Q's changing levels of self image and self confidence

In both stories, The Dinosaurs and The Aquatic Uncle, Q displays two different types of of views for himself. In "The Dinosaurs", Q has a pretty good level of self esteem. He seems to view himself as very strong and powerful even though he fears being exposed to the New Ones as a dinosaur. However, in "The Aquatic Uncle", Q seems to have a much lower image of himself. He is constantly feeling embarrassed or thinks that somebody is tying to make fun of him. He doesn’t feel strong or powerful, in fact he seems to be the complete opposite. For example, in "The Dinosaurs", Q thinks to himself:

" The terror of the Dinosaurs still continued in the New Ones...at a spring a New One,

a young female, was drinking...I should tear her limb from limb."

This quote shows that Q knows he is  has the strength and ability to kill this New
One drinking at the fountain. He debates with himself weather or not to attack her in order to bring authority back to the dinosaurs. He knows that he is capable of this because he is much bigger than these creatures. Also, when Zahn wanted to fight Q, he had no problem standing up and taking him down. It barely took him a second to debate if he should fight him or not. He seemed like he was already completely confident in himself that he would be able to win the fight with Zahn, and he did.

Whenever "the time had come for Lll to meet my family, I postponed it...

I suspected she was remaining silent in order to embarrass me later."

This quote from "The Aquatic Uncle" shows how Q is constantly feeling like someone is going to judge or make fun of him when really, he's just jumping to conclusions. He was terribly embarrassed by the fact that his uncle N'ba N'ga still lived in the water while most creatures of his kind adapted to living on land. He was ashamed of his family and didn't want to introduce his fiance to his uncle even though he had no idea of what her reaction would be. Also, after Uncle N'ba N'ga and Lll met and Lll told Q that she enjoyed the visit, he thought that he was joking and was making fun of him. He was completely shocked when she asked to visit N'ba N'ga again and thought that she was just trying to tease him. In these two stories Q portrays himself in to completely different ways.

On Monday night i was watching this show on MTV called The World of Jenks. It's about this guy who goes around different parts of the country and stays a few days with many different people to learn more about their life and where they come from. This week, Andrew Jenks goes to San Francisco to visit a homeless women and lives with her in the streets. Normally when I see homeless people on the street  I automatically judge them and assume that they are on some kind of drug or are addicted to alcohol. Even though this is commonly true, it isn't always true and I really shouldn't judge people just because of a stereotype given to them.
In this episode Jenks learns about how and why this women is living on the street. Her family actually has a house in Oregon but Daniell has been homeless since she was 13 years old. I'm not sure if she ever did do drugs or not but i completely understand why she decided to leave her parents house at such an early age. She said that one time she went back home to visit her mom and step-dad but when she got there, they were both intoxicated. For some reason her step father pinned her up against the wall and started yelling and saying really hurtful, disrespectful things to her. So, out of anger Daniell threatened that if she couldn't leave their house and if things weren't going to get better, she would kill herself. She said that her step dad then let her go, came back with a box cutter, handed it to her and said, "Well fine, go ahead and kill yourself". This was really shocking and upsetting for me to hear because i just could not imagine anyone saying than to someone else, especially to someone who was or was somewhat one if their family members.
After watching this it made me think that i should think twice before i immediately judge someone and where they come from no matter who they are. I usually just think that all homeless people are living on the streets because they became drug addicts and were to lazy to do anything with their lives but now I realize that some of them actually had to leave their homes because it was unsafe for them. I think that both I and other people should stop before they immediately judge other people that they don't know.

RE: I Hate Thieves by Rokhsor Yusufi

I really didn't know what to write about, but after reading through a few of my classmates blog posts I decided to do my first response of this week from Rokhsor's blog. In her post, she states :

I put it this way when people steal. No matter how rich or cool you are, when you steal; you seem like you are not even worth a penny or a second of anyone’s time. Having something stolen is the worst feeling ever...

I agree with Rokshor when she says that it doesn't feel good at all to have something stolen from you. I have experienced this happen to me and some of my friends. At my old school there was this girl and well, let's just say that she had sticky fingers. Pretty much everybody knew that she was stealing from people but it was kind of hard for anyone to prove it because either no one actually saw her in the act while stealing, or nobody wanted to let a teacher know and be called a "snitch". Anyways, either last year or when I was in seventh grade, i was in the gym at school with the whole grade because we were playing some game against each other. We had to leave our backpacks up in the bleachers and, unfortunately there weren't any teachers up there watching people's bags because they were busy monitoring the students playing the game. So, sometime during when i was playing with my classmates somebody went into my bag and stole twenty dollars from my backpack. I was really upset when this happened because it made me feel like i couldn't trust anyone at my school. Also, one of my friends from last year had his iPod stolen from his backpack at our school in the same gym. Students suspected this girl of stealing it but there was no way to actually prove that she was the thief and everybody knew that she would most likely deny the fact that she took it.

Fortunately, this girl who was stealing supposedly got caught taking something from the office. However, she was only suspended for a couple of days out of the week. I'm not sure if this was actually true but it sounded like a true story to me. I know that this particular student had a pretty close relationship with the principle and other people and teachers who worked in the office so i don't know if they let her off easy, but in my opinion i think she should have been punished a lot harder than that.

