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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.

Free Choice

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.