Lynching

In Mississippi burning, it showcases blacks being lynched by Ku Klux Klan. But what exactly is lynching?

Lynching is a "punishment" in which the blacks got. The form of 'punishment' is usually hanging, even though other forms include shooting and burning. In Mississippi burning, the Ku Klux Klan used hanging. As a result, they lynched a total of 3,500 blacks. This demonstrates how great the impact of lynching was.

Obviously, lynching is wrong. The blacks did not do anything wrong, so what did they to let them to be deserved to be 'punished'? Plus, hanging is equivalent to a death sentence. I believe that capital punishment should only be reserved for serious crimes like attempted murder and so on. Also, in the first place, no crime was committed. Secondly, these 'punishments' were not official, and thus the Ku Klux Klan did not have any right or permission to lynch people just because they look different from the others.

Missisipi Burning

Recently, we were given the show, Mississippi burning to watch. It is a really, really old film, about racism. It depicts the lives of the blacks and how they were treated by the Ku Klux Klan, a group of people that used to be a political party. Their main aim is to achieve control over the blacks. To reach their goal, they lynch the blacks, and use other cruel methods to torture them. The blacks are afraid to oppose, and can only try to defend themselves from being lynched as far as possible. But why are they afraid to oppose? Is it because the Ku Klux Klan outnumber and outgun them, or they just simply did not feel like fighting for their rights, because the others did not?

Mio Problems

I think I should go into more detail about why I had to change my modem into a new one in the first place.

I was downloading microsoft office 2010 from the internet, when suddenly, the download became 0 kbps. I thought perhaps the server which I was downloading microsoft office from had stopped working. Thus, I paused that download, and tried to go back to the download page and try redownloading. However, Firefox 4 kept giving me "The page could not be displayed". As this was actually not the first time my internet had stopped working, I looked at the modem. Obviously, the modem had just reset, as there was only the power light on. The rest of the the services, broadband, wireless, phone were not working. I was thankful that the modem recovered within a minute, and I started redownloading. I then decided to do my science worksheet. I stumbled onto a difficult problem, so I decided to search wikipedia about the answers. However, wikipedia failed to load, and I looked back at the modem. It had just reset again! I was frustrated. It happened more than 15 times that day, so I called the customer service officer. He sent a technician down the next day, and he changed the modem. It seems fixed. It's all good (for now)

Mio Modem dosen't work!

Just today, when i went back home and booted up my computer, I tried logging into Xfire, a chat service. Usually, in the process of logging in, there would be a small message telling me when the connection would time out. Most of the times, it logs in when there are 117 seconds left. But now, it logs in only at 113. Yesterday, our modem had been changed, because our old modem kept cutting off randomly. Later, I called Singtel about this incident. The friendly service person then guided me through the speed test. My plan is a 3mbps plan, yet, it only managed to get a maximum of 0.6mbps. My computer was right next to the modem, and my ping was a mere 11 milliseconds, so it should not affect a lot. Obviously, the modem has to be changed again. The serviceperson told me that the technician would be coming tomorrow at 4pm, so hopefully, this technician would fix the problems

Prejudice

Prejudice is something that you have against others, probably because of bad past experiences with the person, or because of the influence of other people around you. It can also be due to the people being a different, race, gender, nationality or religion.
WANT: What do I want to know/learn about prejudice?
I want to know why in the first place, people are so obsessed with race, nationality etc. Is it due to the happenings around or just simply a natural distaste? Is prejudice found in multiple forms? How can it be expressed? What are some symptoms of prejudice?
(Update: I realised I saved it as a draft instead of posting)