http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15418659/
crazy crazy article. I got it off of dateline. I noticed that most of the stories that I read aren’t that new. I don’t know why I thought they were. I guess maybe that’s the point of the show? as long as it’s an interesting story?
Anyway, the article is about a student, and a father who was murdered. I won’t reveal who the killer was because it’s a really good story and you all should read it. Most of the stories that I pick are pretty long, I’ve noticed, but they don’t seem that long when you’re reading them, so don’t let the length catch you off guard. So basically, he’s shot to death over a bad marriage and a custody battle. There’s some pretty cruel people in the world. It amazes me, just like all the other current events articles that I’ve gotten that people actually have it in them to commit such horrible murders and things. This particular story talks about one family thinking the father isn’t good news for the daughter, and they want what’s best for her. It’s ironic because as you read on through the story you find out that the mothers actually been questioned by courts in the past and has plotted against the father, etc. Not working out for her in the long run. The father however was doing a really hard long PHD progam at a school in California, as well as driving 70 miles to see his daughter on supervised visits. I guess over all, the mother and family wasn’t particularly good for the little girl after all. Can’t forget the murder on top of everything. Sounds like a real safe environment for a little kid to be in. riiiight. People take things to such extremes, all the time. It’s sad but really you’re never going to stop hearing stories like these about innocent people being murdered, or people getting hurt over stupid little reasons, basically other peoples opinions.
The world is full of crazy people.
Read the article, it’s good. =)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15333880/page/6/
This was the craziest article i’ve read in a while. It’s appauling. The article is pretty long, but I posted the whole thing so people who want to can read it. It really keeps your attention through the entire thing.
The article is about a teenage girl who moves into a small town and meets a couple crazy friends. She doesn’t know that her friends are crazy, and in the end they ultimately kill her. The story itself is just horrifying. The way that the two teenagers handle the murder and what they do to the poor girl is just disgusting. After they kill her, they try to burn her body and then when they realize that they wont be able to, they ask a friend to chop up her body, and he does. The article describes how he does it and what they do with the body later- definitely worth reading.
As I was reading the article, I couldn’t help but cover my mouth and the only thing I could think the entire time was, “oh my god. This poor girl and her poor family.” It’s really, actually pretty scary. I’ve never experienced anything like this, obviously. But I’ve also never experienced such control that Sarah had over these poor teenagers. I can’t imagine letting someone control my life to such extremes. I guess you probably don’t realize it’s happening when it is, though. That’s also pretty scary. It’s nuts to think that someone can have so much control over someone they can talk them into doing such horrifying things. I come from a small town too, and while I was reading the article, I couldn’t help but think of home. I know plenty of people around my town that are bisexual or “bicurious” as the boy calls it, and I know plenty of people who are in crazy, silly, little love triangles. I can’t imagine hearing such a story like this happening around my home town because the two mix.
I can’t even get it through my head how two kids only a little younger then me, or my age even, could do such a thing. I can’t believe that they did such horrible things to her, and her body and then were able to keep it in for days. At the end, it seems as though the kids don’t even have any remorse for what they did. It’s absolutely unbelievable.
Good article, good story if you have a little time. Absolutely unbelievable.
“It amazed me- while I was on the phone with the California Department of Corrections and the Parol Board- how if I spoke with authority and big words, they’d give me the information I wanted. How language was the biggest con of all. “
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“You could tell virtually any lie and if you spoke properly, people didn’t pause to question. In the other language, it didn’t matter what I said because nobody ever looked beyond what my voice said about my social circumstances to try to make out my words.”
This was all one big quote towards the end of Love Letters, I just made it into two because I cut some of it out. This quote really stood out to me because it’s so true, unfortunately. Obviously, I agree 100% that there should be “proper” english, but there are some people in the world who are less fortunate and don’t get the education they need, or arent around people who know how, or even choose to speak properly. I don’t think that society as a whole should look down on certain individuals because of the way that they look or talk, or what they do for a living. I know I’m guilty of it too. It sucks to be able to say that, but I think that we all are. Every one of us is brought up to have some sort of racism against certain groups of people, maybe the way the look, or the jobs that they have- even the way that they speak, which is the main thing brought up in this quote and also in the story. It’s sad to me that even though it’s known that there are infact certain people who cant afford these things, we still downtalk them or treat them badly because they aren’t like us.
Another big thing is culture, or environment. There are people out there who do choose not to speak what we all know as “proper” english, and I guess maybe if they have the opportunity or the way of life to be able to learn, then they’re more at fault, but we still shouldn’t really look down on them. It’s like people who choose to dress differently than others. As long as they aren’t walking the streets with hardly any clothes, we don’t generally make too much of a deal about it. It shouldn’t really be any different with language.
