Everybody Play A Part

Hip hop is like a "box" and to be inside this box you have to be masculine and tough, you can't let people see you are soft. A lot of young teens and suburban high class teens listen to hip hop. Hip hop portrays an image that the teens feel they may have to follow. Hip hop downs the women of the society. Hip hop makes it seem like it is ok to die and be violent. The teens in America are taght to be a man, be tough and take control. Hip hop basically is teaching people that you have to tough in order to survive and be a man and teens feel if they don't follow this image they would be consider soft.

It's Not Funny

I don't believe it is right for someone to laugh at another person get beat senseless just because they are labeled negatively. It is not right for anyone to be hit or beat and no label should be a justifiable reason for someone to endure that type of treatment. I know at times people may feel like "if the person not doing nothing to help themselves why should I". At times it is not easy and can get a little frustrating to constantly help someone who isn't trying to help themselves. If I am going out of my way to help you and you go back to the same situation, why am I going to continue to help you? That is how some people feel, it makes it hard for them to extend themselves when in the past nothing changed. I don't think that should stop someone for trying to help another person. If I see someone getting beat up or in a situation that don't look right, I'm not going to try to stop it myself I'm going to get someone else to help out. I wouldn't just sit by and let it happen, so at the end of the day I could at least say I tried.

It Is Not Women's Fault

I enjoyed what chapter one of "Getting Played" is talking about. Everything the book mentioned is true. Women are victimized and the things that happen to them, rape and abuse, is not their fault. Often at times women, blame themselves for the things that happen, any type of abuse.

When abuse is done in communties it is often ignored. People feel that it is not their place to get in other people business, the author mentioned that in the book. So abuse is often not reported or even unknown.

The End

In the end some of the students seem like they didn't care anymore. After they stop tue program everything just turned around, the students and their attitudes. The children gave up on, they feel like the people don't care about them. To me it seem like the children gave up when the program ended. It seem like they didn't really have much to look forward to, the suspension of the program changed their look on things. The program gave them the hope and faith they needed.

Social formal informal control

Social control to get people to act a certain way. Formal control to get people to behave by giving some type of punishment. We won't continue to act certain way or do a certain things if the peoPle around us check us on it, informal control. In the video one of the kids were going to leave but the other the students encouraged him to stay. This is a way to get the people a chance to work together instead of going against each other.

Growing Up

The children who misbehave are sent to this base camp instead of being suspended and sent home. The children to have grown a whole lot from when they first started the school. They seem to enjoy themselves and grow from their experiences.

Kids have dreams

The young children have faith and hope if you don't take it from them. They have a lot that they look forward to, a better future. The students in the video are proud to be going to Africa. Their neighborhoods are not the very best ones, I would be excited to get away from what they have to live through too.

The parents want better lives for their children but it is so much they could do. The place they live is not really the land of opportunity. Most of the students live in poor urban neighborhoods. The students want a better life theirselves too. When you live in a place like they do, your dreams don't seem real anymore, especially when you have people like that teacher telling them their most likely going to end up dead or in jail.

Teachers are a mess

She don't really sound like she is encouraging the students. She don't try to give them the benefit of doubt. I know you have to be real with the children but give them some kind of hope.

African American Play (1811)

The play was nice, i enjoyed it. The was staged outside, i had never been to play outside. One line that one of the characters said that I liked. I don't remember it word for word but it was something like I don't this for our children and our children's children. He was trying to escape to New Orleans and be a free man. I like this line because this lets me know that they wasn't just going through all those troubles just for them but to make things better for generations after them.

young students

young people have high expectations vut they just do not know the older they get the more they would realize what there really is out there for them

how the school system really work

Message body

Things in this city has always been messed up espically the school system. The schoolboard and officials seend from the beginning that those tests was a problem and if they didn't see in the beginning they should it now. A lot of the students in da video we viewed in class were struglling with trying to pass the leap. They were trying some gave up but some said they would continue taking the test. I hate the fact that they have the test as requirement to graduate beacuase that really hold the students back. One of the students mentioned in the video who was the highest in her class couldn't pass the GEE. One my teachers told me he feel as though the leap and GEE is keeping us from learning everything there is to learn. The teachers have to teach what they think is going to be on the test and not everything they could be teaching besides what's on the test. I agree with him we can't learn everything because the curriculum is based on the leap and GEE. The
school system in this city don't care bout none of that I don't think they care bout the school system at all . In the video one of the students said that his teacher ask him to pay him them so he could pass the course. This goes to show how much the teachers really care about putting in the hard work to help the students succeed. I feel like the school system is failing the students because they feel like whether we learn or not they will still get paid, many of my teachers have said that. I'm not gon try to talk bad about them they would say this when the class got out of control and that go back to the school system. If the class wasn't over crowded and we didn't have to share books I don't think the teachers would have to make that statement. Its hard to teach an over crowded class with all those students talking. I have had to learn in that type of environment many times but I tried to stay focus and get my work done. No one should have to try to
learn under those conditions.
meisha