Jourdan Mission's blog

I'm not sure if any of you bloggers are from Carson Senior High, but I generally like to read the school newspaper--most in part, to see if I'm in it (narcissistic, I know). BUt there was somethign different in this particular edition-- I was mentioned in it as usual: I defended dodgeball as a true sport, and was mentioned in the Sports section, blah blah blah. These newspapers came out in my first period class, AP Macro Economics, then within 5-10 minutes after these papers were delivered, our school principle announced on the P.A. system that teachers collect the newspapers and return them to the main office. Why? Because there was an arctile printed there that shouldn't have been. Of course, being the curious and rebelious teenagers we all are (even our teacher), we hunted to find the controversial article--and there it was, the monthly edition of "Rambling Rogue". Each year, the Trailblazer (school newspaper) has a secrat identity column where the staff (usually 2-4 individuals form journalism) create a character and pretty much highlight their thoughts and experiences, which usualy pertains to college applications, family problems, etc.  Read More »

Affirmative action--It's sort of like progressive taxation, don't you think? Both somehow find the average in the bell curve of social and taxation inequalities, yet they still address one of the boiling, steaming--shall I say it--UNDERLYING issues in American society. How do we balance the rich and the poor? The rich who tends to be primarily caucasian, and the poor who usually tend to be minorities. Democrats, Republicans, his isn't fair, that's not far, what is fair!?!  Read More »

 Having an abortion is legal. it is straight-up legal.Of cours there are a few conditions to the procedure but it's legal. Yet, this issue is strongly debated throughout the counbtry and guess what, some people have found ways to finagle a certain proposition that could possibly stop abortion or decline the abortion rate rapidly. You kow what it is folks- it the : "Mommy, Daddy, since i'm too young and immature to make decisions that would affect my body, I ABSOLUTELY HAVE to tell you that I'm going to have an abortion. Obviously I either won't be getting one because I'll get the crap slapped out of me and my body could be possibly found at the gutter in the ravine tomorrow, or I'll still get one, but I'll get hell from you and eveyone who knows about it."  Read More »

         I'm serious. I'm not even in college yet and all the stress of applications, grades, and deadlines make me already dread what's ahead. It's not to say that I hate college, it's just that the overwhelming stress makes it feel like I really am in some "Truman Show"-like universe. I do believe that my peers feel the same stress and somewhat mutual feelings.  Read More »