The policy of affirmative action has caused much debate in whether it should be used in American society. In coming to terms with its fairness, many people tend to disapprove of it overlooking its many benefits. It is, however, one of the best possible way to further the goals of equality in opportunity that doesn’t passively waits for barriers to disappear.
In case you have not yet heard this frightful piece of news, the YFZ Ranch in Texas (YFZ= "yearning for Zion") was a community of fundamentalist members of the LDS Church (i.e. they were Mormons.) Members of this community were practicing polygamy with girls who were as young as 13. Many of these young girls were married to men twice their ages and were being forced to reproduce.
In the past year or so, hate crime laws have become a big issue, largely because of the question over whether or not to include sexual orientation as a motivation for hate crime. I think it should. That is, if we are going to have hate crime laws dealing with race, religion, ethnicity and such, I think that sexual orientation should be included.
In reading through many blogs today, something in particular caught my eye- the idea that making more and more things illegal will create a better world. Upon doing a search in ProgressiveU for the word illegal and here’s what I found:
1) Abortion, as I am sure all of you would have guessed, serves as one of the most argued-upon subject when it comes to creating laws to make it illegal.
This year we had a debate resolution about protecting the rights of unborn children...most speakers went in negation assuming the resolution simply meant abortion...I think the issue is way deeper than that...
here is the speech I used at districts on this topic
So here's some more of it....enjoy.
I have a huge, HUGE problem with the No Child Left Behind act. I hate the law. It does not benefit the public school system, and there is no funding behind it.
A great vocabulary word after thirteen years of public schooling:
Sucks.
No Child Left Behind, it sucks.
A year ago, a young hispanic girl climbed on her bus to high school. She wore a starry red shirt with a blue skirt that had the same red stars. Somewhere between her home and the high school, a young man of caucasian descent sexually harassed her.