Stealing is a horrible thing to do to somebody. Just because they may have something that you want it is not, by any means okay for you to take it from them. Either they themselves or somebody else close to them may have worked hard to get that from them and you are taking it away by doing something totally unfair. So, my main point is that stealing is both not right and unfair and should never be done.

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ACTUAL FINAL DRAFT -Response to Melissa & Yen's Pro legal abortion debate

I agree with Melissa and Yen's arguement that abortion should be legal. In their rebuttle they state that :

... abortion cannot be called murder because a fetus is not yet an infant until born....Having an abortion is a mothers choice. They should be able to decide the options in which can benefit the incoming child

I think that one reason why some people are so against abortion is because they feel like it is "murder" to a child. This is especially the case with those that are religious. However, people's religious views should not tie in with the law. Just because one person feels a certain way doesn't mean they speak for everyone. Also, abortion actually isn't even murder. The actual definition of an abortion is to terminate a pregnancy, not a baby. Doing this is just stopping a baby from forming inside a woman's body, not killing anything that has already began to grow or develop. Another reason why some people may think that abortion should be illegal is because they feel it is unsafe for the woman. However, many more woman die from giving birth than from getting an abortion.

In addition, abortion should be legal because some parents may not be fit to raise or take care of a child either emotionally or financially. For example, when a teenage girl gets pregnant, she is most likely not in a position to be taking care of a baby. She is either still in school or is just finishing which means she has no sense of what she is going to do for financial income in order to support another human being let alone herself. Also, sometimes when a woman gets pregnant she may not recieve support from her partner and will end up having to raise the child on her own which will most likely be very difficult. If her boyfriend or partner has the choice to leave her she should be able to decide if she wants to terminate the pregnacy both for her sake and for the child's. It is very difficult for a child to grow up in a family that is not financially stable or does not have both parents present in their life.

Disney Channel: A path to failure

      So, I was thinking and i realized that out of pretty much all of the actors and actresses that started on Disney Channel there are very few of them that actually have a good, continuing acting career. When I was little I used to love watching Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven and Lindsay Lohan movies. I remember when Hilary Duff was like the Miley Cyrus today. However, now we barely hear anything about her or Raven Simone and the only reason that Lindsay Lohan is still talked about is because she's a mess and is on all kinds of drugs. I guess my point in writing this is to state my opinion that most acting careers that start on TV stations like the Disney Channel don't tend to last too long.
      Also, from what I've seen from watching TV, once you've been on the Disney Channel or some other teeny bopper TV channel it seems like it is very hard to break away from the little kid image that you begin with. For example, Miley Cyrus started acting in Hannah Montana when she was about only 13 or 14. Now, I think she is almost 18 and is trying to perform for a different aged group audience. In my opinion, I think that their are plenty other performers with much more talent than this girl that puts on a wig and goes undercover as a pop star but, I do think that people shouldn't freak out on her for trying to grow up and perform for people closer to her age. If you were almost about to be an adult I doubt that you would want to continue singing songs about ice cream for 10 year olds.What she did in her latest music video wasn't nearly as bad as what some other artists are doing these days.
      If you really think about it, you never hear anything anymore about Raven, Hilary Duff, those twin brothers that live in a hotel, or the kids who were in that show Phil of the Future. The only one Disney Channel star that actually had a really successful career is Shai Labuff. His first real acting career was in that show Even Stevens when he was about 12 or 13. Now, he has unexpectedly starred in many good movies and has become a well - respected actor. Although he has progressed in his acting career and has achieved many great things in his career, he is the rare exception out of many.
      If you ask me, if you are looking to start your performing career, you should not start on a teeny bopper station. It seems like the only thing it'll help you do is have a one hit wonder.

Pro Prostitution Rebuttle

In my opponent's opening statement, they state:

If its legalized the pimps will just go online or continue what they were doing and the prostitute would not report them

      If prostitution was to become legal, this would probably be the complete opposite of what would happen. This is what is currently happening now. Prostitutes are being beat up and mistreated by both their pimps and their "customers". Even though these abusive men should be reported and put into jail, they aren't because the prostitutes are afraid that they themselves will also be put behind bars. In most states in the US, prostitution is illegal. This means that if any prostitute was to get caught working, they would be punished. Since this is the case, women that work in the sex industry are afraid to report the abuse that goes on while they are working because they know that they will also be put into jail for just being a prostitute in the first place.
      Prostitution should not be a crime. These people deserve the exact same rights as anyone else in another profession. A quote by Melissa Ditmore states:

"Decriminalization would better protect people in the sex industry from violence and abuse."

This is exactly the point that i am trying to make. Prostitution is illegal right now but we all know that it is still going on. If not, why else would this debate be going on?  Obviously the law against prostitution is not working so the government should look at this issue from a different perspective and try to make some changes to help protect the rights of sex workers. Continuing to keep prostitution illegal is not helping address the issue of safety. Also, another reason why prostitution should be legal is to control the age in which workers start. Some girls start working in this business from as young as ages 12-14. If prostitution was to be made legal, the government could have better control over the minimum age that they can start working

Our Opening Statement
Quote Sources :
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