Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Stripped of More than My Clothes
Daria MonDesire says when she was strip-search that they stripped more than her clothes, because she felt the reason why they did it was not good enough for her. She stated that two times in her life where she had to remove her clothes against her will, one was when she was raped and the other was when U.S. Customs Service strip-searched her. Customs Service stated that she was wearing "bulky clothes" whe she stated her bulky clothes included a blackless sundress and sandals. She was forced to remove her underwear when she felt ther was not a vaild reason for it. She then states how over 50 plus thousand of people searched at their international airport 96% of them had no drugs or contraband on them. This is odd to me, only because of the high number of no drugs found with so many people checked. Then she feels thats its a race reason why she was checked. Saying how this is not the only time she has felt this way, when several years ago she was the only person checked and was the only afro-american on the plane. She then say if the airlines want to find drugs then they should check Martha Steward, members of congress, Ivanna Trump. I think she feels discriminated and is frustrated and from reading this essay she has a reason too.
Monday, March 24, 2008
TV Isnt Violent Enough
The author of this essay I believe is tired of the how TV does not depict viloence the way he feels it should be shown. He talks about how predictable the TV shows are. How the killer always gets away and how they unrealictly kills someone like instantly with a knife. He says how several minutes of strenuous work are required to cut enough blood vessels so the victum bleeds to death. I think this guy has a point but its TV for a reason. People want to see violence but it can't be to the point where its too much gore in it. Manily to meet current TV standards, there are numerous of guidelines that must be meet in-order to have it on TV, especially highly respected cable networks.(CBS,NBC,FOX etc.)He tries to make the point the TV viloence isn't violent enough by saying that "children can't learn to enjoy cruelty from the neat, sanitized mayhem on the average series. There's isn't any!". He doesnt state anything that backs up his claim. Mike Oppenheim wants TV to be ten times worse than it is, which is crazy if you ask me. I mean come on its TV for Gods sake
Thursday, March 6, 2008
What Limits Should Campus Networks Place On Pornography?
I think that campus is no place for porn. If an university allows for porn then that universities doesnt have high standards. This gives pervs the chance to look at child porn during the time their at the university teaching that doesnt make any sense. Then it says that new rules would allow those ti view porn if they get expressed permission from the university president. Viewing porn in any learning environment should be illegal anyways. The essay tries to make the point that not allowing one to view porn would be violation of the first amendment. Viewing porn puts the universities computers at risk for viruses. There shoud be only one limit on viewing porn in learning environment and thats you can not do it.
Bring Me Home A Black Girl
In this story Edwards states that blacks make their children marry other blacks. As stated in the story Edwards interviewed a black family and the kids said that they were "definitely not to marry" any white girls. This is something that i have a big isssue with. I have had a couple of white girlfriends and if my mother would have installed in my brain not to do so then maybe i would have not. But my parnets did no such thing. This is so wrong its unbelievable. But i do see the other side of this argument. Families want to keep their culture. So they do not beleive in marrying outside their race. I think you can still keep the same cultures and if not so what, a parent should never teach their child not to marry someine if a different race thats racism in my eyes. The story also states one reason why people want to stay with the same race marriges is so that the religion and shared vaules can be the same and again i think that they can still be the same.
Who's White ? Who's Hispanic? Who Cares?
I think Jecoby is trying to prove that race is not that important. I ask myself why do we put people into races, like he said in the essay, "hispanics, in other words come in all colors-just like catholics, or veterans, or the elderly". We are all one race, and thats human. Sure on the outside we may seem different but in reality we are much more alike. He stated that is was strang to think that Irish or russian immigrants were once deem "nonwhite". I'm really not sure when Jecoby presented all the stats from the Census Bureau what point he was trying to make. I think he was just stating that "hispanic" can be in any "race". Overall i think Jecoby makes some strong points stating that race is not important because we all just use it as a personal choice.