Are curfews effective against crime?? [2]

It's time to get our priorities straight?
Source: Commercial Motor; 11/09/2006, Vol. 204 Issue 5203, pg 10-10, 1 pg.

To be honest this article really was not that helpful, it was short. It talked a lot about nighttime curfews for drivers and truck drivers. It sounded like the author thought that only trucks should drive at night and get there deliveries do. It is too dangerous to have teens and other drivers out driving around out there at the same time.

Are curfews effective against crime??

America On Curfews
Even Small, Quiet Towns Are Clamping Down on Teens.
by Sue Anne Pressley
Washington Post Staff Writer.

This article talks about how in Clifton, Texas they passed a new law for teens. Everyone under 17 years old must be in by 11 p.m. and midnight on weekends, unless you are with an adult or have a good reason to be out. Penalties begin with a warning and can lead up to as much as a $500 fine against parents. "What's happening is we're punishing them like adults but treating them like adults." says Louis Rhodes, executive director of the Arizona ACLU. A 15 year old girl named Siri Kvalvik was playing on swings in a park a few yards from one of the girls homes. Her parents gave her permission to stay out until midnight. But Siri was arrested by police after they called her mother asking for the girl’s whereabouts. Her mother could not pinpoint that her daughter had drifter from her friends house to the swing sets. "I asked for my rights to be read three or four times," says Siri, who was photographed and fingerprinted, a practice Phoenix police have since halted. "But they said because I was a kid, I didn't have rights." At the juvenile courts found Siri guilty automatically declaring her incorrigible, meaning legally that she is beyond rehabilitation, a decision the Kvalvik's are appealing.

Spring Break

The best part of my spring break would be going up to my best friends katie's house. We went shopping, to a couple parties, driving, and a bunch of random stuff. Later in the week I came home and hung out with my friends down here. On Friday, my dad took me to get a new cell phone. While we were getting it Katie got a ride down to the cities and surprised me at the store, it was pretty sweet. Then we went to the bowling ally with a bunch of people and bowled for a couple hours. Saturday was St. Patrick's Day, Katie came over and we were hungary so we walked to a bunch of stores. We got cake mix, frosting, and food for us. We walked home and baked a green cake. After we had it made and decorated, we carried it to our friends house for a St. Patrick's Day party. The party was a lot of fun and we got to see all of our friends we hadn't seen in a while. Later that night we went home and fell a sleep on my bed.

day five. Mount Everest

Problem: There were a lot of problems I noticed about Mount Everest. The one that I noticed the most was how dangerous it is and how almost 200 climbers have perished on Mount Everest in the last half-century. Also when they die on the Mountain they remain there, becuase there is no way to get them down or do anything with their bodies.

Evidence:

"Sharp was making his return after reaching the peak. He died on the mountain and remains there, as have many of the almost 200 climbers who have perished on Everest in the last half-century.", "When you're up there and can barely breathe, you can't eat, you can barely drink--all you can really do is plod on upwards with this one thing in mind," said Arnold, who has climbed to Everest's summit. "What it would involve to launch a rescue would almost be beyond the brain capacity of a person at high altitude." [Morality on a Slippery Slope].

Mount Everest is both the highest mountain and the highest graveyard in the world. As of 2002, 175 climbers had died on the mountain, and the vast majority of these bodies were left behind. There are reported to be at least 41 bodies on the north side of Everest. [Dead bodies on Everest]

Contributing Factors: Mount Everest is 25,000 feet above sea level where oxygen is sparse, winds are fierce and temperatures reach 100 below. These extremely harsh conditions are known as the Death Zone. When some climbers are on the mountain trails they can run out or gas and freeze to death right there. Others maybe killed by avalanches. Rescueing climbers is also very difficult.

Possible Solution: My first idea for a solution was to have people that know the mountain well to remove the dead bodies. But doing that is a very difficult task. On one of the websites I was looking at there was a story about how it took a team of 12 people eight hours to move a dead body down a portion of the mountain. With the harsh conditions very few climbers attempt to take the bodies of the dead people they were climbing with back. Many bodies will be left there forever. To avoid all this people should be more prepared to climb and ready to call for help if they need it.

day three. [tartan problem]

State the Problem
One of the problems I have noticed at Tartan is that there are a lot of fights.

Give Evidence
Once in a while when you are in the lunch room you'll see some kids fighting and a lot of the time people will be talking about a fight that is going to happen or one they saw.

Examine Contributing Factors
Somethings that contributes factors to fights is that some people disrespect eachother. Othertimes it will start with a verbal fight and get more serious leading to a fist fight.

Propose a Solution
People could settle their problems more maturely.

day two.

pretty sure we did this in class.

day one.

I baby-sit for a couple who have two very cute kids that are fun to be around. But when i baby-sit for them they never come home at the time they say they will. So instead of making a big deal about it, I decided to not make plans after babysitting.