SEPT 27 2:30 pm

Blog 1 -- Due Sept 29

Assignment: Write 150 words or more in response to the post below. Due 9/29.

Most people today would agree that slavery is morally wrong and never should have been legal in a civilized society. But in the past many people thought slavery was okay--that there was actually nothing wrong with one person owning another. It's hard for us to imagine today that a large segment of our society condoned slavery--to the point of going to war over the issue.

What issue today compares to slavery in the past? That is, what do you see occurring in today's society that people in the future will look back on and say "I can't believe that was legal"--that it was allowed, condoned, and was common practice among many people?

When the northern states wanted to abolish slavery nationwide, many people in the southern states stood up in protest, and eventually a war broke out. What is a behavior or common practice today that some people would want to abolish, but if we tried to abolish it others would be extremely against doing so, maybe even to the point of going to war over the issue?

Name a problem/issue/behavior you recognize as wrong in our society and then explain why you think it is a problem and what might have to happen for the problem/issue to be resolved. (To answer the question click on the word "comments.")

14 comments:

English student said...

An ongoing issue with society is against news and media relations causing big reactions against stories that doesn't need to be heard by the public. With the recent story of the supposed "cop killer" that has caused many rallies and protests against the suspect getting the death penalty. Media relations has just given fuel to the fire to most of the stories causing it to give others bad feelings and hot tempers. It makes people want to get involved. Recently in local news they stated that there was a shooting over in a project area. As I saw it on the news it made me want to see what actually happened and go to the location and see if I could see anything. In my conclusion media relations and the local new's companies cause our society to take something small and make it big. Hypothetically speaking yes, a corrupted politician is a bad thing, but it will cause some chaos toward the politician and my bring severe consequence. Just leave things alone is what I think. If media relations and new's companies would just leave some of the small stuff or even the bigger stuff to a minimal, we wouldn't have to worry about some things. That is just what I think.

Brandon Hanley

September 22, 2011 8:05 AM

English student said...

A problem in society today would have to be gay rights. A lot of straight and godly people discriminate against them because their with the same sex. But for the people that are have to live with people judging them for what they believe in. I think this is a problem for people because either they just think its wrong for the same sex to be with each other or the bible says that commitment to the same sex is a sin. But it shouldn't matter to anyone if your gay or not it should matter if the person is happy or not with the decision they have made. Gay marriage is still one of the most common things that are discussed in today's society. Many gays are fighting for what they believe in and our even getting laws passed to allow them to be married to the one they want to be with. This issue might not seem right but to the people that our or support someone that you know, and might always seem like a big deal. But it will fade away like slavery and racism which took along time to over come even if we still deal with it today, but in the end they've fought and look where they are now. this could happen and change if they keep their opinions heard and open.

Alexis Hernandez

September 22, 2011 8:05 AM

English student said...

There no telling how many illegal immigrants are in the United State working for someone. Most are crossing the borders illegally with the help with someone in the United States. Now they have to work really hard and a lot of hours to try to pay the person back. But first they have to survive, cause they will work long hours with no pay and barely any food if they eat any at all. They can’t run away from them either, they have nowhere to go? Who will help someone that can’t even speak english, The police won’t help them. The police will keep you out of danger but they will also have you shipped back out to your country. So you are stuck to those kind men that help you get into the United States, Who can beat, and can rape you at any moment. In other words you’re a slave and is going to be one for a very home time on average they work about 3-7 years some can take 10 or even 15. Then when you’re finally done paying them off where you would go? Likely you don’t have any family member so you’re on your own in one of the most business.
Nicholas Bates

September 22, 2011 8:06 AM

English student said...

