Presentations

There were many good presentations. Many different topics too. I liked the one john did. About teen suicide. He showed us about how many teens are looking for help but arent getting any. It changed me when he said that hes tried things and many times tried to commit suicide. He also talked about how every day there are many teens commiting suicide. I also liked phillips. His was about how we need more border patrol in the US. He showed a video that a mexican was trying to cross the border right under the bridge. Chased him aroud for a mile or so and then the BP saw him and caught him. It inspired me because it's more people like that guy that we need each day. He should be on border patrol

Proficiency exams...Do we need them?

When march rolls around in school, everyone has that look of bordum with a mix of dissapointment in their faces, why? CSAPS. What does that stand for? Colorado Student Assesment Programs. Personaly, I dont like them. All they do is measure how smart or how stupid someone is. Now im not saying that were all communists and every one should get the same grade. No im saying that with all the tests, quizes, homework, and proficiency exams that we get, I dont think we need CSAPS. We also already get the MAPS testing in the begining and end of the year, which places us in our level of class based on our score. So whats next?

Biking

When I think about what inspires me, I think about biking. I'm very passioate about bikeing. Dirt Jump, Racing, Down Hill, Free Ride, Trials, or even BMX. I love them all. Riding off of an 8' roof to flat grass trying not to break a bone and to stay on the bike. That's what gets me going. It's all about the experience and adrenaline, and occasionally a red bull or two. Biking can teach you about balence, stamina, physics, GRAVITY is a big one if you know what I mean, and pretty much any thing you can think off that has to do with a bike. For instance, when you're in the air, you can learn how to manuver your bike and sometimes save yourself from crashing if it's the case.

Military Shooting

I read the article about the military shooting. It was about a man who killed 12 and injured 31. It's a military base, no one could defend them selves? In the military soldiers learn self defense like taekwondo. Taekwondo translated is military way. I think who ever did the shooting aka, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is a dumbass for shooting up a military post. Who would do such a thing. I know he was gonna get deported overseas and all, but I don't think that's a reason to shoot up the camp. In the article, it said he was a mental military doctor?! Wow! I thought they do psychology tests before they hire people to do work. I do not think he was in an emotionally stable point in his life. He should have tried to talk to some one like his wife or neighbor or maybe to go and see a counselor. What have we learned from this? I don't know. Maybe nothing or as he is sitting in the hospital with cuffs on, he's thinking about it right now.

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What about our amendments?

As I was reading the article," No Warrant Needed To Force DNA Testing," by the ,"Denver Post," I was very intrigued. First of all, I'm on both sides. I think that it's a violation of our 4th amendment because it's unlawful search and seizure. And without consent of the victim or if not a warrant from court, I don't think the police should be able to get a DNA swab just for evidence. But on the other hand, the article also argues that the detective that was taking the swab of DNA had reasonable evidence and or suspicion of the defendant. The jury came back and concluded that the, "DNA sample collection technique at issue here, although minimally invasive, is also one of those limited searches that requires only reasonable suspicion and may therefore be conducted without a warrant. If anything, the cheek swab involves much less impact on the subject than some other searches that all agree may be conducted based on mere reasonable suspicion. A cheek swab takes even less time than a pat-down or field sobriety tests and is painless. Moreover, a swab of the inside of the cheek is very limited in scope, whereas a pat-down will generally involve manual exploration of the entirety of a suspects body, including the genital areas. Finally, a swab does not carry nearly the same potential for opprobrium as pat-downs or FSTs, which will typically occur on public thoroughfares." Even though doing this is against the 4th amendment, I still believe that if I was a detective, I would look for reasonable suspicion And get a DNA sample instead of waiting for a court order witch could take up to maybe almost a month, if not more.

Lady fights off bear with decorative pillow?

As I was reading the Denver Post, I came across an article called,"Vail woman fends off bear with pillow," by the Vail Daily. As soon as I started to read it, I was cracking up! I mean who throws a decorative pillow at a bear. Use some common sense...kick or punch for crying out loud! Officials said the bear and it's cubs were rummaging through cupboards, cabinets, trash, and drawers. How does a bear rummage through a drawer? How about the bears were clawing through the cabinetry like wild monsters that just got into an energy drink making factory, preferably monster energy. But I like to decorative pillow the best, it just adds so much to a little story. And in the end the bears were killed because they came back twice more...maybe a rematch? Who knows...To late now.

R we discncted?

In the article "Disconnect(Ed)," Mr. Fisch postes a picture of about 15 phones. What it symbolizes, is not only does he not want you to text in class, but to pay attention and try and act like you are learning something. Disconnect(Ed) is not Mr. Fisch's way of being mean, but to get students to stop texting and get them to pay attention more in class. I think from a teacher point of view, it's fair, because well we don't want students texting in our classes. But from a student point of view, I would say probably half and half, because we're trying to socialize and talk to people and what not. But on the other hand, it's a rule not to text in class and quite rude too. Why do we do it though? We wouldn't text in church or something similar would we? Maybe we're trying to see if the teacher notices? When a teacher takes a phone away from a student, its not a punishment, but more of a reminder not to do that. Even though the student noes whats coming by taking that risk.