Passage.

Rights of passage that I've gone through to me are cute. Like, potty trianing, going from the bottle to the sippy cup. From the sippy cup to glasses and mugs. When I got my ears peirced I felt like a big kid. I felt like I could handle responsibility now. And then a couple years later when I got my ears peirced the second time I felt even better. Or when you first take your training wheels off of your bike. The passage I am looking forward to most now is turning 18. I can get my peircings on my own, without parental consent. I will be able to vote!

Protists.

Protist are organisms that live in the water or soil. If their parasitic, they can even live in human body or an animal. They are classified into three categories. Animal-like. Plant-like. And Fungi-like. The Animal-like category is a section that actually hunts down other protists to feed. The Plant-like protist's are autotrophs. Meaning they feed from the energy of the sun. The Fungi-like protist's are decomposers. They feed on other dead protists or plant like material.
There are three different ways that protists move. Flagella, a whip like tail. Celia, little hairs surrounding the protist, and Pseudopod, which means "one foot." They use their whole bodies to move along.

Imperialism.

I don’t believe that the US is imperialistic. We may be based in other countries, but I do not believe that we have the intrest to take the country over and make it our own. The US maybe the wealthiest country but we are also in recession. We aren’t in other countries to take their money, or to take over their country to have their wealth. We are there to establish trade. We are also in other countries to help. If there was a situation of another world war, I would rather have countries on our side that we've helped then go in it alone. I do not believe that at this time we are imperialistic, but I could see if the country got put into the wrong hands it becoming that way very easily.

When I die.

When I die I want to be remembered as someone who smiled and laughed even if it killed me. I want to be remembered for the good things that I've done, not things that set me back. Before I die I hope to accomplish alot of things. I hope to go to college even if it's a community college. I hope to give my baby girl a good life, and leave her with memories that are happy, not sad or wrong. I would like to travel. It doesn't have to be far, but I would like to see more of the world. At my funeral or memorial I would hope that people wouldn't be crying and sad. I would want people to at least remember things that were good. Not be sad that I'm gone, but be happy with the memories and fun that we all shared.

Censorship of the arts.

I agree with censorship laws. But like with anything it has it's flaws as well. I do not think that you have the right to speak free if you are talking about drugs, sex or abuse. If you are going to write a song about how much you hate a certain race and how you want to kill them all, would you want your children to hear that? Everytime you turn on the tv there's ads about sex. But if there was no censoring what do you think you would see when you turned your tv on? I would be a little afraid. I wouldn't want my kids to see a world where anything goes. There's already songs and movies about rape and murder, it doesn't need to get any worse then it already is. People that say that the censor laws are too strict arn't looking at the big picture. People get angry because they want to watch their favorite movie on tv and they cut half the movie out. That's only half of what the censorship is trying to do. If it really bothers you that bad then maybe you shouldn't watch tv, or listen to your radio. Or know that maybe they censor things for your own good.

Parental Consent.

Abortion without parental consent is dangerous. Anything can go wrong after or during an abortion. So without a parent knowing, what would happen if their child was injured or at the maximum died? You need consent to do millions of things under the age of 18. Why make something that is a surgery anything different? If your under age you need permission to get tattoo's, piercing, and school field trips. But you don't need one to have a medical procedure done. That makes no sense. I don't really think it involves that the parents know what their child is doing. It's that they know that their child is safe. That if something does go wrong, you at least know why. I also think that it's important for the parent's to be involved so that the young girl can have someone to talk to. Someone to help her through the emotional side of things. Having an abortion isn't what people make it out to be. You may be taking away from the hurt of raising a child so young, but what about the emotions that run with that? The percentage of teenage sex might go down, the chance of finding out about sexual abuse such as rape might go up. I think that parental consent should most defiantly be a law.

Special Brownies?

The subject to legalize marijuana is a little silly to me. I don't agree with it at all. It's illegal for a reason. If you are driving or working with machinery after you've been smoking...you could hurt yourself and others very seriously. Marijuana is also known as a gateway drug. It can lead to experimenting with other drugs, drugs that are alot worse or alot more harmful. I do agree that if it is given medically that it is ok. Even then the drug is abused though. And if it becomes legal, what would happen to the crime rate? People have been known to become violent or steal so that they can get the money they need to buy the marijuana.