Modern-Day Scarlet Letter

I think that an example of a modern-day scarlet letter here at Punahou would be people who get expelled and who come back the next year. Everyone knows that they were expelled and some version of why, and people always remember. It's not that everyone else thinks badly of them or anything, but it's always the first thing they think of. Whenever someone hasn't heard of what happened, someone else is always like, "Oh, that's so-and-so, he got kicked out for..." It's like Hester's A because it's a reminder of something they did wrong that people fixate on. Sometimes they can turn it around like Hester did, when people started saying A was for "able." People might say, "They got kicked out for failing, but now they're doing really well in their classes," or something.

Speakers from Large

I thought that both of the speakers were really interesting. They were both good at selling whatever their organizations did. Just personally, I like Planned Parenthood a lot better beccause they believe in comprehensive education and that a women has the right to choose what to do with her body. Because of this, I was more interested to hear Aloha Pregnancy Care sell their viewpoint. I guess a lot of why I like PP more is because I'm not religious, and religion is APCCC's main selling point. Not that my views on the issues they talked about changed at all, but I was impressed with both presentations. I appreciate that even though APCCC does not support abortions or offer them, they don't discriminate against people who've had them and they even offer counseling for people who have trouble after they've had one.