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

18th and 21st amendments

The 18^th amendment banned the sale and the consumption of alcohol in the United States. It took effect in 1919, and it was a major failure. It is also the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution.

One reason why the 18^th came into effect was because religious groups who considered alcoholics and drunks a threat to the nation. The purpose of the amendment was stop the manufacturing, transporting and sale of all alcoholic beverages. Some of the effects were that it was difficult to enforce and it failed to eliminate crime rates, such as bootlegging became very popular.

Because of the 18^th, there were limitations put out on the consumption, manufacturing, transportation, and sales on alcohol.

One current issue that would involve this amendment would be drunk driving. I believe that if prohibition would have still been in place, I believe that there would be less drunk driving incidents. But I feel as though other things would rise, things like illegal use of drugs and alcohol.

The 21^st amendment of the constitution was used to repeal the 18^th amendment nationwide. It was ratified in 1933. It was set into place because there was getting to be such a problem with the illegal consumption, manufacturing, transportation, and sale of alcohol. People were doing things no matter how illegal they could be.

A reason why they created this amendment was because there was concern about the effects of drinking, and people that were drinkers, were starting to start their own societies. These groups became a very powerful political force, and they began to try and reinstate alcohol. The effects were that people were starting to get very angry with the government.

This amendment was made to put an end to riots on the government, put an end to bootlegging, and to just overall get rid of prohibition. Today this amendment means that people can legally consume, make, sell, and transport alcohol without getting sent to jail. An example of this would be people in bars, liquor stores, drunk driving, and underage drinking. I believe stores make it too easy for kids my age to illegally buy alcohol, I believe drunk driving is increasing along with underage drinking.

Bacha Bazi.....#NotMmk

Bacha bazi, also known as “boy play”. Say you are an American soldier and you are inside your military base, and lying in your bunk, when outside you hear an Afghan officer assaulting a young boy that he brought into camp. What do you do? Do you sit by and just listen to the young boy screaming for his life. Or do you step up and go outside and stop what is happening outside. American soldiers have been told to not do anything about this. Why you ask, because in the country of Afghanistan, in their culture, it is socially acceptable to do this. How do you fell about how our soldiers are there to put a stop to things like this, but they are told that they can’t cause any conflict.

I don’t know if what you would do, but I would most likely try to put a stop to the end of this atrocity. In America, child abuse, and the raping of children will put you in jail for more than likely ten plus years. Like of course that when people in America read this article about it, they freak out. But the government tries to keep these things quiet. But like I said above, this is acceptable in Afghan countries. I just do not approve of this; I think that this is very wrong, on many levels. Like, it’s just morally wrong to molest young children, and also, it’s in the bible that a man should not have any intimate relations with someone of the same sex. I don’t know, I just feel that it’s incorrect to have these soldiers just sit back and listen. If they feel that what is happening is wrong, I believe that they have the right to step in for their morals, since that is what we are doing is trying to make them a better country and to be rid of all that activity.

Dear Auntie.....Piggy's letter

Dear Auntie,

I just want you to know that I'm stuck on an island and I have no idea where it's at. I was on the plane and just all of a sudden, boom, all I know is that I'm in the ocean swimming towards this island. I was walking along the beach when I met this boy named Ralph. He was a quite a fine fair haired fellow. He and I got to talking and we both realized that there weren’t any grownups anywhere that we could see. He asked me my name, so I told he could call me anything he liked, except for Piggy. He laughed just like everyone else does back home. We were walking around when we found this lagoon by the sea. Ralph just took all his clothes off and jumped in right away, but I was a little shyer than to just jump in like that. I just slowly eased my way in. I wish you could have felt how warm the water was Auntie! But then I found this shell just like neighbors have! It was almost exactly like the conch shell they have! So I told Ralph about it, and then he had a thought. What if we weren’t the only boys on the island? So he tried and tried to blow into the conch shell, but he just couldn’t get a good sound out of it. So he asked me to do it, but you know just as well as I do that I couldn’t do that because of my asthma! But then he tried again, but this time it worked great! He blew on the conch time after time, and wouldn’t you know it, but kids starting coming left and right out of the jungle! Ralph told me when kids started showing up that it was my job to keep their names. Finally this strange group of boys came out. The boy in front that led them, I didn’t like him, not one bit. He was tall and older than some of the kids, but he was very mean and very cocky, his name was Jack. He even had one boy pass out and he got mad at the boy. His name was Simon, and I like him. Anyway, Jack and Ralph wanted to go see if we were really on an island or if we were just separated from all the grownups. They took Simon with and I really wanted to go with too but Ralph said I had to stay back.     When they got back, they told us we were on an island all by ourselves, and kids got scared and were asking questions about the creepers, and beasties, and the beast. But Simon said that none of those were true, he said it was all of our imagination. Simon is just so smart auntie! But then Jack butted in saying that he should be our leader, but I stood up for Ralph, because I know that Ralph would be a good leader. So we had a vote to say who was in charge. Ralph won over Jack. So Ralph went on to say how whoever held the conch during the meetings got to talk while everyone stayed quiet, and we all ruled that it was very fair. Ralph also said that when he blows the conch, it means we are having a meeting, or we are going to eat. Then Jack said he wanted to be in charge of something, so Ralph told him to take his choir and make them hunters and gatherers. Jack seemed to be ok with that. I had some good ideas, like how we need to build shelter and build a fire so people know that we are here, but no one listens to me. But the second Ralph says the exact same thing; it’s all fine and dandy. So they went to the top of the mountain to build a big fire. And it worked really well right away. But then it started to die out and they started getting careless with the fire and started a great big fire in the forest. Kids were scared, but when everything settled down again, we did a head count. But I have to tell you Auntie, there was a little boy by the fire when this happened, and we think he was burned to death. That’s so sad that we haven’t even been here very long and someone has already died. I’m just really scared Auntie, and I want to come home. So please, when you get this letter, come find me and all the other boys before things get to out of control.

Love, forever and always

            Your dear, little Piggy <3