Things stay the same

This week Tyler Clementi a Rutgers University student committed suicide. If I just wrote that you would likely say " why didn't he talk to someone or what made him do that?". I would also offer this tidbit, he was a gay college student that was secretly web streamed having a encounter with another man. The two college mates Molly Wei and Dharun Ravi are accused of using a camera hidden in a dorm room to transmit online a gay sexual encounter involving Ravi's roommate. How sick and pathetic are these two losers? I'm a heterosexual male and I love Jesus, but I am not judging this young man or his lifestyle, after all it was his life to lead, but when you have people such as these two that may have thought that showing the world wide web someones sexual encounter with another adult than I have a problem. I am sure that when Tyler Clementi discovered what had happened the embarrassment he must have felt was unspeakable and felt like there was noway out. The stories of harassment of gays have been ongoing for decades, but I thought it was really getting better. I see openly gay people all the time and I don't turn my head. I wonder...did they thank it was funny to show this to the world or was a issue of outing? Whatever the case these two idiots should be held to fullest extent of the law! I see this as a hate crime that resulted in a persons death! I feel that as a people we should be more understanding of different races, genders, and religions. How did this happen? I think that they viewed Tyler as subhuman and as someone's sexual orientation made him a target for this kind of crime. He was a human being that liked who he liked, and we can not hold that against him. He was just 18 years old, and who knows what great things he could have done in this life, maybe invented the longer lasting light bub! It was not their right to pass opinion on how he's life to be seen, and they did and a price was paid in this young mans death! I call for really a example to be made of the two that committed this and let it be known that this type of behavior will not be tolerated by anyone! How many more people must suffer in silent? "Don't ask, Don't tell" is just a way of keeping gays out of sight and public policy allows gays to still be discarded in sociality. Maybe Tyler kept his lifestyle to himself because we would have made Tyler fell like some sort of monster? I wish he would have turned to anyone and reported those two to the police!!! He never had a chance, maybe in his death more can come out and be heard by saying " I'm not gay, I am human".       

Acid in the face

It was learned this week that Bethany Storro from Vancouver, Washington was not a victim of a random street crime where not a gun or knife was used, but a cup of acid that was thrown in her face as the weapon. When I first heard this awful story of her attack my thought was "there are some crazy people out here in the world!". Police in Vancouver announced that Bethany Storro was not only the victim but the assailant as well. My thought however has not changed upon learning of this not so earth shaking event "there are some crazy people out here in the world". Over the past twenty or so years the news have been filled of stories of people that claim to be the victim of the crime when it is themselves who has done the crime, don't get me wrong at least she did not kill anyone (Susan Smith who killed her two children and the infamous Charles Stuart who in 1989 in Boston, Mass shot and killed his pregnant wife) but in all cases the "so called" victim blames a black person for the crime. I have two major issues here if your going to do something so dumb do it to yourself and do not hurt anyone just because life is hard or whatever the situation is, please seek help and secondly blaming anyone for that is horrible black,white, or green. Ms.Storro could have ruined someone's life behind her inability to cope with whatever. Leaning from past events as the ones named really shows that unfortunately people just do not seem to understand the actions of one's deeds. I hope that Ms. Storro can after (law enforcement gets down with her) seek the professional that she so desperately needs, and I personally feels she needs is just self love. That is something that if she had she would never willingly disfigure her own face with acid! I'm not so outraged about her using a black person as the scapegoat. Again, stories such as this have been happening for over twenty years. I'm just happy when the truth comes out and some innocent person can say "I told you so". I must commend  the Vancouver police who took her lies with a grain of salt and did not go into "panic mode" to find anyone that would for the crime. Maybe we all should wait to hear the full story of a crime before a rush to say "how awful". There are more deserving topics that do deserve are attention that are happening and that we really should say "how awful" God forbid. We are all guilty of hearing these news stories and feeling rage, fear, and concern. The only thing that does make it just a bit more livable is that there is no "boogie man" just bad people that at times breaks out of the darkness just to be the person in the mirror. Maybe that acid in the face just revealed what her heart is like? I must say that when I read on the internet that she committed the very crime she blamed on someone else all I could say was "acid in the face there are some crazy people out here in the world"! I just wonder when the next story of a mystery crime happens, I pray it does not.

I leaned about Ethos,Pathos, and Logos

I never thought that ancient Romans could be so insightful. Using ethics, emotion, and logic to convey a point was something that I never valued in writing. I guess I felt like "what I have to say is important, and I do not care how the reader takes it". I have been wrong for years in hindsight. It was very important to "strike a nerve" with the reader of your material to ensure that the very point you are making is understood in no uncertain terms. 

English 111

I think I got this right!