9/30/2008

Is Mr. Watkins postponing death Penalty? Or is he Really seeking Justice?

After reading the article in the Dallas Morning News, I did quite a bit of critical thinking. A lot actually. Craig Watkins wanted to freeze all 40 death penalty cases, and review each case specifically to ASSURE that we got the right "Guys". Mike Hashimoto believes that if Mr. Watkins thinks that we should re evaluate these cases, he should have found Hard evidence to back up his statement. Yet, Mr. Watkins have not found any cases that are led to prosecutorial misconduct. I think Mr. Hashimoto is trying to see if Mr. Watkins indeed is trying to seek "Justice" or is he just stalling time. What makes me wonder is that, what Led to Mr. Watkins to start thinking that there might be error in these cases? Could it be that he might not agree with the death penalty? Or did he get suckered into some sort of Loop Hole? Whats funny is that, i did indeed look up a news story that Mr. Hashimoto mentioned, The case with Aubrey Hawkins. The "Texas Seven" convicts who escaped from a prison, had came upon a sporting goods store where Officer Aubrey Hawkins responded to a robbery call. While trying to stop the felons, he was shot to death and ran over by the fugitives. When all Six were found (one committed suicide) , the first one to recieve the lethal injection was on August 14, 2008. Michael Rodriguez. Now , there are 5 more left to go, but yet, Mr. Watkins without a doubt knows for sure that these felons committed the crime and are still breathing till this very day. Its kind of difficult to really see if what Mr. Watkins is doing is an act of justice. Does Mr. Watkins really need to go back and re assure that these cases are correct , after the fact that these capitol murders have gone through LONG Jury trials? For the victums family, and loved ones, do they feel at ease that the punishment for what these felons were to deserve have not yet been served? Also, what if? You never know if maybe the prisoner is actully innocent. I think all in the end, if IF a person were to be found Guilty in the end, wouldn't that mean our Governtment is a fault ? Who would we prosecute then?

9/21/2008

The stress Asian Parents give us to become something/someone

This article is on how hard and crucial it is that Asian students must strive to become something of themselves as they grow older to complete school for their degrees. Asian parents push their kids to go to school and learn more. The article from the Dallas-Morning news by By HOLLY YAN and STELLA M. CHÁVEZ, described how Chinese students attend school perhaps 6-7 days a week instead of only attending 5 days of school. In doing this, with the extra help and the extra practice on subjects such as Math, English, and Chinese language, students are progressing in school much better and much faster. The Chinese school has proved to help students academically and helped them preserve their culture and language.

Chinese school is not only for Asians, its open to the public for anyone attending elementary all the way thru high school. Jamal Abu 14, attended the Chinese school and he is black. His mother put him in this school to help him with math since he was struggling to understand the subject and now he comprehends the subject much better than before. Doug Wike, sent his two adopted Chinese girls to learn more about their culture and heritage. These schools has been around since the early 1900’s and they’ve still been going on strong helping students improve in school.

I think this article is worth reading because maybe students should if time allowed, study more. Not only does it help students improve on their academic skills, it'll help them prepare for college. Its interesting how many different perception you can take on this matter. Some parents beleive sports is the key to success, other parents think books and focusing on class is the key to their childs success. It all depends.

Here is the article, and take a look at the video yourself.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/092108dnmetchineseschools.1a39281.html