Assignment #5

The litigants in the Mozert case argued that the textbooks their children used were not "balanced" when it came to the presentation of controversial topics. What specific complaints did they have about the Holt reader? Were their concerns reasonable for textbooks used in a public school? Why or why not?

The Holt books emphasized tolerance for diversity, and the protesters said they wanted their children to obey without question. Instead, the new readers promoted creative thinking and independent decision making. Their concerns were reasonable for the textbooks used in public schools, because they were not teaching their religion, Christianity. The public schools were said to be violating the First Amendment with the promotion of one religion, at the expense of another.

My Valentine's Day sucked.

Instead of having a Valentine, I got in a fight with some stranger. I was driving down the street right across from Disneyland, and some girl and her boyfriend thought me and my friends were following them. This is a one way street mind you, and we were on our way home from the beach. This guy got out of his girlfriend's car, and he's about 6'3, 250 lbs, and in the middle of the intersection, he hits my window with his fist, but he didn't break it. My friend who was sitting shotgun, got out to handle the situation, and they go at it, in the middle of the street. My other friend jumps out to get his back, and he jumps on the guys back to choke him off my other friend. The light turns green, the traffic moves, and they all move to a parking lot off the street. I pull in, park my car, and now its three on one. This guy was scared at this moment. My two friends go at it again with him. I go up to him, after telling some by standers to call the police, which they don't come until twenty minutes later, and start ripping this guy a new asshole for destroying private property, and assulting my friend. He tries to get away, and me and my friend take him down. He got in his car, and my friend, whose face was cut up a little bit and bloody, starts bashing in his face for a good 30 seconds. The police are still not here, and my other friend had to pull him off, because I wasn't going to stop the ass whooping the guy deserved. His girlfriend said we scared her with our rapping in the car, and so I said that gives you justification to start hitting someone? She then calls my friend a "queer" for no reason, and I asked her, what makes him a queer all of a sudden? She said because he scared her. WTF?!? These two people were just a couple of racist bigots. My friends stick around to file a police report with the cops who take forever to show up, and I leave to go home and eat dinner. What a happy Valentine's Day huh?

Assignment #3

The image portrays exactly the meaning of tyranny of the majority with the phrase,"If everyone was jumping off a cliff, would you do it too?" In other words, just because everyone else is doing it, doesn't mean that you should. Take my brother's girlfriend for example, she sees the celebrities eating Pinkberry yogurt, and now she has to have that crap. When really it is just some over priced yogurt that you can get at any supermarket. It's all part of the whole materialistic lifestyle that people live, with their gucci this and coach that. It makes me sick.