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argumentive essay PROPOSAL

I would like to write about " When does freedom of speech become a hate crime?"  people say no it's freedom of speech, but i disagree because when you talk about someone's sex,religion,ethnicity,etc, it hurts them and it is HATEFUL!

photo essay

                                           IS GAY A SIN?

Found this on Facebook back in January of 2012

 

Many people in the world think the life of a homosexual is a sin due to religious thoughts and personal issues with the situation.  Many "gay "or"lesbian" individuals have to seek expectance from anyone they know in some way.  For example parents from the generation before ours definitely were taught that homosexuality was a sin because it was not in the bible. European administrators in the 1870's began to notice that people, instead of building there life around normal values like careers, money and places to live , they were doing it by sexual preference.  People like this became known as "sexual deviants"   Nazi's destroyed archieves about homosexuality, with that, the archieves had thousands of homosexuals on file.  But they were also sent to be killed during the war. The first group of homosexuals founded  in the United States was in Los Angeles in November of 1950.  Ran by a man named Harry Hay, this political movement was the biggest political movement in the US in this century.  This group was known as the Communist Party, by 1953, per the president , being or the suspectance of homosexuality was a significant reason to be fired from your job and possibly even arrested. By the 1960's they had a thing called " gay bashing", it was especially enforced by public officials( police).  In the 1970's the gays had a major breakthrough when they got American Psychiatrist Association to take homosexuality off of the metal illness list,then the had the outbreak of AIDS.  Gay rights have changed dramatically over the past thirty years but many people still to this day , even though certain states do actually allow gay marriage now, definitely "hate " on the situation.  As you can tell people have definitely put gays through many rough situations and obstacals just to be who they are.("Brief History of Homosexuality in America").

Michagan University, Western. "Brief History of Homosexuality in America." A Brief History of Homosexuality in America. 09 Mar. 1997. Web. 02 May 2012. <http://www.gvsu.edu/allies/a-brief-history-of-homosexuality-in-america-30.htm>.

ethnography proposal

  In my ethnography I will be interviewing my father.  He was a police officer for the city of Fall River for 15 years of my life. While he was a police officer, he did many different things in the field.  He was a drug detective, a DEA ( drug enforcment agent ) for Boston, and then finally at the end of his career be brought back the K-9 unit for the city of Fall River after the previous dog officer had been killed in the line of duty a few years earlier.  So I believe I will be able to get a good description on many different sections of the police force.

memoir

Most people would be writing about an incident  or situation they were in when you think about crime and justice, not me, in my case it is the opposite situation.  Growning up when i thought about crime and justice , I thought about of my parents.  My father was a drug detective and my mother was a correction officer in Massachuesettes female prison. What fun for a teenager! As a teenager I hated what my parents did for a living because people acted  like I was a police officer or a corrections officer myself.  Although I was always proud of my parents because they were both truely great at what they did, I still resented them for it during highschool.

   Jason, the boy who made my heart beat double and my palms sweat was sitting right on the side of me in our sophomore history class.  I remember thinking the first day of class when i saw him walk into class was  ," Oh my god, we're in the same class?", worried about what he would think of me or even if he knew i existed i gave him a smile and continued my conversation with me friend that was on the side of me.  When the teacher walked in, he had told us he was going to call everyone out by name alphabetically and would be sitted in that order.  What do you know, it just so happened that our names fell in place that Jason sat directly on the right side of me. Nervous i looked at him and gave him a smile and surprisingly he gave one in return.

   Thoughout the following weeks everyday we seemed be be giving eachother more and more smiles throughout the class and little casual conversations like , " did you do your homework?" or "what are we suppose to be doing today?" Loving the fact that he wasnt ignoring me , I kept my cool and always replied with a smile. 

   One day i was answering questions in our text book that the teacher had asked us to finish and all of a sudden Jason passed me a note! Happy but also wondering if he was just asking me the answer to a question we had i quitely opened the note.  Reading it my heart begin to race.

" Hey Casey, obviously you know it's me Jason , I was wondering if you had a boyfriend? "

Thoughts in my head were going crazy, " Whaaaaaaaaaaat?? NO WAY he's asking me this?

  In my reply I stated " not really", which i definitely didnt at the time but ithought if he knew there was a little competition I could really find out if he really did like me .

  "OOOO ok" , he replied, " Can I still have your number? "

 Screaming inside with excitment I gave him my number and went straight home after school to wait for his call.  ( It's so silly how you act as a teenager) Around 5 O'clock that night he called and wse we talked all night until our phones were going to die.

For about another two weeks our conversations became longer , we hung out after class with friends and a few ties by ourselves.  Then one night we we're on the phone and the question I was dreading finally came.  " What do your parents do for a living?"

  Dreading his response to my answer , but still not wanting to lie to him i said, " Oh, my dad is just a cop and my mom is a prison guard" , trying to make it seem like it wasn't anything scary, because as a teenager we seem to be scared of police officers.

   Afte a few seconds of silence he finally answered, "  ooooohh that's cool" in not a so convincing voice .  About a hhalf hour after that he wanted to end the conversation ealier then normal, this is when i knew we we're going to be together.  Sad and upset at the time I became upset with my parents, not realizing they went to work everyday and risked there lives and myself and other people, but as a teenagr you seem to only think about what is good for yourself. 

   The next few days Jason starting calling less and seemed a little reluctent during class.  I then wrote him a note and asked him what was going on and his reply made me so upset and mad at he same time simply because it wasn't my fault .  " I dont think I could handle being around a cop and a prison guard all the time, your dad scares me ."

    Hurt about the situation I quickly got over him , like most teenagers do , still hating the fact that friends and potectional boyfriends were scared to come to my house I still survived and grow up.  I am now 25 years old, I have a beautiful 16 month old daughter kylee and a new baby on the way.  It's amazing on how much I have grown since highschool . Especially being a parent myself now , I totally understand why my parents did what they did.  They tried to help others in need and and make the place where I grew up safer for everyone nto just myself.  Now being a parent myself, nothing in this entire world is more important than my childs well-being and safety. I can only hope to be such a great parently figure like my parents were for me.

This advertisment is concentrating on " women

abuse".  Describing that women do not need to live in fear of their significant other, and if the are in

the unfortunate situation that they are in fear, there is help 24 hours a day .  The desription shows a

women sitting on the floor in front of the door in the fetal condition, scared of someone. This article

shows hope for battered women.  Shows them what type of force from their significant other can be

considered abuse because not all women know what their significant other should or shouldnt be doing

or what is considered to be abuse. Unfortunatly some women are beaten of threatened daily.  This

advertisement mainly targets women due to the actual picture, but doesnt nessecarly mean women are

the only people that are battered.  In some cases men and especially children are also the ones being

abused even though this specific advertisement is for women.  This subject with very emotional for

anyone that is experiencing abuse.  When people are being abused , they become very fearful to leave

their significant other not only from threats but afraid of the outcome after they leave.  What will

people think of them?, where will I go, this is my home?, will he find me and make things even

worse? Questions like that seem to hold people back from actually being strong enough to get out

and get themselves help, and out of this horrible situation.  I like the design of the advertisement

because the visual image connects well with it's actually message on women abuse.