Sunday, November 13, 2011

Classifications

Sabrina Brown
11.13.11
Period 1
Classifications
               Students can be classifies in many different ways such as age, grades, height, weight, or even gender. It all depends on how we classify them if we classify them on their age using their grades we could say that junior year is the hardest year for some students and that freshman year is the easiest. When you understand the reasons why we classify these students by their age we find out the difficulty level of school.
               School in general is a tough road to follow but high school is especially hard because while a teen is trying to learn they have to deal with the fact that they are growing as well in hormones and puberty and while high school is hard they are trying to not only get ready for college but get good grades to get in to college. By classifying teens this way we can understand the way they act because of all the stresses and comprehend their moods and understand them. As a teen I understand the confidence it takes to go through school and prepare for college and sometimes it seems like no matter how hard you try you just can’t get ahead and that is okay but unfortunately this is a great motivator or incentive for teens to give up or drop out of high school and therefore not go to college. This is why we classify these teens by age in order to understand the way teens react to certain situations. Staying up all night doing homework is a majority reason on why teens are irritable and with stress and hormones teens act up and cause more stress to their diet which could be why they act up.
               We classify teens by age to not only find out the difficulty level of school but also the stressors in their lives and psychologically help your future teens. I chose to classify teens this way because it is the simplest way to classify them without being too broad so you can help your teen. Teenagers at the age where their grades drop is also a sign if vulnerability in their years which could lead into drugs in their formative years and by recognizing this you can save a lot of teens from ruining their lives and furthermore killing themselves. Their formative years teens can feel the need to be perfect because everything they do will affect them later in a bad way but not all of that is true everything they do will affect them but not always in a bad way and sometimes in almost little way if nothing at all
               This is why we classify students in this way, preferably teens, it is to help them in the future and by classifying by age you are able to understand their reasoning if it seems irrational this will benefit teens in trying to understand their stress and to relieve it is crucial and beneficial to their younger years and will be useful in the future.

Monday, November 7, 2011

racism abstract

Sabrina Brown
11/3/11
Period 1
Define Racism
            Racism is a word of many definitions. It is all around us and is thought to be an okay thing to do to others but it is not. From the beginning of this country, there were conflicts with the Indians, slavery of blacks, and going against the people who immigrated here hoping to achieve the American dream.  Racism was a very fluctuated conflict in the nineteenth century and still exists today even though there are laws against it. When most people hear racism or racist they think of black people but even white, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, and Indians get discriminated against. This is a wrong injustice that we need to realize is happening everyday and we need to do something about it. Racism goes outside of just the color of your skin but also toward your ethnic culture and the way you look. Racism has been one of the most significant issues that people have been fighting for, and is still occurring around us without even knowing it.
            Throughout the history, racism has been a major factor in many of the important events in our country’s past. Racism is the man walking down the street getting stared at with discrimination because he is different. Racism kills and at the same time saves the people. It could kill them because it could discriminate them and hurt them in many ways. They could also be disadvantaged and become the victims of the society. But in another point of view, at the same time racism saves them, because through the discrimination, they become stronger and confirmed about themselves. How would you feel is someone discriminated against you because of the color of your skin, if they threw rocks at you just because it is funny? If they beat you up because you are drinking out of the wrong water fountain or sitting on the wrong side of the bus? How would you like it if other stronger, bigger people forced you to work rigorous labor only to receive little or no pay? How would it feel like if you were walking around and saw people laughing at you, pointing at you or making fun of you? How would you like it if you didn’t receive service from any stores because of the color of your skin? This is true discrimination and racism. Racism is a very sensitive subject in this world and makes people very angry when brought up but it is something the world needs to be aware about. It is something that needs to be discussed in classrooms and taught to be against because it is not fair to others. It is not fair to get beat up over nothing, to get treated like your less than the next person because you are a minority. It is just not fair. Blacks did not have the rights for free speech nor vote and many other laws that denied their rights. But through the determined people of blacks to get their rights, eventually they had the rights to get freedom of speech and voting. A key person to thank for this is Martin Luther King Jr.
         Racism is that thing in life where a person does not actually know what they are doing until it is done. Where you discriminate against something or someone and don’t realize it harm until the deed is finished. This is why it needs to be spread and awareness that it still exists today, in our schools, neighborhoods, and cities and it needs to be stopped after all, is it not against the law?