Blog Critique

The commentary posed by the mother of a teenager of a pretentious sexual assault or seduction in the Austin Statesman seemed to be reaching out to families. She starts by supplying us with a story in the news of sexual exploitation of children and then one of her own personal experience. Mothers and Fathers of teenage girls or boys were targeted to touch on their emotional feelings. She used her personal experience with great use of adjectives to get the parents to feel her anger and hopefully enrage them as well.

 The author is credible in her commentary for she is a mother first and foremost, and then one of a teenage girl. This in itself is credible for teenage girls have been a target of sexual assault in the United States. The author is asking those mothers and fathers to get involved and join the crusade to rid our communities of these predators. She points out a physician had been sexually assaulting or exploiting young girls and boys through his practice.

 Americans trust our medical professions and expect caring and nurturing healthcare. She stated that nothing came of the complaint to the authorities but did however emphasize that the details have been memorialized and proceeding complaints can pose to possibly bring about charges. The parents in the case of the physician listed in the article refused to provide information that could aid in charges against the  physician. When parents refuse to do what it takes to protect their children by refusing to comply with the prosecuting authorities, tells predators that it is okay to abuse our children. I definitely agree with her for I too am a parent. Not only am I a parent, but I care a lot for children and sexually exposing, seducing, or assaulting them is immoral and against the law.  

Ms. Anderson

Nuclear Power Plant in U.S.

The opinion section of the Houston Chronicle, the idea of issuing a stimulus for nuclear power plants in America focuses on the benefit of the implementation. Society screams constantly about global warming and going green. But when the issue of developing a nuclear power plant surfaces we tend to divert to a budget issue to reject the idea. Yes we are in a deficit. But using that as an excuse to alleviate spending for good sources is ridiculous. We tend to raise issues of health concerns and looking to government to find ways of improvement. Nuclear power is step one if we want to save our lungs from the mere depression of polluted air. Whether it is by going green on other aspects of our culture, or developing a plant that will allow for overall savings and prevention in the future, all of it cost money. Obama's plan to implement nuclear power plants is brilliant idea although very expensive to build but will prove to be very cheap to operate ending in more profitability than loss. Now we question safety. As opposed to previous operations safety has increased and the likelihood of individuals dying of nuclear power generation is less than that of natural gas.  The fuel produced can be reprocessed and allow for less waste thereby being reasonably affordable. Expensive?, maybe; but we should keep in mind that the use of the fuel source to create nuclear power is cheaper than that of oil for natural gas and it can produce more energy. If we keep screaming "go green" then we should also start screaming for support of nuclear power plants.

Ms. Anderson