best advice

I think that the bast advice I've ever gotten is be true to your self. This advice changed my life. When i was in elementary and middle school I had a tight group of friends. In elementary school it was fine but in middle school i started realizing that none of them respected me at all or listend to my ideas. After hearing this advise I realized that part of the problem was that I wasn't being myself.

vandalism

1. setting fire to a school
I think that this is the worst because it has the highest potential for lose of lives.

2. Throwing stones onto a railway line
This one is also bad because it could derail the train.

3. painting graffiti on a public building
Graffiti i think is also pretty bad but for a different reason. It is bad because it stamps an image onto the place that it is put onto.

4. breaking a park bench
Breaking a park bench is just stupid, I mean there's no point to it. Also it costs the state money that they could be spending on something important.

5. breaking glass in a bus shelter
This is also stupid for the same reason as the bench one.

6. throwing eggs at cars and homes
I think that egging isn't that bad. the reason i have a problem with it is because it effects people directly.

7. damaging a phone box
Damaging a phone box is stupid cause people use them allot.

8. breaking street lighting
I think that breaking street lighting is pretty bad cause it is needed for people to travel at night safely.

9. damaging seats on buses
This is bad cause lots of people use the bus.

10. leaving litter in the countryside
This is verry bad, but i put it lower than the others because it doesn't effect as many people.

11. Putting dish soap into a fountain
I think that this isn't that bad cause it kinda looks cool.

US imperialism

I think that to some degree the US is imperialistic. However based on a text book definition of imperialism the US is not immperalistic because it is not the official policy of the country to take land rom other countries. I think that what makes the U.S imperialistic is its overwhelming military presence in foreign countries.

when i die

when i die i want to be remembered as someone who did something to help change the world. i want to be remembered as someone who didn't sit back and watch the world go to hell. i want to be remembered for what i did, not what i should have done. i want people to look back at me and remember someone who was fair and just. thats how i want to be remembered.

rites of passage

I have experienced many rites of passage, both my own and others. I think the first Major rite of passage anyone experiences is there first day of fist grade. This is a big one because it's the first time that you spend all day away from your parents. The next big one I think would be learning how to read and write. This is one because it opens up a whole new realm of possibilities. The next would be entering high school. This is huge because high school is when your friends become the most important, and you start to drift away from your parents. The next rite of passage that I am looking forward to is my eighteenth birth-day. This is because I will no longer have to depend on my parents.

censorship of the arts

I think that censorship is important because there are things that kid don't need to see or will even scar them emotionally. I do however think that art should be judged separately. even though art sometimes contains nudity or violence it is different from porn or violent video games because in art the nudity and violence is used to portray a deeper message whereas in porn and video games the nudity and violence is the point. I think that children should not be exposed to the message that violence and sex are all there is to life.

parental consent for abortions

I do not think that parental consent should be required. I think this because even if the patients relationship with there parents is not abusive it can become abusive if the parents have strong enough feelings about abortion. Also if the parents have strong feelings in opposition to abortion they might ignore a situation where an abortion is necessary, such as if a 12 year old was pregnant. This could result in the the death of the patient and her unborn but fully developed child.