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Sonoma County from a chosen spot of all the earth as far as nature is concerned, according to the famed plant wizard Luther Burbank Diverse County, with 1,010,000 acres of land and 1574 miles of scenic roadways, Sanoma County is rightfully famed for its agriculture. Did a culture,

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industry and recreation, as well as for the amazingly successful ethnic and economic mixture of its more than 340,000 residents on for the forward looking philosophy of its local governing bodies. Now we invite you to take a closer look at Sonoma County in the eighties with your

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host, Rich McGlinchy. How you doing? Everybody? Welcome to cinema count in the eighties, the second part of our theories dealing with high school students in Sonoma County today finding out what they think, what they're doing, what their plans are, what's important to them and maybe getting

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some ideas from them about what they think we have done to the country. And maybe they will want to change some of that before I go into the actual introduction of the students themselves. I do want to call your attention to the artwork on the in

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the studio rather today, and this is artwork by professional artist in this illustrator, Joe Hoffman. He had been working at this for 50 years. He's a specialist in horse sport. Art has been since 1917. Other picture you're viewing right at the moment is Sir Barton and

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Sir Barton, as you may or may not know, was the original winner of the Triple Crown race in America. The next piece of work used A is the sculptor, and this is Arctic Breeze. The second This is a Maryland Instead, horse to at the put out

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many, many hunters and racers in the Eastern United States, lastly, is the one and only exterminator. Not many of us would remember him. The horse ran in 1918 but it won the Kentucky Derby. It raised 50 times 100 times rather and 1 50 and it raised

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the distances from 5/8 of a mile to 200 quarter miles, which is really is really amazing view today. Okay, protect your Hawkman or one of the thing. Probably. Joe's best known work is the signed and numbered fine art prints of Race of the Century, and those

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are available. Teoh, Hoffman and Occidental. Hi. This is the second group of bright young minds and faces. I'm not going to introduce anybody. You introduce yourselves and tell us what you from your school and so forth. My name is Jennifer Martin, and I'm a junior at

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Pine or high school this year. Oh, I'm 16 years old. You plan to go on a school later. After this? Yes. I plan on going to a four year college after graduation. My name is Daddy Thompson. Dorothy A. And I tend McKinley High School. I'm a

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senior. I'm 18 years old and I'll be attending California State Chico next semester. And I'm Rob Wargo. I'm from Cardinal Newman High School and hopefully I'm a junior and hopefully I plan to attend college four year college. If I get accepted. Good away. You're probably looking

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about to see which one. Yeah, just It's just Junior Seau. Next year's the That's right, That's what Okay. When we talked to our two other young men and women from last week, we talked about a number of things. As I said at that time, we have

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so many questions we'd like to ask young people that we can't possibly get them all in. Well, one of the things we ask that I think it's important we ask you, is what in your opinions are the most important issues facing young people today? Jennifer. Well,

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something that's very important to me, And I know to a lot of people that I associate with is our education, because that's kind of the focus of our life right now. Every it's it's like our job. We go to school every single day of our you

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know well, almost every day. And it's something that is really important to us because that's the basis of the rest of our lives. I think that school is a major issue and also are our friends and how we get along with other people and not only

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are friends, but our parents also really important things. I agree with Jennifer. I feel that education and I definitely know that it's really important to most my friends to have a good education as seniors. We're really worried about what's going to be happening to us in

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our future, and you realize that this our last year of high school and what happens this year determines almost what will happen to us for the rest of our lives. Secondly, I think that Piers friends are very important, and they'll continue to remain important to us

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throughout. College will just have to switch them. We've had friends for a long time. And now, as seniors were embarking on something new, we're finding new friends and exploring new areas you're thinking run. I feel that that I guess the future would be a big issue,

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because that can pretty much have everything in it and have what can have what's gonna happen to the world. What's gonna happen to the nation, to the state, to the county, given to our very own ourselves, that covers most of the major issues we don't we

