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I Am Most Like: John Barnes, Jr.
[] I agree with him because he is trying to find a way to help stop bullying by being a sponsor of a bill. I like that he's trying to stop it. Also, he is democratic like me so he believes more in people having the power not the government.

5) Had the first interracial and co-ed college
Facts About My State That Relate to My Issue: ﻿1) Ohio has the death penalty 2) To date, Ohio has executed a total of 387 convicted murderers  3) Kenneth Biros is the first person in the U.S. to be executed by one drug lethal injection  4) Ohio re-establishes the Death Penalty for certain crimes in 1974  5) 'Ohioans to Stop Executions' was established in 1988.

3 Issues Important to Me:

1)The Abolishment of the Death Penalty -The death penalty is also known as capital punishment. There are people who want to abolish it, but there are other people who want to promote it. Some people accuse the death penalty as going against the eighth amendment (cruel and unusual punishment.) Prisons use a lethal injection to prove that it is humane because it doesn't put the person in any pain. Empirical studies support both sides of the death penalty. -I feel that every state within the U.S. should have the death penalty. It has lethal injections which are humane so this doesn't break the Eighth Amendment. Also, that up to a certain crime that there should be a death penalty, like a mass murderer should be put on death row. Plus, having the death penalty in every state could possibly lower the crime rates in America because the people who commit the crimes will know that they have the chance of ending up on death row.

2)Cyberbullying - Cyber bullying is also known as electronic bullying. It has become the most frequent kind of bullying.Cyber bullying can either be direct or indirect. It mostly occurs in female middle school students. Many people are trying to find a way to stop cyber bullying without going against the first amendment. Advertisements are made to raise awareness against cyber bullying. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #030303; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-I feel that cyber bullying is a very immature thing to do but I can't deny that I've done it before unintentionally. This is a big issue that I won't stopped but I know that stopping it will be hard because actions taken to stop cyber bullying will go against the First Amendment. I just wish it would stop and that some people would just grow up about it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #030303; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3)Animal Rights <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #030303; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-The debate over animals rights has gone international. The debate has engaged many groups and individuals around the world.There is a difficulty in finding a basis that a theory of animal rights should be based on. Some people say only domestic animals should have rights. Other people say that animals doesn't deserve to have rights. While other people say that animals and even insects deserve all rights. Humans can easily deprive animals from all their rights but animals can't deprive a human from their rights. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #030303; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-I think that how you were raised affects what rights you think animals should have because different ethnics may eat something that another ethnic group praise. I also feel that animals do have rights but to a certain degree. I don't think humans have the right to take away their rights though. They are living creatures too.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bill I'm Sponsoring: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/HB17 The death penalty is good for America. With the death penalty we can reduce crime rates. All people on death row will be judge fairly with no bias being used at all. Everything is sanitary and up to health standards. Of course though, there will be a thick line between criminals that get the death penalty compared to the criminals that do not have it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #030202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 Resources:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 32px;">"Capital Punishment in Ohio." // ODRC Home Page //. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, 12 Apr. 2011. Web. 11 May 2011. <http://www.drc.ohio.gov/public/capital.htm>.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 32px;">"Ohio Fast Facts and Trivia." // 50states.com - States and Capitals //. Marchex Inc. Web. 11 May 2011. <http://www.50states.com/facts/ohio.htm>.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 32px;">Mitchell, Sandy. "Ohio Facts." // Cleveland Ohio - A Guide to Living in and Visiting Cleveland, Akron, and Northeast Ohio //. The New York Times Company, 2011. Web. 20 May 2011. <http://cleveland.about.com/od/visitingcleveland/a/ohiofacts.htm>.

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Kowalski, Robin M. "Cyber Bullying: Overview." //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 11 May 2011.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #121917; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">"abolishment of the death penalty." //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 11 May 2011.

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Hoeflich, Michael H. "Animal Rights: Overview." //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 11 May 2011. <span style="color: #070808; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">White, Deborah. "Pros & Cons of the Death Penalty and Capital Punishment." // Liberal & Progressive Politics & Perspectives //. The New York Times Company. Web. 20 May 2011. <http://usliberals.about.com/od/deathpenalty/i/DeathPenalty.htm>.

Dieter, Richard C. "The High Cost of the Death Penalty." __The Feminism and Nonviolence Studies Association Journal Home Page__. FNSA. 23 May 2011 <http://www.fnsa.org/v1n1/dieter1.html>.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">"Death Penalty | LII / Legal Information Institute." // LII | LII / Legal Information Institute //. Cornell University Law School, 19 Aug. 2010. Web. 20 May 2011. <http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Death_penalty>