education and wealth

Its true that the higher a family's income is, the average ACT is a lot higher, and the higher the education the student recieves. With a higher education, the student will get a high income job, and then they have children and the whole cycle starts over again. So really, the middle class system is dying and wealthy will just keep getting wealthy. There are very few who start from the bottom to work there way to the top. The reason poorer families can't recieve higher education is because of "rules" of America. How would poorer families get good education if good educators don't want to work at a school with a smaller income. The children are deprived of better education.

30 days

Seeing the video of the guy trying out jail for 30 days was very interesting. Even though it the people seemed a lot less scary then i stereotyped them to be, the pain the prisoners suffered was even more frightening. Morgan was only in the jail for 30 days and he was craving being outdoors so much that I can't even imagine people who had been there for years. It also surprised me how much different the people are in the rehab prison, why isn't this used more? I had a lot of hope in the people who were being released that their life was going to change for the better, but instead they ended up back in jail. This shows that people can't get used to life outside of prison after being in it for so long. Why do people have such a hard time changing for the better? Why can't these prisoners refrain themselves from doing bad again? Do they not remember how much pain they went through inside of jail?

stereotypical teens

Teenagers are stereotypically viewed as being routy kids who look for trouble. Although, I know no one who wants to be in danger. I think this is why parents don't allow us to certain things that arn't actually dangerous at all. For example, about 2 weekends ago I was planning on going to a concert in Milwaukee, WI to the Rave. My parents only would allow me to go if parents we're driving me there, and wouldn't allow my friend to drive me there. They thought the neighborhood was too "shady", which it was, but I found it unfair that I wasn't allowed to go b/c of who drove there. I thought my mom should understand that we would be fine driving there, even though we're teenagers, and teenagers are thought of as unorganized and bad drivers. I didn't really mind I wasn't going to the concert, but I found it to be a perfect example of regulations parents set on teens. If I was allowed to go, it would teach me how to react to certain situations on the road, and maybe about the neighborhood I was in, but except I wasn't allowed to mature in those ways. What the parents don't realize is that I'm probably going to be in multiple situations like that next year, when I'm in college, and they're not there to help me.

Un-TV

The Un-TV assignment was very interesting on how it played out. When we were first assigned to it, I thought it would be a waste of time. I thought that I already knew the message Sal was trying to send us, and that watching the black tv screen for thirty minutes wouldn't change it. Although, when I did the assignment, I realized how wrong I was. The TV is really just a box, and the fact that we show emotion toward it seems so strange. We are reacting to moving images that arn't realistic at all b/c of editing, the story line. When we are watching TV, we are escaping reality by watching a fake story on a box. That is basically what we waste are time with. I'm not saying TV is bad, b/c sometimes I think something is worth watching. But I do belive that we (or at least I) should limit the amount of television I watch. To be entertained by pictures, and a story isn't the way I intended. I hope to stay more active in my actual hobbies.