7/28/20
Human's Tribune
Volume 3
Issue 23
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
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By Antoinette Durand
Maybe He Just Likes You tells the story of Mila, a seventh grader. She plays the trumpet and wonders about the odd E-Motions building. She has good friends. Mila also has a problem. It started with a group birthday hug. Then, little touches in the hall. They’re everywhere. The boys who touch her are everywhere. Maybe He Just Likes You tells the story of self empowerment through exercise and friendship. It not only talks about sexual harassment, it gives the details of how it effects the victims's life, how it effects her family and her friends, most of all, her. How Mila feels is a lesson to us all. "Maybe he just likes you" is a great book for both boys and girls.
This book is about sexual harassment, so it may make you feel uncomfortable at parts. Making you feel uncomfortable is a part of its purpose, so I suggest that you power through.
Prison Suicide
By Antoinette Durand
Going to jail is an experience that will change your life forever. “Jails are getting people when they’re at their most vulnerable,” says Michele Deitch, a lecturer at the university of Texas at Austin. Think about it, you don’t have freedom to move, dress, eat, etc. how you want. This is called the “shock of confinement”. Most jail suicides occur in the first week of confinement. These newly incarcerated might be ashamed or afraid of what might happen next. If a person has an undiscovered or untreated mental illness, that puts them at a higher risk for suicide. B3ing placed in solitary confinement also increases your chance of suicide. It can also be hard to tell if a prisoner wants to hurt themselves. Many jails use quizzes to identify the prisoner’s mental state. If someone lies on the questioner, it’s much harder to identify. If an inmate is deemed suicidal, they’re taken to a completely empty room, “just a hole in the floor where they can relieve themselves," says Deitch.
One of the best ways to prevent inmates committing suicide is to have them properly supervised so they don’t use their clothes or surroundings the hurt themselves. Being around other people also helps, “interaction is the key, and so is supervision.” They need a professional right outside their cell. In some prisons, inmates are checked on every 15-30 minutes. Some experts say that this system needs to be completely redone."Jails are inherently unfit settings for caring for mental illnesses and other health conditions," says Wanda Bertram, spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative. "Which means one of the most effective policy changes that counties can undertake to reduce jail suicides is ensuring that sick people have access to care.” Americans in general need to rethink mental illness.
Information from How Stuff Works.
Does Music Influence You?
By Ember Hernandez
Music has been around for more than a millennium, and more and more types and musicians have sprung up since. Music is a way of communicating, and like communicating, there are too many ways music could go wrong.
There’s too many genres of music to count: Lo-fi, Classical, Indie-Pop, and Country to name a few. A lot of parents seem to base, no, blame their kid’s behavior on rap music and video games. Some rap has swears and violence in it, but most rappers are talking about their reality. Kids and adults are influenced all the time. Adults by news, kids by seeing things not meant for kids. If you are a parent who blames rap music and other modern pop cultures, don’t. Usually, it’s partly the parents’ issues for not being there for the kid and deciding to make excuses.
Some music can make you wistful, upset, perky, or bland. Rap speaks the truth for some black people. Rap music tends to be stereotyped for most black people, which can perpetuate racism. Music helps express those difficult emotions.
Music is for everyone. Sadly, some music is explicit, so if you really do think that it’s making you feel more angry, avoid it. Music calms people, expresses people, makes people feel thoughtful. It’s for people. That means everyone. Choose your own music, whatever music completes you. (Help from the East Texan)
By Ember Hernandez
Music has been around for more than a millennium, and more and more types and musicians have sprung up since. Music is a way of communicating, and like communicating, there are too many ways music could go wrong.
There’s too many genres of music to count: Lo-fi, Classical, Indie-Pop, and Country to name a few. A lot of parents seem to base, no, blame their kid’s behavior on rap music and video games. Some rap has swears and violence in it, but most rappers are talking about their reality. Kids and adults are influenced all the time. Adults by news, kids by seeing things not meant for kids. If you are a parent who blames rap music and other modern pop cultures, don’t. Usually, it’s partly the parents’ issues for not being there for the kid and deciding to make excuses.
Some music can make you wistful, upset, perky, or bland. Rap speaks the truth for some black people. Rap music tends to be stereotyped for most black people, which can perpetuate racism. Music helps express those difficult emotions.
Music is for everyone. Sadly, some music is explicit, so if you really do think that it’s making you feel more angry, avoid it. Music calms people, expresses people, makes people feel thoughtful. It’s for people. That means everyone. Choose your own music, whatever music completes you. (Help from the East Texan)
I like music :>
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