Memes and Whatnot

Eminent Domain is quite honestly the pink elephant in the room. From the sources that we had to use for the synthesis essay, I would've assumed that this would be an issue that was known to everyone , but as it turns out, most people don't. Today , I want to talk about the clause that makes eminent domain fair - "with payment of compensation". Jesus  freaking Christ, this is such a vague clause. The government is literally like, we can take your land, and we decide what just compensation for it is. Once upon a time , for over 100 years existed in the U.S. Constitution. It wasn't until 1876 that it was used. That case in which it was used was a huge landmark supreme court case. The provisions of this basically deemed that The court ruled that it is necessary for the government to be able to seize property for its uses, such as creating infrastructure, which ultimately are determined by the legislature and not the judiciary. This essentially gives the government u...

Since I am a junior, I, like most other people reading this blog, will have to take the SAT or the ACT. I personally took my SAT yesterday, and I thought that it went pretty well. Yay me! But that got me thinking, what enabled me to perform to a standard that I was happy with? By far it would be the time and money that I put into studying for the SAT. Studying for the SAT came with many costs including purchasing books with practice tests. Inherently, there is nothing wrong with having to purchase textbooks to improve my SAT taking abilities. But what I think is wrong is that the SAT tests material that is not representative of what schools teach. Take for example the Writing section of the SAT, when was the last time in your English class that you studied just grammar rules? I can quite confidently say that never happened. Then take the reading section, if I was to take an average high school in the United States, I can also quite confidently state the level of reading that is req...