Election

I've never been one to really care about politics and the presidential elections, mostly because this is the first year I am able to vote. My coworkers and I were talking about how scary this debate is for our country. In my eyes, Trump represents everything that is wrong with our current society and Hilary represent everything that is wrong with our politics and government. We are electing one person over the other because we don't like the other candidate. We aren't electing them became we believe they deserve to be the president of the United States. But what happens after the election? We have all talked about how bad both candidates are, but we haven't talked about what will happen after the election. If Trump looses ( which I hope he does) something bad is bound to happen. All of his supporters will loose their minds. Let's face it, we all know that most of the people supporting Trump are uneducated. Trump's rallies are always full of racism and violence. I don't even want to imagine how his supporters will react when Trump looses the election.

2016 Election

As the election approaches on Tuesday, I am finding that a lot of people that I have spoken to are very out spoken about the election, and who they think (or who should not) become president. Yet, I am finding that they are not voting. I find it very odd that some can be so opinionated about something that they are not even going to participate in. This election is yet another election that is going to go down in history, for many reasons including controversy, yet they are not going to vote, and they are going to still place their very strong opinion on you. In my personal opinion... if you're not going to vote, you no longer have the luxury to speak to me about the election.

Feelings

I saw an article on npr about a woman who waited 96 years to vote for a woman for president. Her name is Estelle Schultz and she was 2 years old when women gained the right to vote. She talked about how thrilled she is to be able to still be alive and be able to take part in this by voting. They started a whole project with a website called "I Waited 96 Years", featuring women who were born before the 19th amendment was put into place. It really hit me after reading the article how monumental it would really be if Hillary does become president. This also made me realize how close election day is and it has me feeling extremely anxious because of how much uncertainty I feel over this years election. Not knowing who is going to be president on Tuesday night is really scary and I really can't wait for it to be over so people can stop arguing over it. Whoever does become president has so much work to do when it comes to how divided our country has become. It is so disheartening to see the hatred that this election has caused and how awful people have been because they can't respect other people's opinions.

Vogue

I looked up the whole "Vogue declared cleavage was not a thing" anymore because I wanted to see it with my own eyes. I think it seems a little over the top to say how certain body parts are not in style anymore. We cannot help what type of body we were born with, so society should not be bashing people who were more blessed in that department. I kind of feel that Vogues's intentions were not to necessarily to say boobs are not fashionable anymore but maybe that they want to make keeping ourselves more covered up the new thing versus having your cleavage all out. Who knows though I tend to try to look at the good in everything. I do think Vogue should have looked over their choice of words that they used in their article. Maybe if they would have worded what they said differently they could have avoided all the backlash they received from their audience.

A Positive Step into Reforming the Foster Care System

I read an article in the Austin American Statesman today regarding recommendations on how to better the foster care system in Texas. As many of you know, the foster care system is broken. There are too many children and not enough quality homes to provide effective care. CPS workers are overworked and do not visit the children in these homes as often as needed.

The special masters' proposal gives recommendations on how to fix the foster care system. Some of the recommendations include having quality and monthly face-to-face visits between children in foster care and their caseworker, better accessibility for foster children to report abuse, better investigations of foster homes, better support services for children in the foster care system before they leave the system, and more. Other recommendations mentioned included eliminating foster care group homes, decreasing the CPS caseworker's workload, and making plans to decrease the turnover rate of CPS caseworkers.

This all began last December when it was declared unconstitutional, by U.S. District Judge Janis G. Jack, that children are better off before they enter the foster care system. In other words, children who entered the foster care system were worse off than they were before they entered the system. These children were being harmed by a system that was meant to give them a better life. Judge Jack ordered the Texas Department of Protective Services to come up with a way to repair the foster system, and make immediate changes.

It is sad to know that it has taken this long to find a way to repair our broken foster care system. How many children have been harmed by a system that was meant to help them grow and heal? I am glad that there is finally something being done to help these children get a better quality of care after having to deal with traumatic instances that have brought them there in the first place.

 If you want more information regarding this article, the article's name is Report urges foster care overhaul by the Austin American Statesman.

fashion

After class I couldn't stop thinking about the "new fashion" that vogue is suggesting. I think it is wrong to decide if a body part is in style or not. There are some parts of your body that you just can't help the size of. It's not fair to limit what girls can wear because the size of their chest. I personally really like the high neckline look and have tons of shirts that are like that but I don't like it because it completely covers my boobs or because thats what vogue says I should like. Its just a personal style preference. On the other hand, I also have a lot of shirts and dresses that probably show a little too much boob and I am not going to let a fashion magazine body shame me into not wanting to wear those clothes. If you feel good you look good and thats what matters! You should be happy with yourself no matter what neckline you're wearing!

I can't even

After finishing this movie, Sicko, and pretending to not want to cry for these people, I can say that I literally want to leave america right now and go anywhere else! Even CUBA! Like, I think that if the executives had to deal with some of the problems that those who have health problems and have to suffer, we would have a lot of change in this country. Im just happy that I am fortunate enough to never have to deal with this. And when planning on leaving America, I start to feel guilty about leaving, because if I just leave, nothing is going to happen to those people. Im not saying I can change the whole insurance problem, but just by me leaving, I am just the same as the insurance companies because I am abandoning them. So I don't know what to do. Hopefully the next president can help change this and fix america.