Today while driving home from school, there was a commercial that had a very realistic siren playing during it. As my friends and I heard this, we were confused whether they should be allowed to play that on the radio, because many people could think of it as an actual siren.
This reminded me back to the day in class earlier this month, where we were given scenarios and had to determine if it was a protected or limited right.
Should that be allowed in a commercial that most people hear while driving in their car? It is a very similar scenario to the one in class, which was someone shouting fire in a situation that would cause panic, such as in a movie theatre. This turned out to be limited, so shouldn't a siren playing during a commercial be treated similarly?
This is certainly a situation that I think could cause panic to the driver, so I think that it should be limited just like the movie theatre scenario.
While looking at the Chicago Tribune website, I came across an article talking about New Trier's textbook prices, and how expensive it is to rent textbooks every year for school.
At New Trier, sports teams are free for anyone who joins. However, this may not be the case in the upcoming years. As a way to lower the prices of textbooks, they are thinking of charging for sports teams, so it's not one huge payment at once.
The argument against that, however, states that different sports teams require different amounts of equipment, so they shouldn't all be the same price. For example, football or lacrosse have a lot more equipment needed than track and field or basketball. I don't think this is the best idea, because while some people play 3 sports during the school year, some people don't play any, so it is cheaper for them.
I think overall textbooks could be much cheaper, or some not even used at all, and that would solve a lot of these problems. For example, last year in my chemistry class, i used my textbook once for a homework assignment. My teacher could have very well gone without doing that one homework assignment, to save us all from buying that expensive book.
There are so many books students buy every year that barely ever get used, so what should they have to buy them? Families with multiple kids going through high school spend thousands of dollars at the New Trier bookstore to buy their kids the textbooks they need, which maybe not every family can afford.
Growing up, parents have always told us to be safe online. I remember my mom always telling me, "Once something is online, it is there forever." I never really understood it at first. I always figured if i put something on Facebook, I could always take it down later. That is certainly not true, though. While reading an article on USA Today, it talked about how on the new Facebook, you have less control of privacy.
The article states that "Users have long been able to share information, manually. But the new services automate much of the sharing process, and appear to tap deeper into user data amassed by the comany." Now, sharing information is not as much of an optional, manual thing, but rather something Facebook does on its own. There is a loss of what we can control.
So the question is, should we really have that much information on the internet? Probably not. But does that stop users form going on Facebook? No way. Living in a world where technology keeps getting better and is our future, Facebook can keep digging into our personal information, but that will not stop anyone from connecting with their friends online.
This reminded me back to the day in class earlier this month, where we were given scenarios and had to determine if it was a protected or limited right. 
