Digging Deeper into Social Justice Project

i have decided that my topic will be racism within athletics. I have found that an overall thought through athletics that men are always superior. In my opinion men are superior but not because I am sexist it is simply because men and women are built differently. Men will always be taller bigger and stronger than woman, which usually accumulates to them being more athletic then women. Men will always be viewed superior in the sports world because they bring in the most money in their venues. To be honest mens sports are always more eventful to watch just on the pure fact that men are stronger and more athletic than women could ever be just because of their biological build. I am truly entrigued to find that if my opinion is the same as the truth with sexism in sports today.

Web Building

This week we are working on making our live website that will run through the end of the year. I am one of the cohorts and my job is to basically work for the webmaster. I have to find majority updates and new problems within the world and this social justice class. We hope to explore and notify all people about the problems and unfair treatment of people in other countries that are suffering while we have the luxury of freedom within the United States.

Ism's

We have been exploring isms in class the last two weeks. We have been relating this to all types of social injustice and how it is present within our community. These have allowed us to see what it means to be discriminated against and what people really do. We have looked at organizations such as the NBA and NFL which have multiple examples of underlying discrimination along with the armed forces. These tools allow us to better understand what it means to be politically correct.

Social Justice Topic

For my social justice project I have been trying to decide which topic to choose. I would like to experience the controversy behind the topic of Abortion. I feel that abortion is a neccesary right and I am very pro abortion. Being pro abortion I would hope to explore the side that is pro choice, and pro life and broaden my horizons. This would greater expand the way I think along with how I view the topic of abortion.

Systems

So far this week we have been exploring the court system. We have not dug too deep into the convrsation or what a system really is but we have begon this discussion in order to better understand what social justice really is. Understanding the court system will also help us to truly reveal what is socially just in the world today. We began talkig about social groups such as the KKK and how their policy affects the community and how socially unjust their ideals are.

What Family is

A family to me is a unit that loves. A family is a unit that helps eachother and is not afraid to stand up for the others in their family. A family is a group that can be bound by law but at the same time they dont have to be bound together by anything except maybe the fact that they live together. When I think of family I think of people that care for and love eachother unconditionally.

The Family Concept

This week's CST was in relation with the topic of family. We were to read chapter two in our brown books which contained facts along with assumptions about families in the present day. It started out by talking about how families must be compensated for by the employer of the working guardian, he must be able to pay for his family. This topic was stressed but was not the main point. It then went on to describe the privelages familes recieve. That part turned into the definition and understanding on what it means to be a family. The reading I got said that family was a loving unit to make a long story short. My definition of family is a loving unit that does not have to be biologically bound together, but only brough together through love and support between one another.

Google presentations

Today we presented our Google programs. I am in the group for Google sites the topic I had to explain to my group. I started off by giving a handout to the group and then showed them an instructional video about how the Google sites works. As far as the Google forms will be the most helpful for me in the future. This will allow me to take this into college for a presentation. Although this could be very helpful in the college life, I feel that Google forms would be the most helpful in the work force. This could allow me to handout my possible buyers of a product that I am trying to sell.

This week we have expanded to new literature as part as our understanding of social justce in out communities. For homework this weekend we will be exploring the second chapter of this new book. I hope it will continue to open my eyes on the horrible things that are occuring around the world. Before prayer today we talked about all the people in Egypt, in the city of Kairo. They have had all their communication tools taken away from them and this is also another great example of social justice being abused and things not being fair around our world. Why are these people cut off from others around the world? What causes someone to do this to other people? I hope we explore this topic more and see what we can do as a community to help these people!

Expansion on Social Justice

In our small brown books we have been looking at chapter one. I have been reading the first section in chapter one about racism. It gives distinct examples about how racism is viewed and how people that are multicultural have been viewed in society, along with how they are viewed now. This has been an eye opening experience and is definatly showing me that social injustice doesn't just happen around the world that it happens everywhere, and a gnereation such as my own should be around to stop it.

Google Sites

Today in class we are exploring all that google has to offer. It is a mini project that and my group was assigned the topic of google sites. My group is going to make one main site in order to teach the class about all there is to know about Google sites. We plan on all becoming authors in order to all contribute. In the long run this will allow us to use this tool for our social justice project and hopefully I can take the tools i learned from this class into college through all the google tools we are exploring. This will be an ongoinjg project and I hope my group becomes an expert on this topic we were assigned!

I have now expanded my blog to my phone. I believe that this will allow me to expand my social justice studies outside of school and into the real world. This will be a spectacular tool, I hope I will be able to use this in a fast efficent way!

Book Fairs this week

Mr. Meegan has finally returned to class. This week we have been reading many books and taking notes trying to narrow down a decision for our social justice project. I read one book about college drinking and one about teenage drug use. I found both to be very fascinating, because they both pertained to problems that kids myt age experience. These books have been  a great experience and they really entrigue me to explore both of these problems for my social justice project.

Overal View of Social Justice Class

From the introduction ad what we have learned in the last two weeks, I have come to understand how many countries experience predjudice or hardship that nobody in the United States would ever have to endure. These privelages should never be taken lightly and we should all take advantage of our privelage because there are people half way across the world that cannot experience what we get to experience everyday.

Fright Week

In the last two weeks of class, we have been watching movies about social injustice all over the world. I have noticed that in countries outside and within the United States, there is extreme poverty and mistreatment of individuals. This was an eyeopening two weeks and it has taught me how lucky I am to live in such a great place. Also I learned that there are people out there that need significant help and as an American, we need to reach out to the countries that are less fortunate and do what we can to help.

Wassup everyone!!