Navy Seals

This video that i watched about the navy seals called team six. They are in water, fly through air, through land and just so much that does alot for our country. They have to learn how to survive how to be in artic cold ocean. Out of all the navy seals 75% of them don't make it to be one. Their techniques are crazy to me like being able to be under water with out breathing for two minutes without blowing any bubbles. They're put out as super heros and i think that's a good way to put it because they can do so much that almost seems impossible for  a human being to do. I just don't know what kind of mentailty they have to put themselves to be these people in these situations. It's crazy to be these people but it's really brave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5prM5fHNYk

Healthier?

This article talks about how immigrant hispanics are becoming less stress because before they were the one's with higher risks of bad health which included African Americans too. Studies show that Hispanic born in America are more stressed than the ones that are immigrants and to me that's ironic. Stress seems to not have anything to do with race but studies have shown that African Americans have the most stress. The reason for immigrants not being so stressed is because of stronger social support and their positive outlook on their opportunites.

Hudson, William."Study:Immigrant Hispanics less stressed, healthier".The Chart. May 5,2011

Osama Bin Laden

This article that i read talks about how Obama did the work that Bush couldn't but was it really because of him or just the timing was when he is in office? I don't really see this action stopping this war and having all the troops come back. Al qaeda is still be taking action to what they do but it could weaken them who knows. Bush states that "No matter how long it takes, justice will be done" in many ways Bin Laden dieing is way of closure for the people that lost loved ones on September 11 and that makes perfect sense to me because he was the main reason what happened. Seeing on the news how many people are where the trade center was at and the people outside the white house just proves it. Now I'm just waiting for the pictures of him to come out that's something i really want to see.






http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/05/presidents_bush.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-naw-george-w-bush-osama-statement-20110502,0,4437819.story

Reflection on immigration discussion

This discussion was a pretty good one people got heated up but that's a good thing. It all of a sudden started becoming into something about race though but in a way i understand because when it comes to immigration it highlights on certain races. It was mostly based on how immigrants are known as doing wrong but at the same time they do so much for this country by doing jobs that regular Americans wouldn't want to do. Sometimes they're set as criminals but all they're looking for is a job to support their families. Also sometimes when an immigrant does something wrong on the news it's like it's because they're an immigrant but at the same time any type of person could be doing that same crime it's just the person themselves that make that decision. All though we make as if the government hates immigrants at the same time they're kind of contradicting because even though they want them out they still give good benefits for them like in state college tuition benefits. It's like some immigrants can stay here with no worries but some get kicked out it wonders me why certain immigrants are picked to leave this country and some aren't.

Fastfoods

I felt like blogging about this because lately I've been eating alot of fast food and it's really hard to stop. Mostly when it's senior year and everyone during lunch or during 6th period wants to go eat it's just tempting. In what i was reading i saw that 1 in 4 Americans eat fast good everyday and every year we spend about 110 billion on fast food. Another fact is that french fries are the most eaten vegetable here in the U.S. That is just really ridiculous because if other countries aren't so dependent on fast food than why can't we. We're always put at the top because of how great we are and have so much power but even the poorest countries have better atributes than us they don't do such harm to their bodies as we do. It's all these influences that we have that we eat such bad things when we go out to eat. Also it leads up with laziness because some people just don't like to cook at their houses because they come too tired from work or whatever their excuse is. I have no room to talk because in my house we eat so much fast food because making food isn't so common and through out the years there are more and more excuses to buy fast foods. That is why 60% of Americans are obese.






http://www.vivavegie.org/101book/text/nolink/social/supersizeme.htm

continuation to my response about the internet video

Today watching the video during government class it was about the internet and how it affects teenagers at this time. It causes affects at school and at house holds. You would think that all kids would understand the dangers but there are still victims being affected til this day. For example in one of the cases a thirteen year old kid killed himself because of all the verbal abuse at school and on the internet. That just shows that how serious things are of real life as in on the internet that is not face to face. It also  gives comfort to those with low self esteem. In those ways it brings to them doing things that are just disrespecting themselves like the girl posting really revealing pictures on the internet. I think more parents should take action with what their children are doing on the internet. Maybe having the computer out in the open would be safer but once they get older they can be trusted with a computer to them selves. I was also shocked to see how internet has affected kids in their education. You would think that new technology like this would be helping out students but at the same time its making them be use to fast response and learn things an easier way. That's probably why the test scored and students grades have not been improving so good throughout the U.S.

Child abuse

Child abuse is 15 percent more of a chance to happen in a household if adult abuse is also happening. In this article it talks about how sometimes the child gets abuse because of the intended abuse of the mother. Sometimes children are just the the target of the household to get abused. I think that since the child is the weakest they're the easiest to get abused. Sometimes the neglect from the parent to help out is because of the fear of the abuser. When a kid gets a abuse early and don't understand domestic violence they can see violence as the only way to getting one's need. Some kids turn out to be a certain way and not even know why that is but because of their abuse as they were a child. Like for instance in my sociology class we were learning about a little girl that just wanted to kill her brother and her new family that adopted her. What she was doing was because of her father sexually abusing her when she was a baby until her and her brother were taken away. This just show how much child abuse can affect the child at the time and even as they grow up.



McKay, M. M. "The Link between Domestic Violence and Child Abuse:
Assessment and Treatment Considerations", Child Welfare, Volume IXXIII, No. 1 (1994) pp29-39.