30 days

The movie 30 days was a great way to show how ur life can be different through different experiences. He went through a month where he was expected to live off min. wage and survive with him and his girlfriend. I thought that this was very cool to see and how much they had to give up. and ten when real life came into play and he needed to go to the er for his wrist and he didn't want to because of the medical costs, this is not only a horrible feeling but also a reality of which many Americans have to face on a daily basis. We take for granted all of the things that are handed to us by our parents and this movie makes us stop and think a little about our goals.

moving classes

i think it is weird to think you can marry or be into a different class. there is always a chance to move classes and either move up or down, and make a new life for urself. You can do this by working hard or marrying someone rich! just kidding but really wouldnt it be weird to wake up rich and go to bed poor how would u handle this..would it test ur character because i think it would. It would test what you really felt as a human being about the world and how it works. hmmmm

community service

I NEED TO DO COMMUNITY SERVICE..any ideas????
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movie and types of class

The movie we are watching deals with different ways to show your class. do you show your class by your house, you clothes, cars..what do you do to reflect where u are in society. Would you chose to buy a new car or invest in new stock. Some people think they need to show of there money with the more glamorous things such as rings, cars, clothes things people can see and know right away that they come from money. It is hard to say that if you could indulge in those possessions you wouldn't, but i think some of it has to do with society and the environment you live in. If you are around people who have all of those material things, you are more likely to try and strive for those things because it is what is considered normal, but it would be more interesting to step outside those norms and change that for the better of our atmosphere.

Deviance

The word deviance is an interesting thing, it is voilating the norms of society in both a positive and negative way. In the positive way, such as paying for someones lunch or randomly helping someone out, those should be norms, not deviance. The world should be trained to automatically help out when needed. You should walk down the street and want to help someone if they seem like they are in trouble. As far as the negative deviance, that is why we have crime and murder, those are the people trying to be heard and break social norms, get "back" at someone for making them suffer. It is all a little messed up, instead of one extreme to the next we need to find a medium.

lake forest students

Today when i walked into class, i was surprised to find we had volunteers who had come from Lake Forest to talk about there life and see what it really is like inside Stevenson. We talked about how it really between classes, social lives, and working. They understood what we had to say and asked interesting questions. They were 19 years old so not too much older then us,so they could relate to us on many different levels. They were nice, mature and really cared about what we had to say. It was a breath of fresh air having them listen and respond to what we had to say instead of tuning us out.

school madness!!

After finishing the movie on friday i have to say that micheal moore is a extrimist but does have some good points. It is true, that since the entertainment and other industries have become more voilent, so has society. People dont relaize that people pick up on fear and intimidation, and it spread to people who think this is there only way to get there point across. This is obviously very wrong because in other countries around the world they solve things other ways besides shootings and bombing. Espeically in our generation, we were tought to fight, we were in middle school when we entered the war, and 6 years later were still in it. This will be in our children's textbooks explaing the world turing into one big shooting target. We need to stop, educate our children and change the future generations if we dont want to lose one more child to a desprate attempt to get heard!