The State of the Union Address

I think that when I watched the state of the Union Address I was surprised to feel disappointed and unsatisfied. I felt like Obama made a large wish list on what he hopes to accomplish in the country and provided no explanation for how he was going to make it happen. I would have preferred if he had said fewer goals but included more details on how he was going to accomplish the goals he has said out to achieve. But he was trying to please the majority and that definitely worked because he used his very general statements to please both parties. He definitely seemed to focus his attention toward clean energy and education. I thought that his ideas for improving the education system would be very beneficial to the countries future. Overall there were definitely some great ideas made and it was very well written, but I hope that there is follow through on these ideas.
I will say that I have seen the State of the Union addresses in the past and having the republicans and democrats all sitting intermixed gave a much more united front than in years past. This was definitely my favorite part of the address. It changed the entire vibe and feel of the speeches in a great way.

Mock Trial Recap and Response

Recap the trial:
Trail 1
I agreed with the jury's verdict deeming that David Jones is innocent in the alleged rape of Susan Williams. I was chosen to defend Davis Jones in the case and found that the more I prepared for the case, the more that I agreed with David Jone's position. I think that charging someone with rape is a huge accusation and cannot be made unless you are absolutely certain that the accusations are in fact true. There was no physical evidence of any resistance shown from Susan Williams and she consented to sexual intercourse with David Jones in their relationship before. If Susan Williams really didn’t want it to happen then she could have left. David had let her leave before if she was feeling uncomfortable. I sympathize for Susan Williams because she is probably just confused with her feelings and looking back on their relationship she is probably just upset that she went that far with him. But you cannot blame David Jones because Susan showed no signs that she didn’t want to be there that night, in fact she was the one that kept continuing to kiss him.

Race in America

The Project Implicit Race test shows that I have a slight privilege toward European Americans. I think that this is a somewhat accurate simply because of where I have grown up. I am not exposed to many of the racial injustices and because I don't see it I don’t know how prevalent it really is in society. But I think that because I am well educated, along with many of my peers, race isn't really an issue. But again, I may just not notice it. After reading the Chicago Tribune: Exploring Race tab I was shocked to see the amount of articles that were associated with racial injustices recently in the news. I had no idea that there are so many current racial issues in the news.