Cons                                Good vs Bad                              Pros
Reduces work	Increases Work opportunities
It encourages bad behavior	Encourages people to get their act together
Poor people us it to buy drugs & alcohol	Poor people use it to buy the essentials
Teaches that they can expect to be handed money	Teaches them that they need to work for their own money
It can be very easily taken advantage of	It is hardly taken advantage of
It’s not effective	It is very effective
People who have welfare are lazy	People who have welfare

 

I am a little mixed with my opinion on this matter. Reagan was against welfare from the start. He believed that people who had little to no money were using it for the wrong reasons, one reason being them trying to use the money to escape poverty. He also believed that they cheated the system by feeding their drug and alcohol addictions with the money they received each week. He also stated that he thought these people were too lazy to get up off their butts, and actually go and try to get a job so they can support themselves and or their family.

Next, Bill Clinton proposed an act in 1996 called the (PRWORA) or Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. He proposed this act because he also felt that people need to get up off their butts and go get a job. Clinton thought that this would put an end to welfare. Both of these guys have similar ideas and yet they are somewhat different.

I agree with these two men. I do believe that there are certain people out there in this world that have been using welfare for other reasons.  I also believe that people who receive welfare must take drug and alcohol tests to make sure that they aren’t using the money they get on those things like drugs and alcohol.

Lord of the Flies questions

“Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death” Andre Gide. “What does this quote mean?” you may ask. I believe that this means that we a s people of American and other societies, know how easy it is to kill a certain person. All it takes is either one pull of a trigger, or one swing of a knife or sword, the list just goes on and on. But I feel that most people know that murdering another human being is just about the most cruel and unforgiveable thing you could ever do. Just the way some people are, they think that it is ok to kill people for their own gain, or sometimes in a more cruel and disgusting way like for their own personal pleasure. And because of these people, there are more and more ways being thought of and tried out on innocent people on how they can die due to certain physical, or even something as specific as like torturing someone by pulling their hair out and having them die due to the pain.

“If we can’t separate our civilized self from our savage self, which will take over and why” I believe that it would vary from person to person. Some people are actually quite smarter than others, and I feel that the smarter you are, the more likely you will be able to survive in a more civilized manner. People who might not be as mentally equipped as others, might tend to become more barbaric, ways such as war paints, rituals, ritualistic dancing, or other things of that manner to survive. Like in the book, the boys who were smarter and more “grown up”, tended to be the ones who acted more civilized, the younger boys and the ones that may not have been so smart, drifted towards more of a savage type of lifestyle.

28th amendment

I am about to propose to you my idea for the 28^th amendment. I believe that the 28^th amendment should state that “the legal age to be able to use tobacco shall be 21 years old. I feel that this needs to be approved because I’m sick and tired of seeing kids in our school “go to the bathroom” when in reality they are in there dipping, or putting a dip in or something else. I believe there is an immediate need for it because I for one don’t like tobacco use at all. Its gross, disgusting, and I don’t care for it. I just think that we need kids to realize that tobacco is bad. This amendment would just be straight up, and state “the use of tobacco shall not be used by any person under the age of 21 years old”. In my life, I have been around people using tobacco all the time, and to me I think it might help if we prevent kids from using tobacco in their younger years, they might be able to live their life longer and healthier.

If you could describe the game in one word, what would it be? Difficult

What did you expect at the beginning of the game? I expected it to be confusing

When did you realize that something was wrong? right away when you gave us the game

How did you deal with it? I dealt with it with rage

How did not being able to speak contribute to what you were feeling? it was harder to communicate, which made me angrier

 Is my title above appropriate for the game of "culture."  Why or why not? life is just one big confusing game

 Is a universal language and set of customs necessary for world peace and harmony? yes

 What can a simple card game teach us about our culture? that even though we have one main culture, there are many different sub cultures underneath the one big main one