Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Bullying

I believe there are no kinds of okay bullying. I think you can joke around with your friends and make jokes, but you cant take to a point of where its bullying. I think my eyes were opened a little by some of the things verboomen talked about, such as how drama affects bullying so much. A student could improve the school bullying by not making judgement so fast and get to know the person before just assuming things about them. Also people could step in and try and stop bullying when seeing it and try and help them work it out.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Twilight zone

I was not very surprised at the end, because I thought it was very predictable. I had a feeling the person that was 'gross' was actually going to look normal in our standards and the 'normal' people were going to look nasty. Beauty is subjective because it is all based on opinion. This also would make it changeable because peoples opinions are always changing. Beautiful is being in good physical shape, and having confindence in yourself. This is realistic I think because you can work to have both of these things.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Role playing

In class when I was labeled the teachers pet my thinking was altered a little bit. I began to try a little harder and listen more, just to please the teachers. I dont think I completely changed but I saw some differences. Also I would do favors without even thinking about it I just did it.

Stanford Prison Study

I believe that prisoner 8612 changed the most from this study. He was willing to pretend to go crazy just to get out of this fake prison. He was really concerned about what was happening and he was willing to change himself completely. Other people changed throughout the experiment but the thing about 8612 was he changed so quickly, he was the first person to actually change himself to fit the role of this prison. Others began to change after this, but I really believe he opened the gate for the others to change themselves as well. I thought this experiment was never a good idea. Right from the start it sounds like it could easily go bad. People would changed to make there lives easier or better. And others wouldn't change because of there dignity.