To conclude, good story. I enjoyed reading it. There were a bunch of parts all through the reading that I did highlight. Parts at the beginning that I was going to comment on, but obviously as I read farther into it, I changed my mind and decided to pick this one. Good quote, very true.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/17/earlyshow/main2096721.shtml
Interesting article. I’m not really sure how I feel about it.
The article is about teachers getting guns for school protection. Some teachers are doing it, although only a few, and others are completely against it. I can see where both points are coming from. Although, personally, I’d say that I’m probably leaning more towards being against it. I suppose in some cases, probably very few, there’s a possibility that it might help. But either way, suppose that a teacher does at some point have to gun down one of their students. What if the student never shoots, or farstretched, but say that the student shoots, however, doesn’t hit anyone. The teacher fires anyway, which means that they’re the ones who will be in trouble, I think. I don’t know much about the law, but I think that that’d be how it worked, even if it was in self-defense, sort of. More importantly though, one of the teachers in the article brings up the fact that no matter where you put it, kids can find it. Kids can find anything. GOOD POINT. It seems to always work out that way. Plus, there’s not many places in a classroom that you can place a gun where it’s safe, and still be able to get to it if something were to happen.
On another level, I don’t think I’d want my teacher to carry a gun, or have a gun in the classroom. I think as a student, it would make me very uneasy. I’d think about it often, while in class, which in the long run would ultimately be a distraction for me.
Interesting voices about the article. I’d like to know what other people think about it all.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15209681/
This Current Event article mainly caught my attention because I was watching Maury on television and the show was entirely about these parents/families who had lost someone due to kidnapping or just strange disappearences. They all came on the show because they were desperate to find out where their loved ones were and what had happened to them. This article focuses on a model and her boyfriend who disappear while they’re out on a boating trip. When I first read the article, the main thing/ the first thing that had popped into my head was.. “How do two people just disappear in a body of water? If for some reason their boat sank, don’t we have special divers who are trained to specifically work with these kinds of cases, and dive to check?” and “Even if they did get off the boat somewhere, or for some reason they came into an encounter with someone else, how do all their belongings, and more importantly, their boat, just disappear without a trace?” I guess this stuff happens all the time though. It’s amazing to me that even with all the technology and testing that we can do today, people still disappear and are hurt, while others are never found and criminals actually get away with this stuff. I can’t imagine ever going through anything like this. I know from experience that it’s hard enough to lose a loved one, knowing what has happened to them and that obviously, they’re not ever coming back. I give so much credit to the people who have to deal with disappearences, and still can pull themselves out of bed every morning and continue to have hope. I can’t imagine (and hopefully I’ll never have to.)
The article is definitely a story/case that I’d like to keep up with. I know that I probably wont, I’ll either forget about it, or I just wont get the chance to actually pop online and check it out (plus I don’t watch the news much.) But if for some reason I find another article on it while doing one of these current events things, i’ll definitely have to do an update.
So far, I think my college experience has been okay. Interesting, to say the least. I’ve made some good friends and I’m having fun. I have friends that go to college all around as well, so it’s nice to be able to still keep in touch with them. (UAlbany, RPI, Albany Pharm.) We’ve made it somewhat official to go out every thursday night together, and my roomie is pretty cool as well. So as far as the social aspect goes, I won’t really complain.
I’m not taking that many classes, but the classes that I am taking are more than enough for my first year, I think. I always have plenty of work to do, and sometimes I even feel really weighed down by it all. I’m taking an online course as well as my regular courses, which seems hard for me to keep up with on top of my other lectures. I’m supposed to do about 8 hours of work, I think, for my online psych class a week, and I rarely fit it all in, but I’m trying. It’s definitely unlike highschool in the absence category. It seems really hard to catch back up on your work after missing a few classes, unless you want to sit infront of your computer for 3 hours at a rip. Not me. Plus, I don’t think I even have that much time. Thursdays are my long days on campus. I have classes from 9:25 until 8:30. Not all right in a row, of course, but scattered around in there. It seems that these days are the days I feel like I have the most to do, and cramming between classes is a real pain. Oh well, I guess. Life goes on.
In an overall view of things, I am enjoying my college experience so far. I think I’m still getting used to it all, but I’m enjoying it. I come from a really small town about 45 minutes from here, so as you can imagine, Albany is out of control for me. Either way, I plan on sticking around for a few more years, all things considered.
