jason Russell had proposed the idea of capturing Kony to the people in the white house, but he was rejected because Africa had nothing to do with the United States of America. After he failed the first time he tried again, and that was when Barrack Obama agreed to help capture him. Obama sent some troops alongside with the Ugandan troops out in Africa. Until now Kony has not yet been found, but there is speculation that he is no longer in Uganda because he is aware of the search being done; He has fled to another country in Africa.

Dirt Bike Tradegy

Jermaine Alexander was killed when his dirt bike collided with another vehicle on Frankford Ave. His mother thinks he died because the police were chasing him. Jermaine’s mother is very angry about how the cops were chasing after her kid, but there are other kids out there doing things that are worse than what her child was doing. The captain of the 25^th district says that when he goes to meetings the number one complaint is the noise of dirbikes. I think dirt bikes are very dangerous. They will always be very dangerous. He shouldn’t have been riding it in the street. If he was never riding it in the street he would have never got hit and he would probably still be alive today. There are public field where he can go and ride around. Somewhere safe, somewhere he most likely will not collide with another vehicle. If he was riding in a field, the cops would not have to chase him. People are still going to ride the dirt bikes, even if it is illegal. They just don’t care. This incident should be an example to what could happen to other people who ride dirt bikes where they are not suppose to be ridden. Also, if they know that the people are not going to stop, they should give them a place where they can come in and ride dirt bikes without having to worry about getting run down by the cops, instead of taking them from people and auctioning them.This is what I think about the killing of Jermaine Alexander.

Taryvon Martin

Justice needs to be served !" is what you hear in the streets and on tv. A boy named Trayvon Martin was killed for no reason at all. Trayvon is the most talked about right now in the news. People have had walks to get justice for Trayvon Martin downtown. The police are not arresting Trayvon's killer and the parents are outraged and so are people. Heres his story, Trayvon was walking home from the store he had bought a bag of skittles and a arizona. Well While he was on his way home a man followed him and killed him. Trayvon's shooting took place on February 26, 2012. A 28 year old man names George Zimmeman killed Trayvon and he is latin american and white. Trayvon had been walking to his dads girlfriends house from 7eleven when he was being followed by George  Zimmerman. Zimmerman called the police before he shot Martin sying he witnessed some suspicious behavior. Soon after that he shot Martin. George Zimmerman said he had reacted in self defense. The police did not arrest George Zimmerman because they said on March 12 that they did not find evidence to contradict his assertion of self-defense.The circumstances of Martin's death reached national and international news. Many people, from civil rights leaders to public officials including Reverend Al Sharpton, President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi have made public comments or released statements about the shooting. People said he ws just on his way home and the man shot Trayvon just because they were racist. I beleive that racism still occurs today and others don't. But that's only because people don't bring racism to a front police try to sweep it under the rug. I  believe that if this was a white boy and a black man who had killed them that the man would have been arrested. Now that can't happen because George Zimmerman is in hiding. And if they do try to arrest him they would have to find him first. Many people believe that he should be arrested beacuse killing is a true crime, and it wasn't for self defense, he did it because he says he was looking suspicious. This is my opinion about the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Im a Criminal and So Are You

This article is about how people who are felons are discriminated against because they got caught breaking the law. Michelle Alexander believes that this isn't fair. I agree with her. She says that if you are a felony in this country then they can deny you of some of your rights. They can deny you of your right to vote, automatically, employment,housing, education, public benefits, and food stamps. I Michelle also says that just because you weren't caught breaking the law doesn't mean that your not a criminal you still are. I agree with her about how its not right to take away criminals rights but only to a certain extent i think that if you were accused of killing, robbing, assault or any violent crimes then you maybe you should get some of your rights taken away but if you where convicted of a crime like smoking weed, or something than small then they should still have their rights because people can change especially if they got convicted in an early age for something. If the person really wants to change and they cant better their education or get a better job or something what are they supposed to do. They will probably most likely continue with the things that got them in trouble in the first place, but only because they don't have anything positive that they can do. Like for instance if a man gets convicted for something and he gets out. He will want to provide for his family but her may not be able to because the law says that he has been restricted o his rights that is really not fair and it should not be so. If everyone was to have their rights tooken because they have done a crime then the U.S would not get anywhere because somebody, once,twice, or even more has broken the law and people will continue doing it. So I agree with Michelle in the point that she was trying to make.

Photoshop or Not ?

 Photoshop is really big these days. When photo shopping a photo of someone you can take 10-20 pounds off of them, make them a couple of inches taller, take the wrinkles off or maybe a pimple. Also the article stated that photo shop is not good because teenagers try to look like a model or celebrity that is skinny and trying to become skinny. But the person advertising it is not really that size. I really don’t think photo shopping is really that necessary. You need to be yourself for the first time and not someone you’re not and that you want to be. If you really want to look like that try it yourself instead of depending on the Adobe Photoshop software all the time. See us normal people do not have that type of stuff. We try to work out ourselves and succeed to what we want to be. I feel as though this article is true and I really agree with it a lot. That is basically cheating from my point of view. Wouldn’t models and celebrities want to be role models to us young children and teenagers? So why do they go out and get photo shopped and not show they true colors. I wonder do they ever feel bad or have a guilty conscious. This happened in the article and what I think about the article.