Monday, May 16, 2011
Abortion
I agree to the idea that teenagers who become mothers have grim prospects in the future because of the fact that it puts serious limits on what she is able to do. When the mother gives birth, her life then becomes a matter of tending to the baby unless she puts it up for adoption. Having a child is something that requires an incredible amount of time and with time like that that needs to be spent, there is not much time for anything else. The father of the child if he is still around, needs to have a job to support his child and often times this means he only has time for job and school if even that. Some have to drop out of school to take care of the child and its mother. If the father and mother drop out of school then they do not have their diploma and because of this career choices also become very limited. All of these factors make parenting very difficult at that age and because of this I don't recommend teenage pregnancies unless the mother is fully capable of easily supporting the child. Some times the father may run away to escape responsabilities and sometimes because the pregnancy was a mistake, either way this would land the mother all alone to raise the baby herself which dumps everything on her.
Monday, May 2, 2011
History
The idea that History is not objectively true because it was written by the winners is completely false and it is somewhat an ironic statement coming from Paige. Being a post modernist, it would be contradictory for her to make any truth claims especially one about history and what within that is true and what isn't because of the fact that post modernists do not believe in truth or that it exists. Next I would like to adress her actual claim. To start, it is important to remember that everyone has their own history an everyone writes it so we cannot assume that we are the only ones with history books. Along with this we must realize that in order for Paige to be correct every different country or group that writes its history books would have to have a differing story from everyone elses which is not the case because we as people all are aware of the fact that certain events did indeed happen and are known by all to be truth. To add to this many historical happenings are recorded by eye witnesses such as wars.
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