50-50 Chance

After playng the penny game in class, I see now that it is so difficult to earn the money that people do now that have jobs. Playing the penny game, Sal told us that we have a 50-50 chance at first to win pennies everytime we go, but once you keep playing the game you realize only one person playing the game can end up with all the pennies and one person is so much richer than another person. Seeing the graphs in class I never realized that about les than 1% of the population is richer than 99% of the population in America because all the time in the media you see so many people who are wealthier and you think there are so many of them until you compare them to the rest of America, then those top 1% in America do not look like anything to the world. America is the richest of the richest and the poorest of the poor which is a huge difference, why can't we help those that are less fortunate to balance out America? Well, that's not how life works there are those top dogs and those underdogs.
It's so unfair for forgein people because it seems that they have to work twice as hard for their jobs to keep them and keep what they have going for their family, it seems that life doesn't come as easy to them as for the native people of America. My parents are foreigners and when they first came to America they knew some English, but it was still hard for them to get the jobs they have now they had to work basically from the bottom to the top. I feel that if you do not know how to speak English that well in this country everything comes so much harder at you and you have to push and drive yourself to be the best you can be.

Saints and Roughnecks

After reading Saints and Rougnecks and discussing the short story in class, I think that Stevenson has Saints and Roughnecks. The Saints in the story were the students who would get into the least trouble so they could get out of school earlier and cut class; however, they wouldn't get in trouble for it. The Roughnecks were the students who always got into trouble so they had a bad reputation with the school and never got away with anything. I think there are Saint and Rougnecks at school the students, the students that are Saints would be the kids who always do their homework, never get into trouble with the school have better reputations and whenever that student would be sent to their dean they might have a lesser punishment than someone who is perceived as a Roughneck because of their reputation in class and with the authority.

Masculinity

After watching the Columbine movie in class and seeing the other movie on masculinity, many things in both movies are very true about boys and men now a days. Their identity is covered by aggression, anger, and toughness; however, why can't their identities be covered by love, happiness, and sensitivity. This does not usually happen in guys because they need to pull off that "I am tough" look off to show that they are in not scared of anything that comes their way, but deep down inside they are scared, but if they can't pull of the toughness image people would think of them as girls and that's not cool enough for them and the people they are hanging out with.

Teens...

I with the article we read for homework the other day, Teen Mystique. Teenagers do not really have a definition we are just defined as kids at a certain age called teens. However, many people fear our age group because we are very unpredictable such as drinking. Even though the law says we can't legally drink unless we are 21, we dont really care we find someway to get alcohol. We are also hard to described because our generation right now is completely different from the other teen generations we have had before. Many people can't explain it but the teens now are just different, it's probably cause alot of teens have jobs and don't ask for their parents to pay for everthing, but we spend that money and ridiculous things instead of saving up for college.