Social Class

Most people will say that everyone is created equal in the U.S. I disagree, if you are raised in a rich family then you have a better chance at succeeding in life, or at least you have a "head start" in  becoming rich and successful. Since your family has money to spend, you can get a tutor, go to a better school, have money for college and so on. On the other hand, if you are raised in a poor family, you will most likely stay in the lower to middle class when you are older. Unlike the rich families, you don't money to get help from a tutor, you go to a worse school and the only money for college that your getting is from loans or scholarships. Its sad to see kids not being able to perform at their full potential or get the best educating they can just because they don't have the money for it. Like the kid from the movie that we watched, his mom cant even drive to work because she doesn't have enough money to fix it. He has a much more difficult road to college than a rich kid from linconshire would.

Jail is not the answer

The U.S has only 5% of the worlds population but it has one fourth of the worlds prisoners. With that statistic we have to ask ourselves why? The episode of 30 days helped me understand why we have so many prisoners. It seems like we just throw people in jail for anything these days. I found out that 50% of prisoners are in jail because of drugs. I was really shocked about this because jail is not the right approach to taking drugs addicts off the streets. Forcing people not to do drugs will not help them at all, there is a reason why they are addicted. They need to get help and not just sit in a room all day. Its good that they have a program where they help addicts get clean but its not mandatory and you can leave whenever you want. Instead what prisons should be doing is sending drug addicts to rehab or making all drug convicted people go to some type of drug prevention program. I also think they dint treat mental patients right, again they need to be sent somewhere to get help with there problem. The prison system really has to make some type of change, prisoners should not be sleeping on the ground and be there if its not for a drug problem or has mental problems.

Saints & Roughnecks

In our school, there are both saints and roughnecks. Even in my friends group there are some that never get in trouble and some that always get blamed for everything. With our school having a lot of middle class to upper class kids, there are probably more saints than roughnecks. Most people would not expect the well dressed, preppy, smart kids to be trouble makers in school nor out of school. But the truth is that they are the ones that are doing the most partying. The big houses, the money, the parents that don't give a shit about what their kids do usually are the rich ones. Then we have the roughnecks in our school. The minority's are stereotyped as doing drugs and partying all the time. They don't have the big houses where they can party at or the money to do w.e they want. So instead, they drive around not doing much most of the time and maybe once in awhile someone could have people over. I find that my friends with less money have stricter parents than the rich parents. Going back to my friends group, I have one friend that says every time he goes to the bathroom in school, a security guard follows him in. He has the skater look instead of the preppy look like most kids. So just because he wears a hat and some skater clothes makes him a trouble maker?

Milestones

In class this week we learned aboutt milestones in our lifetime. Most humans go through the natural milestones like our first time walking, first word ext. But as for our milestones that are influenced by the society around us, not everyone in the world have the same ones or they reach them at the same time. For example, in Poland the drinking age is 18 along with the driving age.  So I was wondering at what age are you considered an adult in Iraq or India or any other country. In Africa, I learned that they don't have certain age limits on things but instead they go by letting the child learn when it feels right for them or how instead of just opening a the door for them, they let the child try and try again until it succeeds. I really like this way of growing in life instead of be given certain age limits that say I'm an adult till 18 and all the other age limits.

Call me a Fag.. IDC

Men are sops to be tough, strong, show no fear, not cry, balblabalbalablablabal.. Yea right..During middle school there was always that big bully tough kid who tormented little boys and girls. The reason why bully's exist is because A) they are self-conscious about themselves and B) The movies, music, media all that make it seem like men are sops to be as tough as nails. I don't see any problem with a man crying, showing there true feelings/emotions and being just a normal nice human being. For example, Sal works part time and then takes care of his kids, cooks dinner and so on. I don't see any problem with that.. I mean cooking is fun!. I love playing with little kids and just chilling at home. What a good life!.. Sal wanna switch lives for a few days? I would rather be a stay at home dad and work part time than be at the office 24/7 busting my ass so my boss wont scream at me and barely having time to be with my kids. It doesn't matter who brings in more money into the family, as long as the man does what is needed to be done to take care of his family.

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS!

Fat or skinny? I like them curvey =). As media always does, they blow shit out of proportion. Everyone has something that they don't like about themselves. EVERYONE.. So when girls say I wanna look like this or that they have to understand everyone has there our beauty. I see girls in school that push there boobs up, wear TONS of makeup, wear barley any clothes and I just laugh at them because they care so much aobut what others think. I would rather go out with a girl that shows her true self instead of girls that look like they are strippers. Why do magazines and movies make women so SKINNY!? I don't find anything attracting to a girl that is 5'8 and less than 110 pounds. Are they trying to look like a pole or something? I watched Americans Top Model a few times and every time I watch it, I ask myself... Why are thees girls models? I could pick out 10 girls from shs that look better than them. Anyway what I'm trying to say is that if a guy likes you, its not all about how you look. There are tons of girls that I think are pretty but I wouldn't date them because they are dumb and have a bad personality. Most guys will try to find a decent looking girl to be with but looks don't make a guy fall in love with them. If a guy finds a hot babe and falls in love with her and for some random reason she turn fat and ugly hes not gonna break up with her because of that. Looks are only first impressions but after that, they barely matter.

Human Nurture

In class this week we found out that without human nurture, humans can act like "wild animals". I found this very interesting and mind boggling. I was stunned to find out that all kinds of different animals have raised human baby's. For example wolves, bears, monkeys dogs and so on. When we watched the episode  about the girl that is 11 but acts like a 2 month year old baby I was shocked. I learned that in order for humans to develop we need to learn from someone. Sal used an example of how his daughter imitated him when he was doing something that she has never seen. When we watched Oprah, a Doctor compared a normal brain of a young child to a feral child, the brain of the feral child was much less developed than the normal child. This proves that love and nurture is needed for humans to grow. My parents being in the working class, thought me to be polite, neat, obedient and gave me a smack to the head if I did something bad. Even though I hated it as a young kid, I now understand that because of their jobs and being bossed around all day, it shapes their parenting style.