The data is clear: in economically struggling areas, prisons fail to provide the promised growth. Eastern Kentucky counties with federal prisons remain among the poorest in the nation.
Shouldn't this be a sign to stop building prisons in these regions?
Congress has just committed half a billion dollars to build a prison that even the Bureau of Prisons does not think is necessary.
To me this is quite aggravating given the fact the Bureau of Prisons doesn't think this prison is necessary and so much money is being poured into it. This money could have been used for something more important and this should anger a lot of people.
Parents would prefer a cut in education programs to having their children sit alongside children of color.
And what does this teach their children?
arguably unhealthy fixation on STEM
This fixation on STEM will never be too unhealthy unless every single person in the US takes up a STEM major. STEM is the future and it is a good thing that there is a large fixation on this.
The high school is too competitive. My kids won’t get into a good college because of all of the Asians.I want my children to grow up in the real world. This is not the real world.
Wouldn't the fact that this school is "too competitive" make the child want to do even better in their classes? The real world is very competitive so this would give the children a head start in that sense.
One remembers them going off to war -- gladly, to escape this block.
It's sad to know that people would rather go fight in a war than to live in this neighborhood. However I understand why they feel this way. If they stayed on the block they would probably never leave it, preventing them from seeing the world and teaching them a great deal of things.
Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, brothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar.
The government should have invested more into this community so that those living in it would be more willing to make something of their lives.
MIC is colorless and heavier than air, is extremely toxic, and irritates the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.
If a company works with such hazardous chemicals, they should be established in areas where people don't live. This would eliminate the risk of having chemicals go into people's water supply. You can never be too careful when it involves such toxic materials.
Across the street from him is 12-year-old Tauseeb, who is intellectually disabled. And there’s Najma, the sweet, young woman who lost her mother to tongue cancer and now sits in front of her house all day, smiling and occasionally shouting out guttural gibberish to passersby. And then there is the house where one daughter has fused bones in her legs, and another has a hole in her heart.
If the mainstream media made more people aware of this, I feel as if more would be done to help these children and all the others who suffer from this chemical spill.
Right next door is 15-year-old Fiza, who didn’t speak for the first five years of her life, and still has heart palpitations, dizzy spells, and headaches.
It is unfortunate that people can't really move and live in another area because they don't have the means necessary. However, the government should do something to help them especially since living in this area is putting many lives at risk.
When have you ever seen a map of the US that had Puerto Rico on it? Or American Samoa, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Marianas or any of the other smaller islands that the US has annexed over the years?
I feel that this is the case for many countries, not only the US. For example, when we look at a map of Denmark, we only see the country itself, however, Greenland is a territory of Denmark and we never see it as a part of Denmark on maps.
This was not how it looked from the Philippines, where air-raid sirens continued to wail. “To Manilans the war was here, now, happening to us,” the reporter wrote. “And we have no air-raid shelters.”
Manilans most probably felt like they were forgotten about when the Japanese attacked them. President Roosevelt seemed to have only briefly mentioned what happened to the Philippines, putting more of the attention on Hawaii.
Why did Roosevelt demote the Philippines? We don’t know, but it’s not hard to guess. Roosevelt was trying to tell a clear story: Japan had attacked the US. But he faced a problem. Were Japan’s targets considered “the United States”? Legally, they were indisputably US territory. But would the public see them that way? What if Roosevelt’s audience didn’t care that Japan had attacked the Philippines or Guam? Polls taken slightly before the attack show that few in the continental US supported a military defense of those remote territories.
If Roosevelt did decide to include the other US territories in his address, would this change how his audience depicted the attack on Pearl Harbor?