animal farm blog

The book animal farm was based on when Russia was communist and stallions rise to power in the soviet union the book has the farmer who was the power and then the animals decided that they would revolt against the farmer and take the farm over for themselves. The farm was run by snowball and his plan was like by mostly by all the animals on the farm and then snowball and napoleon started to fight about everything and finally napoleon kicked snowball out of the farm with his guard dogs. At the start of the book the animals thought that they were all in power but soon after the pigs decided that they would step over the other animals and make them lower then dirt and the pigs would build them selves up and not work and be just like the humans.
At the end of the book the pigs end up just like the humans and use the other animals just like the humans did and the pigs end up playing card with the humans and the other animals can not tell the difference between the humans and the pigs.
The animals worked harder then the pigs ever did but the pigs still thought that they were the top of the food chain even though the pigs just sat around and did nothing, the horse Boxer did the most work out of everyone and in the end he when and got sold to the glue factory because the pigs didn't need him around anymore and they thought that he was all used up so they sold him so they could have money for other things. The pigs ended up ling to all of the animals so that the pigs could get what they wanted like sleeping in the house instead of the barn and when the rules said they couldn't the pigs went and changed them. The pigs also change the rules that said that no animals could drink alcohol so they went and changed the rules so that they could.
The  conflict theory explains why the animals started the "war" with the humans because they didn't want to work for the farmer anymore but the pigs made everything worse then what it was because the pigs were just as bad or maybe worse then the farmer was because the farmer didn't make the animals build a windmill and he also didn't sell his best horse to the glue factory.

boxing blog

.The fellas that are in Barcelona that are boxing and to try and stay off the streets and try and better them selves. I think this is a good way for them to cope with there problems and it could also help them in the long run to help cope with their problems as well. I think that the instructor is doing these kids some good because he is trying to help these kids and young adults stay out of jail and off the streets. The kids in that are boxing to help themselves stay off the streets and out of trouble are doing a very smart thing because instead of going out and stealing a car, or going and robbing a store they go to the gym and punch some bags. This could help them out in the long run by helping them cope with their problems. The kids that are boxing might even get good enough to make it into a career or a hobby that they could end up being paid for.

Social Class

I think that if her and her sons try hard enough at anything can happen, but if they quit and don't try they wont get to achieve there goals. Tammy and her kids would have to work a lot harder then a lot of people would have to because they are poor and they don't have the same opportunities that a lot of people have in America. One of Tammy's sons tries to make it above the class that he is in and if he tried as hard as he could to do everything he can that he could go to a good college and he could achieve his goals but he would have to work hard at them and not give up hope that one day he could get a good job. To make it to the top from the bottom like almost anyone would like to do it takes lots of will power and determination because if they want to achieve their goals. In our high school the only thing that social class effects is the car you drive and the cloths that you wear, the kids that are in our school don't really care about social status but mostly everyone that is in our school is in the same or about the same social class, so it doesn't bother many of us. In bigger school I don't know if it is the same or different but from the movie that we saw I would say it is a lot different from the little schools like ours.
In my house we have A bigger T.V but its broken it has a big black line that runs right down the left side of the T.V and we do have some a newer vehicle so I would say we are in the little higher part of the middle class. When I think about the things that I have like my truck for instance I have a little older truck and yes it could be newer and it could be older but I don't want to get rid of it because I like it how it is and I want to keep It, not just because it is kind of a truck that is a little harder to come by but because it is still in good shape. In my house we eat wheat bread  because my mother doesn't want her kids to eat high fructose corn syrup and she tries not to buy things that are not good for us to eat. I like the things that I own but in the end they are just things, things that can be replaced if needed. In the end does it really matter what you drive and what you wear? I believe that the biggest things in life are your friends and family.
   

the conflict thoery

The conflict theory explains the reason that people try and become better then the other people because they want to be in power and control the others that are not in power but they many people that are poor will come together and will fight the few that are rich so that they can be into power so they can be in control of the rich with their power. The people that have the wealth want to keep it and not give up any of their “power” that they have over the others that are poor and the poor want to become the few so they can have power and you can see it in everyday life, the big wealthy people stepping on the little poor people so they can make more and more money and have more “power”. What is the function of social class structure? The function of the social class puts people in groups that are defined by how much money they make in a year that  they can live on What conflict naturally exists between social class structures? The people that are at the bottom are trying to get to the top of the class and the people on top don’t want them to make it to their level because they think they are better. What symbols do we associate with the various social class structures in our society? Money and poverty high class suits and old ragged clothes. How would you change the social class structure? Break it into more groups so there are more places that people fit.

heroin blog

The movie that we had just watched was about the dangers of heroin and uppers in the movie at first I thought that the three were going to sell their heroin that they got and go out and make something of themselves with the money that they got. I thought that the mom was going to get a little bit thinner and go and be on the T.V like she wanted, I also thought that the two kids that were dating would be able to start up there business and his girlfriend could be a fashion designer and everything would be all good. When the movie started to go south because of the peoples drug addiction I knew that how I thought It would go wasn't going to happen because the movie was trying so show that everything might be alright right away but soon your addiction will be too much for you to handle and you will be forced to make yourself do things that you don't want to do to get the money for your drugs. The movie was a good movie because it tries to teach people the bad about doing drugs and something’s that might happen if you take drugs because everything might be good at first but after some time of taking drugs everything might go bad and things could not turn out the way that you expected them to turn out. The boy that had his arm cut off I don’t think he was thinking to himself oh when I stick myself with this needle I am going to lose my arm, No he probably wasn’t thinking that way. This movie goes to show you that things might not always turn out the way you want them to be even if they start out good at first they could always go south in the end. I thought this movie was going to turn out to be a happy story about 4 people doing drugs but no it showed that when you shoot up heroin don’t always poke yourself in the same stop change spots every time you shoot up.

Heroin drugs blog

In the video that we had just watch it showed how people that use the drug heroin have to keep taking the drug otherwise they get "Dope sick" and if they cant shoot up they can get very sick from it because the heroin messes with the brain and the brain needs it after words other wise it can get sick. The video also showed that in Canada there is a place were people can go to shoot up in a place that is clean with clean needles, so they don't risk getting an infection or any HIVs from sharing needles with others. I think that having a place set up for people to use there heroin is smart but is also very dumb because they are encoring the users to keep using and not stop instead of having a place where people can shoot up there should be a place that helps the uses get clean.

gaming

I think that the news article is right because when people have and Xbox or a PlayStation or a gaming system of any kind they are less likely to go out and hurt someone, because say there boss made them really mad at work so instead of coming home and beating his/ her wife or husband they can sit down turn on the T.V and game system and go beat up some person on a game, or steal a car and run from the cops, or get a new high score. Gaming can also give someone the chance to talk with their friends that are online about how his or her boss is not a nice person. Video games help reduce violence because the people that were out on the streets running around like hooligans are now sitting at home and running around and being a hooligans on their games.

Unleaded gas has also reduces the violent crime rate because now there is no lead in gas, because lead increase the risk of brain defects and witch makes people less likely to get jobs and know how to do something’s that many people would know or have common sense like how robbing a bank is bad or hurting someone is bad. Also I think that when the city torn down the big apartments made a drop in crime because all of the criminals where not all in one place and it was very easy to just brake into some other persons house.