april 8-14

You have been struggling finacially your whole life. You just won a milllion dollars do you give any of it to charity?
Of course i give some of it to cahrity i mean if i was poor chances are that i was using money from charities that other people were giving to the charities so of course because it would be the right moral thing to do especially in a world like this in times like these. In todays world no one thinks about the little things they do in life so who knows becuase I donated to a charity if I were to become a dj it would be easier to know who I am and what i stand for which in the long run could help me get noticed and help get me on my way so if we repay the little things such as cahrity it will help us become more loved liked and honored evne make us better people so when i think about this i would always give bakc to charity especially if i was someone who was living off of cahrity in the first place and got a spring of luck to put me back on the map finalcially

Earnestness essay

Earnestness
well let’s look at this to me it means someone who is truthful and serious and defiantly physically and mentally mature. First when i look at those things i lose all hope for humanity and its future thereof because I have seen this new generation and if its our future we are all screwed. Earnestness is the thing that our society today lacks the most and it shows all over the place we see bombings all over the place like the Boston bombing and then the problems in texas you can see all over the place that we do not show earnestness no matter what happens now im not saying there is not earnestness in our country there are defiantly good deeds that happen like people saving people from fires and risking their lives to save another but in as a whole we are terrible we have fights within our own country with each other we cant control ourselves its ridiculous if only there was some way to get America to wake up and realize that we need to get it together as a whole and as a nation (kind of the same thing right there) Maybe we should all take the face book approach and all change our profile pictures to posters of earnestness and then we should all hope the government does something about it oh wait that never works so what makes us think that its going to work well its not going to work so we can throw that idea out what we need is to start a campaign like the mothers against drunk driving. That’s it we need to start something like a slogan maybe teens against bad social structure so it would come out T.A.B.S ok maybe not but we have to think of something to make this world a better safer future for the kids of America tomorrow

April 15-21

In what situations is it wise for a friend to give advice and when should they just listen
Well when i read this i instantly think that they should always try to help but sometime they need to just listen and understand they cant help on this one and that this is something that you have to do on your own sometimes friends dont understand that and when that happens you always sound like a jerk even when your trying to just sound like a nice casual friend letting them know this is you challenge and your challenge alone. Then again that can lead to how most teenagers are today they will take someones advice and never use it becuase we can take care of ourselves and we dont need anyones help at all period the end but then again like i said earlier it all depends on what situation your in because sometime you have nothing but the option to listen to your friends

APRIL 2-7

If someone you loved was seriously injured or killed by a texting driver, would that stop you from texting while driving

Well that is a definite yes i would never text and drive again and if i ever rode with someone texting and driving i would let them know that they shouldnt do that and that i had a experience where someone died from a texting driver and that they shoudl pull over and let me out or knock it off i would be really offended and join and texting while driving awarness programs t let people know this is a problem and that we need to do what we can to stop it and in todays society it only gets worse. Especially because teens think they are always right that adult have no idea what they are talking about they have been everywhere adn dont everything trust me i know i am a teenager of this generation and as far as i can tell we are screwed because we cant take advice from everyone someone tries to give us advice and we just shove it back in their face and that is why texting and driving will never be a problem that we can resolve is becuase teeneagers know all

Feb. 11-17

what do we need to do to encourage less fast food and more vegatables? well thats an easy one all we have to do is get rid of all fast food places and then put up family resturants that will serve healthier food either that or the FDA needs to freaking get off their arses and make foods healthier maybe instead of having Mcdonalds serve us pink slime that is used for fertalizer and such maybe they should have them use actual beef that has the greases taken out and not on the burger because i have eaten many a burger that has tons of grease that is definately not healthy that and no more 50 piece challenge and no super sized burgers and drinks thats what the problem is in America people say i was living the American dream and my response is Hmmm wahts that eating 150 chicken nuggets and feeling great about it

