Still some citizens have no hate toward the U.S. maybe aggravation but not total and utter hate towards us for what we are doing to them and their land and property. Also how bad some of the military is treating the people of the country. Now that I understand a little more my views on the war has also changed a lot if all we are doing is stealing a countries resource then we should definitely leave and bring the troops back.
Anyways as conversed and read different articles on the war, I never really tried to delve deeper in to the stories of the war on Iraq and now Pakistan, so naturally I thought that the war started because of the attack on 9/11, and I actually still think that the event on 9/11 really did make U.S. start the war on terror, and I also still think that maybe some parts of the reason we are still in this war is to aid the countries. It is just that now that I saw the videos and the statements that Sam layed out on us, I am definitely into thinking that the oil in the middle east has a huge part to play in the U.S. still in those countries. I can also understand why the citizens of these countries can really start to hate the U.S. as most that have family members killed every day and go through some of the hardships that they go through.
Did Sam change my views on the war? He did on some levels because I did not really think of the war at all in that way before. As just a way for the U.S. the gain and control a countries resource that our country heavily depends on, which is oil. I had heard about it from friends and even T.V stations but I did not think that our government would make the whole war based on oil resources. It was my mistake for not looking it up myself and try to find out the real story of the war and the cause of it, I just listened to the opinions and thoughts of other people, and whether I knew them of not I couldn’t 100% digest t what they were trying to tell me because I try to be mostly in the middle but also try to get what they try to say and understand what people are talking about; the problem is that most of the time My conflictions with trying to understand a person and also trying to stay in the middle makes things hard to grasp so I would mostly shrug the people’s comments off as their own views and not really get facts or try to ask for facts.
Why? Maybe because I thought the whole incident was unconnected with me and my life, even so at some limit is what I thought about this incident at Penn state. I have to learn to think about situations like these and think about my thoughts on them. I should also listen and appreciate other people voices on a big scandal or news but I have to learn to also input my own thoughts along with other people’s opinion and try to find a middle ground. Most importantly though after realizing a middle ground or maybe before looking for a middle ground I need to truly know the details of a situation or else I will find myself voicing an opinion that is not credible, that never leads to anything good or progressive.
So when I thought about this question “what lessons have been learned from the Sandusky incident and what can you do later on to prevent such actions again”. I was a little baffled. After thoroughly thinking about it I realized that the lessons I am getting out of this is sort of similar to the lessons that a lot of people in my community are getting also from the Sandusky incident. I mean first of all you really do have to think about the victims of the sexual assaults that were taking place. You should also search the facts for yourself and not just listen anybody with their own opinion, try to focus on the real fact not just the most entertaining information, that was a mistake I had made myself. Those were; what I think at least , the best two lessons I got out of this whole incident. Whenever a big scandal or a big news shows up I would usually just listen to other people’s remarks about the situation not really thinking about my own thoughts into it.
What lessons have I learned from the Sandusky scandal? That is a very good question to which I did not actually think about I mean I heard other people’s thoughts and what they thought should have happened to prevent the situation but I have never actually thought about what I thought about this situation. I guess that even though the event happened in my town and at places I go to and know about, I am still not really feel that it affects me emotionally as much as other people, but then again it might start to actually affect me like it is most people that live here but right now I really not personally myself that afflicted with hardening emotions, the only thing I can think of during the situation is how other people in our community feel about it and how the people that are affected by this encident more than others think about the situation.
If they had done that more than maybe the events that had happened in the past couple of days could have been different, and maybe the person or people to blame the most would be ousted. Since the past cannot be changed I would go back to my statement and say that the riots still would have happed with or without the social media. Maybe though the riots would have not become as violent without twitter or Facebook. Explaining the causes and effects of the social medias like twitter of Facebook having an impact on the riot. As more and more people and students talked and messaged each other about their opinions of the situation that just happened, which include the board of trustees decision and the way that the media back talked about our school and the people held accountable for the cover up of the things with Sandusky, then the more emotional they become and the rally which had happened before turns into a riot because as more students hear and talk about joining in the rally, it eventually gets big enough to turn into a riot, because some ideas of students out shadow others which other students start to see and eventually all of those different thoughts and emotions start to become a group thought in to the masses of the rallies
Mostly because there was still news media coming into town, focusing most of the events that occurred onto Joe Paterno, which is something I think they should not have done because that just gets the students who are proud to go to Penn State mad because they feel like they are being disrespected by the media and the rest of the country which they feel have no true insight into the situation. When asking if the social media helped to boost the uproar of the riot, that would have to depend if it was the news media, the social media or a combination of both, because that is what I think that made the riots that big of an uproar, the combination of the two typed of media; the social and the news. I’m not bashing the media for trying to do their jobs; I think they should have focused more on the real faults and causes of a tragic thing, the source of the problem, which had to do with Sandusky and the molesting of the victims.
I think the riots would not have been as big without social media, but then again the difference in the masses would not have decreased that much since there was still news reporters and big news showings around town like CNN, WTAJ, and other news covering the events going on in around town. Just speaking about the social media though I think the riots would not have been as big because the students who shared in the same idea with all of the emotions going through them would definitely not have had much to connect their ideas without social media tools like twitter and Facebook. I do think though that there still would have been a riot even without social media tools such as twitter or Facebook.
I think that the costs do not outweigh the benefits, because to me those reasons do not seem like logical or plausible reasons to look at illegal immigration as a costly rather than a benefits. I mean it is illegal and If illegal immigrants would be able to become citizens or if they could apply for a green card instead of being in this or any other country illegally, that would be great but I also believe it is not the easiest thing to all of a sudden become a new citizen in a new country. Most illegal immigrants come for work and most do hard and cheap labor that most U.S. citizens would rather not do. SO I don’t really see why so many people need to focus so much on illegal immigrations.
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