Month: June 2020

Yes, Long Term Solitary Confinement should Be banned. It should be banned because it is a very harmful type of torture. It is a type of torture because in Solitary Confinement, the prisoners are in a really small bathroom where you can only walk like 2 steps forwards and 2 steps backward. There is only a bed and a toilet. They barely leave there cells and any other living organisms. 1 prisoner would lie down on the floor for hours just to see the feet of somebody walking by. Another prisoner had a wasp fly into his/her cell and befriended it, talking to it and feeding to it like a friend. A lot of them had become nearsighted. After talking for 1 hour, most of the prisoners lost their voices because they didn’t use their vocal cords very often anymore. Even short term Solitary Confinement is a nightmare. If that’s not torture, then what is? No one should have to deal with that in this world.

U.S. has told other countries about banning torture but it still happens inside U.S. though! The reason most people don’t know about this is because most prisons hide this information behind their walls. Not letting reporters, lawyers, and sometimes even family members if they think the prisoner is gonna tell them too much information about them. They don’t let the family members even visit even if they scheduled it sometimes.

These are the reasons why Long Term Solitary confinement should be banned. If people don’t think so, spend 1 day inside your bathroom without any living contact. See how it feels.

In Denver, there is a huge facility that holds 400 men in solitary confinement 23 hours of the day. In today’s TED talk, we see how a Laura Rovner, a civil rights judge explains how these criminals, who have done acts of national treason to the US should be treated better.

Now Laura Rovner so gloriously stated that these men are being tortured. I, though, unlike before, completely disagree. Though these people are being held in the worst conditions, what did they do to deserve this? Well, they most likely did huge acts of mass murder or were terrorizing us. if we do what Laura Rovner says we should: treat them as guests of the most utmost splendor, we are just inviting them to do it again. We need to but them in solitary confinement for those who deserve it. But not as long as they are now. People can be held there for 40 years. We need to respect, yet punish them for what they did.

We do not need to invite them to do it again, but we also need to limit their time there. So I completely disagree with some of Mrs. Rovner’s points, I agree with some of them. If we do this, we will not completely devastate them, yet still punish them, we can restore our community, yet also not allow criminals to get away for their crimes. >_<

When Cathryn ate scrambled eggs,
“She reacted to penicillin,” says Dr. Greg.
Now she works in a lab with a gauge
but she got an allergy to rats
that sent her to the big H.

She studied mice
that went crazy
when they attached a microbe
that wasn’t very nice.
But then she fed
the mice the microbe
and they got better and didn’t turn red.

Years later, a concept called
immunotherapy
has come as a
treatment
that might work terribly.
It starts by the person “say”
eating the opposed food
a little every day.

She found out that
the gut had antibiotics
and the skin did not.
She also found out
that gut microbes might be
how to solve allergies!

Quarantine is not fun, and we all know that. But what’s worse? Being in prison. Prisoners only get 1/24 of a day (or 1 hour) outside in the ADX, a famous prison known for its secureness. Now you might be like, well that’s not too bad compared to quarantine! At least you get to go outside for 1 hour, and you get to rest for basically the whole day (although everybody wants to do something now and then). In quarantine, we do countless hours of work on the computer, with not much time to rest. However, you DO get to look outside and see the brightness of the sun, and all of the grass, maybe your garden. For prisoners, they never see even plain grass or the mountains behind the prison. For the other 23 hours, even a glimpse of something living is lucky. Think about that! Also, because they can’t see much, they’re eyesight is much worse, and can’t focus on things far away. Now you see why prisons are worse than quarantine, right? But wait! There’s still more! Prisoners are tortured, which is also known as solitary confinement. This is a violation of human rights! There are not many things we can do, however, because most of this torture is happening behind prison walls, where only the government can see what’s happening, and the public has no idea about it.

In the Ted talk she talks about how solitary confinement is bad. I completely agree and also think that it shouldn’t be a thing. Even if people did really bad things they don’t deserve it. Nobody deserves to be is solitary confinement. It is very torturous and absolutely nobody deserves it.

She says that nobody actually knows what is happening in prisons, and nobody knows if someone is actually being hurt. When these people are by themself they sometimes wonder if they are even relevant to the world or are even actually there. Sometimes they loose their voice after only talking for an hour or so. Some people can’t even see far distances because they are so used to only seeing 3 feet in front of themself in their own cell.

Nobody should be kept in solitary confinement for more than 15 days or it is basically torture. These people although bad shouldn’t have to go through solitary confinement for so long. One of these prisoners were kept there for more than 30 years. Nobody should have to be by themself for that long. It is very harmful to these prisoner’s mental health.

Nobody should have to go through solitary confinement, it is practically torture. Many people go through pains but this is probably one of the worst. It is very hard to live in solitary confinement for so long. A lot of people start to go crazy in solitary confinement. It is very bad and shouldn’t be used as a punishment.

In my opinion, solitary confinement should not be allowed because it may cause one to turn crazy and one to be tortured. For example, being alone for a long time may cause distress and depression.  During the Coronavirus, one may feel annoyed for not being able to play with friends or meet up with family members.  I was deeply heartbroken at the thought of not being able to go on playdates, only online meetings.  Even having to meet online is difficult, so being completely isolated is a more miserable thought.  Also, without meeting anyone for long periods of time may cause one to long for another glimpse of a human being.  One prisoner was so lonely that he looked under the doorway just to see if anybody came.  Only thinking about how painful this must have been for the prisoner may cause one to feel sympathy for them.  To conclude, solitary confinement, or pure torture, should not be used on prisoners, no matter how wicked they are.

