Trayvon Martin

      
The story of Trayvon Martin has been heard by many and devistated others. The author of the article "When Is It OK to Kill" in 'Action' magazine talks of the different ideas and laws connectiing to this case. A lot of people outside of the law believe police officer Zimmerman killed Martin because of his race, that since he was black Martin looked suspious. I beieve police should look deeper into this case.

One night in February, 17 year old Trayvon Martin was on his way home and was spotted by police officer Zimmerman. Martin looked suspious to Zimmerman so he called back-up. "Zimmerman says that the unarmed teen attacked him," so he shot him ("When Is It OK to Kill" 2). Zimmerman was not arrested because of the law known as, "Stand Your Ground." It's used for self-defense murders like this one, but is the law always right?

The law "Stand Your Ground" was an excuse for many murders in Florida." Since 2005 24 other states have passed simliar laws"("When Is It OK to Kill"). An average of 35 murders a year in Florida use this law. I think people use it too lightly. Real murders can just be calling it self-defense when it's just them killing. Law makers need to make a stictor laws so it can't be bent in any way.

Based off of my information, you should be able to see the seriousness, conscicencess of bad law making. You should also see that based off of bad police and loose laws people can be hurt badly. Cases like these definetly need time of deep invetigation and deep thought.

The similarities and differences between Vampire council and Government power:

                In the book Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer Vladimir Tod is a half vampir,half human with dead parents and an aunt for  guardian. The  Elysian vampire council still believes that his parents are still alive, so the council target Vlad because his dad betrayed them. They want to take Vlad's father's punishment on Vlad. Sounds different from our gov't.

                 Elysia has a lot of  power. They decides who gets what punishment when they do something wrong. For example Vlad's father got into a relationship with a human, so he was sentenced to death. They also make all the rule. Like the on that says that vampires can't get involved with humans. They're like the the gov't but with no branches.
 
                 In our world today we have three branches of gov't executive, legislative and judicial. They have the power. People get a voice in gov't. We get a right to vote and speak oil. As you can see the vampire council doesn't do that, so vampires and human powers are very different.

                  In conclusion the vampire conucil and gov't are similar because they both own power. The difference between them are, that vampires don't give people a voice and our gov't does. I'd stick with the gov't any day.

Reading Response Question # 8

                                

      In Frostbite by Richelle Mead the strigoi are here and ready for some Moroi. Rose's friends Mason, Eddie (dhampirs), and  (a Moroi) went off on a wild goose chase for strigoi. Now let me remind you that strigoi are crazy, strong , fast dead vampires that pretty much kill everything in their path. So you could see how dumb this seems to Rose. Of course she has to go after them, when she goes, she brings another Moroi named Christan. When she finds them, they all get kidnapped by strigoi and some humans. This is not only a problem in the story, but the world too.

       Rose and her friends get kidnapped by two strigoi named and . The strigoi in the story don't want the Moroi's blood, they want one of them to turn into strigoi. The only way for this to happen is, by one of the Moroi dranking from either Rose, Mason or Eddie, until they are died. Christan and woulldn't do it so they were starved. When a Moroi doesn't have a blood source for a long time, they can die. Before that happened they escaped, with magic and they lost a friend.

       In the real world, little kids get kidnapped and they don't have anyone or any magic to help them. I'm not saying that Rose had it easy, but the real world for a little kid seems harder. This is a big problem that never been solved, and probably will never be solved. Not only do they get kidnapped, but they sometimes get raped and are scard for life or they're killed. It's terrible and needs to be fixed.

      This problem of kidnapping can be fixed as long as  young kids get home at a good time and teenagers have phones. We can only try being safe the best way we know how. SO protect yourself and your family.

Question #11 reading response

          Who Has "Power" in Your Text? How  Does That 

                                      Power Get Shown?

 

     Have you ever been in that situation where you're so afraid that it seems like the person you're going against is the bully, and you're the nerd? It's like that in Frostbite by Richelle Mead. In this story there are dhampirs (half vampire, half human), Moroi (are like linving vampires that drank blood, but can die like a human), and Strigoi (dead vampire that get killed with silver stakes). The Moroi and dhampirs are like the nerds and the Strigoi are the bullies, but their mean ways are worse than a wedgie. Their power over everyone is huge.

