Trayvon Martin Case (Fonda)

 
In my opinion, I think that if Zimmerman was raised in a different type of environment where people are all equal and blacks are not excluded, then the death of Trayvon Martin would not have happened the way it did. Zimmerman called the police when he seen Trayvon walking back home from the convenient store, telling them that he looked suspicious and he felt like his life was in danger. He assumed that just because Trayvon was black that his life was being threatened, which was not the case. He killed Trayvon just because the simple fact, he did not like black people. Society views this situation was being wrong in every way. They want Zimmerman locked up for life and justice for Trayvon. He didn’t do anything wrong, he was innocent. Some think the way it happened is crazy because of the environment they were in. It was a mixed neighborhood but you could say it was mostly whites. Zimmerman may have freaked out because of how Trayvon was dressed. They say he was wearing his hood up on his hoodie and that’s why Zimmerman thought that he was up to something crazy or suspicious. All in all Trayvon was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The young boy should not have had to die the way he did. Justice needs to be served. 

Timeliness vs. Dated (Fonda)

            In my personal opinion I think that it goes both ways, timeliness and dated. I say it’s dated because of how the situation played out. As in how the house was in the country far away from others, because now a days houses are pretty close to each other even in the country. Back then since houses were so far apart Perry and Dick knew nobody would be able to hear the gunshots, and call the police. They also knew the Clutter family were good people so others wouldn’t really bother to think to ever just check up on them. The way the murders’ set up the plan was also dated, because they were going off of what someone else said, they didn’t see anything or even know anything from their own knowledge. I think its timeliness because a murder is a murder. No matter if it’s in the 1900’s or the 20^th century. People will go around killing people in daylight with no real intentions of it. Just over the weekend someone got killed a couple of blocks away from my house, and it was plenty of people as witnesses or at least in the area to help them. Perry and Dick didn’t care about killing the Clutters and Murders’ now days don’t care who they kill, because it’s for their own selfish reasons. All in all a Murder is a murder no matter what place or time it is. How things are planned may go differently, but that’s about it. 

Honor (Fonda)

Personally I would rather die and keep my honor. I wouldn’t want to die and lose my dignity because that’s not a good thing to be remembered by. When I die I want to die with good things said behind my name. I want people to think of me as a legend, I want people to think about me and have every good thing to say about me. Rather if I’m famous, or not because nobody wants to die and lose their dignity. I want to be remembered by my community as me being a good person. I would want my kids to have a good name for there selves also, as in growing up. If everyone knows that their mom is Fonda Rothschild then they wont have such a hard life growing up like they would if I had a bad name for myself. Dying and losing your dignity would be a disgrace to your family, they would more then likely be ashamed to claim you, or even say that your apart of them, let alone even being their mom, and I’m sure the kids would get picked on, talked about, and etc. If your name was disgraced then your family would have to keep your faith, and honor and still take pride in who ever it was that died, because they are still apart of you and either way you look at it you’ll still have their name tied to you. 

Emotions (Fonda)

      I think everyone lets their emotions get the best of them especially in certain situations dealing with love, being mad, sad, and even happy. If you’re mad about something your going to jump to conclusions, be suspicious about everything, do the first thing that comes to mid with out thinking about it and you’re not going to think clearly about anything and sometimes you even over think things. When you’re happy and in love you’ll be blinded by love. Things that you know are wrong will seem right; you’ll think that everything is going perfect in your life. I even feel like some people let others talk things into them, almost like brainwashing, because I know if you hear enough of something soon enough you’ll start believing it. When your excited you may have adrenalin rushes and be overly hyper and excited about things. Often people let their feelings get the best of them when in most situations its not worth it because after you go back to feeling like your normal self you might regret the things that you did during the time that you were upset or in some cases you may actually be glad.

Reputation (Fonda)

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In today's society reputation is very important, some people can say they don’t care what people has to say about them but deep down, everyone cares about what someone has to say about them, or what they think about them. It’s important because your reputation follows you for the rest of your life, its what people will think of when they hear your name. It’s how people remember you. If you have a bad reputation it may make it harder for you to get a job, it may be hard for you to make friends or even keep them, no one wants to be friends with a girl that’s had every guy in the school, or a dude that breaks every girls heart. It’ll be hard for you to move on with life knowing everyone is thinking bad things about you. If you have a good reputation then life may be easier. It’ll be easier to get a job, make friends, and have a better life. Yes, people care about what others think of them. If people didn’t care then we wouldn’t have teenagers killing their selves from being bullied, and that relates back to what people think of you. Then theirs others that actually don’t care, because if they know something about them isn’t true it may bother them a little but I doubt they’ll really let peoples ignorance get to them.