About Me Final

Throughout this whole year we have been learning about things around us grasping new concepts and looking at things a different way. We have learned to put yourself in the situation and try and feel what the victim has felt. Sociology is everywhere, you just have to look for it. I have learned a lot about myself over the past nine months. I have learned to be patient with other and get their perspective. Sociology is a life learning class that people need to learn.

Losers

The article is not about people winning and people losing. It's about people judging others because of how much they make doing their job. The "winners" are the people who make millions of dollars doing their jobs. The "losers" are the people who make $10 an hour. I can definitely see why they wrote an article on this. It is pretty sad to that we Americans judge people on how much we make. Without the "losers" we could not live a normal life and without the "winners" we could still get by in life. It is very ironic that we label people that way, when in turn it should be flipped around.

Boyz in Tha Hood

                In the movie violence is a very large aspect of the movie it shows exactly what happens in the hood daily. It also shows how much the police do not care and shows how scared they are to even try to help in the ghetto. You always have to keep your guard up because you never know when someone might do a drive by. It also showed them poor aspect so people may kill to keep living, there is also robbery that happens, everyone had a gun and it was not for hunting animals. They even stole a football from some kids.

                Relationships also were a very good aspect of the movie. They talk about women constantly and they use derogatory terms to describe most of them. A lot of the guys are all about sex but the main character and his girlfriend were deciding to wait. He even lied to his dad about his sex life because he wanted to feel like a man and did not want to be embarrassed. It is a sense of pride to “boys in the hood” and if you were to be a virgin you were probably not very good. Relationships are very different today in different locations of the nation.

                The drug aspect of the movie also has a large part to do with the violence in the movie. Most of the fights and conflicts started because of drugs, alcohol, and parties. In almost every scene one of the characters has a bottle of beer and is dealing drugs. The main character did not do drugs because his dad told him to never get into that stuff because if he did he would either end of dead or end up in jail. His dad is a very large influence on him.

                The family lives of the characters in the movie all have something wrong with them. All of the character have split up/ divorced parents. There is either no father and a mother or no mother and a father. The family lives aren’t all that great most of them fight all the time and when they aren’t fighting they are doing drugs. Also there is a teen that already has a kid. That is accepted in the hood and is pretty common. They do protect their families at times though when the brothers are in danger they come to their rescue to protect them.

                The education was not really shown in the movie other than either being forced and pushed to go to school by their parents he eventually ended up going to a college in a different state. The athlete was going to go to USC on a football scholarship all he had to do was get a 700 on his SAT. Before he found out what his score was he got shot a killed. Tons of kids liked the idea of getting a scholarship for going to college but none of them wanted to do the work to get the scholarship.

                The respect level was there for the main character and his father. He was very wise and everyone respect him because of his job, and his philosophy. He takes the guys to a very poor neighborhood. He tells them that if he steal, kills, or sells drugs that he may end up in a very bad place and that he might even be dead. He tells everyone in the hood that the government is letting hood people kill other hood people. He told them that all the drugs and violence is set up and that it’s what they want.

                The responsibility aspect of the hood can go one of two ways. It can either be to run away and create other and bigger problems or you can man up, take responsibility, and make life better. In the movie the father makes the main character take responsibility when he is young by raking leaves in the yard. He tells him that by taking responsibility for his actions he will stay out of jail and he will stay alive. I believe because the main character does take responsibility for his actions and because he did, he got into a college and he was trouble free.

Catfish

I liked the quote by the man at the end of the movie. "When I finally met the 40-year-old mom, we also met her husband and he told us this amazing story," Schulman explained. "They used to take these live cod in these giant vats on ships from Alaska to China, but by the time the fish got to China, their flesh would become mushy and tasteless, so some guy had the bright idea to put catfish in the vats with the cod to chase them around and keep them moving, and he finished by saying that he thanks God for the catfish because life would be droll, boring and dull if we didn't have someone nipping at our fins."

