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.