Huckleberries Adventures Through Society

The movie we watched in class brought up some very interesting points in regards to the use of the N word in his novel. I believe that this shouldn't even be an issue. People want to whitewash a primary source! That's crazy to me you cannot just forget a part of history and even thought it might hurt and you might feel offended by it you simply cannon forget it. That would be like just forgetting in 100 years from now the Darfur Genocide, or in 50 years trying to pretend the Holocaust even happened. The "slogan" of the holocaust today, i would say is "Never Forget". Why would anyone want to simply forget the hardships their people faced in the past. It just doesn't register with me.  

I also don't like how schools actually were listening to the parents about banning this book. In most districts the parents are blue collar workers. Why would educators listen to non-educators in relation to a education issue who do you think knows better, parents or teacher. 

People need to get over the offensive aspect of the book. Sometimes learning takes more that just listening to a teacher, it takes self thought and actually thinking how this word affects you today, and how this word was used in the past. 

How are Women Treated Today?

The Idea of women and children still being pushed before men in society is still applicable today. Many instances of this are apparent, Still on cruise ships, they command that women and children be but in life vests and boats before men do. In media sources, their is always more sympathy towards women rather than men. Because they are viewed at the weaker sex they need more protection. In those underdog movies, a women is usually part of the "weaker"team. A hidden message that allows people to always believe that men dominate women in most aspects. I believe that women like Hilliary Clinton and breaking that rule. Though i dont believe genderisum to be a large problem in this country at all, it is an issue that many males, and females need to be familiarized. 

Maybe VP for Richardson?

Bill Richardson the 4th place democratic candidate has just dropped out of the election now leaving 3 big runners, Clinton, Obama and Edwards. After winning a small 2% of Iowa and only 8% of NH, governor Richardson just did not see it feasible to run any more. I felt i could connect with him on a multitude of issues such as education reform and the environment. He had a proposed a starting wage of 40,000 for all new teachers in order to encourage a decrease in the student to teachers ratio. His views on the environment are strong, he calls for a 50% decrease in oil by 2020 and a 90% reduction in green house gases by 2050. He believes we should make our efforts stronger because we are leading the world, and they will be following. If people were also looking for diversity in their candidate, he was hispanic. However he did not use this fact to his advantage with in the end i believe lost him his chance. 

Maybe this drop out will not be the end for Richardson, I can only hope that if the winner is democratic, they choose him as their VP. That would be grand. 

Candidates Advantage

While looking for interesting articles on the Washington post web site. I came across the election ’08 category. There was a link to this page that could tell you the candidate your views were most similar to. I decided to try this out. In my opinion, Obama and Clinton are two of the most publicized candidates out there. Because of that I have heard very little about any of the other democratic candidates. After taking the quiz, they show the results in a bar graph and the larger the bar the more similar you are to that certain candidate. Shockingly I was more compatible with someone who I had never even heard of, Bill Richardson.

Not that I do not agree with many of the arguments of Obama and Clinton. I believe that their different characteristics than all presidents past, like skin color and gender, cause many people to only look at them for our future because Americans are tolerant and we can adapt to new ideas. Not that I do not want America to become diverse in all aspects, I just feel that because some is diverse or different, their odds at wining should be the same as everyone else. I believe that theses candidates are using their characteristics for publicity and not allowing any more room for other candidates to be in the spotlight.

Just because a candidate is more diverse does not mean they should be valued over other candidates.