Church scores with guys by hosting football Sunday

Instead of going to chruch and worshipping one's religion, a new chruch has found a way to bring more men to the chruch. The chruch is now involoving the football community in order to get more men to come, this is a form of control but not really the bad kind. The chruch is just using the concept to bring people into the building in order to rekindle the faith in men. The chruch holds tailgates for the community in order to keep attention and later on they want to bring a professional player by keep them involved.

Antonio Martinez

Link to article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-12-11-football-men-church_N.htm

How to help kids follow a healthy diet even over holidays

The article gives advice to parents on what to feed their kids for a more healthly winter break. Now this might be a good idea, but why all of sudden the article during this time of year? What about the other parts of the year, spring, and summer? This hoiday is suppose to be about being able to indulge in life and enjoy the hard work you put into the year. Why not focus on helping your kids lose the weight during the rest of the year and then for the winter break let them enjoy the spoils. Now controling the kids life through what they can and cannot enjoy has become an obsession with people. Here is a fun fact, in what time of our lives did we spot viewing people that where not only fat but also husky as wrong and something that is deemed ugly? Ever since we started watching media and getting into our heads that being nearly a skeleton was considered beauty.

Antonio Martinez

Link to Article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2009-12-11-holidays-weight_N.htm

Student sues Brazilian university over miniskirt

This breif article is about a student in Brazil attending a university being expelled from the college. She was expelled because student where making a big deal about her mini skirt that she wore. Now are we suppose to conform to certian cultures when we move to another country and representing our country. I think not, we as the USA accept other students from different countries and we have no problem with them wearing their clothing from their country. I know personally students from Africa that wear what they use to wear back home. Why should we have to follow certian criteria from other countries. Now if we as the US did that and exspelled a student for wearing clothing not from this country then USA would be considered a menace and it would be blown all over the news.

Antonio Martinez

Link to article: http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_13979661

Move to cut ACORN funding ruled unconstitutional

The article is about our congress trying to cut funding from an organization named ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The organization helps people with low income with house buying. Now why would the government want to cut off funding from these people. The article did not say why our congress wanted to decline funding for the organization. Although in a court ruling recenetly the judge deemed it unconstitutional for congress to cut funding off from ACORN. Is the congress trying to keep the low incomed families away from buying houses. Are they wanting to control people from where they can live. Maybe lower income families are moving into other social class statues and people do not like that? What ever the reason maybe, this organization is using the funding for a good reason.

Antonio Martinez

Link to article: http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_13979752

Immigration sweep nets 280 with criminal records

This article discusses the immigrant's what have criminal records. The article is written is such a way that it makes the reader feel as if people that are from other countries are some sort of criminal. The first few paragraphs talk about how this team called ICE is rounding up the immigrants from California and towards the middle of the story it says some of the immigrants they arrested where not criminals. As far as this being controling on us, well the way this article is written is in favor of deporting immigrants from the US. As a writer, I thought one was not suppose to have a sense of bases and remind neutral on the story. The story portrays illegal immigrants as these horrible people. People as the article discussed, people that are not in pursue of the American dream. Oh but wait, they did arrest some immigrants that where not criminals and pursuing the American dream.

Antonio Martinez

Link to article: http://hosted2.ap.org/NMSAN/APHome/Article_2009-12-11-US-Immigration-Arrests-California/id-p49387c3e04a34a01a2a8f8e1d1dea7f8

Mix-up prompts report of abduction attempt Police: Man fitting description says he was flagging down school bus

Not to long ago, there was a front page story on the The New Mexican which is Santa Fe's news paper. The story was printed right in front to grab readers attention about a 10 year old girl almost being abducted from the school area. I remember everyone at my work talking about that story when they saw it laying down in front of their face as they went into the employee lounge. Co-workers of mine where complaing that the streets of the city where not safe and they should tighten up the security. In a way it put a foul mood for the rest of the day at work. Later to find out, this new story had come up. Now they did not put it in the front page but the media did not get their facts straight. I saw this story online and did not recall reading or seeing this update in the paper at all. I did tell my co-workers about it and put it up for everyone to see, but some where still in denial. The majority of them where embarressed that they could be so angry and that the media had thrown them into a twist. Remember dont believe everything you read.

