Students in Texas must study Government......huh?!?!

It is almost the end of my Texas State and Local Government course, so I am going to talk something about the Texas Education Agency which makes me study this course in ACC.

The Texas Education Code §51.301 states that students who study in public community college or university in Texas must take 6 credit hours of government or policy course in order to graduate. I think most students do not want to take those courses if it is not required because it is kind of boring or wasting time to study something not related to their major. But for me, although I would not take it either as it is quite complicated for me to study the government of a foreign country, I still think that it is a good policy to force students to have a brief understanding in it, for it benefits the United States to become a better country. For example, since the American president is voted by the residents, so if the voters do not have any knowledge of the government or background information of the candidates and the parties, they will not be able to make the most educated and informed decisions in regard to their vote. Therefore, although it is just a brief introduction to the United States government, I think that it is better than nothing for us to know more about the country that we are living in.

Views on classmate Zhimiao Jin's Blog

     On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, my classmate Zhimiao Jin published an article which discusses about gay marriage in Texas and I agree with him because I think that gay marriage should not be allowed.

     In my opinion, gay and lesbian are immoral as marriage should be a union of man and woman. Moreover, it is incompatible for the traditional and religious groups. Besides morality, I think the most important thing that it affects is their descendants. As they cannot produce their own children, they will adopt children from the other families or organizations. And those children will grow up in a same-sex family, which may make them feel guilty and weird because of having two fathers or two mothers while others have one father and one mother in the family. Additionally, children living in a same-sex family will have a higher chance of engaging in homosexual behavior because their parents may teach them about the wrong concept of love and marriage.

     In conclusion, people should have their right to love who they want, but it is immoral and leads to more and more homosexual behavior in the future. Therefore, gay marriage should be banned in Texas.

Views on "Capital Punishment" in Texas

     Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal way to put the criminals to death in order to punish what he has done. Many states in America started the death penalty in the past, but some of them have already abolished it. Nevertheless, Texas still has capital punishment. I think it should be banned in Texas.

     First, Capital punishment would not help if the government put criminals to death. For example, a criminal was arrested because of murdering someone. It is a fact that the victim was dead and things cannot be changed. Therefore, the dead penalty does not have any benefit for either the victims or their family. 

     Second, some opponents may argue about the cost of feeding the criminals, but in fact, the cost of the death penalty is much higher than feeding them for 50 years. Additionally, people think we are just wasting money on those criminals, but actually we should give them a time to have reflections on the crime they did, although they do not have the chance to come out from prison anymore. 

     Last but the least, we do not have the right to put someone to death, no matter what he has done. It is immoral to kill him because we are just doing the same thing as him if we use dead penalty. 

     In conclusion, the dead penalty is immoral and cannot help the case at all. Therefore, I affirm that capital punishment should be banned, not only in Texas, but also the whole world.