Death Penalty Yes or No

This blog is all about the bombing in Boston and how the punishment for the felon could be related to the harsh crimes that were committed during The French Revolution. 

The article I'm going to talk about is called Suspect in Boston bombing could face death penalty, and within this article it talks about how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged with one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and one count of malicious destruction of property using an explosive device resulting in death. These charges against him have a maximum death penalty. 

While reading this article it is hard to believe that all this was done by two teenagers, how could someone want to hurt so many people. I felt that I could relate this to the penalties that the people that committed a crime had to endure in the time of the French Revolution. During this time the  guillotine was used as the device to kill people who committed different crimes. From my view of this period no one really got a far say in weather they committed the crime or if someone else really did it. So in a way they know they were going to die weather they did the crime or  not.

Going back to the suspect of the Boston bombing, they are not sure how he is going to be charged due to the fact that he is a legal citizen and is critical condition. The government feels that he should have a fair trial and not be tried as a terrorist. I feel that they need to find out more information surrounding why this happened and after that figure out if this teen is part of something bigger or not.

So what do you think does the Government have enough information in order to send this teen to prison with no chance of parole and to serve the death penalty or do you feel that they need to figure out why this happened? 

Here is the link to the article that I read if anyone is interested in reading it: http://www.yalibnan.com/2013/04/22/suspect-charged-in-boston-bombing-could-face-death-penalty/

"Girl Rising"

Hey there, I'm back to talk to you about this article I read from in the world news called Girl Rising and how I was able to relate it to the topic of otherness that we talked about in my World Literature class.

This article is an overview of the film "Girl Rising" which is about nine different girls from all over the world and what they have gone through just to get an education, which is some thing that people in the United States may not take for granted. In the article it talks about how girls in different parts of the world don't really have the right to chose what they get to do with their life, and this film is some girls who are going against their traditions to do something they feel they should have the right to do.

When it comes to World Literature we talked about the topic of otherness while we were reading the book Notre-Dome De Paris. In the context of that story it was to me how people felt awkward around Quasimodo due to his deformities. When it comes to the news article Girl Rising you could take the topic of otherness and say something like these girls feel different when it comes to their education. These girls may feel the sense of otherness because they may feel out casted because they do not have the same education as some people. The otherness can also come in if you talk about how these girls are standing up for what they believe in when it may be frowned upon in their country. People may see them as trouble makers and want nothing to do with them which in return can make the girls feel like they are alone in the fight they are fighting when in reality they are not.

To me otherness plays a big role in this article for the fact that these girls are standing up for what they believe is their right to a good education no matter what their culture may be telling them and that is what makes them different from others, but it also makes them unique in the fight for the right to their well deserved education.
Here is a link to the article if it is something you may be interested in:  http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/girl-rising-documentary-change-world-educate-girls/story?id=18834139#.UXYJ-bXrxOs

The Seventh Seal

Hello again. I'm back to talk to you abut my experience in watching a foreign film. The film I chose to watch was called The Seventh Seal which took place in Sweden in the 1300's.  The overall story is about a knight and his squire coming back from the Crusades and returning to Sweden to find it being effected by the Black plague. The film is the knights journey and how he is trying to find out if there is a God and where people go when they die. One thing I found interesting about this film is that the knight plays a game of chess with the grim reaper. This was one thing that confused me, because I was not quite sure what that was suppose to symbolize.

 Before I started watching this film I was not sure if I was going to like this experience due to the fact that I would have to read the subtitles and try and watch the movie to try and follow along with what was going on. After watching the film it was not as hard as I thought it would be to follow along, even though I didn't always know what exactly was going on with in the story line.

As I was watching the film the one thing that I found my self thinking about a lot was how cruel people really are to each other. There were many scenes in the film showing people breaking into others houses and taking anything that they found to be worth some money. How can people be so rude as to go into someone's home and take things that don't belong to them. Another thing that I was thinking about was how far groups of people would walk and the work they would put in to making a new village to isolate themselves from the plague in hopes of living through it and going on with their every day lives.

Another thing that I was thinking about a lot during this film was what it would be like to live in this time period and go through some of the horrible things these people had to go through. I have been very sick before but I know it is nothing like having this disease and knowing that you are going to die. I really have know idea what it would feel like to have sores all over my body and knowing in little time it will take my life. I think that would be a horrible way to go.

After watching this film it gave me a sense of what the people during this time felt like and what they would do to try and escape the plague, when in fact there was truly no way to escape. It also gave me a sense in how it would feel to live knowing that at any time you could be exposed and in little time be died or dying.