Illegal Alien Debate

On April 3^rd, 2016, the United States Congress passed a legislation which covered the topic of how to refer to illegal aliens. In the past, Congress has referred to them by means of calling them illegal aliens. However, after a group of illegal aliens fought Congress on the term, Congress voted to then no longer use said term; the term undocumented citizens is to be used instead. This has begged a question that has been argued all across America for the following week after the legislation was passed: with their absence or rights due to no citizenship, should illegal aliens be able to influence government policy in America?

                On April 3^rd, 2016, newspapers across America, such as the Cedar Rapids Gazette, announced the passed legislation. While it has not been a front page headliner, it has caused a bit of a stir across the nation. With the change of wording from illegal aliens to undocumented citizens in Congress, American citizens have started to question how policy gets changed in their nation.

                The topic was brought up to Congress by an illegal alien. The illegal alien, a young women currently attending a college in America, brought up to Congress how the term illegal alien was a derogatory and offensive term. This then got attention from other illegal aliens in America, who all stated that the term illegal aliens was offensive towards them. They lobbied for Congress to change the policy, and ultimately won as Congress passed the legislation on April 3^rd.

                This, however, caused quite an outrage from American citizens. Also shown in various sources of news, depictions of citizens protesting the legislation around the nation. Protests out in the streets were common. Signs were used by many of the protestors. They all wanted to voice their opinion about how this legislation should not have been passed. They brought up much evidence to help their viewpoint.

                The Constitution is the law of the land in America, as it is called. The Constitution was written by the founding fathers, and it is what all the laws in America is based upon. Congress, when passing legislation, must make sure it is constitutional. The Supreme Court makes sure that laws are constitutional when they are disputed either in lawsuits or when someone broke the law.

                Many people think that the term illegal aliens should not be used as it is offensive to those who are illegal aliens in America. As stated in the Constitution, one citizens cannot excersize his or her rights in order to take away the rights of another citizen. This leads those to believe that the term, illegal aliens, should therefore not be put to use. However, if the Constitution were to be read carefully, then they would notice that the Constitution refers to citizens and the rights that the citizens of America have. If a person is illegally living in America, what gives them the right to be able to gain the rights of the currently legal citizens of America? By doing so shows that the Constitution has no power over the land with the current interpretation, with that interpretation being it belongs and maintains order for America and America alone. Via this interpretation, the Constitution should refer to all of the world; America, however, is not the world’s police. Therefore, even if the illegal aliens believe that the term illegal aliens takes away their rights by means of it being offensive, they have no right nor any power to be able to change American policy.

                However, that is not what happened. The Constitution was interpreted in order to have it to try and maintain order for everyone everywhere, not just in America and not just American citizens. Via this passing of legislation, Congress has declared that even if someone currently living in America is not an American citizen and is here illegally, therefore breaking the law, which is a crime, they still have just as many rights as those legal American citizens have. That interpretation from Congress has a multitiude of flaws, as it could lead to worldy conflicts due to America attempting to be the world police. Therefore, as a person illegally occupying a territory within a nation they are not a citizen of, they should not be granted the same rights as legal citizens of that nation and therefore should not be granted the power to influence policy.

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2016-2017 SMART lunch

SMART LUNCH backstory, a blog post I posted a while ago, was posted. It presents the backstory for background information about SMART LUNCH at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids in Iowa in the United States of America. Well, if you have not read that blog then I either suggest you go read it or familiarize yourself with the concept of SMART Lunch and how it is used at Kennedy High School and what occurs during it. Well, here goes with this blog post in regards of SMART Lunch.

Before I get into the meat of SMART Lunch, what does it stand for? SMART Lunch is an acronym, so the s and the m and the a and the r and the t all mean something. The l and the u and the n and the c and the h do not, however, stand for something like all the letters in SMART; it just stands for lunch, as it occurs during lunch. Well, it is a great question to ask someone who knows. I am not the person who knows. Well, here goes.

Anyways, next year the Cedar Rapids Community School District, or the CRCSD, is changing things for high schools. For example, every Friday will be a half day. Also, no more zero hour academic classes; the only zero hour classes will be those of physical education, such as performance pe. However, all the high schools in the district will be doing the same thing. This means that all the schools need to be on the same schedule. Currently, the only school that uses SMART lunch is Kennedy High School. This spells trouble, as it points toward Kennedy loosing Smart Lunch. However, there may be one good thing to come out of it.

