Two teenagers(17-year old Anthony Zarro and 16-year old Christopher Allen) murdered a visiting couple (Paul and Margaret Brooks) from Michigan in just North of Missouri.The murder was carried out in late January of 2013, the exact date was not given because the teens were hiding the bodies. The teens were arrested on January 31st, charged for first degree murder, and armed criminal action. The teens were runaways from Lives Under Construction Ranch, a place where they help young individuals struggling with issues and is very lenient to Christian beliefs. This could be one of the reasons why they committed the crime, maybe they were mentally done with everything and had all this pent up anger within. The teens went through trial and the judge came to a conclusion of trying both as adults. Their next appearance in court will be on May 29.
The brain research could play a role in this case and there was a statement saying the teens were running away. They could have had a brain condition that was very serious but not treated. There hasn't been a punishment sent on both of the individuals but if they were adults they would surely face life in prison.
The juvenile court system is handling this case fairly well but I would consider running some test on the brains of the teens or any other past events that could have triggered this action. Then again if the individuals knew what they were doing was wrong then there is really no other excuse than to put them through our court system as adults. The only consideration we should put in our juvenile court system is brain research because we really don't know if the criminal had no control of their actions, but if he/she knew what they were doing was inhumane then they should be tried as adults.
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Juvenile's Charged as Adults
In the beginning of our various readings, I always had my mind open to whether or not charging minors as adults. I really relied on the situation, depending on the age and the level of the crime they did. Most of the readings we went over had cases where most of these kids had some sort of indication that whatever they were doing was wrong. One of the cases really showed that the criminals knew what they were doing, for example the teenagers that murdered their grandma and took her money just for pizza. This was just an inhumane act on the teenager's part and they're at the age in which they know what is right from wrong. In another case where a twelve year old killed a six year old girl by preforming a move that he saw in his favorite wrestling show. He was sentenced to life in prison, that kid still had a whole life ahead of him but it was justifiable from all the damage he caused. Maybe a lesser time frame would be justifiable, but the kid shouldn't have left unpunished. There is a questioned that pops out from the article"The Brain on Trial", should we put criminals in jail for ding a crime based on their mental well being? In those cases most of the criminals developed brain tumors and didn't act like themselves. Now the question is are they mentally ill when they committed the crime? We should have an outline going through every aspect before we lock the juvenile in jail, for example their mental well being and how he or she was raised.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Dumpster Diving
After going through the presentation of dumpster diving it really opened my eyes to what it actually was. I just had a clue that homeless and the less fortunate would go into a dumpster and get whatever could useful. The short clip that was shown really helped me understand how it is, it's not just a bunch of people going into dumpsters to collect anything that has value. What I don't understand is why are big named stores throwing out all of these food products that are still edible and not giving them to the less fortunate. Onto the question that was asked, that if I would ever go dumpster diving to get resources? The short answer is yes I would. If the circumstances were really bad and I had to survive, I would not think twice about doing it. Sure I would be embarrassed to do it because it's very unsanitary, but in the end I would rather be looking very bad than starving myself to death.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Responses to today's presentations
Drug abuse in kids dealing with their parents being divorced:
Raising a kid a one tough job not just for the parents but it's all very tough on the kid too. Having divorced parents is very difficult for children to deal with and statistics show that there's an increase in drug abuse because of it. Parents should always be there for their children but everyone knows marriages are never perfect, these numbers should raise awareness to divorced couples to pay more attention to their kids. The statistics shouldn't only be decided on the divorce, there are many kids that have a stable family but have drug abuse problems. It should also depend on how the child was raised but divorce is still a huge factor to it.
Magic madness:
I have actually never seen an actual magic trick being performed in front of me but I have seen numerous videos or shows that have done tricks that have amazed me. I was very surprised but I also had many questions like if it was reality or not. I was really into the whole magic scene back in middle school, I was into card tricks and other types of tricks.
