Susan Williams

In class my debate team discussed how the alleged rape of Susan Williams was one lovers word against anothers. It is hard to fight for one side when you want to protect Susan and other woman, but if this is not the truth you do not want to put an innocent man in jail or worse. We were chosen to defend Susan Williams against David Jones. Right before we were given this assignment we discussed how we thought that Susan could have made this into  way more than it was because she found a note to David that made her jealous the night she claimed she was raped. There is very little evidence to prove she was raped. On the contrary, there is also very  little evidence that proves his innocence. There are no witnesses. In defending Susan, and also acting as Susan in the case I became passionate in her case and putting Jones in jail where he could hurt no one else. While being examined I was surprised that I actually felt slightly emotional. We tried to take and emphasize every piece of evidence We don't know the results yet but hopefully after all our hardwork the jury will vote Jones guilty and we will win.

Revolution in Egypt

After 30 years too long, the government was turned over in January of 2011. Many were very happy about this and were given hope. Many felt they were freed. In hard economic times this gave them a bright future to look forward to. The government was put in control of the armed forces. Protests broke out. Much of the protests were peaceful and hopeful. Without a stable government there was a lot of unrest. Some of the protests became violent. In the slideshow there were pictures of the military relaxing because the protests were peaceful. I think that was interesting because normally in a situation this large I feel it is unlikely that the protests would be peaceful. The military was able to keep the protests under control for the most part. Also, in the slideshow I thought it was interesting that the day after the prtests there were many pictures of people working together and volunteering to clean up the area where the protests took place. I think that shows a sense of unity among the people. I also saw young people protesting and taking a stand.  In the video I watched people were raising there hands to speak and people were standing around during the protests. Once again that was surprising to me considering the government was just destroyed. I am scared that this unrest may negatively affect the US.