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I'm passionate about

Global reform, the pursuit of sexual and bodily knowledge, the arts specifically writing and theater, and animals protection

An idea worth spreading

Sexual knowledge can reduce pregnancies especially in younger women. And this is a quote from H.G. Wells: Civilization is a race between chaos and education. Also, technology is the source for majority of catastrophe.

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Anything.

People don't know that I'm good at

Not much. I am not as great as Jay Gatsby or as brilliant as the sun and the sky but I am .01 % genetically different from every other human being on this planet, and I intend to show the world that's

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• A comment on Conversation: What do you believe are the factors contributing to the downfall of American Education?

  Aug 18 2011: Should teachers get higher wages? Football players get millions while teachers get almost nothing...But would adding money to teachers help anything?

• A reply on Conversation: What do you believe are the factors contributing to the downfall of American Education?

  Aug 18 2011: Japan also has a lot of standardized testing and high expectations and lot of other things in their education system. By saying they separate their students and progress is just correlation.
  
  But Australia has a similar system, where go through ranks of intelligence instead of grades

• A comment on Conversation: What do you believe are the factors contributing to the downfall of American Education?

  Aug 16 2011: So, here my opinions.
  
  I am not an expert at the school system. I've read a several articles and had many deep conversations with teachers, parents, and others such about our schooling, and this is what i have outlined.
  
  We need to redirect our money in our school systems specifically in creativity classes such as art and music which has a huge affect in society. Think about it. Every advertisement, entertainment, and/or instant gratification are crafted by artists. Especially the united states, we should be supporting our imaginative entrepreneurs instead of dwindling them.
  
  Next, is recess. Schools keep cutting recess time for more time in class room without evaluating the consequences. Recess helps children burst out all the energy they bottled in an undisciplined environment. Physical education is still controlled, not free moving running and time to grow and socialize. Without recess kids are getting fat and restless. I gained this information from an article about Harvard Students not being able stay still and unable to communicate with others properly. With no recess, we are creating a bunch of twitchy, anti-social adults.
  
  All right now, where was I?
  
  Another thing, this is a tangent. One teacher put her own money in making a class full of desks that were non-biased to left and right hands and had a stool instead of chair so they could choose to sit or stand. Also a place for their feet that they could kick.
  
  Anyways, yeah definitely our culture puts no importance on education.
  
  Alright I do not know enough about standardized testing to know how bad its is or not.
  
  Now middle school has too much puberty going on. My own opinion, sex classes making it not a forbidden fruit would help very much in teenage pregnancies.
  
  Alright I have more ideas about highschool, but i gotta go. Bye.
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  A reply on Conversation: Is our destiny to be one world with one language?

  Aug 13 2011: Me too. Yeah in America no one really cares learning other languages. Although I promise myself to learn japanese and italian.

• A reply on Conversation: Should the U.S. continue to employ Affirmative Action, or should private schools be allowed to discriminate?

  Aug 13 2011: Well, I agree with you. Affirmative action was based on amending the wrongdoings in racism and compensating for those lost years.
  
  But we do still need it. Especially in my state Arizona. I have plenty of illegal immigrant friends that deserve to go to college and cannot. Its usually because their parents came here when they were very young and America has always been there home. With affirmative action, they can get scholarships and not add to the dropout population.
  
  Without things such as the dream act, affirmative action is the only buffer they have.
  
  Don't get me wrong, affirmative action is completely not fair. Applying for college was almost impossible. I was able to get no scholarships mostly because I am a white girl not going into engineering or have a military family. And, I have excellent grades too; top 17% in my school. But cannot afford university with just this, and i received no financial aid.
  
  But, I wonder what would happen if it disappeared.
  
  As I said, its a very tricky question.
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  A reply on Conversation: Should governments be allowed to criminalize victimless acts?

  Aug 13 2011: Well not that crime wouldn't exist, I meant that crime specifically wouldn't exist i.e. if drugs were legal then no one would get charged with procession or MIC or any of those silly laws. Although I would not make meth legal, and cocaine I would put limitations on it like i believe Germany has. Meth would not be legal because people cannot take responsibility for their actions one bit.
  
  One problem specifically with American government, it that its too moral. Instead paying attention to scientific facts such as marijuana is not significantly unhealthy besides the smoking aspect, gays couples are natural to be in love, and other things i could get into, they think that God is their ruler. As we say in our pledge: I pledge allegiance to the flag... one nation under God..." :

• A comment on Conversation: No emotion is negative or positive.

  Aug 11 2011: Ha very interesting angle. Although, I do not agree. Emotions started as evolution shows, ways to keep our community together and overcome our surroundings; to communicate beyond just speaking but with reason which gave us language. Language is speaking with reason.
  
  So to explain, fear taught us how not to get killed.
  The emotion of love came from mammals to care for their offspring.
  Guilt and Pride sprung from social primates, so they could travel, protect, and be a community.These emotions were formed and passed on due to natural selection.
  
  But now. Now we are so over-populated, natural selection does not exist. We do not need to survive anymore therefore every trait gets passed on. Even the ones consider "negative". I.E. A person wants to kill thyself because he is so horribly sad. Well why would the animal kingdom pass this down? It does not help us survive. Actually, it does the opposite.
  
  So emotions had positive and negative effect because we have evolve to creatures where self-awareness is major impact on our behavior and life
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  A reply on Conversation: Should the U.S. continue to employ Affirmative Action, or should private schools be allowed to discriminate?

  Aug 11 2011: So, I have been following your guy's conversation, and hope this clears things up. I feel inalienable rights are not something a paper dignifies, but we dignify ourselves. Our choice is our inalienable right whether we live in totalitarian or democracy. Every situation presents its choices. We have the right to claim them no matter what.
  
  Everyone has the needs for a body and everyone has a brain that will function for those needs and make choices for them - that is what I believe inalienable rights are.
  
  So when country says it will protect your inalienable rights, they mean, giving you an increase range of choice without effecting the health of the state or person and providing an increase standard of living where the body is taken care of.
  
  I hope that made sense. So yes a paper really can protect these rights, but we will always be born with a freewill mind and situation with thousand of choices that we alone can dignify ourselves with.

• A comment on Conversation: Should the U.S. continue to employ Affirmative Action, or should private schools be allowed to discriminate?

  Aug 11 2011: It's a tricky question. I want to say in a few years or so, then yes get rid of affirmative action because by 2052 minorities will become the majority so there be no need.
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  A reply on Conversation: Should governments be allowed to criminalize victimless acts?

  Aug 11 2011: There wouldn't be cartels if drugs were legal. And if prostitution was taxed and cleaned up, there be no pimps or streetwalkers. Basically, if we allowed some or all of these victim-less crimes the crime wouldn't exist and our prisons wouldn't be so over-flooded