Response #14

        The death penalty is the punishment of execution. There are 31 states that use and support the death penalty under certain circumstances. As of now 144 wrongly convicted people on the death row have been executed. We don't know for sure how many people have been falsely convicted of a crime and have been executed. The death penalty is also very expensive.

        I refute the death penalty, not for sympathetic reasons towards those convicted, but because it has no effect on crime rates, and even after that person had been executed, the family still has to pay for the funeral, and family members may become anguished from this situation, if the convicted person is given life, that is less likely to happen. It is an appropriate alternative. This punishment isn't even reserved for the worst crime, it is mainly based on race,or the people with the worst lawyers, and doesn't apply to people with money.

        To conclude my response, I refute the death penalty, because it doesn't change anything, and it's a waste of money. Why let that person take the easy way out, rather than making them sit in a prison cell all day, miserable, and depressed, because they chose to go down the wrong path and make the wrong decisions?

Response #13

       Donald Trump is an actor/ TV personality, who is currently running for President. He is mainly known for his offensive, belittling, and racist statements towards the Mexican and African American community. Most adults, that I myself have conversed with, and A-lister celebrities do not support him, and don't plan on voting for him when the time comes around.

       These A-listers specifically, expressed that they would move out of the country if he does win the election, knowing these comments are being made, Trump feels this is only helping advertising his campaign. "All publicity is good publicity". I personally don't think running away from the problem is going to make it go away.

      Instead of people helping him by using their big names or even normal citizens using social media to refute him, we should be using it to help advertise someone who is fit to run our country.

Response #12

        Honestly, because our school is in Southeast San Diego, and due to our past, we are automatically going to get a bad reputation and people are going to mainly be focused on the negatives and stereotypes. We, as a community, need to have more spirit and promote the positive things that go on and our school.

        

        We can get people more involved by having a protest or a movement, and even though what happened on Friday was uncalled for and shouldn't have happened, it has brought people together, and built friendships and we've even gotten plenty of participation from other schools around San Diego.

        How do we change our schools reputation? It will take a lot of work, because people already have the idea that Lincoln is a bad school implanted in their heads, but if we take small steps, starting with this movement/protest and unite as one bringing positivity to the area, people MIGHT start looking at our school differently.

        

Response #11

        In Sojourner Truth's speech she repetitively asks the audience "aint I am woman"which I think is a rhetorical qiestion, but in case it isnt clear, yes, she is a woman. She's bred 13 children,was a slave, and is capable of doing everything a man is doing and stated this in stanzas three, four, and five when she said "I could work and eat as much as a man and bear de lash as well" and "I have borne thirteen chilern and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery". In my opinion, she is a woman. My other thoughts on this is that women can't do everything single thing a man can do, but most things, and other things that are much more important.

Response #10

        In the beginning of the documentary, you see a man (Thierry Guetta) who carries a camera around everywhere he goes, and films random people. He begins filming street artists as they are in  the process of making their work,  and tells them he is making a documentary, when actuality he did not plan to edit the footage. Most people, including myself didn't see the problem in him shooting his film, and I even felt a little bad for him when he tells his life story about how his mom dies, and he didn't know that she was sick, so he wanted to film everything, to insure he wouldn't miss anything else. Towards the middle/end, he meets a famous street artist that goes by Banksy, and befriends him. Banksy convinces Thierry to take all of his film and turn it into a movie, and in a way tells him to become a street artist himself. This is when my whole view of Guetta changed. He started poaching other artists techniques, and he got really cocky and arrogant, so my pity for him turned into hate.

       

Response #9

        Poe's use of darkness is a motif that he casually slides in into every poem, or fictional story he writes. In "The Tell-Tale Heart"  Poe mentioned the thickness of the dark when he went into the old mans room to kill him, but then later stated, he couldn't kill this man, because it wasn't the man he hated, it was the eye and he can't see the eye in the dark, so he couldn't bring himself to do it (he did eventually though). In "The Black Cat" the cat was black and its name was "Pluto". In Roman Mythology, Pluto is the name of the God of the Underworld, the underworld is a dark place (not literally). In the story "The Raven", the Raven was a black bird, Ravens usually symbolize death, I hope you see where this is going. Lastly, "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe, at the end of this story, it talks specifically about hell bells and funeral bells. It talks about the how melancholy and monotone ghouls, this represents sadness.

Response #6

       In the film "Psycho" directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock used various camera angles and lighting technique to create suspense or put an idea in your head about a character. Other technique Hitchcock used was irony. I want to focus particularly on is called situational irony which Hitchcock used in a couple scenes to confuse the audience. The first sense was when everybody thought that the movie was going to be about Marion Crane, and the stolen money, but she was stabbed to death and the money was drowned in a lake, so that story was over and it was more about murders happening and trying to find out what happened to the people who came up missing. 

       

        Another example of situational irony, was when the lady walked into Sam's and asked for something to kill a pest, but she didn't want something that could hurt it. She wanted it to die peacefully, it's ironic, because she wants to kill something (perform a harmful act), but doesn't want it to feel any pain.