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The Voice of Reason is a college graduate, an educator, and a highly motivated pursuant of a Master's degree from Saint Xavier University. Anyone can count on the Voice of Reason's contributions because he is well educated, has life experience, and is truly "fair and balanced."
[edit] Political Affiliations & Aspirations
The Voice of Reason is a proud conservative, with aspirations of becoming an active member of the Republican Party. He is disgusted by the Democratic Party's political monopoly of his beloved Chicago. Someday he'll destroy the Democratic Party's political machine with a wrecking ball, by running for mayor himself.
[edit] Concerns
[edit] Wikipedia
I perceive Wikipedia as having the potential to provide credible information. Unfortunately, there are too many articles on this vast site that contain a substantial amount of inaccuracies. Thus, I would not encourage elementary and secondary students to use Wikipedia as a research tool on the basis that they might come across invalid information. Therefore, I purpose the following:
- All users wishing to contribute to Wikipedia by editing and creating articles should complete an application that screens their credentials, and create an individualized account.
- Users must write a proposal, abstract, and annotative bibliography that must be approved by a certain number fellow members, and an administrator before creating a new article.
Feel free to post any comments concerning this matter in my discussion page.
[edit] Society
I strongly believe that children are conditioned to become the type of people they are today. Think of a child’s mind as if it were a large computer hard drive complete with a pre-installed basic operating system. The operating system contains the basic components necessary to for children to acquire essential motor skills. Otherwise, the child’s memory is open to a vast amount of information that is recorded throughout his or her lifespan, specifically childhood. However, digital files that can easily be deleted from a computer hard drive, unlike humans who permanently store information somewhere in their brains. Humans merely forget memories, displacing them somewhere in their minds, making it difficult for easy recollection. It is somewhat similar to hard drives that are presently becoming much larger in capacity, therefore it easy for someone to misplace an important text file in a folder and forget its location. Thus, that is why a file search component is readily available in computer operating systems such as Windows XP or Mac OS X. We can search through our memories by simply making ourselves comfortable and meditate. Therefore, it is important to protect the images children are exposed to at an early age.
Have you turned on the television lately? If so, chances are high that you were exposed to various forms of sex and violence. Just tune into one of the MTV networks and you might see Daddy Yankee’s music video titled “Gasolina” (Spanish meaning gasoline). This music video features scantly dressed women dancing provocatively, whilst providing the chorus lyrics “dame más gasoline,” which translates to “give more gasoline” or “you give me more gasoline.” Adolescent boys exposed to such music videos develop the concept that women are merely sexy objects, while adolescent girls longing to “feel sexy and like attention” will reduce themselves to demeaning roles. You know things have gone really bad if you see first grade girls at inner-city schools dancing like the women in music videos.
[edit] Topics of Interest
Chicago Public Schools
Renaissance 2010
Chicago's Historic Landmarks
Brother Rice High School (Chicago)