There is a class offered at Kenneyd High School. It is a social studies class, and it is AP Psychology. It is helping the debate over SMART lunch this year. It has taken a survey of high school students attending Kennedy High School and how they think smart lunch is doing. They answered questions such as what they do during smart lunch, what they think should be added, wheteher or not it is helpful, and other questions along those lines.

The overall question is whether or not Kennedy will keep SMART Lunch for this next upcoming school year of 2016-2017. However, the question will not be answered until next school year.

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Entertainment Advancement

Entertainment. It has changed. It has become a lot more technology based than it was in the past. However, is that for a good or a bad change? That is upt o you. No one knows because it is a complete opinion-however many people have an opinion on it. Some think yes, it is good as it has advanced society. Some think no, as it has made everyone become disconnected from each other. However, it is everyone’s opinion, which they have a right to, as long as thye can make their opinion and back it up with reasons as to why they think that way.

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SMART LUNCH backstory

School. It is such a big, prominent, and an important part in most young people’s lives today. Today, school has grown much more than school used to be a long time ago, and even from just a few years ago. However, I am only going to be typing today about school as in classes, and the time spent at school from the first class of the day to the last class of the day. More specifically, I will be typing about lunch, and the lunch that I will be typing about is SMART lunch. SMART lunch stands for students managing academics and responsible time, so something like that. Anyway, it has something to do with students being responsible and productive and managing time efficiently I think. Well, here goes.

SMART lunch. I think that what I said it stands for is actually what it stands for, but I am not sure. It is something like that. But anyways SMART lunch is used at John F. Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids Community School District in Iowa of the United States of America in North America which is one of the seven continents on planet earth in the milky way galaxy in the universe. Wow that took up a lot of space. But anyways yes my high school used SMART lunch. It is about seventy minutes or so of lunch, with two tutorials of which you can eat lunch, work on homework, get help in classes, or socialize with friends and enjoy yourself. However, this poses a question: where is the best place to be during SMART lunch? What is the best thing to do during SMART lunch?

The best place to be during SMART lunch is arguably not at school. School lunch does not taste all that good, and it is not good for you. Sorry Michelle Obama, but school lunches are not healthy. Putting it bluntly, school lunches suck. That is why it is better to not be at school during smart lunch because then you can have a tastier and a healthier lunch. Yum!

Also if and when you leave for smart lunch you should do it with friends. It is a fun time and you can socialize and have fun spending time with then, if you are so inclined you can get homework and work done, if you need help you can help each other out for classes, and you can get a better tasting and a healthier lunch. There is no reason to stay at Kennedy for smart lunch except if you have to go to a tutorial for a class and to see a teacher, if you are not supposed to be able to leave during smart lunch, or if you just don’t want to leave. So entertain yourself at smart lunch!

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Springtime Bonfires

It is again spring, as it is every year. spring; why is it called spring? Maybe because we spring ahead. Yes, it is probably that. Daylights Savings time, so we spring ahead. Yes. That makes sense. In all honesty I already knew this I just am trying to make this post even longer, so sorry for anything boring in advance. But as of right now I am only about seventy or so words in, and I need a total of twelve hundred words, so I have a lot to go. Yay. This is so much fun and very entertaining. Hey, that’s a good idea; writing posts being entertaining. Post ception. Blogging ception? I am not sure as to the official ception term to use here, but I am sure that there is one. Alright, back to the topic. What is the topic again? Spring? Daylights Savings Time? This blog? Ah, yes. I remember now. This blog is all about bonfires. Here, let us get back into the post. Bonfires, here we come!

Okay. It has been one hundred and seventy nine, no one hundred and eighty, and no now one hundred and ninety two words. Wow. I am booking, all though not really. Yes that should’ve been although. Alright, bonfire. Bonfires? Well, anyway, here we go. Diving right in. Bonfires here we come. Also, side note, I am just making this post really long on purpose, so have fun reading this if you are. And good for you for sticking through this post so far! So congratulations. I want to award you, to congratulate you for your dedication. I have therefore decided that you need a high five. I am not going to give you a high five. I have absolutely no idea who you are. You are probably in Mrs. Assmussen’s class with me sometime during the day. If so, then you need a high five. I am not going to give you the high five, but you should get one from someday. If you are not in her class, you still deserve a high five.

