Silence!

Telling a person to be quiet for just a moment and saying they need to reflect on previous experiences or just anything in general could in the the future lead to something more. Can a public school enforce religion into this? Taking a moment of silence is also taking control over the youth. What if someone refuses to be silent? They are now breaking the law. It's against the law to not follow your school's instructions to be quiet and think. Could this moment of silence force people to also reflect on horrifying past experiences? If so, this moment of silence needs to stop.

Are You Blessed?

In class a few weeks ago a small discussion came about when someone used the word "blessed". Similar sayings such as, "God Bless You" or "We are blessed", have secret messages that some people who use these phrases, aren't aware of. I thought that there's nothing wrong with saying either but then Mr. O'Connor raised a good point saying, that the people who aren't "blessed" are in fact "shunned", I then changed my mind to the other side. The other side of me agreed that you have to be careful how you phrase some words. These connotations can be considered offensive to the people that aren't considered blessed or as fortunate.

The Aliens

While learning information about the Quasi War of the 1700's, I repeatedly heard the name "aliens" given to the people. It actually bothered me to hear people being called that because when I think of an alien i think of an unidentified human-like "thing". It doesn't matter where they are from, but all people should be equally called humans. These aliens were give no rights and were very limited as to what they were freely able/allowed to do. Since these times, the world has changed rapidly and almost all people of any country have been given many more rights throughout the years. The only part of this that concerns me is that the authors who published their textbooks, still refered to the people of forgein countries as "aliens". Meaning, the people that were called aliens at the time are still being refered to that, even in today's society because "it's just something from the past."