Trayvon Martin's death made hoodies a political statement

     17-year-Old Tryavon Martin was killed walking home from the store buying a drink and skittles. He was killed because he had on a hoodie, which made him look ‘suspicious’. Organization all over the country and walks was held making a statement about racial profiling. Chuck Williams stated that, “A white boy wearing a hoodie he’s a college student, a black boy wearing a hoodie is a professional thug”. This shows that black males wearing hoodies are being judged automatically as criminals or suspicious. On Friday when I went downtown there were so many people down there. At Love Park they had protesting against hoodies being a sign. There were people wearing hoodies that said on it “Do I look suspicious?” and having skittle wrappers taped on it. I think its unfair that they didn’t arrest the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman. It is a sign of racism because people always think black males in hoodies look suspicious but white males don’t. You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. It was good and nice that they held protest all over the country for Trayvon wearing a hoodie when he was killed saying he looked suspicious but people and children get killed everyday and it isn’t even paid attention to. All over social networks like Facebook and Twitter many people were posting up tweets about Trayvon Martins death. Last week all people talked about was Kony 2012, now this week is Trayvon, what is going to be next weeks? I think that people are just jumping from topic to topic that’s in the news.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120326_Trayvon_Martin_s_death_made_hoodies_a_political_statement.html

Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage

More women under 30 are having babies without being married observations shows. In the article it says that from back then in the 50’s there wasn’t birth control or condoms like today and people though having a child and being married was the right way. Now possibly the shirking of paychecks for men mad women not want to be with them. In addition, women became more of hard working mothers. I think less people are marrying before having because the age of having sex is starting to become popular to a younger crowd and since they’re still young they maybe still be looking for love or they might not be that interested in them. It is bad that more women are having kids out of marriage because it could because I would have many problems with the baby father and paying child support. It could lead to going to court. I would want a man by my side. This trend is a bad thing because it would make males look bad. Women taking care off all there children and the father is not even in there life. My parents are married, they got married before I was born and a year later had my sister and me. They have been married for 16years being 17 in July. It would make a difference if they weren’t married and they had us because it could lead to depression. For example many teenagers don’t like that they’re parents aren’t today was a big happy family. I expect to get married when I get older. I would want to raise a family, get married first then have kids because I would want my kids to experience a big loving happy family instead of always asking me “where is my daddy?”

The Down and dirty on the "New iPad"

     The new iPad is going to come out on March 16^th. The prices will be $499 for 16GB’s and Wi-Fi, $599 for 32GB and $699 for 64GB. The size of the new iPad screen is a 2048x1536 resolution. The features on the new iPad are more updated and visual. The new iPad that is coming out will probably get sold out because people love Apple and everyone buys it. Even though it is pricey. The iPad 2 will now be the price $399 when the new one comes out. I think the new iPad cost a little bit over budget because everyone wont be able to afford it. If the lower the price the more buys it will get. When another iPad comes out after this one the price will be lower and people wouldn’t like that because they bought it for a lot of money and now its lower. Just like the iPod, when it first came it costs a lot of money, now that’s its not as popular no more its cheap. I just think its ripping people off because apple computers run slow. In school not only Mr. Petro, (Journalism Teacher) Apple computer run slow but a lot of other the same computers around the school do to. Apple is too high because they sell earphone for $50, which shouldn’t cost that, much. I can buy a pair earphones for $5 dollars. Apple will be mostly likely at selling out of the new iPad but it is very costly.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/tech_gaming/141794246.html

Facebook Can Be Using You

When people post things on facebook advertisements related to the subject can come up and colleges , schools and Jobs can look at your information of facebook if they want to know about you. They can use what you post on the Internet against you. I don’t think what I post online ca be used against me because I don’t post personal things on facebook and when I tweet on twitter its things that will catch people attention. I would post certain things because I don’t want people knowing my business. I also think what I post online cannot be used against me because I don’t start problems with people. They could probably have things to say about me without going online. I am more concerned because I only thought your facebook friends can see what you post but actually people can watch over you. What I write online can affect the views colleges and jobs have on me. If you post pictures doing illegally things online its possible you can get into a lot of trouble and they may not want you. They shouldn’t see people personal info because we need our privacy. It sounds like they are being stalkers towards use. They wouldn’t want people trying to be nosey and see what they do in their spare time. . So people need to be more aware of what they post online because business works or interview people can see it and think bad about you. But I don’t think it really should matter.

