Rights

I think that the groups that really need declaration of rights in the world is massive.  But in America, the people I think need it the most is the immigrants and the Homosexual people.  In America, the woman rights have improved a ton because woman can get educations, they can vote, and they can dress the way they want, but in many other countries they do not aloud woman to get education.  Also to add that the Arab woman who are in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran.  Its good that woman rights were improved in America 70ish years ago, that many other countries need and should go through today.  It reminds me that when blacks were called 3/5th of an man and that they had to use math to count people like that people shouldn't be fractions, and in many of these other countries woman do not get the same rights.  And those woman can the the right of own property, and freedom.  Also we are so lucky that in the Constitution is says that everyone is equal, but I would have to disagree on some levels due to Homosexuals, straight people can get marriages and only in some states homosexuals can get married.  To me I do not believe that every one is equal, the Constitution did not refer to the gays and lesbians to be as equal as straight people.  For immigrants, they think that America is so special because everyone is equal and they want to live the American Dream.  The sad thing is that immigrants have to wait for their green card if do not get and found they are sent back making families split apart.  There needs to be more of an awareness to equal treatment around the world even including America.

Alexander Hamilton and Due Process

Due Process means- A fundamental, constitutional guarantee that all legal proceedings will be fair and that one will be given notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard before the government acts to take away one's life, liberty, or property. Also, a constitutional guarantee that a law shall not be unreasonable,arbitrary, or capricious.


Alexander Hamilton's argument: He thought that United States did not need a Bill of Rights. First ten Amendments.  Do you agree with him or not?


Alexander Hamilton brings up a solid point that he believes that we do not need a bill of rights. Hamilton thinks that because we have due process, we do not need the bill of rights.  First off, I agree with Hamilton that the bill of rights looks like set in stone laws, but these laws are moral and have a good purpose for the rights of all America citizens. Many years ago men gathered around to make the Constitution to give the rights all Americans. And second,  I could have to disagree with him too, because the bill of rights is like an re- enforcer to what rights Americans have that the due process do not include.  As I was reading what due process means it means that every one has an equal chance, but is it a good way to lead a whole country.  I think that we do not need the bill of rights in some reasons or levels but the bill of rights also covers it more telling people what they have the right too.  I think we need it also to establish just in cause because two people can read the same document and view it two different ways.  But overall I agree with Alexander Hamilton.

Student Center Conversations

In class today we had another conversation without the teacher getting involved.  We talked about the Sharia Islamic Law and the reading from last night.  These conversations were done in the style were the students are the center of the core where we come up with questions, looking through the test, and commenting on what we thought of the two readings from last night and today.  The teacher does not talk in this exercise, in history our teacher had a piece of paper and drew arrows at the people talking.  The teacher could not give us any approval on what we said, correction, or advice.  Do I think these conversations are productive?  I do see these conservations being productive, but for me in general its difficult for me to jump into the conversation.  When its moving so fast and people are not supposed to raise their hands for me that I learn slower than most people these conversations aren't the idell things I want to do in history class.  In the reading we did in class a questions I would have liked to appose whats the difference between technically a Muslim and Legalally a Muslim?  I didn't have a chance to ask it but hopefully next time when we do this i will have a chance to speak up.  I found it interesting that less people talked this time than last, I think because some of the classmates are very dominate and very speedy and like to get all there points across and not sharing the 20 minutes we had with 18 people when others spoke 2 or more times.  Over all I think that this was a good why to have class today.

3 laws

In class a few days ago we read and talked about the different types of laws, Common, Natural and Civil laws.  I learned a lot on what other people based their thoughts on.  At Parker i have never studied laws like we did this year, I learned that you can not defy gravity is one of the many bases that I learned from my fellow class mates.  

The difference between civil and common laws

Civil Law was inspired by the Roman law, on the other hand common law made its rules by judges on a case basis.  Like how we make our rules now, it goes through a huge process by powerful people, unlike a civil law it is not inspired from others.  Judges have to follow the written word. This code of civil laws key point touch on person, forms of ownership, and whys of acquiring ownership.  The man difference between Civil law and Common law is that where as civil law is written and used in courts.  Common law varies from case to case depending on society where civil law has written codes for reference.  And also Judgement is common law and civil law is that the judges have to strictly follow the stuff written down.    I also learned that societies which use the civil law is based on the principles and codes from the roots when they started in the Roman Empire.  And in 8th grade we learned that the updates have to go through different processes before the president has the final say.  When a country used the common law is a legal system is based on opinions.  This year I have a way better understanding the different types of laws.  

Something we learned in History and another class

            This year in history one of the themes that we coved was environment and how it impacts our society, and how people impart the environment.  We also studied similar ideas in science and connected them to chemistry and biology.  Even though there were many similarities in topics, the approaches in the two classes were very different.   In history, we took a broad look at how populations spread across the world, and examined how agriculture and technology affected the natural world.  In some ways, the impact was good, but there were some cons as well.  Because of people, there are now problems of food and water shortages.  Deforestation has also been caused by population spread and adds to the problem of sustainability. 

            In science, we took a even closer look at sustainability and studied the impact of what humans have done to the environment at a cellular and chemical level.  Humans do not realize it, but they even impact the smallest biological creatures on earth-plankton and phytoplankton. This impact causes a ripple effect through the animal kingdom and back up to humans.   Due to pollution by products from humans, food sources and drinking water are becoming scarce. 

            Although the ways the ways we have learned about sustainability were very different, learning about the issue in one class helped us to better understanding in the other.  It was good to hear to different views on getting on similar topics this year.