HW 52

Theories about Human Relatonship.

When I think about human relationships its natural for me to think about the people who I already have relationships with like my friends and family. and its natural for me not to think about the people I see in the street everyday even though it is believed that we all originate from one person. I typed in google the definition of what a "relationship" is and this was the definition it gave me "relationships-are the connections people have with other people." This definition doesnt say aything about having a connection with yourself. neither did any of the other definitions. But can we really live without connections?

Earlier in the year we had an animal unit where we discussed that animals and humans were similar. animals and humans have similar instincs and goals for life. Adults protected there young. Food, shelter and water are neciesities to live. What im trying to get at is I think human relationships arent limited to just humans. phycoligist and other educated people try to decode human relationships as if its a big mystery in the world when relationships arent just taking place with humans but with plants, animals and other living things all over the world and in the universe.

A few days ago we breifly talked about this homeless man in the street who was bleeding to death, lots of people walked by him and non of them stopped to see if he was still alive. I was really trying to think why no one wanted to help him. some of the obvious things i could think of was that he was homeless and two that he was bleeding to death. but arent those even better reasons to help this person? There were three possible reaons I came up with.

1. Fear of failure. Felling scared or nervous that you might hurt this person in the process of trying to help them or thinking that you cant do it, you cant help this person.
2. a Plan B that I thnk is built into everyone which is everyone for themselfs. Thinking this person is in this position fora reason why should u stop what your doing to help them when you dont have to.
3. Fear of standing out. even though we may not have relationships with random people that walk by us in the street we still like to appear normal. so if someone notices that lots of people are walking by but no one is doing anything it makes you hesitant of helping because you want to fit in with everyone and fitting in is a human connection that alters your decision making.

A theory I have about human relationship is that the ultimate human failure is to be alone. When you think about teenagers, adults and older people we like to think about does he/she have a boyfriend, is he/she married. and when we hear that a girl or boy has never had a boyfriend or girlfriend we think dam your a loser and its sad we think that way but thats how people get us to think. Human relationships prevent us from thinking for ourselfs.

HW #49

Our class Teacher/ savior film was about a Man named jake westwood. On the outside he looks like a normal History teacher. hes passionate about what he teaches and his students seam to take an intrest in history and become motivated to want to learn. Jake westwood secretly has a cocaine adiction and tries his best to hide it. one day his students catch him snorting the white powder and they loose respect and trust in him. His class is no longer intrested in history and becomes depressed. his coke habit becomes worse. His addiction has become out of control and one night while buying cocain he is robbed for the cocain, beaten and left in the street. His students who have just left a party near by find him lying in the street and take him home. The day day (saturday) they come to his house and tell him that he must quit or his coke addiction will come to the surface. the night before after they got him home the searched his house for all his hidden cocain and disposed of it. every morning he arives at school his students check him for coke and search his house as well for coke. after a few weeks he seams to be doing better without the cocain. Life seams to be getting brighter for Jake until he gets a phone call that his brother has died. hes crushed. he sits in his chair for a minute,he pulls out a line of cocain and takes a hit.



Analyasis:



I personally didnt contribute any Huge ideas but i was part of the film playing one of the students being inspired by the teacher.



My analyasis of the films message is that in the super teacher film we made the connection between teacher and student can go past the classroom. The tone of the story is very secretive at first because hes hiding this cocain addiction. the tone for when the students find him is of dissapointment because the teacher that inspired them wasnt this perfect person they thought he was. The tone at the end of the story is silent because hes back to his old ways so what can anyone tll him now to stop.



Our movie in comparison to the super teacher is that our teacher was portrayed to be perfect that this person had a perfect life. the teachers in the movie werent perfect because they couldnt get control of there class so he was portrayed as perfect because everyone wanted to learn from him.



I think the connection between these examples of savior teachers and our own school education is almost an influence. The super teacher movies are giving an pre determinded identity of what a teacher should be like and when we enter our own school we see that its not always like that. One gets the idea from the other so either the people who make the movies base them off of real teachers who want to be saviors or teachers try to be saviors because thats the image thats been created and they want kids to be inspired by them

HW 48, Treatment for savior/ Teacher movie

11 year old Kimberly Wakes up, goes to school and comes home. Thats atleast what everyone thinks. Kimberlys parents and verbally abusive to her. Therefor she lacks beliefe in herself. She has difficulty reading and writng and is in danger of being held back. Her Social Studies Teacher Mr.Porter cannot help but notice her struggle but also notice's her potential to become great. He takes it upon himself to pay a little extra attention to Kimberly to see where her weak and strong points are. Kimberly is happy to be reciving the positive attention she's always wanted. Kimberlys parents soon notice that shes reciving extra help when she stays after school so her parents dont allow her to stay after school. Kimberly then falls into a depression because she can no longer get the attention she deserved.

Her teacher Mr.Porter makes it his mission to find a way to help Kimberly reach her full potential no matter what he has to do. He Begins meeting her at lunch and sending her home with work packets and instructions so that she can refer to his comments so she can complete her work better. After many months of working her reading and writing levels start to rise but its already the end of the year and ger chances of being promoted to the next grade are very slim. Mr.Porter finds it only fair to fight for her as she has fought for herself. He confronts the principle of the school with her new reading and writing levels showing her potential to increase her grades enough to be able to go to the next grade. The principle will only give her one chance to pass. she must pass a basic learning test and if she passses she will be promoted to the next grade and will be able to be able to continue in her path to sucess.