Man loses legs on Train tracks in S.J.

Being sent to Cooper University hospital in Camden, New Jersey a 29 years old man was found lying on the train tracks after losing both of his legs. The police officer says he heard the train form for about 30 seconds straight. It happened aroudn11am. He figured that there was something wrong and somebody was on the tracks. 29-year-old John Curson Jr was found lying on the tracks screaming for his life. I think it is very sad that he was found like that because no one was there to help him. It is so bad that he had to lose both of his legs and will be in disability or handicap for the rest of his life. I would never want this to happen to me because I wouldn’t be able to do regular things I would like to do. It’s also good he still alive because his legs could of been bleeding to death to the point were he wouldn’t had enough blood in his body and died. I wonder why he was even on train tracks. How was he even hit by a train? This is sad, that a person would lose two legs worse than one. I do not know what I would do without my legs. I would probably cry all day everyday. I would not be a regular person anymore. It would be good for him because he would get money from the government. For example if someone in a wheelchair the government gives them checks because because employers and society discriminate against them so they can't earn a livable wage.

Im a Criminal & So are you

   Many people have broken the law, and so did people in jail. But regular people don’t think of their selves as criminals because they haven’t been caught. Criminals in jail get discriminated against when they get out of jail. Little things that people do everyday that is breaking the law, people have years in prison for it. I don’t think that it is fair that people gets life in jail for little things they may do. Everyone committed a crime or broke the law before, even if they didn’t know it was breaking the law. The rights of convicts is not fair like they may not be able to vote, or work at certain places or not even buy their own house. They still are citizens of the U.S. Just because they have committed a crime before and did jail time doesn’t mean citizen privileges should be taken away from them. Like if you went to jail at 17years old and got out when you were 20yrs; and the age of 40 or even 50 you still would be banned from doing things according to your record. It is not fair. Some people may even go to jail and when they get out they get treated unfairly, for something they didn’t do. Like on a TV I was watching, these teenage boys got accused of raping a lady and they kept saying they didn’t do it but no one believed them. About 15 years later a man admitted that the teenage boys didn’t do it and it was really him. The people just go by what people say and not by evidence. Honest people get put in jail mistakenly for things they didn’t even do.

Photoshopped or Not? A tool to Tell

In many pictures of celebrities in advertisements and magazines pictures are touched up or photoshopped. It removes wrinkles, blemishes, and pimples, takes off weight and lengthens height. But are they touching up the photo a little too much? Dr.Farid was interested in it after reading photo-labeling proposals. He wants to be able to start using a measuring tool to tell how much a photo has been touched up. I think overly perfect images of women in a magazine and on TV can cause eating disorders; they may see their self in a magazine, online and on TV and see how much smaller they look. They would want to try and stay that size or be the size they look in pictures that are touched up.  I don’t think altered images should be labeled to know how much the picture has been changed because it would mess up the person’s reputation by them being popular about how they look. Its suppose to be done so it looks real and if the tell how its been edited people would get the impression that most people in magazines don’t look how they look in real life. Many people already edit their pictures to look better on a lot of other websites than Photoshop, you’ll never know until you see them in person. I think retouching photos can help a person mentally. It will have you feeling good and boost your self-esteem up because you may think you look bad. In magazines, looks and body size matter. If it didn’t, all kinds of people would be in it and many readers wouldn’t like it. So touching up photos is good and for trying to get that look that everyone wants.