Feb. 4-10

The prompt of this week was do you think reahabilitation of criminals works, or should it be punishment or maybe can we do both. The way I look at it is it all depends on the crime if it is a man goes and shoots up a whole school and gets away when we find him he should be kept in a room with a small speaker everyday reminding him what he did and how wrong it was but if it's something like he stole money then I think it could be a combination of the both we could put him in classes while serving jail time but anything to do with murder like i said befoer should be put in a room and every single day the speaker reminds tehm of everything they did maybe even a projector and show pictures of the crime scene every day when he wakes up when after his lunch and before he goes to bed

Jan 28-Feb 3 Post

OK you know how i said that the last post was going to be the most boring so far well i lied because this one is going to take the cake i can' think of anything in my superior to normal human intelligence brain to post about because when i look at people it makes me sick and when i get sick i can't think of things to post. you Know now that i'm thinking about it i think that i'm a super sayian disguised until the day that i am needed most in the world. I must have come from somewhere else because my friends are realizing that i'm a different color then them and because of that i'm just to different and now they say that i'm yellow skinned but weird different from an Asian maybe i'm just in super sayian mode all the time and i'm indestructible because whenever i get hurt i always seem to heal to fast and when my "brother" hits me there is almost never a mark so i heal quick maybe if i get mad enough i can blow up this computer with my powers time to try it and if it does then i'm not going to be on this computer for awhile so just in case see you in a few weeks

Jan 21-27 Post

well here we have the second one that is late only a few minute difference between the two i have posted and this one will probably be the most boring one of them yet because nothing has really happened lately everything has been going good and quiet which is really weird because usually it's a living nightmare and it's hard especially when you know your intelligence is above the morons around you and i think only i and Mr. Gowans will ever understand that because we know the secrets of the green apples and how they can be unlocked into one of the worlds most dangerous weapons of mass destruction or maybe i mean gas destruction the world will never know but as i hold this info the world will have to cower in fear and wait hoping and praying that i will never sell this idea to terrorist or use for my own dastardly deeds so as you go to bed tonight pray i don't use the green apples powers of gas destruction

Jan 14-20 Post

Well as you can tell this one is defiantly a little late but all well i guess the thing that sucks is that i don't really have a computer at home anymore because the video card in it went bad and i cant do anything until i fix it. Not exactly how i wanted to spend then money i got recently mainly because i'm really into music and lately i really have wanted to make some music so i need the card so i can make some on my computer because like i have said before the only music that is any good out there anymore is dub step . Everything else that people try to pass of as music is really bad i hate it it's just horrible like rap the things they sing about are always sex drugs rape cars and hoes. It's pointless the dirtier your lyrics are the better everyone out there will like you that is why i listen to dub step most dub step doesn't have lyrics and if they do it's only brief and momentarily and doesn't really say anything even at that it's usually something like The llama jump over a log then it goes into a huge beat drop of bass-lines and noises. see completely safe from bad words

Free topic essay

Something we see posted in classrooms today is  ATTENTION TEENAGERS if you are tired of being hassled by UNREASONABLE PARENTS NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION!!!  Leave now and pay your own bills while you still know everything!

This is what all parents should hang in their homes now days because in all honesty and truth teenagers do think they know everything

Why children drink alcohol and watch the things they do when their parents don’t want them to. Alcohol and sex a very large thing in teenager life and society. Why do teenagers drink this is a question that not many people have actually thought about but it’s something that has stood out to me. How many teenagers actually drink? Studies have shown that students are more likely to drink than actually have sex because when drinking it cancels out the emotions that lead to these activities.

Another thing we look at when children rebel are slasher films. Why do kids (especially teenagers) enjoy these gruesome movies? Some studies show that when parents say don’t do this or don’t do that. Something clicks inside of their head that tells them “oh yeah you just try and stop Me.” The biggest problems with teens are the fact that they think they know everything and act like they have done everything. This is why I bring up attention all teenagers thing because like I have said earlier it is the truth.

