I will be discussing this topic more in the near future but I just wanted to get this out now before I lose track.

Why is is it that here in America the family is expected to split at a determined time called going to college away from home? I do not know where this idea originated from but it has been the driving force for students and parents alike. A teenager is forced to leave home for college unless there is some sort of college close to home…….

How far will the government go in aiding parents in disciplining children?  Should a parent be tasered for losing control and becoming ineffective in parenting a child?

I am concerned with what using electric force, handcuffs, and a police car do to a girl psychologically simply because she does not want to go to bed.  Imagine how the girl will turn out due to this tragic use of force as she grows up.

Children aren’t old enough to have sex or be married because they “cannot think for themselves coherently” but they can feel the rod of discipline and order for making a decision to act in unruly manner.  Something is wrong with this?
Shame on you mom and shame on you officer.

Cop Tases 10-Year-Old Girl

Arkansas mother suggested stun gun treatment for unruly daughter

NOVEMBER 18–An Arkansas cop tasered an unruly 10-year-old girl after her mother called police to report that the child was crying, screaming, and refusing to go to bed. The tased girl, Kiara Medlock, is about 65 pounds and 4′ 6″, according to her father. Anthony Medlock, a truck driver who does not live with the fifth grader and her mother, provided TSG with a recent photo of his daughter, which can be seen at right. According to the below Ozark Police Department report, when Officer Dustin Bradshaw arrived at the residence last Thursday, he found the girl “screaming, kicking, and resisting every time her mother tried to touch her.” Bradshaw added that, “Her mother told me to tase her if I needed to.” After Kiara continued to refuse her mother’s instructions, the cop concluded that “there was not going to be a peaceful resolution of the issue.” Bradshaw warned the girl that she was “going to jail,” but the child continued kicking and crying and resisted his attempt to handcuff her. During the tussle, Kiara “struck me with her legs and feet in the groin, reported Bradshaw, who countered with a brief “stun to her back” with his Taser. The child, not surprisingly, “immediately stopped resisting and was placed into handcuffs. She would not walk on her own and I had to carry her to my police car.” Kiara was then transported to a youth shelter. (1 page)

Source: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/1118091taser1.html

I am now in the final paint color of my masterpiece, thought it seems more like a child’s finger painting (which still might be better than my paper), and it has taken me more time then I would have liked to have given to an assignment.  No matter because this is my senior seminar paper, or senior thesis, and therefore the culmination of my undergraduate education.  Truly remarkable.  Good thing the work that I have had to accomplish has been very minimal otherwise I would have been is a big mess and an even more impossible situation.  No pass, No Graduation!  Okay, time to paint.

Let’s do this.

Writing a senior seminar paper is like painting a picture that has no form or clarity until the paper is finished.  Bringing the contents of class together in order to bring together clear thoughts and a point well made is my paint.  Writing my paper in different parts pulling together my different books is my brush stroke.

I am painting and I don’t know how it will look in the end but I am working and that’s the best I can do.