Jump the Shark: Two and a Half Men

          The show i think jumped the shark is Two and and a Half Men. It was really Interesting up to the point where Charlie is no longer with the television show and is replaced by Ashton Kutcher. Usually when a main character is replaced with another the whole show is just ruined. In this case the that is exactly what happened. The new intro to the new Two and a  Half Men is not so good as the old one because it sounds out of harmony.

          The television show was good because the verbal humor said by Charlie was amusing and not crude. Everyone was used to having Charlie around now the he is gone the good humor we all enjoyed is gone. His voice for the beginning of the show was in harmony with the other characters and sounded very swell. Most of the new show now are just a repeat of what has already happened to Charlie but now it is happening to the new guy replacing Charlie.

Ashton Kutcher does not ruin the show but the humor that is produced by him is not amusing but is more of being crude. Like i said before most of the new shows with him are close to a repeat of what happened to Charlie with a slight difference to them. The intro also went downhill because the new voice is not in sink with the other voices and makes their singing sound terrible. only positive thing about the change is they didn't switch the house where they live. Many show are ruined b jumping the shark.

          I chose a piece of paper representing a letter that Artemidorus wrote to warn Caesar of the conspirator's plan but never got a chance to. What gave me this idea was found  in ACT 3, Scene 1, lines 1-11. In this section Artemidorus writes a letter for Caesar to read but Decius suspects that that man knows the plan and steps in front to offer Caesar a request from someone else. Before Artemidorus can tell Caesar of the plot, Publius pushes him aside and they all walk past him. To me this show that the conspirators were careless to the point were anyone can know their plot.

Children in Mexico: Criminals or victims?

(CNN) -- At least 30,000 children in Mexico are involved in some sort of organized crime, according to a nationwide alliance of civic and social organizations.

The Child Rights Network in Mexico says many of these children are taking part because of death threats or because of economic and social necessity. It is urging the government to start recognizing them as victims of child abuse.

"The drug cartels are not training them to be ringleaders," spokeswoman Veronica Morales said. "It is a new form of abuse in which they are being used to commit an offense, to violate the law and to deceive authorities."

In the past year, there have been numerous headlines of children being arrested in Mexico.

Perhaps the most high-profile case involved a 14-year-old boy known as "El Ponchis" ("The Cloak"). He was found guilty of torturing and beheading at least four people for the South Pacific drug cartel.

A month after the boy was sentenced to three years in a correctional facility, a 13-year-old girl was captured in the state of Jalisco and accused of being part of the Zetas drug cartel.

Authorities said the girl was receiving 8,000 pesos a month -- almost $800 -- for being a lookout. She would let gang members know who was entering and who was leaving Luis Moya, a municipality in north-central Mexico.

In January of last year, a 15-year-old boy was captured in Jiutepec, just outside of Mexico City. During an impromptu news conference on the street, the child confessed that he was a lookout for the South Pacific cartel. He said he was collaborating with the cartel because of death threats.

Children are easy prey for organized crime because they lack opportunities, said José Luis Cisneros, a sociologist at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City.

"Socially, (the children) see the violence as the only way to make people respect them -- and as a way to exercise certain power, something that has been denied to their families," Cisneros said.

While the Child Rights Network in Mexico said it has documented at least 30,000 kids involved in some criminal group, the Mexican government said it has not. According to the Agence Presse-France, the government told the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child that it doesn't have information about minors involved in criminal or armed groups.

A legal gap for children?

Civil organizations in Mexico also said law enforcement officials are violating children's rights when they make arrests.

The Child Rights Network in Mexico said it is common for many child suspects -- like the 14-year-old assassin and the 15-year-old boy in Jiutepec -- to be presented to the media without respect for their privacy or their presumption of innocence.

"A youth criminal justice law does not exist," Morales said. "There is a proposal in review in the Congress, but even that one has significant omissions.

"The (United Nations) Convention (on the Rights of the Child) points out that the children have to be treated and not necessarily imprisoned after having committed a crime."

