The last week....

It's the last week of school!!!! 

Words....

fatuous- inanely foolish

couture- the business of designing one-of-a-kind pieces of fashion for women.

This is the final week of school and it's only a half week. Tomorrow is the last day and then it's on to finals.  Not gonna lie, cannot wait until this is over.  Thank god for a long break!  It's been a fun semester in my social life.  I got to make some amazing friends and spend time with great people.  This semester included a trip to Tahoe, and Pismo!  Those were both absolutely amazing.  It was a hard semester in school.  Having to take this class (100w) was pretty intense, along with the change to upper-division and 195A.  These two classes were tough because they are both core Poli-Sci classes that are important and fairly difficult when taken together.  My two other classes were not quite as difficult but the workload was pretty heavy.  I had some amazing experiences this semester as far a career path as well.  I got to shadow a few teachers and realized that I want to teach high school.  It was an eye-opening revelation in my life.  I finally feel as though my life has more of a direction in that aspect.  I had no idea where I was heading at the beginning of the semester and I am now at peace with the situation.  I have changed and grown in all aspects and have learned quite a bit about life this semester.  I can't wait to continue to grow in all the different aspects and start school again next semester.  It will be nice to take a break.  I will be heading to the snow, hopefully twice, this break and spending time with family.  Can't wait until finals are done and Christmas can really begin! 

Death Penalty

Words of the week.

comely- attractive

smorgasbord- a buffet offering a great variety of foods

So this week for my POLS 195A class, we had to research a bunch of death penalty cases.  This was quite emotionally scarring because we had to read about the crimes in quite detailed descriptions as well as see pictures of the creepy killers themselves.  These crimes were so heinous and vile that I made me only more certain in the death penalty.  I was always a believer in the death penalty because I feel like these people have done such horrible things that they don't deserve to life a life even as horrible as in prison.  I don't think keeping them around and educating them for free, feeding them, clothing them, not making them work and all sorts of other things that people in the real society get to do, is a good "punishment" for these people.  It is unbelievable that people can say that lethal injection is a harsh and cruel form of punishment because the prisoners may feel some pain.  Who the heck cares?  I mean when you rape, beat, and strangle a woman in front of her children and then turn on them, I have no sympathy if you die a horrible painful death.  In fact, I hope your death is even partially painful so you can experience just a fraction of what your victims felt.  If the prisoner knows death is coming they don't get to fully experience the pain or fear that they so selfishly inflicted on their victims.  I say, put all the death row inmates onto an island with a bunch of crude weapons and let them have at each other.  If they all wanted to kill people so badly, they can have at each other.  May the strongest survive, and then maybe they can get the painless and easy death that they all feel they deserve.  It's ridiculous that a person can think that although they so brutally took a persons life, they can just get away with a pin prick. Forget that!