Your from where?

The movie we watched in sociology this week was crash! and wow that was such a good movie! When sal explained that there wasn't going to be a main character I thought the movie was going to be weird and that I just wouldn't like it but keeping an open mind i ended up really enjoying the movie! I thought about how we sterotype people and how wrong that really is... from now on I'll try my best to treat everyone equal I don't want to be like any one how was acted racist in the movie! my favorite storyline in the movie was the Senators or Mayors or whoever it was wife fell down the stairs and no one but her house keeping was there to help her... it goes to show people who have money are only interested in when the party is or what's going on for the weekend but when it comes to helping out anyone but themselves they can't.

Is all race

The only reason race is out there is because we are the ones who created it... people discriminate because as growing up there parents did or friends did so they grew up with that. TV brainwashes and so the public. Its a known fact that there is more African Americans in jail then white people.... why is that? When people hear my grandma speaking Spanish they assume she is Mexican but she is really Puerto Rican they also assume is most likely doesn't have a lot of money, so when they see her car or house its shocking to people, i think that's really unfair to her that people look down on her but I look up to her because she is very diverse and can speak 2 languages which i cannot. But race is out there and I don' think there is anything anyone can do to change people's opinions on it...

A new experience

My parents always told me you don't know how lucky you really are. And I am know realizing I had no clue, going to school here I always have in the back of my mind the feeling of wanting more, watching shows on MTV with nice cars and huge houses I want it! Until we started learning about the lower class I was aware that there was people living in poverty but I didn't realize their struggle they live through daily. When I thought I had a bad day I didn't realize there is people out there who have a bad life, as some students express its there fault that they are in poverty but my opinion has changed! Your life is what you have been born into its not your fault its just the way it is... So maybe lending out a helping hand is more appreciated then we thought.

More like a game of chance

The life we one day have is the life we are born into, it's just like a roll of the dice... And life is what we make of it. The people who live in poverty and who have to walk to work everyday I feel bad for... but the women who worked at burger king wasn't poor me feel bad for me... she knew there wasn't anything she could do to change what life gave her. I know a lot of people think people who are in poverty its their faults but this class is teaching me maybe it's not all their faults... maybe they just got a bad roll...

30 days WITHOUT!

30 days in prison seems more than enough time to drive me crazy! I can't even imgaine 30 days grounded... and for some people in our class how would they live without edline for 30 days!? lol I'm just kidding! but watching that show made prison seem pretty easy... I don't understand why they don't just make prison confinement, it drove that one guy on the show crazy... hopefully that would scare people into not going but i guess not. I don't really know anyone who has ever been in prison and i haven't been there so I had no concern about it! but now that I actually see what its like I wish there was something I could do to help people learn their leason...

A School of Saints

I wouldn't say our high school is filled with Saints! but people like the gang the Saints we read about in the last article! I found the article to be so true! Not just at our high school but any where you go there will be people who make trouble and people who cause trouble behind the scenes. I think about 90% of our school would be considered Saints and the rest seen as Roughnecks because there is people who don't like our school system! but what i learned from this reading if i want to get anywhere in life and still have a fun time just manipulate the system! JK!

What a waste of time

When I first sat down to do the un-tv homework I thought it was really interesting all the edits and cuts that go for only 10 minutes. I never realized how many there really are i didnt pay attention to the techincal effects, i just watched. but when it came time for me to sit there and stare at the tv for thirty minutes which i only did for about 15 i thought what a complete waste of time, almost as i felt in the nothing assignment we did. But since i had so much time and after watching someone else watch tv i never realized how much time i spent literally doing nothing but watching something... but why? its not like anything teenagers watch does really relate to their own lives. because of this i'm not going to stop watching tv! but i might think twice before i sit done and nothing gets done... not homework, not cleaning my room, or even hanging out with friends.