Street Law Reflection
This project was about knowing your rights in potentially spur-of-the-moment confrontations with the police. Soon we will be set off in this vast world, and one of the best tools you can keep with you is the knowledge of your rights. Sometimes the police are going to be having a bad day, or make a mistake, and being able to identify these and act accordingly can put you in a much more favorable situation than you could have been without fully understanding your rights.
To be honest, I felt pretty connected to all of the subjects we learned fairly equally. It’s so interesting to know exactly how police are expected to act and why. At the same time, it’s also interesting to see how in different environments, your rights may change due to the level of security expected (ie. schools). I chose to do my project on a student’s rights in school because it seemed like something that a lot of people were doing at the time. I didn’t want to be relaying all the same information as my peers, so I looked a bit deeper and found what really is going on in the mentality of why students have reduced levels of rights in schools. It was interesting to think in a much broader sense as to why even the Supreme Court seems to think that there should be a slight tweak in the rules for schools, and I really do think it makes a lot of sense.
So the question being posed to me right now is “If you could explore one aspect of this project further, what would it be?” The only thing I can think of would be something like a documentary from a cop’s perspective. I’ve read a few articles about what it’s like to be a cop, and how stressful it could be, kind of like a reality TV show. I’m sure there’s ones like that out there, but I feel like that’s just people who go into messed up neighborhoods and you see all the crazy stuff there. I would be interested to see what it is like for different officers all over the country, and see kind of what’s going through their minds. It just seems like a cool idea, and then you could really start to understand the mentality of cops, and perhaps some true understanding can help out the overall relationships between the average citizen and the police forces. As a side note, in my few personal experiences with the police, they have been pretty polite, and it seems the more you are able to reciprocate kindness and work with the officer, the easier it is for everyone.
To be honest, I felt pretty connected to all of the subjects we learned fairly equally. It’s so interesting to know exactly how police are expected to act and why. At the same time, it’s also interesting to see how in different environments, your rights may change due to the level of security expected (ie. schools). I chose to do my project on a student’s rights in school because it seemed like something that a lot of people were doing at the time. I didn’t want to be relaying all the same information as my peers, so I looked a bit deeper and found what really is going on in the mentality of why students have reduced levels of rights in schools. It was interesting to think in a much broader sense as to why even the Supreme Court seems to think that there should be a slight tweak in the rules for schools, and I really do think it makes a lot of sense.
So the question being posed to me right now is “If you could explore one aspect of this project further, what would it be?” The only thing I can think of would be something like a documentary from a cop’s perspective. I’ve read a few articles about what it’s like to be a cop, and how stressful it could be, kind of like a reality TV show. I’m sure there’s ones like that out there, but I feel like that’s just people who go into messed up neighborhoods and you see all the crazy stuff there. I would be interested to see what it is like for different officers all over the country, and see kind of what’s going through their minds. It just seems like a cool idea, and then you could really start to understand the mentality of cops, and perhaps some true understanding can help out the overall relationships between the average citizen and the police forces. As a side note, in my few personal experiences with the police, they have been pretty polite, and it seems the more you are able to reciprocate kindness and work with the officer, the easier it is for everyone.
First Amendment Free Speech Forum
For this project, we were given a week to go out and create a video about our first amendment free speech rights, making it clear what types of free speech are protected and what isn't. In our video, we show a few short clips exemplifying different types of protected and unprotected speech, and explain why those types of speech are protected/unprotected.
Model Senate Speech
It, at this point, is an undeniable fact that climate change is not only a very real, but also a very serious problem. The denial of that simple fact is not only dilatory, but infantile. The proposed bill, in my professional and expert opinion, is effective at attempting to tackle some of the current major players in climate change. I would strongly urge this committee to push this bill forward, as it comes with a multitude of benefits that will give the oh-so-needed shove towards creating a brighter and cleaner future for the US. While this bill does put a crunch on corporations, it is important that we move towards cleaner energy sources, and get the country on the same level about climate change.
Over the past 10-20 years, there has been recorded a great deal of dangerous changes to our precious earth. According to EPA statements, the rate of sea level rises has doubled over the past 11 years. Since 1970, temperature rises have increased by almost 30 percent per decade. So what can we do to combat this? One of the first things that should be considered would be to switch to alternative, renewable sources of energy. The cost-per-watt of photovoltaic energy has decreased 250 times from 1970 to 2012, which in and of itself is its own incentive, as, in many cases, photovoltaic energy pays itself off over the course a panels 20-year expiration period. This bill further incentivizes switches to these forms of energy for large corporations, of which contribute to 20% of the US’s greenhouse gas. Through enacting these incentivization, we will undoubtedly see a drop in emissions in the US.
Another large plague that our nations seems to faced with is the lack of belief in climate change. According the IPCC: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level“. This being from a report founded on the scientific data of thousands of scientists, which is read through by the governments of over 120 countries before being published. The data that backs, first of all, the legitimacy of climate change in and of itself is nearly indefinite, and to make claims against such data, in my expert opinion, is delusional. The IPCC has also stated, with 95-100% certainty, that climate change is due to human influence. Is a potential 5% uncertainty really enough to make claims against human influence on climate change? In modern statistics, a 95% correlation is the general cutoff for whether or not a correlation can be considered by chance. If 95% percent is the minimum correlation, then, based on modern statistical rules, human influence on climate change is an undeniable fact.
It seems painfully obvious that not only is climate change is a true threat, but that we, as the human race, must takes steps to reverse our mistakes in emissions over the past few decades. This bill takes an important first step at creating a healthier environment for the US and protecting our precious earth. I would strongly urge the committee to push this bill forward for the sake of protecting the US from the potential further threats that climate change imposes upon us.
Over the past 10-20 years, there has been recorded a great deal of dangerous changes to our precious earth. According to EPA statements, the rate of sea level rises has doubled over the past 11 years. Since 1970, temperature rises have increased by almost 30 percent per decade. So what can we do to combat this? One of the first things that should be considered would be to switch to alternative, renewable sources of energy. The cost-per-watt of photovoltaic energy has decreased 250 times from 1970 to 2012, which in and of itself is its own incentive, as, in many cases, photovoltaic energy pays itself off over the course a panels 20-year expiration period. This bill further incentivizes switches to these forms of energy for large corporations, of which contribute to 20% of the US’s greenhouse gas. Through enacting these incentivization, we will undoubtedly see a drop in emissions in the US.
Another large plague that our nations seems to faced with is the lack of belief in climate change. According the IPCC: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level“. This being from a report founded on the scientific data of thousands of scientists, which is read through by the governments of over 120 countries before being published. The data that backs, first of all, the legitimacy of climate change in and of itself is nearly indefinite, and to make claims against such data, in my expert opinion, is delusional. The IPCC has also stated, with 95-100% certainty, that climate change is due to human influence. Is a potential 5% uncertainty really enough to make claims against human influence on climate change? In modern statistics, a 95% correlation is the general cutoff for whether or not a correlation can be considered by chance. If 95% percent is the minimum correlation, then, based on modern statistical rules, human influence on climate change is an undeniable fact.
It seems painfully obvious that not only is climate change is a true threat, but that we, as the human race, must takes steps to reverse our mistakes in emissions over the past few decades. This bill takes an important first step at creating a healthier environment for the US and protecting our precious earth. I would strongly urge the committee to push this bill forward for the sake of protecting the US from the potential further threats that climate change imposes upon us.