Peter Johnson from children & society a peer-reviewed academic journal did a little testing and asking of questions to several of today’s youth they said the following to the following questions Peter Johnson asked the teens how their drinking behaviors are scrutinized by a range of adult voices. 

Boy 1”It’s just like if you drink, you’ll die. It’s the same with sex. If you have sex you’re going to die.

Boy 2 “There may be health risks about it but they push it so far, like life-threatening. If you drink only one bottle.

Boy 3”But at the end of the day, all the parents and teachers are basically going out and getting drunk anyways, so they can’t really say anything. (Johnson 4)

Is this really true all those people that tell us it’s bad and isn’t good for you are they just going out and doing it. Well that seem to be what the teens these days are thinking so this is another reason we see our youth do it today. Mom and dad are doing it anyways so why can’t I. This attitude isn’t the wrong attitude it’s also one of the most dangerous attitudes you can have for someone of the teenager age because they could use it for other excuses that could get them in very serious trouble.

The second question asked was this; how does alcohol enhance and mediate friendships and relationships

Boy1 “It just helps whenever you’ve had a couple of drinks. It just brightens everyone up a bit.”

Girl1 “It’s just like you’re more laid back when you have had a drink in you, cos like you don’t hold back as much can be good but it can be bad if you know what I mean…”

Girl2 “yeah it loosens you up more.

Boy1 “drinking gives you a lot of confidence I think.”

Girl1 “I know, like say if you like someone, you wouldn’t tell them if you were sober but if you have a few drinks in you, you just man up and tell them to their face” (Johnson 5)

So here we find that kids think it gets everyone in a good mood and nice and loose. They also think it is a confidence booster so we can understand from this that there might be some low self esteem issues that need to be solved. They could be drinking because they think it’s the only way to be good looking and great. So it’s a confidence booster and relaxer of sorts that these kids look forwards to.

L. J. DeGRAFFENRIED from the Journal of Popular Culture says that slasher films are another big problem in children these days. Saying that they are attracted to these films because they are interested in an “Underage society’s revenge-seeking doppelganger” (DeGRAFFENRIED 1) this is what we see in the nightmare on elm street movies kids wish that their lives were like those in the movies so they watch them to scare and wonder for themselves what would my life be if it were a horror film. See this is the positive side of that but what about the negative. We hear all the time some kid just murder these people using the same weapon they use in the newest horror so I guess things could go both ways. It could just be that the parents aren’t doing their job in the way that they should be looking out for their children and not letting them just do what they want. The job of the parent is to look out for their children and keep them from getting hurt or mentally damaged. Letting your children watch these movies is not the answer your not there to be your Childs friend your there to be the adult and make the choices until they can make their own. That is a question that I have had for a long time. That question was why adults let their kids be the boss and decide. It’s like they just want to be their Childs best friend. Which isn’t wrong but you can only be their friend up to a certain point then it just gets out of hand.

So you may be wondering how does all this tie into rebellion. Well here it is there really isn’t anything you can do about rebellion it’s always going to be there and there isn’t anything you can do about it. That doesn’t mean sit back and just let your children do what they want but to let them kind of make a choice here and there. Let them explore the world but don’t give them the world have them learn from their mistakes because we all know that is the only way to learn things is from our own mistakes. Even though they rebel because you tell them not to do something you have to keep trying because if you look back at your life you probably weren’t the best child either you just have to deal parenthood isn’t the job for everyone but for those of you out there that can handle it. You are a soldier for keeping on and trying hard to bring up respectable children into our society and for that we thank you. Just remember next time your child acts up show them the quote ATTENTION TEENAGERS if you are tired of being hassled by UNREASONABLE PARENTS NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION!!!  Leave now and pay your own bills while you still know everything! And hopefully they will understand

Works cited

DeGRAFFENREID, L. J. "What Can You Do In Your Dreams? Slasher Cinema As Youth Empowerment." Journal Of Popular Culture 44.5 (2011): 954-969. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Jan. 2013

Hagan, John. "Defiance And Despair: Subcultural And Structural Linkages Between Delinquency And Despair In The Life Course." Social Forces (University Of North Carolina Press) 76.1 (1997): 119-134. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Web. 10 Jan. 2013.