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don't really know. And that's the problem that we have with it. All right? The thing I asked two guests last week, and I would ask you to follow up with Start with you on this run if you what? What what are your aims and goals in

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general as you describe him today? Well, I plan to go on in life, tryto, uh, get some sort of a job, and I want to succeed, as does practically every other person. In fact, I don't know any that wouldn't but and I wanna try toe give

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other people around me a chance besides myself. Good. What? Do your dreams and go. Um, I really decided that I like to be an education. Uh, and I've chosen to be a speech pathologist to help elementary school students with speech impediments and problems, and I think

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that's my main priority is helping educate others. And I want to give everyone the opportunity to be educated not only about their own culture and just book learning, but also about other places that we would most people would never be able to go or experience to

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experience everything. And, uh, I hope that eventually I'll be able to fulfill, and I want to be remembered. I want to make a difference in my community, especially here in Sonoma County, quick thinking for well, in the future. I plan on going to college, and, um,

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because I think that education is something that I want to take advantage of. And recently I've been looking into the field of sports medicine because it's a way that I can remain involved in athletics beyond when I can physically remain a part of the actual sport.

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And that's something that's really important to me. So hopefully I can contribute to other people in that way. Well, what I'm hearing, of course, here is that you're all planning, uh, to go on to college and get a degree and whatever field you chose Teoh, you'll

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be in at that time and music to my ears. I'm glad to hear that What I said earlier last week, Brothers, in fact, is that you people are juniors and seniors in high school today. But it is not an exaggeration to say that you are on

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your compatriots, the leaders of the free world, perhaps the same number of years you've lived already from now. And it seems to me that you're buying the life you want to live by looking forward to trying to go into college Now. Unfortunately, I also said before,

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a lot of high schoolers are unfortunately wasting this opportunity and and they may be sentencing themselves to the lines, employment lines and welfare office for life simply because they're not recognizing which you seem to be right now. The tremendous value schools are. That's my lecture for

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now. But I think that that cream important as you encounter significant problems in your lives and I know that you all dio I want to ask you a couple of things together. First of all, how do you solve her deal with him? And who do you

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go to for help? Uh, do you want Oh, see? Also see alternatives? Well, the first thing that I do in addressing a problem and it's probably not the best way to do it is like I tend to get really upset and nervous because I have so

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many things going on. When something goes wrong, I get really, I get really nervous about it. Totally normal. Yeah, And then once I calmed down, um, I tend I'm really close with my mom, and I talked to her a lot, and I have some really good

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friends that I feel like I can confide in. And those are people that I usually go to with a problem because I trust their judgment and what they tell me. And I always try to look at all the possibilities involved so that I can weigh the

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advantages and disadvantages and choose what works best for me. And if other people are involved, what works best for them also. Good. Got a door feel. I think that, uh, when I encounter problem, the first thing I do is I get really uptight, really uptight. And

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then I think, Well, what did I do wrong to make this happen? And I re evaluate everything I've done, and then I find out the thing or it may not be me or maybe a personality problem or someone else's mistake and try to work it out.

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And I do do a lot of talking with my mother, especially my mother, and we talk things over and find out how, if the problem comes up again, how to deal with it, how to fix the problem and how to go from on from there. Not

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to dwell on the problem to keep on charging on. So he's got a new problem. Thoughtful. Got for a reasoning. There, Ronald and I try to approach approach the problem calmly and rationally. Try to analyze it right away because if you really let it go, it'll

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just dwindle on and on and on and stay there and you can't get away from it. You can't really run away from problems at all. And if I really cannot handle it by myself, I'll try Teoh, Goto, friends, parents, teachers, even other adults or even at

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sometimes little brothers that But you have two of two. Yeah, that's that. That sometimes the sibling is where you find some of the answers. Uh, I know one of the things you were very interested in is the student exchange program. Now, um, what's the value of

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those? Uh huh. I think they're two values. First, there's educational. And then there's the value of cultural awareness, which I feel is really important. Culture awareness on my priorities is up. There is one of the highest because I'm worried personally about how we relate as countries.