HW #42- More reasurch more thinking.

Question: Why does violence occur in school?
Accusation: School is the battle feild for bullying, isolation and violence.
insights: I wonder in my mind what it is about the set up of school that causes there to be violence? School is set up to put kids of the same age in one grade and kids of another age in the other, there is social interaction everyday between students. Everyone has different personalities and ways about going things. there some teenagers who feel they dont belong and it makes them vonerable for other people to think the same thing. Our previous cool unit we talked about the characters that we play and who is and isnt cool. The people who are considerd popular and cool usually are the ones making fun of other kids and it drives boys and girls to act there anger out in ways of violence. Some kids inflict this anger on themselfs by trying to commit suicide and cut or cause injurys on themselfs. And then there the kids who feel they must inflict the pain on everyone in and around the situation because its there only way out of there feelings.

HW #41 internet reasurch on schooling

ABC News/ Primetime- How mean can teens be? http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2421562&page=1

In this article, the main idea that is being pitched is that being in school isnt the only way to be mean to other people anymore. it states that girls are more likley to be mean to each other then boys and that girls go for the "emotional jugular".

What i noticed about this article was that they clearly mentioned that new technoligy now a days makes it easier for teenagers to be mean to each other but what i think there missing is where it all begins. In school. Without school the chance of these kids meeting is slim, the pressures of teenage existance lies within the battlefield of school.

Rachel Simmons, author of the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. http://www.rachelsimmons.com/books-and-articles/odd-girl-out/

Rachel Simmons book adresses the issue of "the hidden culture of agression in girls. " which happens to be a hidden issue in most middle and high schools. Her book tells a story of a girl who becomes unknowingly involved in the cruel world of girls. Thinking that these girls are her friends they begin to slowly torment her. the torment included death threats, hate mails and social exclusion in adition to emotional blows. She finally becomes fed up and tries to commit suicide. Thankfuly she survives and is now aware of this secret world of girls and begins to rebuild the pieces of her life.

I think this book is a perfect example of the topic im trying to convey.Like i said ealier school is the battle field for this hidden culture. In the adult world these kinds of acts are unaceptable and there consiquences but why is it that when it happens in schoolthere arent any consiquences? If anything its even more crucial for these consiquences to be enforced in school because it shapes how we become when we are adults. adults are better equipt to handle problems like this but were only teenagers, our minds arent fully developed, were going through puberty and life changes.

Continuation...

School Shootings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting

The website gives an over all over view of the reasons and stories behind schools shootings and the type of kids who become violent and why.

Many of the shooters told Secret Service investigators that alienation or persecution drove them to violence. According to the United States Secret Service, instead of looking for traits, the Secret Service urges adults to ask about behavior:

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1. What has this child said? 2. Do they have grievances? 3. What do their friends know? 4. Do they have access to weapons? 5. Are they depressed or despondent?[5]

The two reasons they mention on the list are alienation and persecution which is basically they have no one to interact with in school because they have been exiled from social interaction and they feel personally targeted and mistreated.

#39- First School Assignment

Part A- One question I have for school is why do we get homework, like it really ticks me off to know that after I sit in school for six hours I have to go home and continue it again. the reason I fail someone of my classes is because I'm too tired to do my hw and I think its pointless. A school experience that I've always remembered was in 3rd grade when I first came to this school called PS.116(worst school of my entire life) I had a teacher named Teresa and she was always yelling at someone and one day she decided to yell at me because someone was reading there poem and i couldn't hear so i asked for them to read it again and she embarrassed me in front of the whole class by saying "what do you think your cute or something, hes not gonna read it again to shut up and be quiet." it really upset me and i never liked school again.

Part B- School is good in the aspect that it gives us an opportunity to meet people from different places in the world. It lets us create bonds with people we become close to. the only thing making me go to school everyday is knowing that I'm going to see my friends and get away from problems at home and its a change of scenery. The suck part about school is for me personally its very challenging at times. it determines my future and pushes me to my limits sometimes. During those times it makes me never want to go to school again but the system has made it so that I don't have a choice, either go to school and make a good life for myself and suck up the hard times or give in the towel and be a "Failure" a lot of us don't want that.

#38-Cool Art Project

The insights this piece of art gives is a way of life. If you cannot be loved then your life has no purpose. It starts off small when were younger, as crushes. As we grow it turns into something deeper. We feel that if we cannot be loved or liked then we are not socially accepted.

Are the Beatles right when they say "All you need is love?" Do we try to act cool to attract someone to love us. As teenagers in our social group we stand out when were not like everyone else. For a teenage girl in a group of four if shes the only one without a boyfriend then how does she look? And why is it that we look at each other that way? Does our need for cool lessen when we do find love? I think so because we don't have the need to impress anymore because we have met our goal. When we think about someone who has the perfect life we think about this person having the perfect husband or boyfriend and being happy. So being cool may not be that fun anyways. You have to expose your cool to attract someone, but things never works out the first time so your "Cool" is constantly being damaged.

The Process for my art project was fairly simple. I choose something that meant a lot to me and i took my own feelings and observations and wrote what I did above. I did this project alone.

Finding this art and posting it I think wouldn't be as cool as experiencing it.