Final Blog

Who am i? I am the same Johnny Watrach that is a junior at Stevenson that plays soccer. But this class has taught me to think differently about people. Before this class I would judge everyone and wouldn't care because if you didn't act the way my friends did it was pointless to get to know you. Now I realized that you actually have give that person a chance so you can get to know them because they might actually be really nice and can become your friend. Sociology has made me think differently in many positive ways. I learned if someone is struggling, if you help just a tiny bit it could change someone else life around and once they improve they will pass it on to help another person in need. One thing that caught my attention was the bullying topic. I never actually knew that kids were so depressed when they got picked on . i mean I've gotten picked on before from older kids and i brush it off. But there are some kids that get very upset and just want to let their life go. Ever since Reading an article on that i try not to pick on people even though i still do in a joking way, i know its still hurting their feelings in some way cause that person is thinking about what i said about them. This class was awesome and made me rethink on my goals and how i could make my life better not just for me but for the people around me.

Race

This week in class we discussed race we learned it's not a biological thing. Race is what we have created. We already know it's not biological, so what is it then? their skin color and the way that they look. When we see somone we label them right away without even getting to know them. It's not like only white people do this every race has their own opinion on another race. When we did that class activity and we had to look and their picture and guess what they were was kind of hard. We hardly got any right but this shows we cant judge somone by how they look because they might look like something but actually their something completely else. This actually happens to me in the summer i get really tan and people that i first meet ask me if i'm Hawaiian or Hispanic which i don't get cause im neither. i dont know why it would matter were they going to treat me differently if i said i was Hawaiian or Hispanic?

This week we talked about social class and how once you are born poor into a family it is extremely hard to get out of this situation and become rich. When we watched the video in class i couldn't believe how this family was living and how their was so many people in the house and they still had a hard time putting food on the table. I can kind of relate but not even close to how they live. My parents didn't go to college, they already had me and we had no money so we had to live with my grandparents for a while but they provided the food for us. I know what its like to be below everyone and my dad had to work extremely hard and i think we got very lucky with what we have now because usually the rich only become richer and the poor just become poorer. This shows when we were playing monopoly if u get everything handed to you life is 100 times easier than the other person that starts with nothing and the person with nothing kept trying their best and was hardly making any progress while the person that had everything handed to them just got to sit back and keep making more money. The monopoly game made me understand alot more.

Social Class

This week in class we watched a movie on social class. I don't really know what to think about this movie because right now I'm hating that the rich people look down at people that are working. But if i was in their situations i don't know how i would act? maybe i would act obnoxious maybe i wouldn't who knows . Also the girl that is trying to get a date is an idiot. she has no idea how shes suppose to act. shes making herself look dumb just to see if she could get a date. Even if she gets a date sooner or later she would have to tell the person who she really is. that it for now on what i think about to movie

Drugs

This week in class we did an activity that had to do with drugs and matching the level of how legal it is. We didn't know the name of the drugs so it made us think about how bad it is by its description. When our teacher told us the names of each drug it was weird to see what was actually legal and which was illegal because some things that we said were legal we put as illegal and some things that we thought are illegal we had as legal. As we were going through all the information my group had many different opinion on weather it is legal or not and how we should rate it on the scale because every drug we went over it said there was a chance of death.

milestones

this week in class we talked about milestones during our lives. I think my 3 biggest milestones were being born, walking and going to nationals for soccer so far.I never realized how many milestones you go through in your life and how so many things are special. I never really payed attention to them cause im always thinking about the future, But since we did the timeline in class i started to think about things that made a difference in my life like riding a bike,tieing my shoes, and going to school.I hope my next milestones are going to college to play soccer and thats it for now. no need to worry about other things because i want to take one step at a time and not rush.

Aikido

This week in class we talked about using someones energy to help us in a situation when some one comes at you. Sal demonstration was cool. I didn't think you could hurt people like that when your using their forces. I shouldn't say it's to hurt someone, its more of a defensive act so they don't get hurt. Aikido is a positive thing to learn because it teaches you to solve problems rather than fighting. If everyone knew Aikido then everyone would understand how their actions are effecting the world in a negative way with people dieing and not even caring. The thing I like about aikido is you don't learn to attack you learn how to take in the energy and use it in a way to keep things under control. what if Stevenson had its own Aikido program?