Photo Consent on Social Media: Respect and Privacy
I’m going to talk about consent when publishing a photo. With the advancement of social networks and the easy way of using them, anyone can take a picture of you and upload it on social media. This is good and also bad because, depending on the purpose for which that person uploads the picture, it can be interpreted in a different way. If the photo is taken secretly and the person can be humiliated through it, the application is being used badly. But, if the photo is taken with the consent of the other person, and he or she decides to post it with a good purpose, it doesn’t affect the other person at all. In my opinion, everyone is free to publish whatever they want, but with a minimum of respect and maturity, in addition to parental control in the case of minors. Because they can bully or be bullied, and it’s possible to break into anyone’s privacy.
Nelson Mandela: A Champion of Freedom and Equality
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Mandela was born in Mvezo to the Thembu royal family. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare. He became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics. After the National Party’s white-only government established a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, he and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the banned South African Communist Party. Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in 1962, he was arrested for conspiring to overthrow the state and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. I like this historical person because, in addition to being a memory for me as a figure of Peace Day at school, he is a man who has fought for his rights and those of his peers, even taking into account the consequences it entailed.
*Bully* by Penelope Douglas: A Book Review
Jared and Tate grew up next door to each other. Jared was sweet, generous, and friendly, and they were the best and closest of friends. But not anymore. The kid who had held her hand through the pain of losing her mother, who had climbed trees with her, and who had snuck over for sleepovers was gone, and now he seemed to live solely to torment her. The title of this book did not lie! The hero genuinely was a bully in the first part of the book, and to be honest, I wasn’t sure how I was ever going to fall for him. He was mean. Not like violent or abusive or anything, but the things he said and did were genuinely hurtful and unkind.
But the real question that I kept asking myself was… why? As a general rule, behavior like his is a result of some sort of extreme hurt, but for the life of her, Tate couldn’t figure out what she did to wrong him, and she was hurting deeply, both for their lost friendship and for the pain he was causing in her life.
Now, because the story was told entirely from Tate’s perspective, it was a while before I got to discover what had made Jared turn into a bully, which left me plenty of time to wonder at the possibilities…
Everything about him was just so contradictory. He blared music late at night so she couldn’t sleep but covered for her at school when she was in trouble. He made sure none of the guys at school ever touched her, and yet clearly didn’t want her for himself.
A part of me couldn’t help but try to rationalize or at least understand what was going on inside his head because the more I read, the more it was clear that his actions were not just straight-up meanness. There were details that made me fall for him while he was being a bully, but yet that also didn’t excuse his actions. She made it clear to the readers that there was something deeper beneath the surface… something that the heroine couldn’t quite see at first.
Parts of the book just had me grinning like crazy – almost in a way that was a little reminiscent of the books in high school.