The Iraq War in numbers

Here are the cold hard facts about the Iraq War.
3,989 Soldiers Killed

29,395 Soldiers seriously wounded

12 Billion dollars spent every month in Iraq
$390,000 -Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq

190,000 guns lost in Iraq

127 journalists killed

8,009 Iraqi police killed
Is all the deaths worth it? Is it worth all the money spent, and all the lives that have been forever changed? I don’t think so. This war will never end. Because of George W. Bush, we are always going to have troops in Iraq.

We need SEX education

The CDC recently conducted a study and found that 1 in 4 teenage girls are infected with some type of STD. That is equal to 3.2 million teenage girls nation wide. Also, in some places, 1 in 3 girls will become pregnant by the age of 20. That is an outrageous number when we have so many resources that we do not use properly. We need to abolish the Abstinence only sex education that is being taught in our school districts. Teenagers need to be taught about sex from a professional rather than learning the wrong information from their friends. I believe this would decrease the numbers of STDs, teen pregnancy, and even abortion. We also need help from the parents of teenagers. The teenagers need someone they can openly talk to. Many teenagers are afraid to talk about sex to their parents in fear that they will be punished. I believe if we had sex education in schools and help from the community that we can beat this problem together. 

My spring break

While many college students are in Florida getting tans and partying, I decided to spend it volunteering. This spring break, I spent a week in Chicago giving back to the community. I am here with MTSU's Alternative Spring Break program doing various activities around the city, including beach clean up, visiting an assisted living community and working in the Chicago Food Depository. My favorite activity was working with inner city kids at the Chicago Boys and Girls club.  Programs like these are a refreshing change from the disturbances of their outside environment. These programs keep these kids out of trouble by providing fun activities inside and helping the kids with their homework. This has been a very beneficial trip for me as well as the other students of this trip. We all wish that we could stay longer and further help this community. I hope that we can bring this same spirit back to Murfreesboro and disprove the stereotypical nonexistent role of college students in the community and their lack of care for it. Hopefully this experience has had the same effect on the others in this group as it has had on me.