en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/3538064 Comments by o1h8ab9 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/29/voices-from-the-classroom-83/#IDComment231869629 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. Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:04:08 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/29/voices-from-the-classroom-83/#IDComment231869629 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/29/voices-from-the-classroom-83/#IDComment231869514 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. Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:03:48 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/29/voices-from-the-classroom-83/#IDComment231869514 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/29/voices-from-the-classroom-83/#IDComment231869120 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. Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:02:59 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/29/voices-from-the-classroom-83/#IDComment231869120 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-78/#IDComment227479000 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. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:54:59 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-78/#IDComment227479000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-78/#IDComment227478886 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. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:54:33 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-78/#IDComment227478886 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-78/#IDComment227478454 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. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:53:01 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-78/#IDComment227478454 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/10/voices-from-the-classroom-71/#IDComment220513626 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 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:09:51 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/10/voices-from-the-classroom-71/#IDComment220513626 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/10/voices-from-the-classroom-71/#IDComment220513525 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. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:09:34 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/10/voices-from-the-classroom-71/#IDComment220513525 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/10/voices-from-the-classroom-71/#IDComment220513336 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. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:09:05 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/10/voices-from-the-classroom-71/#IDComment220513336 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/03/voices-from-the-classroom-65/#IDComment216891311 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. Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:11:40 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/03/voices-from-the-classroom-65/#IDComment216891311 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/03/voices-from-the-classroom-65/#IDComment216891214 A third reason for only focusing on the costs of illegal immigration, has to do with discrimination. That is something that new immigrants have always had to deal with; the discrimations of others because of the differences between them and the other groups. Those differences are usually the cultures that they practice but it could also just as well be just the racial differences that they have. Another reason that illegal immigration is looked at with negative views is how the economy is doing at this time also. That because the economy is doing bad, people need someone or things to blame and I feel that illegal immigration was one of the things to blame. Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:11:21 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/03/voices-from-the-classroom-65/#IDComment216891214 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/03/voices-from-the-classroom-65/#IDComment216891110 I think that there are a few major reasons why people look at the costs rather than the benefits of illegal immigration. The first one I’m going to point out is Law. It may not seem like it with all of the different rallies and movements against government but people still tend to care about the laws that are put in place to some degree and I think people look at the word illegal and think of the negatives and consequences of being an illegal immigrant or maybe even helping out illegal immigrants. Second is the way media portrays illegal immigrants, bashing some of the immigrants, and only putting light on the negatives of allowing illegal immigrant to work and overhyping any other negatives of illegal immigration. Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:11:03 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/03/voices-from-the-classroom-65/#IDComment216891110 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/27/voices-from-the-classroom-55/#IDComment213661202 As I am finally starting to realize how hard my parents and other family memebers worked hard to achieve their goal of what people would say " the american dream" I can only be inspired and try to work hard also. So basically I think its cool for immigrants to come here, even illigally. I can't speak for sam but I thought he gave a good point when he said that the story of immigration has been going on since the start of the U.S. because we all are basically immigrants, except for the Native Americans, in some way or another. That is just my opinion, because everybody has their own experience and feelings of thos experiences that could lead them to think otherwise. and besides the economic and job status that people complain about I can't really think of any other problem. Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:30:56 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/27/voices-from-the-classroom-55/#IDComment213661202 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/27/voices-from-the-classroom-55/#IDComment213661156 I think that is a very interesting question because I have never really thought about the what I really think about immigration. I have never had problems with immigrants whether they are legal or illigal. I think if someone that left all they knew and left to a new ad pretty unkown and different area to persue a better life and while in the process of that cacrifising and working hard to achieve their goal, then more powere to them. When I think about immigrants, thats what I think of because I'm an immigrant too, and its funny because I never really considered myself one, I always though of myself as just like everybody else, but thats probably because of how long I have lived here. Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:30:48 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/27/voices-from-the-classroom-55/#IDComment213661156 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/20/voices-from-the-classroom-47/#IDComment210705434 A world centered around black people would be very different on some levels and yet on other levels be the same. A couple of things I think would change would be the way education is taught, some very different laws and the way government is handled. Most important since black people are no longer the minorities, you would start to see the things that matter in the black culture in the media more often. Even though definite changes would occur in a cultural and social sense in our country, I think there would not be as big of a change in government roles, education system or the way laws are practiced, the changes in those areas would only gear towards aiding more of the black communities. If you think about it even though social class would differ the attitudes that comes with those different social standards would still be the same, basically the roles would just reverse, and you would still see discrimination towards the people with a lower class. Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:11:24 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/20/voices-from-the-classroom-47/#IDComment210705434 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/13/voices-from-the-classroom-42/#IDComment207702387 As for myself about unnecessarily labeling someone in a racial way, I find myself doing it more often than I used to. At first when I was younger I didn’t like to think about race or racial categories. Even if someone treated me differently I never though of it as the person treating me this way because of my race, I never got treated so badly as to thin k that the cause was my skin color, so I never really tried to give people labels too but lately as I am learning more about race and how much it actually affects us, I am starting to put labels on people. Even when it seems unnecessary. Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:00:01 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/13/voices-from-the-classroom-42/#IDComment207702387 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/13/voices-from-the-classroom-42/#IDComment207699844 Why do we use racial lebels even whe they are not needed, that is a question I havent really pondered all that much about, but also also something I need to think about, because i guess I never really paid attention to how people gave racial labels until the fact that sam spoke about it. I guess one of the main reasons that people give racial labels when it is unneccessary is if the person is feeling pretty emotional or angry, for example if you are talking about an event that happened recently and you start to get heated you might start talking about the person in a negative way and use racial slur to make your point on how mad you are, but then again I only see that happening in an extreme case. I can also see a big reason for using racial labels when its not neccessary when, as a way of talking with people in your group about someone of some people that you don't normally hang around with. Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:51:08 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/13/voices-from-the-classroom-42/#IDComment207699844 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/06/voices-from-the-classroom-40/#IDComment204618938 what i think about women feeling uncomfortable to look good while men were causal clothes is that the views need to be looked at it in both ways of the women standpoint and the men's. Well first women aren't the only ones wearing clothes to look good. I mean if you look at guys in clubs they always got on a tight t-shirt, skinny jeans and all that other stuff so as to impress girls. In most cases guys are the ones that mostly approach the girls and in some occasions get rejected, which can hurt. Then again guys going to approach and start a conversation with an unknown girl can also seem annoying to them so if a girl is wearing uncomfortable heels with short skirts or short shorts in a snowy and cold night going out, then gets creeped on by some drunk guy then I do feel for them, and I would ask them why they would want to go through the uncomfortabless, because the girls who do that knows the answer better than me. Sat, 8 Oct 2011 02:49:55 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/06/voices-from-the-classroom-40/#IDComment204618938 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/27/voices-from-the-classroom-24/#IDComment201483489 I think that my views on U.S foriegn aid did change, but not from a good point to a bad point, it was more of just realizing more facts about U.S. foreign aid to other countries. Before the class I did not know all that much about policies and the way U.S. foriegn aid works. My view about foreign aid was changed, mostly because of some of the statements that talked about how the U.S. uses forein aid to reap some benefits, now that i think about it, it does seem more rational, but I really though that U.S. gave aid to more impoverished countries so as to improve the economy of the world and aid the people and children that are victims of an impoverished country. I was really supprised when I heard that an unknown sum of the money given for aid are distributed to the governement and that most of it does not even reach the the people that need it most, only makes the rich people richer and poor people more poor. I would just say I'm a little suprised by these facts, and it makes me want to delve deeper into how ours and other nations act with their policies on forighn aid to poor countries. Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:48:50 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/27/voices-from-the-classroom-24/#IDComment201483489 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/20/everyone-respond-to-this/#IDComment197783531 style would appeal to students, maybe not just students but people for all sorts of age range too, that would find interest in Anaese's bags. If we can somehow contribute some material to her also. I was alos looking at Yvrose and her line of business which is to make sandals, women's dresses and evening wear. She has alot of dresses but seems to need a manaquinn, I was looking at her video and suprised how her workshop is, and how she makes all of her own material, even to the lacings on her sandles, and with just some outdated machinery, so it seems that if we could provide new equipment that also would help tremendously. Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:49:22 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/20/everyone-respond-to-this/#IDComment197783531