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Drunk Driver gets 13 years in prison for fatal accident.
"A South Gate man was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for killing two people in a drunk driving accident.

Anthony Louis Fragoso, 22, was driving the wrong way in the carpool lane of the 91 Freeway in Anaheim on Jan. 19 when he crashed head on into a Toyota Scion, killing driver Alan Reyes, 25, and passenger Vanessa Cease, 24." said a reporter who writes for the L.A Now section of the news. This event makes people realize how dangerous to drink and drive. This man took away two innocent lives. That was not faith. How do these people loss their lives because of a irresponsible person who couldn't call a cab to get him safely. I believe this man deserves much more then what he got

The fall of the house of Usher

Edgar Allen Poe is famous for his dark, mysterious and scary story's. One of his famous story is the fall of the house of Ushers.This story is about the narrator receiving a letter form his old friend, asking him to come live with him. he asks him because he is about to die and he wants someone company as he lives his last days. There is one thing that is scary and strange about this family. The family members marry each other from their family. The man who send the letter is Roderick Usher. He also has a sister. When the narrator arrives at the house he notices that the house is very scary and old. He says the windows look like eyes, symbolizing the house sees everything. The interior of the house is also very familiar to the exterior. When the narrator sees his friend he notices that he look very sick and scary. He also looks like the way his house is. Old, sick and decaying. This all builds suspense that fits in with Gothic literature.

Towards the end of the story Roderick's sister dies randomly with no known cause. They burry the sister in the house. As Roderick is getting more sick and dieing, he starts reading him a story, but he also feels a presence in the house. Something like a supernatural being. The body of the sister is buried right underneath them on the same lining. They have buried the sister alive which is the most intense part of the story. The novel the narrator reads to Roderick is about a person being buried alive and having to dig his way up to. Roderick's sister come out of her burial and the Usher siblings die because the house falls down, luckily the narrator escapes before the house killed him to. This story fits perfectly in Gothic literature because it very dark and mysterious.

Raven

The Raven written by Edgar Allen Poe is a very dark, mysterious and Gothic poem. It takes place at midnight in a big mansion, dark castle type of house. This poem is Gothic poem because it fits in all four aspects. First the story needs to be seat in a bleak or remote place. The setting of the raven like I mentioned is during midnight in December in a big dark scary house. The plot has to involve macabre or violent incidents. The way we read the story we feel tension and spooked out. How he opens the door the first time and there is no one there and the second time there is a black raven. We find out that the person has lost his lover in some way but we feel that he lost her in a negative way. The third has to be with the character in psychological or physical torment. The man in the story is going through psychological torment because he thinks the raven is actually talking to him and repeating the word "nevermore" over and over again which is driving the man crazy. The last has to be a supernatural or other worldly element that is present. The raven is the supernatural being because it is actually talking back to the man. I get a feeling that it is not a good supernatural being something like the devil. This poem is very dark and scary it fits perfectly in Gothic poetry.

California's county jails struggle to keep criminals

Releasing criminals to soon? The California crime rate has been increasing very fast for the past years. Due to over crowding the county jails have to release criminals before their release dates. This is very bad news because they are releasing  criminals back to the streets who will most likely cause trouble again. I believe that they should make their punishments much more stricked .If the jails have no more place to put these criminals I think they should distribute them in state prisons. The California county jail released 150 inmates in one night. if they release this many criminals daily then the crime rate will only continue to increase. These jails should have more room because crime does not stop. There should be some kind of law or standards a criminal must pass in order to be released early. For example they must serve at least half their sentence and when they are released they must serve countless hours of community service to make up for the time they have not paid. Or they must be under probation until their time is up. This can be very dangerous to our state because there will be criminals all around us and we wont even it.