Really the only thing I can personally think of that is morally wrong in my eyes is abortion. I'm aware that many people have extremely different views on the matter, but to me it's a disgusting thing to do. In the future society may or may not look back and wonder to themselves what the hell were we thinking, but since it is illegal in some states my guess is that it will be outlawed in most if not all in the future.
I think abortion is a problem because first of all it is murder, some will say that a fetus is not a real human being until it is born, but that's a out right lie. A baby's heart starts beating after the first few weeks of life, how can anyone take away a life that hasn't been given the chance to live and did no harm to anyone?.
I understand different people have different circumstances, but In my eyes if you can have sex willingly as a kid in junior high, a teenager in high school or college and an adult then yes you should have to take responsibility for your actions and deal with the consequence. There are so many options as to what you can do, there is adoption;so many people who want to have children can't and want to adopt children everyday.
I can understand if you are a victim of rape..that would be the most devastating thing in the world and having to carry a child of someone who did that to you...but that's all I will say about that topic because it's a touchy subject and the women in that category do not apply to my thoughts on abortion.
I also think that there would be a lot of uproar from many people if it was outlawed in every single state, do I think there would be a war over it? No not really, but I do see protests, mobs, and possibly violence if this were to ever occur. The only way to resolve this problem/issue is just to make it illegal and let that be that, possibly not applying to victims of rape because they were not willing and didn't choose this for themselves...this is what I think.

Kristina Montenegro

September 22, 2011 8:07 AM

English student said...

Kristina Montenegro: I agree with everything she is saying. the biggest problem in this world i would say would be abortion. It is morally wrong! I believe it should be done no matter what happens though; even if you was raped because there is all kinds of women out there that have reason to why they can't have kids. so killing a child even if you was rapped is wrong. i know that it would be so hard to carry a child thinking about what has happened too you but i still don't find it right. what has a child done to you?, he never was asked to be brought into this world or for the parent to make a mistake like that. Everyone knows what is right and wrong. People know what protection is. They should use it if they don't want that too happen. I do think there should be some kind of fight to make sure this is illegal in all states. i don't believe in violence to solve an issue but for people to actually be grown adults about this. what if you weren't here?, what if your mom killed you?, you never got to live this life you have now?, its unfair because those children don't have a say so. so i believe that no matter what it isn't right.

Darcy Willis

September 22, 2011 12:03 PM

English student said...

I think in today,s society, a big problem is discrimination. Discrimination of many different ways including race, sexual gender, religion, and convicts. The main point I want to touch on is convicts. In today's society, everyone expects convicts to get out of prison, get there life on the right track, and get a job. But what i think people fail to realize is that very few employers will hire convicts, regardless of the crime, or if they are "an equal opportunity" they won't hire you. If convicts can't get a job to be able to support there selves and families, what does society expect them to do? Nothing? In result of this, most convicts resort to selling drugs, or stealing/robbing people for a living. I think in-order for things to change that employers need to take a chance and help convicts out with employment. There are tax breaks for employers who choose to hire convicted felons.

September 22, 2011 12:08 PM

English student said...

i say that slavery was a very bad thing in the back of the day.i don't know how people can be chained up all day and getting hit just because they was not doing their work all the time. i don't see how people could work so hard in that hot sun and don't get paid for being out-side that long. i could not just be picking cotton all day and night all my life until i died.slaves did not get no water until they got done with their job was done. chained up was probably the hardest thing for the slaves. they had no freedom at all in them cotton fields.i would have water coolers for the slaves out there and for for them when they got done with their work. i would have gave them breaks at time. i would have never had them chained up. if they tried to run they would just got shot at. i would've had a play ground for the kids to on and just have the adults in the fields working hard day and night.

dre

September 22, 2011 12:29 PM

English student said...

one thing that i agree with that is wrong in society is keeping abortions legal i understand what people go through and if a person’s parents do not agree on their young children having kids at the wrong time but i believe that there are people who can’t experience the feeling of having a child or even being able to say OMG..."IM PREGNANT!" that deserve and would want to take in a child if the parents are not fit for it and make them their own, treat them with love and care. Personally i don’t feel that any person should go through the stress or heartache of knowing that they canceled a life that could have been the next Grammy award winner or the next president or maybe even the richest person in the world i don’t think anyone deserves that. The world cannot continue if people and society continue to take people out of it and cancel the continuing generations.
-Angel Scott

September 22, 2011 12:35 PM

English student said...