     

     The Strigoi like I said before are these dead vampires, they love the taste of Moroi blood. They kill the Moroi and drank all their blood. Everyone is afraid of not only the Strigoi strength and speed, but the Strigoi are also immortal. This makes everyones lives harder because it no one wants to bring them down. When people tried, most of the time they ended up dead, others have been lucky. We all know, no one wants to be in the death percentage. So pretty much no one will try.

        How is the power of the Strigoi shown in the text? By the fear. In the text mostly every dhampir is training to fight a Strigoi and protect a royal Moroi (like princes and princesses).  Since all royal Moroi need protection, they don't know how to protect themselves. So they have to hide from Strigoi to stay safe. The Strigoi have so much power over everyone, that dhampirs and Moroi wouldn't go against them.

       Power is a big thing in this text and in real life, so the thing that we have to focus on is making sure the right person gets the power.

        

     

Social Awarness #8 (Based on Wanted flyers)

       Something I noticed was Wanted flyers on stores and buses. These are pictures of rapist, abusers and murderers. What's terrible, is the amount of flyers, there are so many and that doesn't even count the real amount of people in New York! The thing that could make this worse, is the amount of people that get hurt by these murderers, rapist and abusers.

       There so many reasons why these people do what they do. For example, maybe murderers just likes to see someones terrified face. Rapist could just feels alone so he rapes to feel like he's no longer lonely. Last but not least, abusers could just like giving people pain. The effect that they have on people are lost loved ones, nightmares and suicide, but the list can on forever. Sadly there is no solution unless you always make sure your kid get home before dark and you get home safely. So if you see a Wanted sign, actually look at the face on it, so you don't become one of their victims.

Social Awarness #11(Scene based on racism)

      I'm writing this scene to show how big a problem like racism is. It has effected many lives and hurt many people. It may not be the biggest problem right now, but it's still out there.
     
      We walked into the resturant, leaving the Tennessee breeze behind us to have a nice family meal. My mom asked for a seat for five people, me, my mom, my dad, and my two sisters. The woman taking the reservation was blond, had perfect teeth, and tan skin. She told my mom that they will bring us to the tables soon.

      So a white family with the same amount of people walked up to the perfect teeth lady, asked for their table and walked right through. Apparently my mom noticed to because she walked up to the lady and asked,"Did those people reserve over the phone?"
 
     The perfect teeth lady smiled simply and said,"No."
  
      Then my mom asked, " Why did they go before us then?"

      "Because,'' the lady said like my mom was a little child, "We help your kind after we help out other customers."

      "What do you mean, my kind?" I could see my mom getting angry now.
       
        " I mean black people, now we are very busy, so please miss go back to the waiting area."

      My mom was so mad, that we never went to Tennessee again.

Out of Sight Out of Time

   
                 Have you ever forgotten something, and when it comes back your emotions come in so many different combos? Meet Cammie Morgan, the happened to loose her memory of the summer and she doesn't    know how. What's worse is that no one was with her during the summer, because she was trying to protect her friends from the Circle of Cavan. The Circle of Cavan is a group of bad secret agents, and they been trying to get Cammie. In the end Cammie and her friends find out what happened in the summer and it was not expected.

                  They're going to Rome. When Cammie returned from the Alps, Cammie and her friends go looking for clues of where Cammie went over the summer at Mr.Solom's cabin. They went there because Cammie's mom found secret, security footage of Cammie and Liz (one of Cammie's friends), found a letter from Cammie, sent from Rome. So they went to Rome. At Rome Cammie remembered a safe home that she stayed in, and then she remembered about it. She ran behind the house to find a clearing and she remembered. A cold voice in her head said," The least we can do is bring her to her father." Even before she remembered this, I think she already knew where her father was. He was buried and now that Cammie knows exactly where her father is, it hurts a lot.

                  The song was discovered. Throughout the book, a song kept playing in the back of  Cammie's head. She never knew where it was frome until, Dr.Steve (a teacher at her spy school that was willing help Cammie sort out her feelings), reminded her of where she first heard the song. It was the day before her father went missing and they were at the circus. When Cammie is remembering everything, she speaks out loud,"A woman is stopping in front of us. She's dropped her purse and he's (Cammie's dad) helping her. There's a napkin on the ground. He offers it to her and leads me away... There's a list of names written on the napkin." I think then she realized the importance of the napkin, it was the thing she was looking for,for most of the book. It was the list that could down the Circle of Cavan. This was the importance of the song.

                 As you can see, memory can be helpful, surprising, and painful. Cammie went through that all and more. Memories also help you realize things you didn't before.