The one question I think people ask me everyday is
“What’s your major?” It seems like everyone want to know what your major
is. Well mine is Childhood Education with a concentration in math. Well I was
going to have concentration in math until I realized how much I really
don’t like math courses. This semester I’m in elementary statistics and I can’t
stand that course. So I’m thinking about changing my concentration to American
Studies, I think that will be something I will enjoy much better. It just seems
like the math courses are going to be a struggle for me. Not that there going
to be hard it’s just going to be a struggle. I think that they’re going to be
really difficult for me to stay focused in. I’ve only had one math course but I’ve
found it difficult to stay focused and do my work. I find myself daydreaming
and dosing off in class. So next semester I plan on taking some courses I will
enjoy more.  While I’m here I would also
like to try and get a minor in business. In high school I took a lot of
business courses and I really loved them. I’m even interested I starting my own
business. I just think taking some business courses will help me and make my
course load more enjoyable.  I would like
to open and run a private preschool after I get my degree so having business
courses would help me a lot in pursuing my goal.

PEER: on eof equal rank; one among equals. I knew the deintion of that word, and there was nothing remotely akin to this meaning existing between me and these seven hard-eyed White Men and five cold- eyed White Woman who made up this jury of my “peers”.

This is how Delbert Tibbs described how is court case went
when he was sentenced to death in a Florida
jail. After 12 years he reversed his court sentenced and was found innocent.
In” Life from Death Row” Mumia Abu-Jamal describes the inhumanities
of being on death row and the injustices in a judicial system. The first one he
speaks about is non contact visits. The inmates are not allowed to tough their visitors
at all. This he suggest make the inmate “dead” before they are
executed by the state that sentenced them. Cutting of the necessary physical
interaction with family, friends and other social relationships causes those
relationships to crumble. The most important thing to a human heart is the
interaction between loved ones and relationships with other people. Once this
is all gone the heart dies and it’s like an empty shell is walking around just
waiting to be put to death. The second issue he really touched on was the
unequal statistics around death row. The fact that someone is more likely to be
sentenced to death for killing a Caucasian than they are for killing an
African- American baffles me. They’re deaths are overlooked but as soon as
there is a hint of killed they are charged immediately. As the quote at the beginning
suggests maybe if the group determining these peoples futures where actually
equal to them the rulings would be completely different. I really enjoyed this article
and found some of the statistics astonishing.

“We have our secrets and our needs to confess. We may remember how, in childhood, adults were able at first to look right through us, and into us, and what an accomplishment it was when we, in fear and trembling, could tell our first lie, and make, for ourselves, the discovery that we are irredeemably alone in certain respects, and know that within the territory of ourselves, there can only be our footprints.”

-R.D. Laing

The Divided Self

As a child lying is virtually impossible. Adults can tell when your lying and when your telling the truth. It’s like they can look into your mind and tell you exactly what your thinking. The first time you get away with lying you feel as though you have outwitted them. That they weren’t smart enough to catch that one. It’s as though you’ve outsmarted the people you look up to and it seems as though you have reached some kind of stepping stone into adolescence. I remember the first time I thought I had gotten away with a lie. I had just broken a Hummel figurine passed down to my mother by her grandmother. I knew that if I had told my mother the truth that she would be very upset. So when she asked me about it I wold her that the cat had knocked it down. She was a little upset but she said OK and simply moved on. My mother always had a way of making me feel guilty though. She was talking to my grandmother about it. She said that the hummel I was supposed to get when I turned sixteen had fallen down and broke. So I knew that she could tell I was lying. So later at dinner I told her that I had knocked it down. She told me that she knew I did. What she told me next is engrained in my brain forever she said ” That lie didn’t hurt me it hurt you, I know you told the lie to get yourself out of trouble. Now you have to deal with yourself and your guilt and sometimes that can be worse than any punishment I can give you.”. I will never forget my mother telling me that. You may get away with lying right away but your guilt is what punishes you in the long run.

While stingrays rarely attack humans — only three other deaths by stingray have reportedly been recorded in Australia and only 17 worldwide — their serrated, 20-centimeter (eight-inch) venomous barbs can be as lethal as a knife wound in the chest, experts said.

‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin’s death caught on film – Yahoo! News