Back to bonfires! So now that it is spring, the weather is much, much, much warmer than in the winter. This means that it is time for bonfires. So go to a bonfire! Have a bonfire with your friends! That can be a lot of fun. Especially if you do fun stuff with your friends. Here are some things you can do at a bonfire: you can sit around the bonfire and talk. You can listen to music. Some people have a dance party. You can have races. You can make jokes. You guys can look up funny YouTube videos. You can all get under a blanket together just because it is cold, not because it is fun or anything but because it is cold. You can also eat. Eat a lot. Like double stuffed oreos, some popcorn, or even some chips. You can also go inside and play video games together. Some fun video games to play together are on the wii, such as Mario Kart. It can be really fun. Especially with friends. Yep. So go to a bonfire with friends. Have a good time. This has been over five hundred words. To be specific, there have been almost five hundred and fifty words so far in this post. So thank you for this. For reading my post. I am sorry for putting you through this post. It has been a lot of fluff as some would call it. Just to up the word count. This will be an easy next two posts because I have only about six hundred words left. So thank you, and go entertain yourself with a bonfire!

So thus a bonfire in the spring would be a lot of fun. Similar to the bonfires in the fall blogpost I posted in the fall, this post is similar but stating how the Spring also presents good weather for bonfires. Basically just because there is no longer snow. So that is it. Bonfires, yay. Bonfire.

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Netflix and Sports in High School

High school is very entertaining. Here I will be doing a very brief overview of all the entertaining things that are popular and widely known and/or common to those in high school. Here we go. First off, Netflix is very popular. Many people in high school, so students, will watch Netflix, and watch TV shows on it. Some of the more popular shows on Netflix are Daredevil, The Office, Parks and Recreation, How I Met Your Mother, Friends, Supernatural, and much more. There are also Netflix original series, which is what Daredevil is, as well as Netflix original movies, such as the Ridiculous 6. Another entertaining thing in high school is sports; many high school students participate in some form of a sport. There is football, men and women’s cross country, and women’s swimming and diving in the fall. There is basketball, men’s swimming, and wrestling in the winter. In the spring there is track, soccer, and tennis. Therefore, there are many different sports that high school students participate in during their high school career. Thus, two very popular or well known or common things that high school students do is watch Netflix, such as Netflix and chill, as well as participating in sports.

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Good Meat Eating Edition No. 1

What does every person do every day? Every day, every person all around the world does a few of the same things. Among those things are breathing, pumping blood, drinking liquids, eating foods, and sleeping. A few of those are very entertaining things for some people, and for many different reasons. For me, one of those things is very entertaining, and that is eating.

Eating is something that can be very enjoyable, and help pass the time, and is therefore entertaining. Now, I am not trying to say to eat and eat and eat and eat, because that is just unhealthy. However, food tastes good, and I enjoy eating good tasting food, so it therefore entertains me to do so. I know that many people very much enjoy eating foods as well, and there are lots and lots and lots of different types of foods out there. There are salads, fruits, vegetables, grains, wheats, meats, and many more different kinds of foods. One of those foods that I very much enjoy is meats, but more specifically I very much enjoy eating ribs.

The other night I had a rack or so of ribs, and they were amazing. They were falling off the bone with every single bite, so much that in order to eat the ribs you had to pick up the meat separately from the bone, and the bone would just fall out in doing so. These ribs were tender. They were so flavorful too, they hit the spot.

In order to make these amazing ribs, a lot of the process is in choosing the right rack of ribs. This varies from location to location and person to person, so I am going to start with once you have the ribs. You need to peel off the membrane of the ribs, and try to leave some of the fat still on the meat for the flavor. After removing the membrane, you are to apply an Applewood smoke rub to the ribs. Apply more to the bone side of the rack of ribs, as the rub will not be as affective on that side. Then, wrap the ribs in tin foil and make sure the tin foil is so very tightly wrapped around the rack of ribs as to prevent the juices from escaping. Place the ribs in the oven for about two and half hours at about three hundred degrees temperature, and then remove the ribs from the oven. Put some barbeque sauce on the ribs and place for about five minutes on a grill with the meat side down. Take the rack of ribs off the grill after five minutes, serve, and enjoy! A great way to entertain yourself and to enjoy yourself!

However, ribs are not the only type of good food available. There are many other types of meat that is very tasty. However, that is for another time.

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