Walk The Walk

Greetings readers and fellow colleagues! I would like to start this post by giving a little personal information about myself. I was born and raised in the (sarcastically) wonderful town of Vallejo, CA. I have many hobbies; most of them are physical activities such as running, surfing, biking, and all that jazz. However, I do have an extreme love for computers, video games, and basically anything tech.

Ever since I was a little kid, I was always fascinated by computers. I would always strive to answer any questions I had via hands on self-teaching. I would constantly find myself popping open a computer tower to unplug and inspect all the parts. I would always get a feeling of satisfaction whenever I would close up the tower, power up the computer, and have it work as if I never tampered with it.

This love for computers has only grown over the years, and blossomed into a desire. A desire to have a stable career in any sort of tech corporation. There's many fields of computer science that I'm interested in: be it a software engineer, IT specialist, bug tester, or anything in between. Fortunately for me, I'm headed down the right path to accomplishing my goals.

Death Sentence in Georgia Sparks Major Contraversy

        Once again, there is another Death Sentence case floating around the media, though it's not just your average death sentence. The sentence was issued to a one Troy Davis. He was convicted of murdering a police officer (Mark MacPhail) on August 19, 1989. Multiple people had said that they saw Davis physically shoot MacPhail, and even some said that Davis had confessed the murder to them personally. Despite this "evidence", the case was still one of the most controversial cases in a long while. Me personally, I am for the death sentence, just as long as there's really hard evidence against the person, and every story matches up. If a person was convicted of a death-penalty worthy crime, and there's any sign of a hole in the case, they should not have to face the death penalty. That being said, I believe that Troy Davis should have only served jail time, even if it was life. There were so many holes in his case: the gun was never found, only bullet casings that were traced to Davis; many witnesses changed their testimonies, saying that they saw a man who was with Davis shoot the cop, rather than Davis himself. I was surprised to see that there were so many famous people against the execution: Sean "P Diddy" Combs, former president Jimmy Carter, and even Pope Benedict XVI. The NAACP even tried to get President Obama involved, even though he doesn't have the power to grant Davis clemency for a state conviction. Obama felt that choosing a side in the case wouldn't be a good idea, so he respectfully declined. Though I do believe that there was enough evidence to have a case against Davis, I most definitely believe that there was not enough to sentence him to the Death penalty.

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Author: Greg Bluestein

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/ga-executes-davis-supporters-claim-injustice-031409578.html

My High School Experience

     My experience in high school left a lot to be desired. It was filled with missing teachers, slacking substitutes, unruly children, and classes constantly being cut, just to name a few. During senior year, I had a Spanish2 class that didn't have a teacher the entire year. Every day, we had a new sub. All I did in that class was play cards with my friends, and get an A. It was absolutely ridiculous. The lack of staff was not the only problem with that school. The children there weren’t the most well behaved bunch. Fights would break out constantly, so often to where there would be about three cops patrolling the school at all times. Also, there were little to no extra classes available. It reached the point to where it was basically just History classes, Science classes, Math classes, Government and Economics, and Spanish.  One could probably blame all this pandemonium on the immediate area the school was located in, but I believe that the real problem was the fact that being located in Vallejo really gave it no hope at all.

          

Grammatical Effects of Unintentional Peer Pressure.

          For a large chunk of our childhood, all we know is parents. They're the ones (in most cases) who taught us how to speak in the first place, so of course they're the majority share holders of our speech methods. I believe that all that changes when a child has his first day of school. It's a new world, and that child will no doubt be hearing words they've never heard before, and not just words, but how they're pronounced as well.  Such is the beauty in the flexibility of the English language.

         I feel that the older you get, the more you create your own certain style of language, and the impact others may have on you becomes less and less. I say that mostly because that is how my childhood was. Coincidentally, it seems as though my English straightened up soon after graduating from high school.
   
        I would like to say that the entirety of slang has left me for good, but that would be quite impossible. When hanging out with my circle of friends, one of us would come up with an incredibly hilarious word or phrase to describe something. It didn't necessarily have to make sense (in fact, most of the time, it didn't), but we all knew from then on what it was, and would giggle every time one of us used it. We're constantly coming up with new phrases, and discarding the old. Thought it may sound like nonsense to anyone in our immediate area at the time, we all know exactly what the other is talking about... But I guess that's basically what slang is, right?