Dating, superficiality, and teenagers

I feel like a lot of teenagers, including my friend, go into a relationship based on passion alone. But once the passion wears out, they are left with no intimacy or commitment. And so I believe this is why many teenaged relationships end, because teenagers are more concerned about the passion. But if people also looked for intimacy and connection, then their relationships would go a lot further.

Being single

I have noticed lately that society puts a lot of emphasis on a person to date someone. Being single is shown as a sign of loneliness and something bad. People also look down upon unmarried couples who have children. We don't know everything about people and so why should we judge them. And yet society has told people how to think and what is right and what is not. Maybe one day these stereotypes will disappear and single people won't be judged for their situation.

DNA photographed for the first time

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/02/dna-photo-double-helix_n_2219803.html

A DNA strand has just been photographed for the first time in history. This will surely lead to new discovers about genes and human traits. And it certainly will help us in understand how humans develop.

Babies and facial emotions

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3350364/Babies-can-recognise-emotion-in-faces.html

Recently I read an article that said that babies can recognise emotions in other people's faces as early as four months old.

Student Stress

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-05-13/dogs-stress-relief-on-campus/54921444/1

I recently found an interesting concerning the issue of stress and how some colleges are helping that stress, with the use of Dog therapy. Maybe that will come to UA one day haha.

On Gay Marriage

I had to recently debate with another student in English class on a subject. The subject that I chose was the issue of gay marriage. And so I partnered up with someone who held the opposite view of mine (she was against the idea of gay marriage) and have a Rogerian argument. During the argument, she made the claim that children raised by a gay couple, will be harmed in thinking that it's ok and their lifestyle will be worse. I, however, showed her with my research that children raised under gays turned out no different than any other children. Reading it again in class reassures my argument and proves that I am right.

Experience

Recently I was talking to my friend about northerners. He told me how they were unfriendly, intolerant and such. I asked him why he thought this way. He said that that most of the ones that he has met were like that. I tried to explain to him that he couldn't generalize an entire people. But he kept on with "There are some exceptions, but I've rarely met a nice northerner." I see this fallacy all the time. People basing their evidence on their narrow experience. But it isn't the way to win arguments, only lose them.