That story inspired Schulman and the "Catfish" filmmakers to name their project after those catfish, and not long after the film was released, the term appeared in the Urban Dictionary. "A Catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not- using Facebook or other social media to create false identities," reads the definition. "Particularly to pursue deceptive online romances."
This is a great quote because I believe almost everyone has a "catfish" in their life. My catfish includes: my friends, my family, and my teachers. I think it is good to have them in your life because it keeps you on your toes and keeps life fun and exciting. Brian is a prime example of a "catfish" because he keeps everyone's lives fun and exciting.

Articles

The first of the two articles I read was about a sports writer from Illinois who made a very terrible article. He was writing about a basketball team whose star was a Korean. He basically was saying that he was surprised that this team was successful because of the players that they had. He talked about their lead scorer being Korean. He also mentioned a red haired kid. Not only is that racist and stereotypical but that is just mean to poor judgment.


The second article was about how the Jews used to own the NBA like the African Americans or (blacks) do now. Jews were good at basketball because they were "short and had god given speed" according to the article. Which is now completely different in the NBA now because the average height and weight is 6 feet 6 inches tall and 220 pounds.


Both of the article are stereotypical and somewhat comical. It is funny to see what all has changed and well what hasn't changed in peoples minds too.

Aliens

I read an article about immigrants and how they are in the American work force. My opinion of the Mexicans coming up to America to work for cheap labor is okay with me. Why would we not allow people willing to come do work for other people who need it. Americans can be lazy from time to time and they do not like to do labor intensive work for minimum wage or a little more. Most of the people who work and do the same type of job want 15-20 dollars an hour but the Mexican's will take it for eight. As for the women I just think that they need to have more defense and maybe we could have a higher security for them. It would be a lot easier to keep it as close to the same method as it is right now because I do not really think it is a problem. Until Americans become less lazy the Mexicans should be able to come and work as much as they want.

Animal Farm Quiz

The conflict theory in the book is that all the animals want the farm to them selves they want to be completely independent and work on their own terms not by Mr. Jones. The conflict also happened that their leader Old Major died. After he died the farm was not really the same. The alternative was good in the beginning but as time went on the farm got worse.
Bourgeoisie and Proletariats are terms that relate to Ascribe and Achieved status. Both of them have their separate meaning. Ascribed status means that you are given a status that you cannot change in the book Napoleon and Snowball make the whole farm a bourgeoisie. They assign people to different jobs and hold all of the other pigs higher than any other animal. Napoleon is know as "Joseph Stalin" who was a Russian leader than was not very fair to the Russian society. As soon as Old Major (who I believe was the leader and President of the farm) died the farm took a turn for the worse. The social class was also corrupt. The pigs got to do what ever they want. They got to sleep in the house, they drank alcohol, and made all the decision. Meanwhile all the other animals were on a low or working class. They did not get treated as well as the pigs or dogs the book almost related itself to segregation in a way. The benefits were so lopsided that most animals liked their lives better when Mr. Jones was in control.
Functionalist theory is a good theory when it is used correctly I think that Old Major had a good plan set in place. When he died the ten farm commandments were slowly amended and this became unfair. A sheep was killed when it admitted to peeing in a drinking tank. One of the commandments was "No animal shall kill another animal" Napoleon then changed this commandment to "No animal shall kill another animal, with out a good cause."
I think that the roles needed to be changed in order to fix the farm. Napoleon needed to be taken out. The animals either A. Needed to get Mr. Jones back. or B. Create a democracy with many leader so that not one animal had too much power. I think that Boxer should have received a greater role because when the going got tough he just got tougher by waking up and working an hour early. I do think that the animal's society did go back to being healthy at the end of the book simply because no one remembered (most of them had died off) and they did realize that man and animal are two different individuals and that animals must do their thing and man will stick to their thing. Knowing this, the author is trying to send a message to people by saying do your own role in society and everything will work out for the better. When one tries to gain more power than everyone else bad things will happen.