1/28/09

I have my 2nd cold of the year today. I hate cold season because there's not really anything to do for a cold except feel miserable, drink plenty of fluids, and rest. Blah. Oh well, Ryan and I have been doing well. We don't get to see each other as much as either of us would like, but someday (maybe around 2011) we'll get there. School's been interesting. I like my classes, but some of the people in them are just plain dumb. This is a master's level class and this is an actual answer someone in my class posted.

3. According to Scott and Woolward(2004), which legal rights do adolescents gain at the "age of majority"? Which is the exception to this exist prior to age of majority?

The modern "age of majority" is eighteen at this time adolenscence gain the right to vote, join the military, the ability to sign contract as well as be a part of a jury. Adolenscence to to have the ability at this time to drink until they are twenty one. The exception to this exist in the law that can be granted to adolenscents in some cases have the authority to consent to certain types of treatment without involing their parents. This in call informed consent. Example of this could be an abortion, as in some case a mature minor doctrine allows older compentant minor to consent to outine beneficial treatment or treatment in emergancy situations when parents are unable to give consent. I agree with others about that it is unrealistic to think that parents can be held responsible for the children action especially in later year of adolenscence. I myself was a parent and my daughter lived on her own and I was not able to make decision for her. I wish I could have because if I could have she would not having been trying to drive herself to the hospital and crashed her car and been killed instantly at the age of nineteen. If I could have made that decision for her she would have been living with me and I would have driven her. Instead she lived with a boyfriend who her let her drive. I missed her call by 10 minutes. Once their eighteen parents have little control over there action. Even if you think you have more and that is the quilt you live with as a parent. You cant control ever aspect of their lives
especially after the magic age of eighteen.

Now I don't mean to sound bitchy, but I wouldn't turn something like this in to my teachers in Elementary school, let alone post on a discussion board in a master's level class for other master's level students to read.

1 Spell Check (it's not that hard)
2 Use Grammar check (or get a friend to look over it, or read over it yourself)
3 Learn how to use 'there', 'their', and 'they're' properly (I realize that falls into 1 and 2 but is significant enough that it deserves its own number.
4 Don't ever share that much personal information with a class full of people you don't know (btw the woman hadn't made it to the first class due to snow, so she hadn't even met anyone in the class)
5 There's a severe lack of actual information pertaining to the question.
6 Her reference to "agreeing with others" makes absolutely no sense bc she was the second person to post

In other news, Jillian and I are speaking again. We talked today about making a website called Girl Network. The concept is kinda like ratemyprofessor.com only for girls to rate guys. I think it'd be cool but I have a feeling it would end up with a bunch of 13 year olds raggin on some poor guy bc he wouldn't date them. Ok, well I can't really think of anything else to write and it's time for Gilmore Girls