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So the programs are important to me, and I feel if we bring students here from foreign countries, we enhance our awareness of other countries and why they make the decisions that they do. I agree with that also, I think that that not only can they learn

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when they come over here, but we can also learn about them. We can learn from their cultures and what they like to dio what they enjoy. When you find an entirely different, sometimes different, sometimes you can find near the same. Find McDonald's. It seems to be

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international. That's good. That's good run, Jennifer. I think that the foreign exchange student programs are extremely valuable in educating American students. As he said, in addition to the foreign students visiting our country and vice versa if we go to another country, I think that it makes

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us more aware maybe of the mistakes that we make in our country, and it may be provides us with opportunities of correcting those mistakes. All right, there's a question we asked last weekend. Question is, do not entirely comfortable with it, I know. But unless I think

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it's important or not, is the subject of sex and how that does or does not affect your lives at this stage of the game, Uh, who wants to start? I think that it's it's something that, um as was touched on last week. I believe that it's

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something that the media, it almost forces it in your life, and it's not something that it can't be hush hush anymore. It needs to be discussed, and I think that education is very important that sex education, beginning at a very young age, is something that needs

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to be dealt with, and especially with now with the AIDS epidemic, it's something that it's not just pregnancy is no longer the only worry for teenagers if they're sexually active, because age is a life threatening disease. And, um, I just I don't think that, um, that

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not talking about it will make things any better. I think we need just need to come back right out and tell people what we know and share it and educate people I feel just like Jennifer does at McKinley High School. We've just started a program which

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was an AIDS program, and it was really prevalent and made it just very clear that something needed to be done on a school level. This was just on an individual volunteer basis, and we had over 83 students turn in permission slips from the parents just to

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attend a program. And there's just a cry for students at schools wanting to have more talk, more conversations so they know the facts, and in some ways some of those schools are afraid. They're really afraid to do some educational processes, whether beyond AIDS or sex, because

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the question is, where is the school begin and where does the parents and running? And I also must agree that that the students must be educated as toe what exactly they're getting into. But once they are educated, they have to be responsible about it. They can't

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just they have to use the knowledge that they get good thinking, Good thinking. Really? That's another good point. Uh, we're gonna process right here on the station, bring the audience a public service announcement after with Jennifer, Daddy, Dorothy, Ronald, War go and I will return. We'll

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your age. Just because you're 65 you don't have to retire from life for your continuing good health from the American Medical Association. Hi, welcome back to this edition of Cinema Con in the eighties and a very special edition it is. It's a second part of the

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SYRIZA, which we've been talking with high school students, seniors, juniors, talking about what they think of life in general, what's important to them, what their goals are. And that's our thing. And we're talking to three such persons with us right now. On the left, your screen

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is Jennifer Martin. She's for partner High school in next to me on my left. On your right is Dottie Thompson. She's from Montgomery High School, and the far end over there is Ronald Ronnie Largo, who is Cardinal Newman High School. Okay, you know one of the

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things we talked about last week. I've got some thoughts from Eric Power and Juliana Par was some of the subject of hunger, poverty and homelessness. Now these seem to be very powerful subjects, and they certainly bring out a wide range of emotions in people. Some people

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seem to be scornful of it. Many people seem to be a very compassion what you're thinking about. If you can identify what it comes from, and what should we be doing any one of three, really all of them. The problem of hunger is something that I

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think that we can all say that has never really touched our lives personally, and that makes it really hard to relate to what's going on in some ways. And it's really sad to me to see people my age and even younger that don't have the opportunities

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that I have because they don't have a place to live. And their parents maybe didn't take the initiative to get an education and find a job. Or, you know, and the thing that makes me sad about hunger and poverty is the Children because they don't have

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a choice in the matter and sometimes it's really it's really hard when you don't have ah home, like a background and a base to let to run to build your life on that they just don't have the opportunities that I've had in that that hurts me.