Arturo Argente, director of the law faculty at the Monterrey Institute of Technology of Higher Education (Toluca Campus), agrees that Mexican authorities must protect a child's identity and guarantee that a process will follow "from a child-abuse angle, as a kid who has been working at an illegal business." In addition to that, he said, the children must receive psychological treatment and be taught to respect the law.

Morales is calling for a comprehensive law that would "give attention to the kids" with specialized courts, judges, lawyers and specialists.

"When there is a child involved in some organized crime act, there is never a suitable investigation," she said. "The authorities justify that it is a drug-trafficking crime and it is treated as a regular case."

Experts note that arrested children are not the only young people affected by organized crime.

In the past five years, from December 2006 to December 2011, at least 1,188 children have died because of armed clashes, according to the Child Rights Network in Mexico. That represents about 2.5% of the estimated 47,515 drug-related deaths over the last five years reported by Mexican authorities.

The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child confirmed that up until 2010, 1,000 children had died in acts linked to organized crime.

     RESPONSE - The article is about children as young as thirteen years old who are forced into gangs to do their dirty work for them or serve as a distraction. These children are being blackmailed and receiving death threats from gangs telling them to join there crime organization, “Or else.” Officials captured a fourteen-year-old boy who was found guilty of torturing and beheading for people. There were other young children ho have participated in crime organization and one of them receives eight hundred dollars just for being a lookout for them.

            The best way to describe this passage would be, “ Crowds can be manipulated and moved to violence.” In this instance the crowd being manipulated are children by gang members who are in the business of drugs. This crowd includes up to thirty thousand children in Mexico who are all related in some sort of crime group. They are being manipulated by either being paid a lot of money or are being threatened with death threats unless they join. Most of these children end up corrupt for the rest of their lives and end up being put in a type of imprisonment .

            It is important because that is how corrupt our world is. We have people manipulating children to join gang and start attacking other people. These poor children are being used and when they are caught, they are simply forgotten and put in jail. The officials are just locking them up instead of seeking professional help for these children. What has our world come to, have it sunk so low that children are being manipulated for the use of violence?

The Two Brothers

The fable is about two dogs that are brothers and best friends. They end up on the streets in the wrong neighborhood and have to fend for themselves because no one will help them get back home. This fable explains how people are to busy or choose to ignore children who are in the streets because of their ethnicity and don’t try and help them find shelter or food leaving the children no choice.

            Roger and Max were brothers who love and cared for each other. They lived in a town called Dogs, which was the territory of dogs and dogs only. Roger was the older brother and he is the one who usually comes up with ideas to do with his brother Max. Max is the younger brother who usually follows Roger around and does what ever he tells him to do.

            They had just spent the whole day inside and their mother told them, “ Go for a walk outside. I mean look at the sky, its beautiful and sunny. You two should go outside and enjoy the day.”

            “Okay mom.” They got off their butts and headed outside and they decided to race each other. They were about three mile away from their house now and the sky started to turn gray. They didn’t notice the sunshine disappear because they were having so much fun until the wind started to really blow against their hair. "Come on Max. We better head home before anything bad happens.” Max followed Roger home, but before they were able to reach their house a tornado struck and took them with it. Luckily they remained unharmed and landed in a tree.

            “Brother where are we? I’m scared,” asked Max in a wimpy voice.

            “I don’t know, let me check.” He poked his head out of the tree, examined his surroundings, and went back in the tree petrified. He stuttered, “ The... the... the... aa...ar.”

            “What is it brother? Is something wrong?” Roger finally pulled himself together after five minutes and was able to speak.

            “There are cats everywhere. We are in a different town. We’re in Meow” They stayed in the tree for a while until they could think of something to do. “ Here’s what we’ll do Max. We’ll just go out there and ask for help.” So, they got out and went up to a cat. “ Excuse me sir, can you help us get back to our home?” Max was now hiding behind Roger because the man looked mean.

