Monday, February 13, 2012

I'm a criminal

I read an article called "I'm a criminal and so are you" by Michelle Alexander. In this article she says "In this country, we force millions of people- who are largely black and brown- into a permanent second-class status, simply because they once committed a crime. once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. you can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits- forms of discrimination that we supposably left behind". i understand where she is coming from about everybody committing a crime and not getting caught but if she says you are a criminal. i wouldn't go that far, i think that yes everybody does something wrong according to the law when they are growing up but sometimes there is a reason and they don't know better from a bad living situation or the way your parents raise you then there is some that just do it on purpose but either way i think unless it is something that is truly hurting somebody else like rape or murder than it is not that bad. i wouldn't call everybody a criminal because everybody makes mistakes and if it was that bad everybody would be in prison, you can't put everybody in prison because the society and the government wont work, they wont have money to pay for the prisons and it just would not work. i also feel like some police lock people up for no reason, minor reasons or really just because they can. but for the most part i agree with her that everybody commits crimes just not everybody gets caught.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

"iPad"

In the article i read "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad" by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza it was mainly about "the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, workers advocates and documents published by companies themselves". workers in those factories and buildings were severly hurt or killed. people love these creations and revises to technology but they don't know how they are made and the dangers in the process. this article told me about a lot going on in china that i would have never even thought was happening. for example, the people killed, the people injured, how little they get paid, the aluminum dust,  the process and the dangers of working in those factories like apple. i think like me, some people would really be interested in this topic because almost everybody got an apple something, from laptop, to iPod, to iPad and then there's the iPhone. i think apple is probably one of the biggest companies in the world. i just think people should lay off on buying apple products because what they are doing to their workers just ain't right but also what's done is done so if you already have something apple, keep it because you paid good money for it and there is no use for throwing it away for something in the past