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Girl's are influenced by everything to be something they aren't. They see models and want to be tall, unhealthily skinny and overall fake. So much production goes into making a model look like a "perfect" girl. The studios do a good job of this, they also do a good job of making normal healthy girls go crazy. They see these models as what they want to look like. From a guys point of view, I like to see a little meat on the bone. Girls have eating disorders trying to look like the fake woman they see. When they don't succeed, because they can't, some might get depressed and could harm them selves even more. Today is dress up day for halloween at my school. I have "Bieber Fever" as my costume. After 30 minutes, four sexy nurses treated me. It is disgusting how girls dress on halloween. Its like an excuse to wear something even skimpier than normal. When did  it become acceptable for girls to be hookers for halloween? It is because society says that girls have to dress like that to be "hot." I would rather have a girl that comes up with a creative costume, not a girl who pays more for less. And once again, society has pissed me off.

Girls Costume Warehouse video

Society still sucks

What has society done to screw up humans this time? Well, it is telling boys/girls how to act. You think it could hold off its attack until maybe high school or college, but it throws everything at you the day you are born. They wrap girls in pink and boys in blue blankets. What makes pink a girl color? Kids are like sponges, the absorb everything and anything and it shows pretty early on in life. I am 4 years younger than my sister. I always looked up to my sister and followed her around and pretty much wanted to be like her as a little kid. She was playing with barbies in her room so I wanted to join her, my mom stops me and says that barbies aren't for boys and that I should go play with my trucks. I never questioned my mom because I knew she was boss in my house. From such a young age, I started learning how society wanted a boy to act. I recently found this experiment that is pretty much sums up everything.

Monkey Experiment

Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result, and all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon the monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.

Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that’s the way it’s always been done around here.

Where the Wild Things are... our backyard?

Children that are neglected always end up not "normal." Normal meaning they go through  the stages of life at a ordinary time. A neglected child might act more like a wild animal than a human. Walking and talking all might be very difficult tasks for a neglected child at the age of 8. Last night I volunteered in a soup kitchen in Uptown. As the huge crowd  started to slow down, I had time to think about and talk to the guests that were there. I wondered what had happened that caused these people to be in the situation they were in. My teacher explained that there was a huge population of mentally ill people in uptown. The government cut funding for clinics, so the patients had no where to go but the streets. I wonder if anyone I saw last night was one of the patients. They were probably neglected because there families couldn't take care of them so they sent them to an institute. Some people at the soup kitchen had poor communication skills as well as poor motor skills. One man struggled to shake my hand after I had a pretty simple conversation with him. We just made normal small talk and then he had to go. The only thing that actually stuck in my head that he said was, "stay in school, you got your whole life to work." I wish I got to hear about his background. I often walk past homeless people without even giving them a thought. They actually might be more wise from living on the streets with the bare minimum than a person who has a PHD.  I had an amazing experience in the soup kitchen and highly recommend everyone volunteering.

STOP! DO NOTHING!

I received an assignment telling me to do nothing, easy enough; I would have probably done that anyway. The catch was, we had to reflect on it after. I had to be me and act like a smart ass, I planed on doing exactly what the project said, nothing. I drew some doodles and in huge print wrote, “nothing” where the reflection was support to be written. I showed some people around me, I though I would get a laugh or two, but I was completely wrong. I was called stupid and people looked at me with disbelief. In a primarily senior elective class, I was actually called stupid and other variations of that for not doing an assignment.

            That was when I realized that I was going to do my own study. I was going to show people connected to Stevenson High School my assignment. I started by reading the assignment and then proceeding to show my friends, faculty and my parents my interpretation of the assignment. I sat back and listened to all the comments I got. The only people that actually laughed were my friends who know me and had to think it was a joke.

            I continued to do this for the rest of the week. I soon found how interesting Stevenson’s culture is. People care more about grades than anything. In a Zen community, an acceptable response would be mine because their belief is that nothing exists. It’s said that once you can get past the illusions you see, you will be enlightened. Stevenson ain’t  very Zen. Not once, did a student ask what class it was for or why I did that. They commonly asked about my saneness and if I cared.  The thing that surprised me most was the next day, some people actually asked me what grade I got. Stevenson has taught us to be so competitive that we actually care about someone else’s grades so we can compare them to our ranking. High School may be teaching us book smarts and competiveness, but I wonder how those kids with a perfect GPA and high ACT scores do in real life.  

American Values with help from My Chemical Romance

My Chemical Romance released a new song call "Na Na Na." Besides the fact that it is amazing, the lyrics are catchy as well as eye opening to american culture. I'm gonna break down the lyrics and show all the american values.


link to Na Na NA by My Chemical Romance


Drugs                                                                    
Gimme drugs  (Materialism)
Gimme drugs
I don't need 'em
But I'll sell what you got (competition, future orientation, action/work)
Take the cash
And I'll keep it
Eight legs to the wall
Hit the gas
Kill 'em all
And we crawl    (personal control over the environment)
And we crawl
And we crawl                                                                                                      
You be my detonator
Love
Gimme love
Gimme love
I don't need it
But I'll take what I want
From your heart
And I'll keep it in a bag     (materialism)
In a box
Put an X on the floor
Gimme more
Gimme more
Gimme more
Shut up and sing it with me

(Na Na Na...)
For mall security
To every enemy            ( work, competition)
We're on your property
Standing in a V formation  
(Na Na Na...)
Let's blow an artery
Eat plastic surgery    (materialism, efficiency, informality, self-help, change seen as positive)
Keep your apology
Give us more detonation

(More! Gimme more! Gimme more!)  ( materialism)

Oh, let me tell ya 'bout the sad man
Shut up and let me see your jazz hands
Remember when you were a madman
Thought you was Batman
Hit the party with a gas can
Kiss me you animal

(Na Na Na...)
You run the company    ( competition, work, time and it's control)
F*** like a Kennedy
I think we'd rather be;
Burning your information
Let's blow an artery
Eat plastic surgery        (materialism, efficiency, informality, self-help, change seen as positive)Keep your apology
Give us more detonation

And right here
Right now;
All the way in Battery City
Little children                              (f uture orientation)
Raise their open filthy palms
Like tiny daggers up to heaven
And all the juvie halls
And ritalin rats
And the angels
Made from neon and f***ing garbage
Scream out "What will save us?"
And the sky opened up

Everybody wants to change the world
Everybody wants to change the world
But no one,
No one wants to die                             (initiative, future orientation)
Wanna try, wanna try, wanna try
Wanna try, wanna try, now
I'll be your detonator

(Na Na Na...)
Make no apologies
It's death or victory
On my authority
Crash and burn
Young and loaded
Drop like a bullet shell      (personal control over the environment)
Dress like a sleeper cell
I'd rather go to hell
Than be in a purgatory
Cut my hair
Gag and bore me
Pull this pin
Let this world explode