Monday, October 14, 2013

Blog #2

What does 9/11 mean to you? How do you think 9/11 has affected America politically and socially? What are our biggest challenges and best changes? How does life continue to evolve and change as a result of 9/11 and how, perhaps, do you think life in America would be different if it never happened? Did "102 Minutes that Changed America" influence your outlook on 9/11? (Blog #2 Topic)

9/11 means a lot to me. It means a lot because it affected the whole country and innocent humans were killed for no purpose. It brought America closer as a whole during Biggest challenge left is security and preventing future attacks on America. Its doesn't have as much effect on the normal person like me compared to a person from New York because i'm also young and didn't have to live through it.

Blog #3

In Blog # 3 you will focus on three things: 1) Your outlook on sociological theory, 2)Your feelings on authority, 3) Experimentation as a lesson.  

1) Thinking about the three theories of sociological perspective, discuss in length which theory best applies to your way of thinking about human behavior and our society. Think about how you view events that happen, conversations that occur between friends and enemies, authority figures, etc. 

2) React to the Milgram Experiment. Do you feel that people will obey authority under any circumstances  if it is indeed legal authority or do people's consciences override their ability to follows authoritative demands. Please explain. 

3) React to society today: discuss the problems, issues or concerns that you as an individual have about society today.  Propose 1 way in which you think social problems, such as your example, could be changed or improved upon. How do you think we could teach future generations to work towards positive change in the 21st century?

1)I think of the Symbolic Interactism of the most common human behavior in our society. In our school there are a lot of groups that if one person does it the whole group will do it. Also some people join in to fit in also if there less popular then others.

2)I don't know what experiment you are talking about.

3)One of the major problems of today's society is peer pressure. They have to have a course to teach people how to say no. Its to common that kids to drugs and alcohol not because they want to but because there forced to. 

Blog # 1

As you write your introductory blog, I would like you to think about and discuss the following:
1) What are my goals as a student at New Milford HS this year?
2) Discuss 1-2 positive things that you will continue to do as you move through your 2nd/3rd/4th year at NMHS
3) Discuss 1-2 things that you will work on as either a student or as an individual this year
4) Describe one reason that you are looking forward to this class
5) Lastly, tell us about who ______________________ is!

1) My goals are to bring my GPA up and get into to a good college.
2)stay behaving because i use to get in trouble all the time.
3)I want to work on my grades because i would get really good grades then one marking period i would slack off.
4) i am looking forward to this class because human behavior is interesting and i want to learn how to tell if people are lieing and things of that nature.
5)i dont know what to put for this question.