Social Awareness

Day 1

Poverty is a big issue going on around and all over the world. Of course some might not think so unless you see it with your own eyes. Many people around the world can afford to pay for food or clothing, to survive, but many only make a couple of dollars a day, maybe even just 1 or 2, and they have to work their butts off just to get that much money. Think about how easy it is for us to get 1 or 2 dollars and compare to them. Millions aren't able to drink safe water, and/or don't even have proper sanitation. Think of what their lives would be. Think of how hard it is for them.

Day 2

People say that drug testing invades your privacy, and others say that if their medication outside of work isn't affecting their jobs and work life, they why be tested for drugs? Many people are losing their jobs because they are being prescribed legal medications just because their medications show up as an illegal drug on their drug test.

Day 3

New Jersey proposed an Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights. Tyler Clementi, an 18 year old freshman's sucide because his roomate broadcasted his sexual encounter with another gay man. Clementi then jumped from the George Washington Bridge, and his roomates were charged. This is a terrifying case of teenagers commiting sucide because they were gay. This law was proposed a few weeks after New York state introduced a new law requiring NY school districts to protect children againts bullying becayse of their sexual orientation or weight. It also requires school districts to revise their codes of conduct, at least one staff member in each school will be taught counseling methods.

Day 4

  Child abuse is reported almost every 10 seconds, isn't that just awful? Who would have thought there's so much child abuse going on. It's everywhere, just by thinking, saying, or actually doing it, it's still child abuse. Everyday 5 children die from it. Race does not have to do with child abuse, but it some countries, hitting children is not considered illegal. Neglect is one of the most common way to abuse a child. Infact, 60% of people in drug rehab has been abused as a child. Child abuse can have a big impact on the children's future. If your a child abuser, imagine how you're shaping their future.
Day 5

There is a post called "Should Fatties Get a Room?" by Marie Claire writer and Maura Kelly. It focuses on the question "Think people feel uncomfortable when they see overweight people making out on television?"
Kelly considered answering the question herself and she answered "I think I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other... because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room." This made people very angry and the magazine readers even called the magazine to ask for Kelly to be fired.

Final reflection: I learned many many many many things. This taught me that I might think my life is horrible and I don't want to continue living, but this made me realize, I need to be happy with what I have, and think about what others don't have. That they have to work for everything even at a young age, while I just sit here and ask my parents for stuff. This made me realize bullying isn't something to joke around about. It's serious, and it needs to stop. Think before you do or say. It might even end up shaping your future or even another's future.

P.S. To Ms Galang, sorry I did not realize we were suppose to put this on our blog until today, so I copied what I wrote down in my notebook onto this blog.