Johnson, Peter. "'You Just Get Blocked'. Teenage Drinkers: Reckless Rebellion Or Responsible Reproduction?." Children & Society 25.5 (2011): 394-405. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Jan. 2013.

Levine, Bruce E. "Mental Illness Or Rebellion?." Ethical Human Psychology & Psychiatry 7.2 (2005): 125-129. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Jan. 2013.

THat one post of wich we are supposed to write an essay to find a common theme

Greg Johnson

Mr. Gowans

English 12^th

Equilality report

 

Thesis: one man can rise above a perfect society to give people a choice and help people see the importance of choice and accountability

In life we understand that we all need choices and we all need to be able to make our own decisions like what to wear for the day and how to do our hair and what’s the fastest route to school. Well imagine a world without any of those little worries in life. You won’t have to worry about what to wear and when to wear it. You won’t have to worry about styles or being late because in this world you are equal with everyone else you don’t get to make a single choice all you get to do is what everyone else wants to do and you also get no feelings or thoughts on matters. No one takes into account what you want to say no one listens. All because in this world all men are equal. That is the kind of world I am introducing you to in world Lois Lowry made in 1993. This world is a horrible place why would anyone want to give up their feelings and memories for a perfect society. Lucky enough Jonas and even the giver understand the importance of memories when the giver says “It’s the choosing that’s important isn’t it” (Lowry 98) you see even the giver the one who holds the society together begins to realize how importance choice is. One thing that is said that isn’t really understood is “He might make the wrong choices” (98) Who is to decide whether or not it’s a bad choice or not this is a flaw in the whole entire society or maybe there are taught that someone knows who is making wrong choices but if in fact that is the case then Jonas would have never been able to escape. In another perfect society we read about in the book Anthem by Ayn Rand we see it’s a lot like the book The Giver by Lois Lowry in the way that Equality 7-2521  wants to do something in his life like be a scholar but according to the rules he must listen and be a street sweeper. Later on we read that equality 7-2521 finds a manhole cover in the city. When he explores this new place he realizes that it is an inventing room. This is the place where he finds something that could be the best thing for his fellow brethren. When he takes his discovery before the council he doesn’t understand but it is the biggest mistake of his life because of the following reasons “what is not done collectively cannot be good” said international 1-5537. (rand 73) here it is obviously telling us that anything done by one man cannot be good  and if it is not done together with the brethren then it is evil and must be cast out.  Even though equality 7-2521 is rejected about his discovery he begins to see that being alone isn’t always bad and how being alone makes you able to think and discover new things. When equality 7-2521 discovers the word I it becomes a whole new world for the man. He realizes that a thing he does is because of him rather than them. He realizes the power individuality has. Now that he has discovered this he plans to save his brethren and help them understand this new found words power. “To be free a man must be free from his brothers.” (101) earlier we read about a certain woman he encounters and ends up loving (another great sin.) together they end up understanding that this whole we are one bull$#! ^ is nothing but that a bunch of bull$#! ^ they love each other and they know they do so that is there plan is to love each other forever in the forest until they can set their other brethren free. Now that Prometheus (the name that Equality 7-2521 has given himself) has understood the importance of being you and understands freedom. Now with freedom we all have choice and accountability and we all know that but at least they can have that choice of what to do instead of being told this is what you are doing no if ands or buts. If these two societies were together I think that together Prometheus and Jonas could out do the entire government and create a normal society. Now here is something to think about what if our society today was a new society and our past was a “perfect” society and we broke free because of someone like Jonas or Prometheus