california prison system.

When I read this article about the prison, I was in shock. I cannot believe that they are making these people live this way. I mean granted they have all done horrrible things but that doesn't mean they should be forced to live this way. Something needs to be done. Either they need to build more space for these prisoners or the prisoners need to be moved to other facilities, but living in these cramped situations isn't right.
When they mentioned the idea of letting the prisoners go because they didnt have room for them, that idea scared me. That is the LAST thing that should be done. Even though the living conditions are crap, they still deserve to serve their time for the crimes they have commited.
Also, more schooling needs to be given to the prisoners. There aren't enough classes for them or vocational things for them to do. They will need to become respectable members of society when they get out but how can they if someone doesn't teach them how to be, because its obvious they lack that part since they're in prison in the first place. Someone needs to step up and help these people.

visual analysis

Monday morning we turned in our visual analysis papers we were assigned to write. I, honestly, really enjoyed writing this paper and when I was done with it, I felt I had achieved the goal of the paper and was more than happy to turn it in. It was a whole different way of writing, and looking at things. I wrote about the elementary school I attended, Pine Village Elementary. This new way of writing made me realize a lot of things and brought out some aspects of the school that I hadn't noticed until I really took a good look. Usually when we write about something, we do all the research in books and on the internet, but when you do it visually, you see another side. The experience of this kind of writing was helpful. I don't think I've ever sat down and really analyzed something like that, and that hard. I took in every element of the school, inside and out, and saw a different picture than I had before. This project was a fun one to do after the horrible one we had previous to this.

little late..

For our first project we wrote a paper on multiculturalism. It took me a while before I really knew what I was going to write about, but even when I found out, I still wasn't sure how to do this. This paper was extremely hard for me to write. I waited until the very last minute to write it, which only made things harder for myself. The research and information I found, probably did not give me enough information, at least I don't feel like it did. To me, I felt like this was the worst paper I've ever written. Out of all the papers I have written this year, this topic was probably the toughest, and I think that is why I struggled so much with it. I'm hoping that the next project is easier so I dont put it off as long and I can produce something better than this paper to turn in.