Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Arapahoe Girl Eludes Possible Kidnapper

Arapahoe Girl Eludes Possible Kidnapper- The Denver Post

This article talks about how a 13-year-old girl was walking to her bus stop in the morning when a male approached her and told her to get into the car with him. She refused to do this and the male stopped the car and grabbed her arm. She managed to escape this man and was able to run home. I think that this story can apply to me in many ways. Even though I do not ride a bus to school, I can relate it to all my friends that I see ridding the bus everyday. I think that this is a big issue and for some reason I think robbers and kidnapers are appearing more and more around suburban areas. I say this because I think that there are not as many cops in the suburbs because they are downtown and in the ghettos of Colorado. What would you do if someone approached you that you did not know and asked you for something or tried to take you with them? I have thought of this question so many times in the past week. I think that I have spent more time thinking about this question than I have about anything in my life. I take this question so serious because just this past week two males approached a woman down the street and they held her at gunpoint and took all her possession that she owned. What if you were in this situation, what would you do? I think that maybe with all these things happening that we should come up with a solution like making more bus stops and making them closers to peoples houses. What do you think we could do about it?

Thursday, November 1, 2007

MTV's "Don Vito" collapses after sex-assault conviction

MTV's "Don Vito" collapses after sex-assault conviction- The Denver Post-Ann Schrader
This article hit me when I read the title. This is because right before I went to the computer I was watching a show with Don Vito as one of the main characters. This show was called Viva la Bam. When I came in and saw the article title I was thinking to my self what has Don done again? Then I remember that he was sent to prison on accounts of sexual assault last year when he came to Denver. I did not realize that he was still in prison here in Colorado. This article talks about how Don fell on the floor after he herd what his sentence was. It was three to six years for the two accounts with minimum of ten years in probation. I was thinking to my self and what I was just watching on TV was a sexual assaulter. I thought and said can we really trust anyone on the TV today to act like a good person and to set a good role model? I think that I need to realize that I should not be taking after these actors and how they are acting. They are just showing who they really are and what they really do in life. I believe that this possible could relate to when parents are letting kids watch Don and then when they hear that he has done something bad on the news that they think he is a good role model because he is on the TV and what he does that they can do to others. I think that parents need to be making sure that their kids are not watching impropriate things on the TV.