Antonio Martinez

Link to article: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/local%20news/mix-up-prompts-attempted-abduction-report

Checking the Right Boxes, but Failing the Patient

This article discusses how some medical professionals that work in the field sometimes dont even pay any attention to the pateint and just send them home with a perscription. It is not so much that they are not paying attention to us, but it dawned on me the first part of the article. The story with the father calling for this lady. Why do WE not consider what may happen if we just call some random place for help or advice on what to take. We never see the actual consequences of our actions. We automatically assume that someone that has a white coat or that works and answers the doctor's phone knows about medicine. Why are so subjectized to that concept that we want the quick and easy way out. This man calling in the beginning did not realize what his wife really had. What would have happend if he did not take her to the hospital. We are under this control that any where we may call that the other person on the other end knows the answer.

Antonio Martinez

Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/health/17case.html?ref=health

Facebook Says New Privacy Policy Is Like Expanding Beyond Colleges in 2006

We all have an account on some interactive site that helps us meet new people or expand our social networks. We have heard of myspace, twitter, facebook, tagged, and other sites such as these. Facebook has now gone through an experimental phase where it is asking some of their users to change their privacy settings. They say that about 22million people they asked to change their profile from private to public, half of them changed it because os the so called "recommendation." Are we so blind not to see what is going on? We are so committed to these cites that either half or more than half of us is willing to comform to these changes. Facebooks creators say they are doing this because the world is changing. Hhhhmmmmm, well as we have talked about it in class, maybe they want these profiles public so that way when you are trying to get a job your employer can nose around through your personal life. I don't think we should all just go with the flow sometimes, its ok to question authority once in a while, but don't always conform just because the cite that you relate to tells you to.

Antonio Martinez

Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/12/10/10readwriteweb-facebook-says-new-privacy-policy-is-like-ex-89897.html

Students Spur Greater Activism by Young Immigrants

Everyday in New Mexico we see many cultures from every part of the world. Yet we do not stop to really think if they are here legally or ilegally. One student in this story was one of the few who may have not been controled by the system and escaped through the cracks due to the attention this matter is recieving. Now we have started to see in this story the uprising of students that are immigrants, trying to make their stand and fight for what they have worked so hard for. The very thing that we as regular citizens take for granted on a day to day basis, being able to wake up in a country that has certian; not a whole lot; freedoms that other countries do not have. Students and immigrants are now wanting to stay and fight for what they want. This story is not so much about how one has become under control, but how one has not conformed to the state. One of the laws that these students is fighting for, is giving children passage to the USA if they where brought here before the age of 15. Now is that right? Are we now to say that a child is forcably brought here to the USA? Maybe a child will say that he was brought here against hiw will, but ask him the same question 6 years from now. His answer will then be different.

Antonio Martinez

Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/us/11student.html?ref=us

26 Students Arrested in Protest Over Tuition Increases

Students started to protest because of the high increase of tuition. With their school raising tution about 30% is hard for the students. As we have seen, if you push people to far they may start a revolution and in this case a protest. Throughout the state of California we see that the schools are cutting down on staff and rasing the tution on students. Although the state does not see that the first time they did this would it happen again. After so many schools doing cut backs such as these, they still go with the plans and raise tution. How much is enough for us as the students before we start to organize and stop conforming to these changes. Some students now today pay for their school out of pocket. What happens to them? Do we keep filtering out the poor and the lower middle class in order to keep this Marx theory of the spiral of education? What is a student to do in such a situation? We as students have no power, therefore the only for us to be considered and heard through our higher class individuals is through revolution and even sometimes violence. These students that started the protest just got the slap on the hand, which was a misdemeanor.
Antonio Martinez post #1

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/education/11arrest.html?_r=1&hp