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That's really sad to me, Would really strikes me. Is the fact that when you go down to the ST Vincent de Paul's kitchen for the Catholic Workers Kitchen here in Santa Rosa, you don't see adults. You see little kids that can range from any age from

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an infant to a seven year old, and that's what you see. You don't see drunks. You don't see the typical people that we stereotype as homeless, poverty stricken people. We see the average run of the mill family, and this is where I feel our community is

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really lacking in support because here in Snowmen County we have a very large population of people who have Children that are using services like the Catholic Community Service, and they shouldn't be needing to do that. We need to get some programs going. I don't know what

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I don't know how, but something needs to be done well. It's important that one wrong. Answer this in just a second, but I think it's important. First of all, I think I mentioned this last week to the two people who were with me. It's important that

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you think this way because what you're expressing here is compassion and attempt to understand the circumstance, and that is the first step. Ron, what you're thinking about this. I feel that people should get organized more around it. They have. We have organizations like the Catholic worker

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and all that, but I don't feel that there's really enough done to help it. And also, I feel that when we should help them year round, because I've noticed that maybe during Easter on during Christmas they'll get flooded with things. That's when we have the most

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guilty. But then But then the rest of the year, they don't They don't have anything, really. We just very, very good point because I know in the county government, which I worked with for many years, has been concerned about it through the Human Services Commission and

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has done some small things. They've set up a food bank with the other things, and it's helping. It's a little bit, but your thoughts are well taken because not enough speed because it's kind of a disgrace. You just said you feel kind of guilty and you

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feel kind of bad. You feel bad. I feel bad because these people are there. And one of the youngsters, Giuliana part last week, said. You were given a little bit of what we have most of us, but we need to retain a lot of it for

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ourselves, and so as a result, we can't give enough to really alleviate this problem, and it's going to be with us for some time. So I'm glad that you all at least next year. But I'm glad that you have compassion for the subject. What's your impression

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of government? Do you trust it? Distrusted. Do you think it's accountable? Can you fight City Hall, huh? What would you like to throw up? Well, it's it's really difficult. Um, I believe this is said last week. Also, it's hard because teenagers tend to be so wrapped

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in their own lives to to see what's going on outside of their own little place where they exist. But government is something that, um I think that our country is unique in the form of government that we have and that we have, you know, a right

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that is it's were encouraged to criticize the government because we believe that it betters our government. And I think that there's a lot of flaws in our government system. But I also think that a lot of really strong points to you could look at the half

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full glass with 1/2 half empty glass. And, um, I think I trust the government to make decisions simply because, um in our democracy way elect representatives. So you almost have to believe that what they're doing is what you want them to dio taking, make my comment

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afterwards. Study. I went, I wanted to vote in the last election and I wasn't 18 years. Uh, and, uh, I think in your senior year of high school, you come more and more aware of political issues and especially because now you're required to graduate. You have

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to take government class to graduate from high school Now, um, and they bring up questions like my country. Right or wrong. Um, how do you go about expressing your point of view? And I feel These are all important things, and teenagers should have, ah, larger role

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in the government. That's what the Form 2000 was about here in Santa Rosa. Um, and the teenagers who were on that panel talked about how teenagers should get more involved in government and how they felt. Sometimes they were put off by it and I'd encourage any

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teenagers. You get involved. I feel that we're the ones that put these people in the government of the people that are in there. The are the people that vote that care, which will be us in a few years, right? We're the ones that put those people

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in the government. And we have to put the right people the right kinds of people that we have to put them in there so they can give us what we want. They can pass the laws that we want that are necessary. We feel for keep on

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our society. But when I was going to say that 23 of your thoughts is it and my personal friend, government is a worthwhile aim, worthwhile career. It's like everything else. There are some of the finest people I know involved in it. And some of the people

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I wish very, definitely would find another profession. And get as you said a moment go wrong. I have probably been helpful in putting some of those people in office that have disappointed me terribly. I think what you're saying definitely, though, is that you do believe in

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involvement in it. And once again, as I mentioned last week, by the time you people have lived the same amount of years you've lived by now you will be the leaders of the country in all aspects and are just artists, economics and politics and international relations.

