Christmas

Christmas is about being with your family and being kind to everyone you know even though you may not like them. Christmas is also a time for charity and helping those who have less than yourself by donating food, time and money.

Invisible Children

Invisible Children is an organization that helps to fight the war crimes of the LRA and protect the people of Central Africa from the LRA.They help donate money to the villages in order to help them communicate and locate where the LRA is so they can protect themselves. The LRA commits many atrocities including cutting of there enemies body parts and they often abduct innocent children and force them to be soldiers and fight for the LRA. The LRA abduct hundreds of children each year and refuse to agree to any peace talks with the government prolonging the war. Invisible Children was started by a group of kids who decided to visit Africa and met some of the children who had been abducted and heard there horror stories. These kids decided that they needed to do something to help these African kids so they made a documentary about all the things these kids have been forced to do and all the things that they have went through because of the LRA. The kids raised money for the people of Uganda and also got the war more attention around the world, they also organized many protests in Washington D.C. which forced the government to take action. Invisible Children convinced the president to help protect the people of central Africa through money and soldiers. Invisible Children also put an end to night commuting which was when people would have to go into towns to sleep because it wasn't safe to be so secluded at night. They have built a school for the children affected by the war so they can become educated even though they don't have enough money for their education. Invisible Children has also created warning radio towers that track the LRA and alert local security of the LRA. They have gotten the war so much attention that American soldiers have been stationed in Central Africa and are searching for Joseph Kony the leader of the LRA.

Westboro Baptist Church

The Westboro Baptist Church is a church that pickets many controversial things such as the funerals of soldiers killed in action.The WBC is very hateful and has unusual beliefs compared to other beliefs of Christianity. They believe that God is punishing America because they of the gay people in America, many people see these beliefs to be immoral.Not only do the protest the gay community they also protest the Jewish community. The people of the WBC believe that the gays and Jews have no human dignity because they believe God hates them. The WBC also make parody's of many songs including Michael Jackson's charity song We Are the World. Many moral people have stood up against the WBC including the district attorney of Topeka who vowed to end the WBC.

Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is a very serious issue among teens today. Cyberbullying can ruin many teenagers life and is one of the largest forms of bullying around. Cyberbullying is the use of the internet and related technologies to harm other people in a deliberate, repeated and hostile manner. Because of the amount of technology teens have today it is very easy to be a cyberbully. According to statistics most cyberbullying happens on instant messaging over the internet.
In 2006 one survey said that 42 percent of middle school children have been cyberbullied and 38 percent have been threatened while online. There are many laws that prevent teenagers from cyberbullying one another. In Arkansas in 2007 they passed a law that allowed school officials to punish children for cyberbullying even if the bullying didn't occur on school grounds which gave the schools a lot more freedom to punish the bullies. In New York state the government created a system that investigates cyberbullying claims so that the can prosecute the culprits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-bullying
http://www.cyberbullyalert.com/blog/2008/10/cyber-bullying-state-laws-and-policies/
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/what_is_cyberbullying_exactly.html

Bullying

Blake Owens

Catholic Morality

                The first article is about a girl that goes to Victor High school and is getting bullied by her classmates in Victor. Other girls in her grade are constantly sending her hateful texts. She believes that people need to be more aware of the harsh bullying that goes around schools and its cruel affect on people’s lives.

                The second article was about a kid named Jim Harold who gets bullied by his peer as a child. Jim eventually moved to Webster and changed schools to Webster Thomas, at Webster Thomas Jim was diagnosed with Aspergers. Jim now believes that the bullying he received as a child turned him into the person he is today.

                The third article was about a girl that was asked on a date by an older boy. She was bullied by the boys friends physically in school.

                Jamey Rodeymeyer was a gay boy from the buffalo area who took his own life this year. Lady Gaga was one of his role models, she felt very bad that he killed himself because he was obsessed with him.

                Alan L said that “Bullying is spreading through schools everywhere and needs to be stopped.” Brian B says that bullying is wrong and should not be done.”Kyle knows through experience that some kids are tender and after getting bullied go home and cry. Mr. Miller also says that bullying is mean.

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1.       Women are to be excluded from jobs that could be hazardous to a fetus.

      i strongly agree because that could be bad for the baby

1.       Poor refugees from war-torn countries must be allowed into the United States.

i strongly agree because they should get a chance to live in america