Raising a kid a one tough job not just for the parents but it's all very tough on the kid too. Having divorced parents is very difficult for children to deal with and statistics show that there's an increase in drug abuse because of it. Parents should always be there for their children but everyone knows marriages are never perfect, these numbers should raise awareness to divorced couples to pay more attention to their kids. The statistics shouldn't only be decided on the divorce, there are many kids that have a stable family but have drug abuse problems. It should also depend on how the child was raised but divorce is still a huge factor to it.
Magic madness:
I have actually never seen an actual magic trick being performed in front of me but I have seen numerous videos or shows that have done tricks that have amazed me. I was very surprised but I also had many questions like if it was reality or not. I was really into the whole magic scene back in middle school, I was into card tricks and other types of tricks.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Translation on Guaman Poma
I chose to translate Ch. 20: The "Good Government" pg. 438. This text was difficult to understand, let alone translating it.
"In the month of January, in fifteen hundred sixty one [or to go] the governor of Count of Nieua. Don Antonio de Mendoza, the government leader at the time was Carlos."
"The fourth ruler of Peru, Diego López Zúñiga and Velasco, Conde de Nieva (1561-1564), and the second ruler, Don Antonio de Mendoza (1551-1552), who is portrayed on this page . To Guaman Poma you forgot to include in its list of the top ten rulers in the name of Count de Nieva, it rectifies this mention to put the finishing touches to the text. Guaman Poma continued working on his presentation of the rulers until the last moment (see GP, p. 466 and note 1, p. 474 and note 1). This exhibition and the chapter of "good government" is the gallery of rulers in the central of Poma's work, see this site Adorno, 2002"
With my understanding of the chapter so far is that Guman Poma wrote this chapter to describe the leaders or in this case the rulers overtaking his homeland. Also drawing them and describing them because they were a big part of his work
"In the month of January, in fifteen hundred sixty one [or to go] the governor of Count of Nieua. Don Antonio de Mendoza, the government leader at the time was Carlos."
"The fourth ruler of Peru, Diego López Zúñiga and Velasco, Conde de Nieva (1561-1564), and the second ruler, Don Antonio de Mendoza (1551-1552), who is portrayed on this page . To Guaman Poma you forgot to include in its list of the top ten rulers in the name of Count de Nieva, it rectifies this mention to put the finishing touches to the text. Guaman Poma continued working on his presentation of the rulers until the last moment (see GP, p. 466 and note 1, p. 474 and note 1). This exhibition and the chapter of "good government" is the gallery of rulers in the central of Poma's work, see this site Adorno, 2002"
With my understanding of the chapter so far is that Guman Poma wrote this chapter to describe the leaders or in this case the rulers overtaking his homeland. Also drawing them and describing them because they were a big part of his work
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Blog in Progress
War brings out the worst in all of the countries including its
citizens. In the novel “The Things They Carried”, the narrator talks about his situation
on making a decision to go to the Vietnam War. Throughout the chapter he goes
back and forth between not going because he sees no justifiable reason why the
United States became involved with the war and he did not deserve being drafted
to Vietnam (he was too good). Although he had some good implications about
running away and avoid getting drafted, the opposing side took over, because he
was fearful of being called a coward. In other chapters of the book it also talks about being facing one's fears and move forward. Another story where being called a coward decides the out come is on George Orwell's, "Shooting an Elephant".
Both stories tie into each other really good. In "The Things They Carried", O'Brien goes in-depth about a story he has never told anyone (Chapter: "On a Rainy River) , he wanted to runaway to avoid the war. O'Brien was really considering feeling the country to avoid the war. Although he had very good reasons to leave like not agreeing to the intervention in Vietnam. He was really close to cross towards Canada and avoid being drafted, but then he thought about what would happen in return for his action. O'Brien was going to be called a coward for not fighting for his country when it was at it's need. America is very patriotic and having someone that doesn't want to fight for America. He later decides to leave to Vietnam. This also ties into another chapter in the book named "The Dentist". In that chapter a soldier named Curt Lemon is terrified of dentists and faints when there was a check up on his team. He later went back to the dentist and insisted that he had a tooth ache and got his tooth pulled out. Even though he was not being called a coward or talked down upon he faced his own fear and did it.
