Imagine being 16, and being convicted of a crime that you didn't commit? Do you wanna build a snowman? Well, you can't because you're in PRISON! You would be charged, as an adult, and sent to an adult prison. That is what four boys had to go through, being convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering a girl. They spent 15 years behind the bars, trying to prove their innocence and get out of the prison. Omar, Larry and Calvin were the only boys who were interviewed by KSUT.
All these boys had been tried individually, as adults, in front of a courtroom full the people who were on the victims side. The only person that showed up for the boys, was a cousin. They were all convicted and sent to prison with a life sentence. When they were in jail, Calvin was trying to prove their innocence and after fifteen years he found a lawyer that would help them prove their innocence. Larry had an idea that the killers DNA could still be in the body, and that they should give a donate to have it compared to the killers.
In the end, they were able to get a new court and the DNA tested. They were released after being in jail for 15 years, they had missed some major parts of their lives. They still live together, and are living life to the fullest.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Laughter Is The Best Medicine
Many people have heard all the sayings, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," and "laughter is the best medicine." But what if these are really true?
In the article, "Humor and Laughter May Influence Health..." they talk about how humor could be beneficial both psychological and physical to your health. Laughter and a good sense of humor tend to lower chemical that cause stress. For some people can find something hilarious, while another person might be sitting their stone-faced. But to work out this issue, they would let the patient to chose their own videos that would entertain them. "Humor response is known to be affected by environmental conditions, and it can be difficult for subjects to relax and laugh at a humor video when experimental conditions require blood draws for laboratory testing. To help control for this, it is critical that future humor research includes some measure of subject response to the humorous stimulus. Videotaping subject responses and then measuring these responses with observer rating scales such the Humor Response Scale can help document the effect of individual humor responses to the stimulus." This is an excerpt from the article, explaining how the environment makes it easier or harder to relax and laugh.
I actually thought that this was a really cool experiment and trial'n'error. I don't know if I would want to be a person who was a test subject but I want to know where the idea came from, and who started getting all the patients together to have an experiment that is unknown in the end. I would love to meet someone who went through this procedure and what they really thought.
In the article, "Humor and Laughter May Influence Health..." they talk about how humor could be beneficial both psychological and physical to your health. Laughter and a good sense of humor tend to lower chemical that cause stress. For some people can find something hilarious, while another person might be sitting their stone-faced. But to work out this issue, they would let the patient to chose their own videos that would entertain them. "Humor response is known to be affected by environmental conditions, and it can be difficult for subjects to relax and laugh at a humor video when experimental conditions require blood draws for laboratory testing. To help control for this, it is critical that future humor research includes some measure of subject response to the humorous stimulus. Videotaping subject responses and then measuring these responses with observer rating scales such the Humor Response Scale can help document the effect of individual humor responses to the stimulus." This is an excerpt from the article, explaining how the environment makes it easier or harder to relax and laugh.
I actually thought that this was a really cool experiment and trial'n'error. I don't know if I would want to be a person who was a test subject but I want to know where the idea came from, and who started getting all the patients together to have an experiment that is unknown in the end. I would love to meet someone who went through this procedure and what they really thought.
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