Can you equate any issue in our world today that causes similar passion, and deeply set stances/sides as the race issue in the South during the Civil Rights movement? Where do your yourself stand on the issue and how does it affect your life?
In today's world, I feel that bullying is an issue that has similar passion and compares to the race issue in the South during the Civil Rights Movement. Bullying is an issue that has grown in our society exponentially. I am extremely against bullying because it is not right to make someone feel bad when they do not deserve it. Bullying has become so tragic that it has developed to the brutal action of suicide. How can people be okay with knowing they may have contributed to this suicide. Recently, a girl, who went to the tech school with Wissahickon Students, committed suicide because she was bullied severely by others. This stood out to me because it affected individuals in my school. Students were wearing t-shirts in honor of her this week. Bullying is such a big issue in this society that it has influenced to want to make a contribution. I am planning on involving my senior project with a foundation that wants to raise awareness against teenage suicide. During the civil rights movement, african americans were persecuted because of what they look like. This resulted in a conservative reaction by african americans and one of the things they decided to do was to ride around south with desegregated buses to prove a message to everyone who were against the civil rights movement. This connects to bullying because it has the same concept; people passionately putting down individuals or groups. I am strongly against bullying and I believe that our society should do everything possible to prevent bullying throughout our country. It is an issue that leads myself to ask questions such as: What makes it okay to judge people?
Friday, October 19, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Post #2 Parenting
How should adults in 2012 "parent" thier children? Lend your opinion on how this should be done. Think about the appraoch your parents/guardians have taken in raising you. Consider the parenting you've seen of others in your peer group (how your extended family parents your cousins, or how your friends parents deal with your friends), and finally, think about the parent you might want to be someday. How would you go about raising your children? What standandards would you hold them to (if any), what rules would you impose (if any)?
I believe that parenting is extremely important in the development of a child and that it influences children on finding their own identity. In my opinion, parents should allow their children to have the freedom of making their own decisions and to be fine with their children making mistakes. I believe freedom is a very important concept in parenting. You don't want to give them no freedom because, in most cases I have seen, that weakens the relationship between the parent and the child. For example, my friend got in trouble for driving too many people in his car and his mom found out. He got in a lot of trouble and was not allowed to hang out with our group of friends for a while. I believe that this mistake happened because there was no freedom or communication between the Mother or Son. I also think that it was unfortunate because our group of friends are not nearly as close with him as before and he still isn't allowed to go to some of our friend's houses still. If there was a BALANCE of FREEDOM, then they would have been able to communicate better on what happened or completely avoided it. There are also situations where children have too much freedom. There is a good amount of kids I know that are spoiled, lazy, and troubled because they are not punished from their mistakes and they take advantage of their parents. Along with that, they start to think highly of themselves and they think they are better than they really are. I believe that the successful way to parent children in 2012 is by finding a strong balance of freedom and by having a strong sense of communication and understanding.
The way I would raise my children is by using the method I talked about above. I would find a balance of freedom and try my best to have a strong sense of communication. If my child makes a mistake, I will punish them but I will not hold it against them. I would make sure my children learn at a early age, that "NO" means NO! My parents did that to me when I was as little as two years old and at the time, I was extremely upset. Now that I am older, I understand why they raised me that way and I thank them for it. The word NO teaches children to be grateful for what they have and it helps children, including myself, to accept rejection if it comes my way.
I believe that there are many successful ways of parenting but all the best ways have a great balance between the parent and the child.
I believe that parenting is extremely important in the development of a child and that it influences children on finding their own identity. In my opinion, parents should allow their children to have the freedom of making their own decisions and to be fine with their children making mistakes. I believe freedom is a very important concept in parenting. You don't want to give them no freedom because, in most cases I have seen, that weakens the relationship between the parent and the child. For example, my friend got in trouble for driving too many people in his car and his mom found out. He got in a lot of trouble and was not allowed to hang out with our group of friends for a while. I believe that this mistake happened because there was no freedom or communication between the Mother or Son. I also think that it was unfortunate because our group of friends are not nearly as close with him as before and he still isn't allowed to go to some of our friend's houses still. If there was a BALANCE of FREEDOM, then they would have been able to communicate better on what happened or completely avoided it. There are also situations where children have too much freedom. There is a good amount of kids I know that are spoiled, lazy, and troubled because they are not punished from their mistakes and they take advantage of their parents. Along with that, they start to think highly of themselves and they think they are better than they really are. I believe that the successful way to parent children in 2012 is by finding a strong balance of freedom and by having a strong sense of communication and understanding.
The way I would raise my children is by using the method I talked about above. I would find a balance of freedom and try my best to have a strong sense of communication. If my child makes a mistake, I will punish them but I will not hold it against them. I would make sure my children learn at a early age, that "NO" means NO! My parents did that to me when I was as little as two years old and at the time, I was extremely upset. Now that I am older, I understand why they raised me that way and I thank them for it. The word NO teaches children to be grateful for what they have and it helps children, including myself, to accept rejection if it comes my way.
I believe that there are many successful ways of parenting but all the best ways have a great balance between the parent and the child.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Race Relations in the United States
To help understand race-relations in America today, it's important to look back on our past/history. We've been doing that with our reading of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's story of the South of the 30's, along with our viewing the PBS documentary, Freedom Riders, that dealt with the 60's. But this all took place decades ago. How would you sum up race-relations in America today, and more specifically, what is your own personal experience with it? What do you see are some of the more important issues, ideas, controversies at the heart of race-relations in America today?
As time has passed in America, Race-relations have improved exponentially but there are still signs of racism. We have come a long way from the early 20th century and the 1960's civil right movements but we still have not completely conquered all racial tension in America. Personally, I have a very diverse ethnicity so I do not have a problem with any race but it is evident that our society still struggle with accepting everyone. In the 21st Century, a big tension in our society is terrorism. We make unreasonable convictions of people who are muslim and ultimately assume that they are associated with them. Throughout history, we have made many unreasonable convictions toward other races. In the 1930s, people would make assumptions about how African-Americans lived and we put them lower on the social chart. It was evident in To Kill a Mockingbird because we see people who know the truth and we see people who have grown in to the great suspicion of the unreason of accusations. I think that we can fully defeat this problem if we all come together and not generalize a whole race. Some modern day examples include the Trayvon Martin incident which brought a national spotlight to our society and developed many sides on the situation. We have come a long way in America but we still have a very long way to go but it looks promising. We have grown exponentially and have began to realize the impact racism has had on our society in the past and in today's society.
As time has passed in America, Race-relations have improved exponentially but there are still signs of racism. We have come a long way from the early 20th century and the 1960's civil right movements but we still have not completely conquered all racial tension in America. Personally, I have a very diverse ethnicity so I do not have a problem with any race but it is evident that our society still struggle with accepting everyone. In the 21st Century, a big tension in our society is terrorism. We make unreasonable convictions of people who are muslim and ultimately assume that they are associated with them. Throughout history, we have made many unreasonable convictions toward other races. In the 1930s, people would make assumptions about how African-Americans lived and we put them lower on the social chart. It was evident in To Kill a Mockingbird because we see people who know the truth and we see people who have grown in to the great suspicion of the unreason of accusations. I think that we can fully defeat this problem if we all come together and not generalize a whole race. Some modern day examples include the Trayvon Martin incident which brought a national spotlight to our society and developed many sides on the situation. We have come a long way in America but we still have a very long way to go but it looks promising. We have grown exponentially and have began to realize the impact racism has had on our society in the past and in today's society.
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