Both of these chapters also show similarities to George Orwell's, "Shooting an Elephant". they all revolve around the same implications of men becoming overwhelmed with the title of being a coward. In "Shooting an Elephant", the narrator is faced with a complication of shooting an elephant that escaped from it's owner that was doing nothing wrong at the moment where he saw it. The narrator had his gun loaded with a whole crowd behind him to see the shooting of the elephant. Although he reconsidered shooting the animal and backing away, he decides to go ahead and shoot it. He was scared of being called a coward or "lesser of a man" because he backed away at the last second. All of these have a connection of men being fearful of being called a coward from their peers and eventually either facing their fears or choosing the path or the action they do not wish to do.
Both stories tie into each other really good. In "The Things They Carried", O'Brien goes in-depth about a story he has never told anyone (Chapter: "On a Rainy River) , he wanted to runaway to avoid the war. O'Brien was really considering feeling the country to avoid the war. Although he had very good reasons to leave like not agreeing to the intervention in Vietnam. He was really close to cross towards Canada and avoid being drafted, but then he thought about what would happen in return for his action. O'Brien was going to be called a coward for not fighting for his country when it was at it's need. America is very patriotic and having someone that doesn't want to fight for America. He later decides to leave to Vietnam. This also ties into another chapter in the book named "The Dentist". In that chapter a soldier named Curt Lemon is terrified of dentists and faints when there was a check up on his team. He later went back to the dentist and insisted that he had a tooth ache and got his tooth pulled out. Even though he was not being called a coward or talked down upon he faced his own fear and did it.
Both of these chapters also show similarities to George Orwell's, "Shooting an Elephant". they all revolve around the same implications of men becoming overwhelmed with the title of being a coward. In "Shooting an Elephant", the narrator is faced with a complication of shooting an elephant that escaped from it's owner that was doing nothing wrong at the moment where he saw it. The narrator had his gun loaded with a whole crowd behind him to see the shooting of the elephant. Although he reconsidered shooting the animal and backing away, he decides to go ahead and shoot it. He was scared of being called a coward or "lesser of a man" because he backed away at the last second. All of these have a connection of men being fearful of being called a coward from their peers and eventually either facing their fears or choosing the path or the action they do not wish to do.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Vietnam Picture Response
Vietnam in my opinion was the most controversial war in America to this date. There were many photographs of actual soldiers in combat. This picture really struck out to me. A sergeant is taking cover behind some sort of a hill looking over his soldier who has been shot in the head by an enemy sniper. In the picture's description it describes the picture as that the wounded soldier did not follow the advice that was given to him by watching out for snipers.
The sergeant looks very tired and worried about his wounded soldier. His facial expressions say it all that everything that is going on around him is the reason that he is very fatigued, not just physically but also mentally. He's leaning on his gear hiding for the most part from the snipers and looking upon a wounded teammate. The wounded teammate on the other side is lying down on a backpack with endless supply of head bands wrapped around him. By the way of his body language his is extremely exhausted and also very hurt. The wounded soldier wishes he could be somewhere else at this moment, back to his home and loving family. The only thing he can do is hope for the best and heal up to continue to fight back home.
The sergeant looks very tired and worried about his wounded soldier. His facial expressions say it all that everything that is going on around him is the reason that he is very fatigued, not just physically but also mentally. He's leaning on his gear hiding for the most part from the snipers and looking upon a wounded teammate. The wounded teammate on the other side is lying down on a backpack with endless supply of head bands wrapped around him. By the way of his body language his is extremely exhausted and also very hurt. The wounded soldier wishes he could be somewhere else at this moment, back to his home and loving family. The only thing he can do is hope for the best and heal up to continue to fight back home.
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