Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Thursday, January 10, 2008

NHD Project

SILENT KILL
BY:
TANAYA BURNS,
SALEEMA PARKER

I chose to do my NHD project on Margaret Sanger and Abortion. My topic is so broad because my group and I want to focus on the overall perspective of abortion. NHD theme for this year is Conflict and Compromise. Abortion is definitely a conflict but it’s also a compromise. A feminist Margaret Sanger was a hero to woman in the 19th century and maybe now in the 21st century. This woman was a heroine; she was a woman that put herself on the line to prevent unwanted pregnancies and to fight for woman rights. As I did further research I found that not only was she a feminist but she was a murdering racist. She was no hero to black America in the 19th century and she is no hero to me now in the 21st century. "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population." - Margaret Sanger. I was so destruct when I heard this. Margaret Sanger the woman that was responsible for the Planned Parenthood, abortion movement and the woman that was described as vivacious, warm, healing and powerfully driven. What I didn’t know is that she was a mass murder she not only killed literally millions of lives due to abortion and that’s including 1,200 African American children each day.

Roe v. Wade was a famous case it was most important in history in America. The Court ruled that states could restrict abortions only during the final three months of pregnancy, a stage when medical experts says the fetus is capable of “meaningful life” outside the womb. Many people are con-life for abortion and many people are pro-life. So that raises many conflicts. The court compromised stating that states could restrict abortions only during the final three months of pregnancy. Photographic Evidence shows that even during the first 7 weeks that the fetus develops hands. In conclusion, my NHD project is on Margaret Sanger and Abortion and the conflicts that are behind abortion clinic doors. Also how the mothers are coping with abortion and how they were affected. Abortion is a very controversial topic now and probably in the future.

Geometry Project






I did my Project on Michael Faraday.




Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Religion in School

Religion in School


To me I never had an incident in school that was about religion. We don’t really talk about religion like that because there are people in school that’s not religious, so we don’t want to talk about it so we try to make them feel comfortable. I don’t know if religion should be taught in school or not. To me I really don’t care because I know what I believe in and nothing can change that. But on the other hand some people don’ believe that they think that they are trying to change they religion their belief. To me I really don’t know if it should or should not be taught in school or not because some people can take it the wrong way and some won’t it’s according to who is teaching it.


In the case of McCollum v. Board of Education (1948) it talks about how a mother did not like her child being taught religion in school that she had took the school to the Supreme Court. Mrs. McCollum won the case by a 6-1 vote. She took it to heart saying that they are trying to change her child’s belief of religion. Mrs. McCollum thought that religion shouldn’t be taught in school it’s not there place they shouldn’t be trying to tell children about religion and what is right and wrong about it. Some people have their own beliefs and religions so they don’t want other people telling them another. That’s why she went to court in the first place she didn’t want other people telling kids different beliefs about religion that they don’t believe in or don’t even know about. The point why she went to court was that everybody doesn’t believe in the same things, like some people believe that there is more than one god and some believe that there is only one. Some people are Muslims, Christians, and there are many more other religions out here every body don’t believe in the same things. That’s why I think that in some cases that religion shouldn’t be taught in school because other people might not believe in the same religion. So they just shouldn’t teach it at all in schools.