            “Ugh get away from you filthy mutt. Go away and don’t talk to me again.” After the man had said this he pushed Roger out of the way making him topple over Max. They asked other cats for help, but Roger and Max got the exact same treatment or the cats just kept on walking pretending they weren’t there. Finally they gave up and decided to wait till morning, when there are les cats outside awake because it was the cats were starting to get hostile towards them.

            “ Roger I’m hungry, can we get some food.” Roger shook his head instead of speaking, for fear that the cats might hear them hiding. Max stopped complaining and they went to sleep till morning came. “ Wake up. Roger wake up!”

            “Okay I’m up. Lets go get some food.” They got out of their hiding spot and Roger as right. There weren’t as many cats out as there were at night. They sneaked into one of the stores and started to grab, to smell, and to taste the food. The manager had been doing stock inventory that day and he saw the dogs.

            “ Hey!” Roger and Max started to run for their lives. “ Get back here you filthy dogs and give me back my food.” They got away and went into hiding again. They could overhear the manager of the store talking to the cat police. “ There are dogs roaming our streets and committing...” they left before he had finished yelling at the officer. The two brothers lived on like this for about a month heading in the direction of Dogs. They used a map to guide them and continued to take food, but only what they needed. After a month they reached there way back home.

            “Roger! Max! Is it really you two? What happened to you boys, you had me and your father worried.” Roger and Max explained to their parents what happened and were glad to be home. On the other hand their mom had become a bit over protective and prevents them from going outside for to long or leave the house for that matter, but the two brothers were just happy to be home. After their event, they decided its for the best that they don't wander off to far from their house.

Declaration From Society

John’s Declaration From Society

            

Society. What has society done for me but put me aside as an outcast or made me the center of attention that I have no free time alone. What has society done for me but show me why I should not take part of it any longer. What has society done for me but give me reasons to deny it. I’ll tell you what it has done for me:

 It has given me friends and taken them away,

 It has shown me how corrupt it truly is,

 It has proven itself unworthy for me to take part in,

 It has pushed me aside, not wanting me,

 It has given me love and corrupted it with its ideals.

             

In my own home I was marked an outcast. The society rejected me because of who I was and because of who my mother was. They wouldn’t let me take part of their rituals. I was denied from playing with the other kids. The other kids at my home would make fun of my mother and throw rocks at me. I hated all the men at the village because of what they thought of my mother and me. I was shown no respect around there but I did receive a book that shaped my thoughts and me.

           

I ran away from old society because I wanted to be alone and then I saw Bernard out there. He asked me if I wanted to go to the civilized world and I said yes. I saw this as an opportunity to escape my old society and go to a new one to start over. WRONG!

          

This society was as bad as the old one if not worse. There I became the center of attention, everyone wanted to meet me, I couldn’t have time alone to think, people were always trying to meet me. I became furious with the society that I denied Bernard’s request for me to go his party. In this society I told my Juliet that I loved her and she took this the wrong way. She has been corrupted by society that she took my I love you as a means to sleep with me. This pushed me over the top, it made me angrier at society, and I was so angry that I pushed her away and called her a WHORE!       

           

I could now see how corrupt this society was. It has trapped men in a cage of pure happiness lured by soma. I on the other hand had no intention of being lured and trapped by this society. On the contrary I was trying to change it but it got nowhere. I learned that I was to be stuck to this society forever unless I left on my and I did. I became separate from society, I was no longer any part of it, I was free, but only for a moment.         

          

I ran away to a lighthouse but where ever I went I was followed by society. It wouldn’t leave me alone, in peace, in a world of solitude. It started to follow me by starting with a few reporters then a complete crowd of people chanting ORGY_PORGY. They were trapped by society and they were trying to make me be a part of it but I resisted but only for a few minutes. Eventually I couldn’t resist and joined their corrupt society.

            

The next day I new the only way to escape the cruel fate of society was to leave it and the world it is on. 

            Farwell.