User talk:Megandpope

Megan Pope 12/29/09 Coach Hood- 6th pd The topic I chose was Michael Jackson. The reason I picked this topic was because Michael Jackson is a legendary entertainer and he has had an effect on everyone good or bad and it was the one of the only topics that has really caught my attention. On June 25, 2009 9-1-1 had received a phone call saying that a 50 year old man had stopped breathing, little did they know it was the great Michael Jackson. Dr. Conrad Murray gave Michael Jackson Propofol, which is an anesthetic that doctors give to patients that are about to have surgery, and at least two other sedatives that caused his death. Murray says he was helping Michael with his insomnia. Murray had been giving Michael 50mg of Propofol over a 6 week period. Propofol is a drug that should only be used by a professional and should be used only in a hospital. On June 25 around 3 am Murray gave Michael 2mg of Lorazepam, which is used to treat anxiety, this drug can be used in inject able form, the inject able type is used to reduce nervousness and anxiety before surgery, and 2mg of Midazolem, which is a prescription that is used as a sedative, that is used before or during surgeries or during dental procedures. He gave Michael the same amount of medicine again at around 5am and 7 am when Michael wouldn’t fall asleep. Around 10am he gave into Michael who kept asking for his “milk” which was Propofol. He gave his 25mg of Propofol on top of the medicine he received earlier that morning. After receiving the Propofol he fell asleep. Murray was in his room watching Michael then he went to the restroom, when he came back he said, Michael was not breathing. Murray claims he performed CPR but was unsuccessful. Michael was rushed to the hospital where he died of cardiac arrest at 2:26 pm on June 25, 2009. This event became popular as soon as the phone call was made. This event was world wide known because Michael Jackson was a well known entertainer. The news of his death was on every news station, BET, MTV, Vh1, E!, internet websites such as Twitter, Myspace and Facebook, we all buzzing about his death. Radio stations were playing all of his songs for the rest of the day. For the next couple of weeks they had all kind of specials about his life on all the time. This event took place at Michael Jackson’s home in Los Angeles, CA. Free Enterprise Economy is business governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference, or regulation. Free Enterprise Economy was being used every year Michael released a new cd, played in any move or did any promotional things. This worked because after he released his first album people wanted to hear more from him so produced more and more album. He began to become more well known and he did a lot of charity work that made companies want to hire him to promote their products. The government couldn’t say that he couldn’t see his albums or promote other products because of Free Enterprise Economy. If he would have been in another country he might not have been able to do these things because the countries decide what job people are going to have or what kind of products they are going to make. Appointment is the government assigning someone to do a certain job. Appointment is used because in Michaels molestation trial because people were assigned to be the jury to decide if he was guilty or not. The government assigned people to the case that is in the same class of living as him so it can fair. If they didn’t do this Michael could’ve sued the court and received a new trial. Also the investigators had to be selected. They had to have someone that does a good job with his job to go in and find the evidence that shows Michael was guilty. The had to appoint policemen to arrest him when enough evidence was presented to make his arrest. Bail is a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. In 2005 when enough was evidence was found to arrest Michael he was arrested and put in jail in Santa Monica, California. Not long after he was in jail he was released because he was able to pay $ 3 million to be bailed out. Bail is different in every case, bail is determined by the judge. Judges decide the amount bail is supposed to be by, the severity of the crime, criminal record, or flight risk. If the judge feels that the defendant will commit the same crime again while out on bail or not show up to court the judge will make the bail very high. The higher the bail the more likely the defendant will be back for their day in court. Everyone knew Michael had enough money to post bail but the judge made his so high so he wont want to waste his money and get released and not show up to court. Freedom of Speech is the freedom to speak without censorship limitation. Michael Jackson exercised his freedom of speech in 2004 when he called the head of his record label guy “devilish”, because he felt his album didn’t get enough publicity. This was a good thing because if he was not able to express how he feels because of having the freedom of speech. He didn’t get sue because he was using his own opion about this man. Freedom of speech came because of the 13 colonies didn’t like that they weren’t allowed to express how they felt so when we didn’t belong to England anymore they made the amendment to have the freedom of speech.