Torture vs No Torture

After reading both sides of the issue of torture, I still believe that it is immoral and wrong no matter what the circumstances. By using torture in jails against others, we are simply as low as the terrorists themselves. Also, how can we know for certain that the person captured does have information that will be of value for the US in the future. How can we have complete evidence we know something, another oops seems inexcusable. It's simply giving other countries reason to torture American soldiers or citizens for information they don't know if we really have. Also I see this as a moral and religious issue. Religion should not play a part in government I believe, but it does have a personal level with me. Not only looking at the facts that are laid down in front of me, but just on my level of thinking. I belive personally that torture is wrong because of my morals and how i was brought up. Others probably see it differently because they learned a different way. Being a Christian effects a lot of my decisions and how I feel about a lot of issues, the idea of torture being one of them. Even after reading both sides of the story, to me torture is sick and never should be used against anyone or anything.

Dead Teens Walking

1. The book and the article are the same because each of the characters are persecuted for the way they act or a crime they have commited. However they are also both abused in their younger ages which shows that how they are brought up affects they way they act. It doesn't actually give reason but it is basically the same background.

2. They were both abused in their younger years.
"Formerly, White Fang had been merely the enemy of his kind, withal a ferocious enemy. He now became the enemy of all things, and more ferocious than ever. To such an extent was he tormented, that he hated blindly and without the faintest spark of reason."
"The case of Robert Anthony Carter, a child of abuse who was put on death row in Texas 15 years ago for crimes he allegedly committed when he was 17 years old, is not atypical. Carter, who is black, grew up in a Houston housing project and was routinely taunted and beaten by other children because his clothes were ragged and dirty. His mother and stepfather would thrash Robert and his five siblings with wooden sticks and electric cords. At age five, he was hit in the head with a brick. At 10, one of his brothers hit him so hard on the head with a baseball bat that the bat broke. Another time, his mother smashed a dinner plate on his head. None of these injuries was ever treated. His IQ has been measured at 74, which is considered semiretarded."

3. I think it's ridiculous that young kids are put on death row. They aren't old enough to even know that what they are doing is wrong. I understand that no matter what age you are killing is wrong, but many of these kids were abused and they don't know the difference. What they need is help not to be put to death. White Fang is just a story so i don't know if i can really make it relate to a real life issue. But it makes sense when you apply it. I don't believe in the death penalty at all so there ya go.

Why We Need A Draft

I don't believe there should be a draft, i can see in extreme cases that one might be needed however i disagree with it. If drafts are reinstated, it will be just like years before where the rich will escape by using their high influence. This is not right in my opinion. People should be rewarded for how they are doing in school, their life choices, not by how much money their parents make. I think that if enough people continue to volunteer to be in the armed forces, it won't be a problem. However, if the draft starts up again I don't think draftees will be as willing or driven as those people who actually voluteer to do these jobs, therefore making it more dangerous for others. I am against war 100% and even more so against a draft so i hope that it will never come to that point again in our nation.

September 11th

I was riding my bike to school and i found out from my neighbor but i didn't think of it as anything. When we got to school my teacher Mrs. Anderson told us what had happened and we watched it in the library with all the other 6th graders. I remember everyone wanting to go home and the teachers were crying. I didn't really understand until then the enormity of the situation and through this we really started to learn about past events of this nature.