6th post

In the movie “Rent”, there are these lyrics to a song that caught my attention. They are:
“The heart may freeze or it can burn
The pain will ease if I can learn
There is no future
There is no past
I live this moment as my last
There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today”
When I first heard these lyrics I thought to myself, how cute and sweet. She is singing to her boyfriend who is pretty stressed and upset. She states that she lives this moment as her last. What!? Why would you be in a cold room singing a song if it is your last moment to live? Why wouldn’t you do something crazy and exciting? Then she sings about how there is only this and us. That is what I like to call a double S; Selfish and Stupid. She is clearly not thinking about anyone else and how they can be affected if they did something stupid just for themselves. Think about it, if I wanted to live my moment as my last and only think about myself, and not worry about the consciences, I would rob a bank! And robbing a bank is wrong because it usually involves violence and guns and hurting other people. And ok, I guess it’s alright to forget regrets, but doesn’t making poor choices help us learn and do better for the future. If I didn’t worry about the future, why would I go to school and be typing a blog about all this? Next time you want to write crazy romantic song lyrics, think about the logic please.

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Forgot to do this, will finish it later :P

Annotated Citation #2

Humphry, Derek. “Why assisted suicide for the mentally troubled is so problematic” Assisted Suicide August 2006. SIRS researcher. http://www.assistedsuicide.org/as-for-the-mentally-troubled.html

Derek Humphry, worker for the “Assisted Suicide” website, believes that assisted suicide should be legal. He claims “Many people have great emotional and ethical difficulties in helping a person dying in great pain to a dignified end, thus it follows that helping a mentally ill person with assisted suicide is enormously problematic.” He talks about how this applies to both physicians and family and friends. He also brings up the “The right-to-die” movement. People have the right to continue to live or not, but should we help them die or help them not die?

Annotated Citation #1

This is my research question:
Should assisted suicide be legal?

Messerli, Joe. "Should an incurably-ill patient be able to commit physician-assisted suicide?" Balanced Politics March 2007. SIRS Researcher. http://www.balancedpolitics.org/assisted_suicide.htm#no.

Joe Messerli, who works for the Balanced Politics site, is against assisted suicide being legal. He has many reasons that it should be illegal, but starts off with the
"Doctors' Hippocratic oath". This oath is "First, do no harm". Making assisted suicide legal would be a violation of that oath, and it would lead to a weakening of doctor-patient trust. Obviously, the doctor would be harming them by killing them. He has many other reason also such as that it demeans the value of human life, and that doctors are given too much power, and can be wrong or unethical .

4th Post. Hooray...

Hello there. This is my fourth post this quarter. Here I go. So as I said earlier, I am done with my “Speak” book, and now am I moving on to my “The Tenth Circle” book. I haven’t gotten a really good start on the novel yet but so far it talks about how Trixie is a straight A student and how she is the perfect kid. Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and she is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father's life, a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular. She also always looked up to Daniel Stone, her dad, as a hero. Because of this, I don’t like Trixie. Just kidding, I don’t mind her, and I know already that she is going to be raped soon so I feel bad for her. Anyways, I was reading this and then wondering if Trixie’s last name “Stone” has anything to do with her or her family’s character. Does it represent that they are hard and cold as stone? Or maybe that they are strong and almost unbreakable? I don’t know yet. Maybe it doesn’t have anything to do with the story at all. I’ll read more about it and get back to it later. Last Thursday I was in charge of the Pumpkin Pie and I had to make it from scratch, so my mom gave me a HUGE long cooking recipe on how to make the dough and everything else. I read it out carefully, and if you didn’t make the dough just right, it could mess up completely. I hate baking things like this because there is too much pressure. Cooking should fun, easy, and enjoyable. Plus it was annoying how I couldn’t do it all at once, but instead had to do one thing, freeze it, do another thing, wait some more, do another thing, let it bake, and so on. It just all in all took way to long. Hopefully next year I’ll be able to cook something else that will be more fun to do.