Michael Vick

Michael Vick was convicted of his tortureous dogfighting operation. It was terrible and very inhumane. However, he has served his time and made sure that whatever mental illness that he may have had is definetly not there. I believe that he should be able to go back to playing again simply because it's the team's choice to decide if they want him on the team or not, it's not a public decision.

What Vick did was bad, however he isnt trying to get a job like taking care of dogs, he's trying to play football. It's not constitutional to not allow him to compete if his crimes have nothing to do with his job. It's understandable that people would be concerned about the kids looking up to him, but the kids like him for his football abilities, not his criminal record.

Like the article says, he has been down as long as the law requires, brought to his knees, stripped of his freedom and fortune, and done everything to fulfill all the terms of his punishment. Also like the article says, he may never actually live down what he did. He shouldn't live it down because it will keep him in line if that is necessicary.

He is even going as far as to cooperate with the people from the PETA, who won't simply accept an apology, to prove that he is a changed man. He is going to phycological testing and going to have a brain scan that will reveal if he has phychopathic tendencies.

All in all, he is a guy who has done a crime and also done his time. He should not be penalized from a job as a professional athelete simply because he will get more press comverage for being somewhat of a celebrity.

immigration assimilation

In order to help the new immigrant students assimilate into a modern school, there should be a special class that helps them learn english. Not isolate them, just one specific class that will help them with the more basic concepts that we learned at an earlier stage. It would make them feel more confident and be a great help in their transition.

Here we could be a little more sympathetic towards them, since we live so far from the border we don't usually have to deal with this issue. We could create an enviroment that cares more about that particular section of the community. Just a small subtle change in the people surrounding them could make a huge difference in how they assimilate into our town.

We could also change the classes available to the rest of the students. Since it's not just mexican immigrants that we're talking about, we should have more foreign languages available to the rest of the student body so they may be able to meet on some middle ground.