"Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp," by Joy Williams talks about how humans are destroying the environment all over the world. The title explains our hypocritical take on the environment how we want a better place to live and promote recycling and things but we are consumers first and will go to any length to get want we desire. She gives many examples illustrating how we are slowly killing off our own wildlife and habitats for mundane things like malls and highways. They are being built all over the land which used to be full of wildlife and now they are being destroyed. She also talks about how animals are being born with birth defects due to the heavy use of pesticides.

This article makes me feel bad because I know that as a human each day goes by and I can not help the problem by doing little things. There will always be things that I need or want and I will be hurting the environment no matter what I do. Its pretty much a lose lose situation. Even being on this computer I am using energy and that energy is polluting the world. This article is a lot like the hybrid car. Even though we care about the environment enough to make a car that does not use as much gas we still have to put energy into that car which pollutes. Its a double standard in this country and the rest of the world and it has to stop or be slowed very soon.

In the article "How the Rich are Getting Richer and how the Poor, Poorer" by Robert Reich explains how companies are moving of America and giving jobs to the people who will work for the less money. Huge companies that pull in millions of dollars are making themselves richer every year because they find workers from different countries to work for less money than workers in the U.S. Once the company moves out of the country and finds cheaper labor then they will look for other countries who will work for even less money. This system is making the rich wealthier and the poor poorer.

I think that this is a skewed system of doing things but if I was running a company I would probably do the saem thing. If I was selling something then I would rather it be made for 10 cents instead of 2 dollars. However I still think that it is wrong that companies can fire so many American workers just so they can move their work elsewhere for more profits. It is unfortunate that it is so easy to do this, but at the same time that is what our economy is built on. If a company can make more money by giving jobs to cheap labor then more power to the.

Student/Teacher Relationships

I think that whatever relationship the student has with a teacher or professor in college is fine, but there can be times when a relationship is inappropriate for example good grades and sex. For the most part aren’t student teacher relationships always hard? I mean, how many people really want to see their professor outside of class? What’s wrong with not liking your professor? Has anything really changed with the student teacher relationship? Now professors can look up what students are saying about their class opposed to the good 'ol days when students would just talk behind their backs. I use ratemyprofessor.com just so I don't get stuck with a teacher like I had freshmen year that led me to dinking...just kidding, but seriously I could not stand his class.

If teachers can't take the criticism them maybe they should change professions. Go back to school and see what taking boring classes is all about. Or perhaps these professors should accept the criticisms being posted on them and use them to their advantage and become a better teacher that people want to sign up for. This just goes to show us that even "Professors" don't know it all nor do they hold all the answers.

Adult Crime, Adult Time

The article "Adult Crime, Adult Time" by Lind Collier was about the increasing number of juvenile offenders that are being charged as adults. The author discusses what certain states do to take care of under age offenders and why there is no uniform age across the nation to deal with these young criminals. She does not think that just because someone is of the age of 16 or younger that they should be let off the hook easier than if they were older. Collier believes that if someone does an adult crime that they should serve adult time. She uses examples from real situations such as how crimes with 12-year-olds have doubled since 1965, and the number of 13- and 14-year-olds has tripled.

I think that letting these kids off with little punishment is wrong, but I also think that charging them as adults is somewhat extreme as well. I think there should be harsh punishments for these "kids'' but at the same time I think they deserve a chance to change themselves because they are so young. There should be something in-between that can help them out and teach them a lesson at the same time. Perhaps they should be incarcerated till they become an adult and then have to serve the society for the betterment of the community.