This is the sort of thing we should see in the news. Not all of this hub bub about crimes, murders and how this country is in a recession.
This man should be an idol to youth everywhere. Most of us can't wait to get out of high school or college and get to doing something with our lives. Akasease Kofi Boakye Yiadom, a WWII veteran is a very wise man. There should be more people like him.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Family privacy or Media involvment. Which is more important?
Where should the line be drawn between the public right to know and a crime victim's family's right to privacy?
I believe this article should have a huge impact on where the public should stop being so curious. Pictures of gruesome killings do not need posted all over the country on TVs, the Internet, or newspapers. The posting of these pictures are just an added stress to the victims' families. These families already have to deal with the loss of a loved one. They don't need reminded of how that loved one died.
Why do we tend to gravitate toward unusual crimes? Or even crimes in general? If it were one of my loved ones in this situation, I would be very upset that the public thinks they have a right to know every detail about the crime. The images of the crime should only go as far as the family, if even that.
The public shouldn't have a right to know what is going on in a certain family's life just because something terrible happend to that family. Enough said.
I believe this article should have a huge impact on where the public should stop being so curious. Pictures of gruesome killings do not need posted all over the country on TVs, the Internet, or newspapers. The posting of these pictures are just an added stress to the victims' families. These families already have to deal with the loss of a loved one. They don't need reminded of how that loved one died.
Why do we tend to gravitate toward unusual crimes? Or even crimes in general? If it were one of my loved ones in this situation, I would be very upset that the public thinks they have a right to know every detail about the crime. The images of the crime should only go as far as the family, if even that.
The public shouldn't have a right to know what is going on in a certain family's life just because something terrible happend to that family. Enough said.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Change of Heart
I just started Jodi Picoult's Change of Heart, it really got me thinking about if we really know people.
In the book a woman's husband was ran off the road by a drunk driver. The policeman that pulled her from the wreak became a very prominent part of her, and her two year-old daughter, Elizabeth's life. The couple got married about five years after the car accident.
A little while later they found they were pregnant with another little girl. Kurt Nealon, the police officer and husband, hired a contractor to build an addition onto their house. The contractor's mother died of a stroke shortly after he started the project. Kurt was unable to find another contractor that could do the job before the baby's arrival. One day, while Kurt was on call, a man named Shay Bourne showed up at the Nealon's doorstep.
After a few weeks Kurt and Elizabeth were found dead in Elizabeth's room, all signs pointing to Shay Bourne.
The book takes you through the trial and the deliberation of Bourne's death penalty or life without parole.
In the book a woman's husband was ran off the road by a drunk driver. The policeman that pulled her from the wreak became a very prominent part of her, and her two year-old daughter, Elizabeth's life. The couple got married about five years after the car accident.
A little while later they found they were pregnant with another little girl. Kurt Nealon, the police officer and husband, hired a contractor to build an addition onto their house. The contractor's mother died of a stroke shortly after he started the project. Kurt was unable to find another contractor that could do the job before the baby's arrival. One day, while Kurt was on call, a man named Shay Bourne showed up at the Nealon's doorstep.
After a few weeks Kurt and Elizabeth were found dead in Elizabeth's room, all signs pointing to Shay Bourne.
The book takes you through the trial and the deliberation of Bourne's death penalty or life without parole.
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