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Your it the future is yours. It's gonna be your country. I wanted to ask you another. We're down to about 34 minutes. Yeah. Are you familiar with the Constitution? Yes, General. What do you think of it? Is a document. I think it's an incredible document. And

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I think that, um when, uh, so many years ago people met and they put their ideas together and they formed this nation from essentially nothing. All they knew was what they didn't like about the nation that they were previously a part of. And it's incredible to

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think that that this document is still around after so many years, and it really hasn't been changed that much. And we use it a lot, you know, to operate our judicial system. And it's incredible. I mean, it's really impressive to think that people could get together

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and put that together just from ideas. Got it. Um, something that really strikes me is the fact that they were able to create a document that has stay states so current we can take something from the, uh, Constitution was written many years ago and put it

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into modern day terms and the fact that they took the best of every single government on the face of this earth since the Magna Carta to build the Constitution and what they liked and didn't like about the articles of confederation. And that's what makes it very

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important to me what I feel. It is definitely an excellent document that provides for many human rights that are that, uh, that should be given. And, uh, it what's great about is it can be rewritten. There can be amendments to it. It can be changed around

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if need be, and, uh, it is influenced. So many other governments through the years it influence Francis and also the United Nations. They wrote the Declaration of Human Rights and many of that those are in the Constitution itself, and I feel that it should be followed.

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And we should, uh, the country should know about it, Know what the Constitution is? I think what you're saying there, if I read you correctly, is that everybody or pick it up and read it, and I think that's probably something that should be done. Very definitely.

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I think that the the average person is not familiar with the Constitution or nearly estimators that should be nor the amendments. But the fact that it is a living document can be altered as necessary. We're down to about a minute. Who's your hero? Life? Oh gosh,

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I'm or heroes Plural with more than one. Well, I have to say that I can't really think of ah, a certain person that I would like to model my life after. But there's people that would like to take parts of their lives and put them together

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and have what I want. You know? I mean, there's there's people that I admire well of course, I really admire my mother and, you know, I mean, I like the way that you know that she's compassionate and caring. And there's other. There's other qualities, you know,

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that I'd like to take from other people and kind of put it together and mold my own hero. That doesn't really exist. Don't you know, I'd never really thought about that. Um, I think I really admire out of everyone. I think Eleanor Roosevelt really? Because she

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strived during a time in our country which was very depressing. And she was able to create a country along with her husband, and she stood by him. And although I don't want to be a first lady, I on my her spirit and the things that you

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did, Yeah, right. Well, since my parents will be watching this, I would have to say my parents, seriously, though they are, they are major heroes in my life because their values have shaped how I make my decisions and how I live my life. Well, I have

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not had the pleasure of meeting Dottie or Jennifer's parents. I do know runs, and I can echo that his response. And I'm quite sure that if you feel about your mother, you pick someone such as Elder Roosevelt. There's nothing wrong with your judgement, lady and General,

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we're just about out of time. And I really hate this because a multitude of things we could've talked about last week with Eric Giuliana and we could certainly going with Donny and Jennifer and Ron forever. But we can't. I think that you will agree with me

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that if these are the people that are going to take over our country in the next couple of generations or in the next couple of decades, really, we're gonna be in pretty good hands. The program is Sonoma County eighties. We've been talking to the high school

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youngsters talking about finding out what they think, what they want to do. I think we've been enlightened quite a bit, and I think we found out what high quality people we have in Central is in high school. I'm sure that to around the country my name

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is regiment wrenching. Your program is the norm account in the eighties. Be back with you. Next week we'll talk to members of the county government, family or another group such as he's fine. Five students we talked to the last two weeks. Until then. Good night. Good

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luck and good help each and everyone.