Over the summer I read a book about the abuse of women. I was shocked to see that this was still a severely ongoing issue, especially overseas and in Africa. In some of the villages there women are circumcised. It is merely to make women into objects. They also rape women on a fairly regular basis and in my opinion I find it disgusting. I think that every woman should be empowered especially in third world countries because a strong woman can do anything and a strong woman can literally raise the generation that changes the future. I think it is terrible that women are treated as objects because they are obviously people too. Women should have the exact same freedoms as a man, she can do the same things as long as you teach her. It’s scary in the places where they still do things like that and I feel like people should go over and help those women so they can live their lives without fear of being raped and abused by people who think that they are objects.

Sam Lehman

September 25, 2011 3:04 PM

English student said...

ne thing I think that is morally wrong in this society now a days is abortion. I just do not understand how a mother could or even would want to take their own child’s life. Woman who can not have children would die to try over and over again to have one even though they can't. They have to adopt. I believe it is wrong on every level for any woman to have an abortion. I feel that if you are old enough to have sex then you are old enough to take care of a baby and support them. If you do not want to become pregnant then do not have sex. Abortion is a very harsh. Even when you think your baby in you is a fetus, it is still a life that is living inside you the first weeks of pregnancy. The baby does not deserve to die especially through an abortion. It is sad on all the stories you hear that people are trying to make it legal for anyone to have an abortion. If you have sex take responsibility for your actions and do not do an abortion if you do not think you can handle a baby then at least put him/her up for adoption so that someone who is unable to have a child can care and support the life that is in you!
Bailey

September 27, 2011 11:09 AM

English student said...

English student said...

I think a big problem or issue in society today is how we promote drug use and sex and fast money on televisions across the world but get mad when kids result to it. If this problem was resolved by cutting out and banding somethings allowed on t.v I think death rates and teen pregnancy would go down. A down fall would be that those things sell so it would cut back on a lot of money being made and the people that are making the money would definitely have a problem with it. Partially its up to the guardians to monitor what they allow their kids to be involved in and influenced by.

-Matt

September 27, 2011 11:22 AM

English student said...

I agree and i disagree about what the person above me is saying. Abortion is wrong but you can and can’t blame the mother for doing it. She might have a really serious for her doing so. Some women have abortions because they are not well enough established to take care of a child. Another reason is that it could be recommended by a doctor because of a serious maybe even a life threatening medical situation to where she has to do it even though that might be against her beliefs or just because she wants to keep her baby. I’m just saying a lot of people don’t believe in it but because you went through it doesn’t make you a baby killer. I see signs all the time when I drive by clinics of protesters waiting for young girls or women to come out the clinic and they are calling them baby killers harassing them to where the police are being called to the scene and I just think people shouldn’t judge other people when you don’t even know their reason for doing the things they do.

Calysha Atwater

September 27, 2011 11:32 AM

English student said...

I believe that abortions should be legal, plain and simple. Like people said above they made the choice to have sex and they have the choice to fix it. I know for a fact if i was to have a child I’d want to father it, not give it away, and, if i am not able to give it a good life, i become a bad parent in my eyes. I'd rather fix, for lack of a better word, a mistake rather than live with it. If someone can’t have kids, adopt by all means, but not mine. Mine is mine and no matter what, i want to be in my child’s life, so adoption is not an option for me. I’d rather get rid of it and try again later than not be able to give my child the best life possible. Also like people said above, they think its ok to allow rape victims to have abortions, that’s not fair to non-rape victims who do want to go through pregnancy. Equality is what everyone wants, correct? Then why take away freedom of choice, no matter the situation?
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Jack Daniel

September 27, 2011 11:53 AM

English student said...

As I read the Blog I couldn’t really think of something wrong in the world that we struggle with. As I read over some of my classmates responses I agreed with the majority of them. I see a lot of people saying that abortion is a Big problem in the world today and it is. There are a lot of teens getting abortions and even adults. Abortions are harmful and you wouldn’t know unless you look into it. You wouldn’t know unless you have either been through it our know somebody who has. The reason why I say they are bad is because of the process you have to go through. You are actually killing a growing Child. You are killing something that is growing inside of you. Some people go through abortions because of their own personal problems and some do it for no good reason at all. If you lay down and make a baby, Step up and take care of your responsibility.
Akemia Slaughter
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September 27, 2011 12:14 PM