Socratic Seminar

I thought it was stupid, i felt like i couldn't say anything i wanted to. whenever i was going to say something someone else would cut me off, and half the things they said was stupid and made no sense. Miller comparing a monarchy, when people get killed if they go against what the king says,  to how we live today was one of the most ignorant comments i ever heard, but yet i felt i couldn't say anything about it, cause it would be like a debate, and someone cut me off again. I felt like the intelligence level was not there to be able to get anything out of the circle. I said a lot less, but my comments were a lot more intelligent. Brian H. said a lot of things, but most of it was just repeating what other people had said, or they would babble aimlessly, i feel the only two people who said anything worth while, and were able to participate, was Brian Thorwarth, and Mike Funstch because they were able to talk, and said something worthwhile. Olivia, and Brian H. a leader.... no.

Quote

 "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty or security." (Benjamin Franklin).

Terrible quote, although it makes fine logic, historically very very bad quote. Benjamin Franklin was known as a partyer so he must have been drunk when he stated this quote. Throughout history personal freedoms have been taken away from people in order to protect the security of the nation. Alien and Sedition acts in the second world war. Also, in the first world war, people weren't allowed to express themselves so America would stay neutral, if you did you ended up going in jail. Even in the Revolution people were not allowed to express themselves, if they did then the English would them them in jail.

Links

The following link is about teen drinking, and about suicide, and how they coincide with each other http://www.questiaschool.com/read/112946530?title=Teens%20and%20Suicide, how substance abuse can lead to mental depression, and finally suicide

http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/behavior/suicide.html, is also a link about suicide and how it affects everyone around them, how when someone takes there own life

When I was in 3^rd grade I got kicked out of Field Day again. I had a fight with Eric Muller. My team had clearly won the match, of whatever we were playing. I don’t remember what we were playing, but my team won by one point, but that other team didn’t accept it for some reason. So Muller and me were on the same baseball team at the time, and we would always like fighting on the bench, because baseball wasn’t the most interesting sport. 

So Muller and me got into another one of those fights, but it the fight intensity escalated a bit. I don’t know who hit whom harder, but it ended with me punching Muller in the stomach. He couldn’t breath so the gym teacher, picked him up and sprinted him to the nurse, while I was sent to sit in a classroom all alone. By the time lunch came, everyone knew about it. I got my chocolate milk, and I think some chicken nuggets, but I’m not one hundred percent sure. So I was nervously waiting for the principal to call me down and what not, once Eric got better, and a couple of kids would come up to me and give me advice. Bryan at one point came up to me and said “Per, my nickname at the time, don’t worry about it, he was fighting too, say it was self-defense.” 

So I finally get called down to the office, and the principal asks me and Eric what happened, our stories are similar, and he decides our punishment is to stay in the office for the rest of the day. So, as a kid, I was kicked out of my third Field Day.