Tਈਅ B਒ਅਅਚਅ - 2 Opinion Make valuing life a priority, not an afterthought NICKIE COBY message board. Others said the Valuing life puts the be helping researchers working identify a color, I will most likely SENIOR EDITOR resources should go to someone emphasis on protection. We on cures for health problems be able to do this. I have heard who had more potential for have laws that protect people and care for people with severe reports of Terri’s abilities being Emotions ran high; people recovery. Others questioned if from being murdered. The disabilities instead? Why do greater than medical tests lead picketed, families divided and how she was living was any way problem with prioritizing life people prefer to end a woman’s us to believe. It concerns me to discussions of living wills fi lled to live at all. is that it does not value it. If life because they dislike the think that Terri could have had TV screens and newspapers. Truly, I do understand these someone says that women are quality instead of trying to more capacity than we thought Almost everyone had an concerns, but society is looking stupid, weak or worthless, we improve it? I do not believe that she did. opinion about Terri Schiavo, the at this issue the wrong way. call them sexist. If someone in 2005 we cannot do more to Whether Terri was brain- woman caught in a battle over Society tries to put a price says people with a diff erent skin help people rehabilitate. I do dead or just brain-damaged keeping in a feeding tube or tag on life. Society expects color cannot participate in an not believe that people with does not matter now; she is removing it. Some people felt everyone to contribute equally. activity or should not be hired disabilities cannot contribute. dead. What does matter is the judge was a murderer, some People need to look good, be for a certain job, we call them I do not believe that people how society views people said he was compassionate. able to do everything and help racist and threaten them with should be measured by their with disabilities. Will society Others said we should just support society as a whole. a lawsuit. To a point, we even appearance or contribution to start to value people with leave the poor family alone. Certainly, having expectations protect the rights of people with society. disabilities less? Will society As a person with a disability, I for others is not a bad thing. disabilities although this area of I do not know how much start encouraging people who had a diff erent opinion about If our teachers do not have civil rights has not developed brain capacity Terri Schiavo are severely disabled to kill the case. Of course, I did feel expectations for us, we do not as fully yet. But society starts had. I do not know if she could themselves? Or, will society try concern for Terri and her family, work to achieve the reward of a to draw the line when it comes have recovered. Even with the to fi nd ways of helping people but I was also concerned with better grade. Wanting people to to lives. Suddenly, a woman best technology, we can never with disabilities to live their lives? the attitude of people watching have abilities is also important; who is brain-dead or at least know what a person can do for The answers to these questions the case. if an employer hires someone brain-damaged should have the sure. I am a walking example of will determine the quality of Some people said she to sing in a coffee shop, that “right to die.” this. Doctors told my parents life for many Americans with should die. “Why should it person needs to be able to sing. I do not believe dying has I could not see colors; all of disabilities. If we do not draw even matter. She’s not even It is also important to value life. to be a right. Why do Americans their pictures of my eye and the line, people with disabilities contributing to society,” one But valuing life and prioritizing invest so much money in operations seemed to confi rm may fi nd ourselves with fewer person wrote on an online it are two diff erent things. lawsuits when the money could this. However, if you ask me to rights. America could become Blast from the past predicts present society IAN GILDERSLEEVE can drive on most highways is 50 fl owers” so to speak. They zip few typed words? Or not even anyone. A bigger population STAFF WRITER miles an hour. And we just keep through things and don’t pay words. A few letters that mean means more minorities. And not raising the speed limit. It has much attention. So they miss a whole diff erent thing: Lol, brb, just people of a diff erent color or The book Fahrenheit 451, now reached 75 miles an hour somethimes very important ttyl, j/w. I’m not saying that I religion. Pretty much anyone of by Ray Bradbury, was written in in some states. The government things, things that matter. If we don’t use these when typing on a specifi c group. No one wants 1953. It was a futuristic book for does this because people say, don’t pay attention then we an instant messenger. It’s easier. to step on anybody’s toes or its time. Yet now it seems more “Well, they are going that fast are going to miss things and But the level of communication offend anyone in anyway. In like a contemporary book. anyway.” But no matter how high other people are going to take decreases. a survey made by The Knight Many of the predictions that you raise it some people are just advantage of us. Also people can access Foundation’s High School Ray Bradbury made are coming, going to go faster. Everything is getting almost anything with just their Initiative and conducted by the or have come, true. In the story a That is what is happening shorter, for we are becoming cell phone. Cell phones used Department of Public Policy at girl’s uncle is arrested for going in our society. People are going lazier. Books are becoming to be just a portable phone, the University of Connecticut, 40 miles an hour. And in today’s faster and faster through life, shorter, and not many people something convenient so you over 100,000 students were world the minimum speed you not stopping to “smell the really want to read anymore. could contact people while questioned at 544 schools. They want it all to be quick, to on the move. But now on cell Thirty percent of students get to the snap ending. Students phones you can play games, go said that they believed that The Forest Breeze moan and groan about reading on the Internet, take pictures, people shouldn’t be able to The Breeze is published by the student body of Forest Lake books that are over a hundred make videos, and instant sing songs that could offend Senior High, 6101 Scandia Trail N., Forest Lake, Minnesota pages. It is so sad to see people message one another. There anyone. Well, we might as well 55025. Call (651) 982-8580 to reach the Breeze or for advertising complaining about reading might be one day where cell just get rid of music then. Our information. Writers of the Breeze express views not necessarily a book that is so short, when phones won’t be used to call society is so afraid of off ending of the school, students, staff or administration of School District they only have to read about anyone anymore, just be used someone that we have editors 831. 20 pages a night. And that is for all that other stuff . It reminds censor almost everything. In Type and headlines are set in the Breeze newsroom, 331. exactly what this book is talking me of gadget from the fi rst Spy Fahrenheit 451, society decided The paper is printed at ECM Publishers, Forest Lake, Minnesota. about. People “burning” books Kids movie. There was a watch that it would be best to rid itself The Breeze welcomes the opinions of anyone connected to the by not reading them. that could do pretty much of books and its problems at the Forest Lake High School community. Please send opinions to In the book, a character everything… except tell time. It same time the Forest Breeze, care of Mrs. Livermore. Unsigned letters will named Beatty says, “It didn’t was so full of all the other stuff So is that where we are not be printed; however, names can be withheld upon request. come from the government that there wasn’t anymore room headed? A world without books? Student editors: down. There was no dictum, for the clock. A world where people don’t pay Jessica Ruka no declaration, no censorship People bury themselves attention to the things around John Schwietz to start with, no! Technology, in their phones. You can’t walk them, to what really matters? A Nicole Coby mass exploitation, and minority down a school hallway or down world without opposing views? pressure carried the trick.” a public street without seeing If so, then we are heading Staff Writers: This is saying that the public someone staring at their phone, towards totalitarianism. You Joelle Anderson Thomas Kling “burned books” on their own pushing buttons.