. If she can keep the hostility out then everyone will get along just fine. But there is only one problem with this. All it will take is for one person to say the wrong thing about someone else for the hostility to enter the room and stay there for good. On the other hand, what do we call this man? If he is not an inmate then what is he in our society? He is not a citizen, allowed to walk the streets whenever he feels like. See this is how easy it is for someone to be labeled in our world. I just labeled inmates, citizen and even society. How is it possible to get rid of these “trigger words” when we have grown up using them every day. If someone stands up and says that they have never labeled someone then they are lying because I have labeled so many types of people within this blog. (part 2)
Labels can have a very harsh impact on people’s lives, especially when young. Some people as well as youth can be very mean in the way they treat others around them. That said, it is part of our society to label people. We label people every day as fat, ugly, beautiful, skinny, good looking, etc. We call people names all of the time just to put them down and gain a reaction out of them. This is all part of the way we are. We were brought up this way with influence from friends, family, and the media. So for this man, it is a rare chance that he would get someone as a teacher that wants to get rid of all of the labels. This teacher not only wants to get rid of the labels for one side of the classroom, but for the whole classroom. She wants everyone to work together and work as one team and not be afraid of each other. To make this happen she realizes the path that needs to happen. She must first get rid of the “trigger words” that may cause one person to get upset with another. She needs to keep the feelings of hostility outside of the class room walls. (part 1)
Do you really think that is all our forces are doing? Some troops find it hard to do what they are doing and if they refuse orders, they get made fun of in all types of ways and the government and press target them as cowards. How can we do that to someone that took that step that we as civilians refused or were too scared to take? There is so much about war that is hidden from common people like us that the government thinks we cannot handle. Is it that we can’t handle it or that they do not want the civilians to look at the government and turn on them because they are doing bad things? Do not think that for one minute that I do not support our man and women in uniform because I do. I have multiple friends serving in Afghanistan right now and I pray that they all return and that somehow they get through the ptsd that they may face. I do not support many of the decisions that our government makes. (part 2)
The things that this lady talks about really hits home when you listen to what she has to say. She tells us about her firsthand experience with war. She is not a soldier, she is not an enemy, she is just a civilian like me yet she gets caught up in the cross fire. We want to believe that when a missile is shot into the air it will hit a target that only the enemy will be hurt, but that is not always the case. Her brother’s friend was killed by the missile that woke her from her sleep. She then feels guilty about the prayer that she made thanking god that the missile did not hit her house or her family. We should feel guilty as well. We, as Americans, thank god every day for the men and woman that give their lives for our so called freedom. Yet we hear stories like this of civilians dying in the cross fire of war and our government wants us to believe that they always know their targets when they direct a missile from space. The government also wants us to believe that the wars we enter are to protect our freedoms. (part 1)
What strings made this person do what they did to receive a life sentence? What is his background information? What happened to him that may have aided into doing what he did? Or was the event a total accident? Did he kill someone unintentionally? Did he do something else? You don’t just receive a life sentence for nothing, but this man still has tight ties with his family and close friends. He even still talks to his school teachers. I can’t remember the last time I talked to one of my past school teachers and I have the freedom to go see them whenever I want. It seems to me that this man did not have and abusive life or a hard life. He even tells use about how within the prison there is some sort of family feeling. Some of the guards serve as people to talk to and the younger guys that come in there serve somewhat as little brothers. He really is a family oriented person. (part 2)
It is letters like this that I read from a person that received a life sentence that just fills me with questions. This person says that he receives letter from family and friends and, even more surprising, past school teachers. What kind of man was he outside of the life sentence? What did he do, or was connected to, to get this harsh sentencing. From reading the letter he seemed like he was a calm and collective person surrounded by love. It seems like his relationship with family and friends were good, so what happened? He says that inmates get judged by the outside world based on one mistake that they make. Is he saying that what he did was nothing but a mistake that he did not intend to happen?
Since the first day of class we keep mentioning the strings that come down and shape everyone’s life. These strings are connected to use by different things that we experience while growing up. Strings can come from playing sports, getting abused or raped, and the trouble we got into throughout our life. (part 1)
. We are always talking about these invisible strings, these invisible factors that come down and shape our life. I believe that is true and I’m starting to understand that. But, can’t we also say that there are strings that go from one person to the next that also help to shape our lives. The strings that come down and shape our lives, I feel, are the natural disasters, such as the disaster that just happened in Japan. That is affecting everyone’s life, not just the people in Japan. The strings that would go from one person to the next are the type of strings that made this man believes that the way his step father treated him influenced his decisions. Another example would be him saying that this event that lead to him being in jail, actually made his family closer and changed their views on things. So in other words, I see the strings that come down from this invisible force to be the things that we can’t change and the strings that tie our actions to influence others in a chain reaction are the strings that go from one person to another. (part 2)
I will admit, whenever I hear that someone has received a life sentence, I do think that they had to have taken a life. With that said, I don’t always believe that it was just to kill the person for no reason at all or that it was on purpose. But, to hear that this man was involved in a felony that got someone killed and he received a life sentence without actually hurting the person is crazy. It is crazy how someone that makes a mistake of being involved with the wrong people end up losing their life’s freedom over it. On the other hand, this man has found freedom within himself. I know the feeling of doing something and having all of your troubles just go away. You become so focused on that one thing that you lose track of time and feelings and even yourself. It is a great feeling. Most likely, it is an even greater feeling to this man and it is probably even enjoyed even more by this man than me. Another thing that I believe is crazy is the fact that the family has grown stronger because of this event. This event has caused this man’s step father to realize that the way he was treating his step son was wrong. (part 1)
. I am not saying that he did not deserve jail time but I do not believe the jail time should have cost him the rest of his life’s freedoms. In his letter he states very clearly that he does not expect sympathy from anyone and that he believes that he should stay in jail. But should this be true? Also you can look at the factors that led up to this event. This kind of stuff happens when parents neglect to pay attention to their children. Their kid starts hanging out with people that they believe will show them the most attention. To get this attention they will do anything. So this man was probably trying to fit in so he would help them do stuff without thinking of the consequences. When he was arrested the judge may have convicted him just to get a high conviction rate. Judges and juries go after high conviction rates and do not even think about ruining someone’s life like this. (part 2)
M’s story really shows how corrupt our very own justice system is. This man was convicted of being an accomplis to a murder at a young age. He says in his story that he had a feeling of what was going on downstairs but he was too scared to do anything about it. Well yeah he would be scared to do anything about it he was just a young kid at the time. This man will never be able to live a normal life because someone thought that he was old enough to lose his freedoms over a mistake. This man did not know the full intentions of the people that he was with and when he saw what they were doing he was afraid for his own life. I believe that it is over kill that he received a life in prison at that age. He did not hurt anyone, he was just being used. Kids at young ages can be talked into doing bad things because they do not poses the life experience to know that it will get them into trouble. He was put into a messed up situation that cost him the rest of his life. (part 1)
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