When You Have To Shoot First

I found this article to be very interesting. It shows how corrupt people can be when they are put in a place of power. Just like what happened awhile ago with Rodney King, the black guy that got beat up by the 2 white cops). he didn't die but he could have, one blow in the right place and he could have lost his life. Many cops abuse their power and victimise people. Rodney King became very depressed after that beating and become an addict. Although, the article makes some of the killings seem justified which the first one, in my eyes, was justified. Although, who to say what justifies killing someone?

Warfare: An Invention-Not A Biological Weapon

In this article, Margaret Mead is trying to figure out where warfare comes from. Is it natural, cultural, or just a drive we have. I think that's warfare is inevitable when developing land structures, or dividing land, etc. I think that warfare comes from history and not just someone's natural instict. Warfare will not go away as long as there are social classes and unequal countries, etc. Mead also says that warfare is like an invention that affects people's lives just like marriage because people are sent out and could possibly be killed. I agree that warfare is an invention. It might have been around for a really long time but it didn't come along until one group of people wanted to be above another.

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

I just want to start out by saying that I love Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. I have seen the movie which is why I chose to read this article. The movie left me in awe and this article also astonishes me. I do think that global warming is a problem for the world, our communities, and nature. Al Gore does a great job in the article and in the movie of showing and detailing all of the effects that global warming has on everyone. A lot of people thought that Al Gore only put out this "horrific" movie and book because he was trying to regain some popularity. Many people thought that he was bitter for losing and that this was his only chance to show people that he could have been a great president. I do not see it like that. He did lose to Bush but he has science to back up all of the global warming claims, therefore he is not just pulling this out of no where. I have to say that I like the movie better then this article because you get better visuals and those visuals really help you understand the enormous inpact that global warming is having on us. I also think that politicans really need to do something about global warming because whether you want to believe it or not, science does show that it is really happening.

Go Back to Black

I find this article very interesting. I never knew that Jesse Jackson convinced America that black people should be called African American. I also find it interesting that in America the official name is American American, but in Britian which is close in culture and customs they say black. I found the fact that the author did not prefer to be called African American very interesting because African American was the term given to black people in order to give them a sense of having a link to Africa. It gave black people a sense of pride of enduring slavery for years then being able to overcome it. I thought that including Barrack Obama in this article was a good example of the term African American. The writer says that black people all over the world feel pride in the accomplishment of Barrack Obama, and that to me is cool. Race all over the world unites people whether you realize it or not and even people that do not live in this country feel a sense of pride in an African American getting the Democratic nomination.

Your Gamete, Myself

"Your Gamete, Myself" provoked a few different feelings from me. At first I felt compassion for the girl and her family in the beginning because if the timeline went up in the hallway then everyone would know that they went to an egg donor. Then when I read about the second woman and how she was looking at all the pictures of women to find a perfect egg donor I kind of thought it was humorous because there were all these dfferent kinds of pictures that I didn't think needed to be included. For example, the princess picture was so unnecessary. As I read on and got to the part about why the women didn't just adopt my interest was peaked because that was a question I had myself. I really liked the answer they gave about how they wanted to experience it all and see the traits of at least their husbands in their child's face. Overall, I liked this article it was very interesting.

Response to Facebook: Why I Hate It

This article made me think about the way our society works now days. This article sheds light on the fact that most high school and college students as well as some older and some younger people put facebook before other, more important, things like homework or studying. In that respect, the article provoked a feeling of realization from me because I realized that I spend a lot of time on websites very similar to facebook and it does take away from my, more important, school work. The perfect example of this is that I'm on a website similar to Facebook right now called Myspace while I'm writing this response. While I realize my work is important I also have this "addiction" to the website. My overall impression of this article is that there is definitely a lot of truth in it. And let's be honest with ourselves, who really wants to know the little and odd details about your life that one finds necessary to post of facebook or other similar websites?