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This blog is about the article entitled, " The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage" by Sam Schulman.
I found this article to be very interesting. You would think from the title that the writer just bashes gay marriage the whole time and writes about how he hates gay marriage and why its wrong, when in reality he goes in depth about gay marriage and how it affects our society today. He points out how gay marriage has been accepted by the west faster than the feminist revolution or the fight for racial equality. He talks about how gay marriage is a bit more different than a marriage between a man and a woman. My opinion on gay marriage is, if it makes you happy, then go for it. No one should judge you just because you are different than them. The world is changing and bringing new experiences with it. Soon gay marriage will seem insignificant to whatever comes next in the western society.

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This topic is titled "What Obama's Election Really Means to Black America". This article is written by Steven Gray from Chicago. Many people believed that Obama won the election just because he is black and could become the first black president ever. However the writer argues that black americans were actually skeptical to Obama winning the election because of his upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia and his unusual last name. Given these things, African Americans considered him not really black. 

I believe the argument this writer makes is both true and false, my reasons being are that people who actually care about the election and this government voted for who they truly believed should become  president and not just based on the color of their skin. In the words of Martin Luther King Jr. people should be based, "not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character."  I also believe that the people who don't really care about the government but shallow reasons voted for obama just because he was black. In the end I think this article is both true and false. I think people who actually cared about the election actually put thought into the vote and people who did just went for it.

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This blog is going to cover the topic of "should kids be able to get smart phones"?

Today kids get phones as young as the age of 6. The main reason kids as young as 6 get phones is because their parents get divorced. The parents want their child to be able to get a hold of them at all times, so they give their child a phone, which most people don't have a problem with but parents can get their child a track phone which lets the parents decide who the child can call. Instead parens are giving their children iPhones and other smart phones that give their child access to the internet which has inappropriate sites, images, and advertisements that are just waiting for their children to stumble onto. 

Parents can put a parental lock on the phone, but children are very smart and cunning, usual most kids can guess what the code is, get around the block, and put it back so their parents don't see whats going on. I know that when I was young, I guessed the parental lock on the my iPod touch that my parents gave me, so that I could watch some music videos on youtube. Kids are getting very tech savvy at a young age and its the parents job to protect them from things they do not understand or are not ready to see at that age. Parents should not give their children smart phones until they have reached a mature age, where they are able to decide what appropriate or not to view.

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This blog post it about the article called "Whats up Doc? A Bloody outrage, Thats what". This article talks about how violence is creeping its way into our children's tv shows and games. The author talks about how her sons cartoon started killing little animated animals and he did not see anything wrong with that. The author stresses the fact that its getting harder and harder to keep control over what your child sees thanks to creators taking violence once step further. I believe that a parents should thoroughly make sure that what their kids are watching and and playing does not involve anything inappropriate for their age level. you can help control that by putting parental locks on game tablets, TV's, and computers.

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This blog post will be about grocery stores, since I have started working in a grocery store my opinions have changed on a couple things that happen there. For starters some shoppers can be the nicest people you will ever meet, they compliment your hard work, say thank you, and sometimes go out of their way to go to your supervisor and tell them what a good worker you are. There are also however the other shoppers that have no respect for the cashiers. I am ashamed to admit I used to be one of those shoppers before I worked at a store. These people will hound you if you don't have a coupon for them or fi you are under 21 and have to wait for a manager to come ring up alcohol for you. Just for that purpose some stores have wine and spirits stores or lanes that say alcohol is permitted here or not allowed here, yet customers will do as they please and not follow instructions. As cashiers we always try to make the shopping experience enjoyable for the customer by helping them carry groceries out to their car, find something for them or even helping them with their entire list of groceries they need.

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The article I chose to do this blog over was called " On Facebook, Biggest Threat to Your Private Data Might Be You", by Jacquielynn Floyd. She Floyd wrote about how Facebook is a big part of most peoples lives. People post statuses daily even hourly, which tells the whole world what they are doing that day or week. People post pictures of vacations, dances, dates, outings, baptisms, plays, weddings, really anything and everything. Floyd's problem isn't even with Facebook really its more about how people open up so much of themselves online when so many identities are stolen via online. There was an incident where a woman posted on Facebook that she would be gone for a week on vacation, and while she was gone her place was robbed. Because she posted the specific times of when she would be gone the robbers knew when exactly to rob her house. People don't realize how easy it is for websites to get hacked and steal a bunch of information from them. This article brings that to everyones attention and hopefully knocks some sense into people about posting personal information online. I personally agree with the writer of this article and think people should be more careful about posting personal information online.

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The topic I would like to talk about today is about celebrities and how social media affects child development. Why should celebrities get to have literally "get-out-of-jail-free" cards. If a celebrity gets pulled over for DUI and is sent to court they get a light reprimand while regular people lose their licenses. Its unfair how if a celebrity gets caught with drugs they only spend a small amount of time in Jail while regular people spend years in Jail.

What kind of message does this show kids? That its ok to drink and drive, do drugs, party and give no respect to authority. Our world today is spiraling out of control because of this. I think that if celebrities are caught doing something against the law they should have to pay the consequences like any other person would have to, not get a break just because they have to make a film in the next three months. I believe if kids wont stop partying and doing all of these things as long as "society" shows that it is ok to do them.

Kids are very impressionable and watch a lot of TV now growing up, but TV is not the only place kids see celebrities doing these terrible things. Celebrities cover tabloids of magazines and news papers. There are billboards in every city with pictures of  barely clothed  women and men that give kids inappropriate thoughts. Society needs to clean up the streets of our cities and the minds of our children, and hopefully move on.