Peer Pressure

Today we watched Freaks and Geeks again. In this episode, Lindsey convinced her parents to leave her and her brother, Sam, home alone while they went out of town. Lindsey made the mistake and told her friend Daniel that she was going to be home alone. Daniel convinced her to have a party and get a keg of beer. Sam heard and decided that he and his friends were going to get non-alcoholic beer and trade it with the real beer. During the party, all of the "underage drinkers" were drinking this fake beer and pretending to get drunk. This just wade them seem like fools because they were victims of the Placebo effect. These kids were saved when Sam's friend called the police to get everyone out. Peer pressure is a very big deal now because either people are very persuasive, or people are too promissive. Teens are stargting to drink a lot more now because of peer pressure. I remember something this week said that the kids that dont give into peer pressure will be the geeks later in their life because they didn't take a chance.

Till Death Do Us Part

Its pretty crazy how all different cultures view death. In our culture, theres some people who cry for months, there are others who go get tattoos of their name. People have differnt ways of viewing it. In "Tuesdays with Morrie", Morrie is dying and Mitch comes to see him every Tuesday. In the end, Mitch ends up making the best of the situation and accepting that he died. In American culture, people have a hard time accepting that their loved one has passed away and can be in denial too. I personally find ways to remember the deceased. My grandpa was the greatest man i've ever met and he always used hearts in everything. To remember him, i got a heart tattooed on my wrist. I know i will always have a peice of my grandpa on me permanently. Everyone has their own ways of remembering their dead loved ones, mine being tattoos. People need to live in the moment. "Life is a gift, thats wh they call it the present".

Six- Fingered Patriot

There are some times that I’m talking to my friends and we’re talking about schools and they start saying, “I heard that at Stevenson…” and then that line usually is followed by some ridiculous comment about either how rich Stevenson is, how big we are, or how much Stevenson focuses on grades. Before I came here, my friends in Wheeling and I were in the car and their mom said, “I heard if you get a B at Stevenson, you get made fun of. If you get a C you get kicked out”. If that was true, I would have been made fun of so much and been kicked out enough times too. That really proves how much Stevenson has created its own subculture. There’s a Facebook group called “You know you go to Stevenson if…” Then there are things like you understand the words Point, Airport, Six-Finger Patriot, West Building, East Building and more. Stevenson is the only place you can say I parked at the point so I’ll meet you at the six-fingered patriot.