Mike grew a decent moustache,

his sister didn’t like it,

she gave him an electric razor for Christmas,

he didn’t bother to use it.

He’d learned to like the moustache, bit by bit,

he kept it, until he got his sister to admit,

“Well, at least you combed it.” she said,

Mike, didn’t listen, so he sighed instead.

His mom persuaded him to visit his grandma,

and he said ” absolutely, I can not.”

“The smell of the nursing home is similar to hospitals and the sight of blood makes me feel faint.”

He ended up going, as guilty as ever,

he hadn’t gone in a long time, and it seemed forever.

His grandma welcomed him, in a manner he thought was spooky,

and the expresion on her face, was rather droopy.

She thought that Mike was her husband,

speaking what seemed like non-sense to Mike and asking for him to forgive her,

he thought that she was crazy, until he seemed to understand,

she seemed to be making a forgiveness demand,

So he said “I forgive you.” and turned away,

hoping that he didn’t have to stay.

When he got home he got out the razor,

and shaved off his moustache, without thinking much longer.

”The Moustache” by Robert Cormier is a short story about a teenage boy by the name of Mike who is visiting his grandmother, Nana, in a nursing home. Because of his moustache, Mike’s grandmother mistakes him for her dead husband. As a result, Mike learns that Nana has guilted herself with her final argument with her husband before his death.

Mike has a girlfriend, Cindy, and he was bringing her to the movies in the Downtown Cinema. Mike’s mom was checking up on Mike so he could be formal for the movie, and then she said: “And that moustache. I still say a seventeen-year-old has no business wearing a moustache.”

Mike told her mother: “It’s an experiment,” but his mother wasn’t convinced and told him that the moustache is costing him money.

It is a Friday night and the Downtown Cinema has a half price for high school couples, seventeen and younger. Sadly, the woman in the box office took one look at Mike’s moustache and charged full price, even Cindy’s ticket. He couldn’t buy a burger for Cindy or himself since the clerk charged full price. Also, Mike has to study hard for a scholarship, so he didn’t own a car, and Cindy is really frustrated over that.

In order to cheer his girlfriend up, he told her that he would shave it off, although he wasn’t planning to. He has to visit his grandmother and her mother told him that his grandmother won’t even recognize him.

Soon enough, he reached the nursing home and there he was greeted by his grandmother who said: “Mike, Mike, I didn’t think you’d come,” and continued with: “I’ve been waiting all this time. See the birds? I’ve been watching them at the feeder. I love to see them come. Even the blue jays. The blue jays are like hawks — they take the food that the small birds should
have. But the small birds, the chickadees, watch the blue jays and at least learn where the feeder is.”

Mike looked around and didn’t see a feeder nor a bird. She complimented about a new coat, and Mike was dumbfounded, and then the attendant came in for juice time, and she conspiratorial winked at Mike and asked Mike’s grandmother for cranberry or orange juice. She noted that cranberyr was good for the bones.

She continued and realized that before his grandpa died, he had a big fight with his grandma, and also, she thought that Mike was the grandpa due to the moustache. She forced Mike to say: “I forgive you, Meg.” With this information in his head, he rushed home, hoping this didn’t happen between his parents.

Then, he shaved off the moustache with the electric razor that Cindy gave him for Christmas. He did this since he didn’t want any relation to the things he just interpreted.

Oral immunotherapy has come into use as a treatment for food allergies, which affect about 32 million people in the United States. Allergists have begun treating food allergy patients with doses of the food that they are allergic to, to calm their allergic responses. It grew in popularity with the approval of a standardized version, a set of daily capsules to treat the peanut allergy.

But oral immunotherapy also has downsides. It can be nerve-racking, since it involves daily consumption of food that could kill them. It doesn’t work for everyone and does only a little bit to fix the allergy. It mostly means gaining the ability to safely eat several peanuts, rather than having an allergic reaction to just a speck of peanut flour. Nagler and other researchers are working to find ways to treat food allergies more easily and durably. They’re focusing on what they believe is a root cause, imbalances in the community of microbiomes, hoping to let them handle their allergy.

Producing a microbiome-based treatment will be hard, with many details, such as which microbes to provide and how to best deliver them. But the approach is gaining momentum. Nagler’s team and another group reported an important step forward. They prevented severe allergic responses in mice with allergies by getting microbes from non-allergic human babies. So far, there has been a lot of progress to curing food allergies.

90 miles from Denver lies the ADX prison, that features a higher level of custody then the average prison. There is one place that is Solitary Confinement, a room the size of a bathroom.
The US government often says that they don’t have solitary confinement, but North Korea and Iraq has. That, in fact, is not true. In the ADX prison, the solitary confinement room is the size of a bathroom. It has no windows and food is delivered by a hatch. To exercise, there is a private, locked up room. The point is to prevent the person from seeing others.
Prisoners who have been there have gone crazy. The ADX prison doesn’t even allow pictures to be taken. Many people forgot who they are, because of lack of human contact.
Some people even tried to commit suicide.
As you can see, the government lied to many of us. They do solitary confinement. But, I think this is too harsh. They are still people who just made mistakes. After all, the Declaration of Independence says that all men are created equal.