so tonight ii was with a group who might be well assosiated with the upper middle class. one person was wealthy enough to have a driver take her here. when i pulled up to the house, i saw a man sitting in a car outside my house. i was wondering why is he sitting there and who is he? i walked in and find out hes a driver. and i tell them it makes me sad that hes sitting there while his boss is having a blast with people and food. i asked why just leave him there and the response was well hes getting paid good money. to them, they can do anything to anyone as long as they give um the money. i think to myself how much the working class gets controlled and manipulated to do what the upper class say. all this because of the good old american dollar. same with the idea of paying more for taxes for more money. many people feel cheated becase there good earned dollar is going to people who cant pay for the hospital. i think to myself, arent we all equal? we were put on this earth to live in harmony with each other but i guess because we are all different species of humans we cant get along and work together side by side without being better then everyone else. it kills me that most people will never learn to just live and help everyone else out whether they earned what they have or not. isnt that the good thing to do? and dont we all strive to be better people anyway? that should be our goal; work together side by side and accept everyone for what they can offer to the world because every time we forget about that working class person, we miss out on a whole world of ideas and concepts because they dont have money. i mean think back to world war 2. think of the 6 million who died. think about all the science and technology and ideas are lost with those lives because there lives got taken away because people thought they were better then everyone. so lets work together and make this place better for everyone.

Stay Classy Stevenson

Now I know I might just be stating the obvious but Stevenson kids don’t realize that stuff they get on a daily basis only apply to their own class. Many kids expect to get a car and a license at 16. When I go hang out with my friend from Chicago, her nor her friends have a car. They don’t have a use for one. When they saw me pull up in my dads car, it was totally weird for them to see. Many of the students don’t realize that chance comes from being middle to upper middle. Same with the idea of college, many of us just expect to go to a big school because that’s what Stevenson tells us we should do. I started asking around my friend from San Jose and he said many of his friends don’t go to school and no one from his family ever graduated. That is just something that happens in his area. When I told him how Stevenson runs there school, it sounds totally foreign to him. At his school, they don’t even really care much about the SAT when here at Stevenson, its everything! The reason why we do better is because many of us can afford those tutors to help us when we need it. Its all a gift that we have what we have, but, its so easy to forget that this goes hand in hand with the class we were raised in.

Slipin Through the Cracks

Slipping through the cracks:
Hearing the story of the guy who got life in jail for being a middle man upset me. It stinks about his life being totally gone because of weed. But I started to think, this kind of stuff happens every day with different cases and it’s the ones we hear on TV. The media glamorizes these stories like it’s a new TV drama. Like Michael Jackson, for all we know he could have been innocent but he past through the loop hole some couldn’t get through. The reason the law was made was to punish people and it can’t be always perfectly fair. Someone with get kind of screwed and someone will be really screwed. That guy got really screwed. But in order for some of us to get fair trials I feel that some have to take a bigger hit. And another thing, our legal system is always changing. One day it will be weed gets you life, another say it will be parking over the line at Stevenson. There will ALWAYS be someone screwed.
(… another time people get screwed is social class. Not everyone can be rich so the poor people have to take the hit for it now.)

saints and roughnecks.

Hollywood

Lets see who is a saint! So I would say Martha Stewart because up to the point she was caught, she probably thought she could get away with all the trading. And then…. The good girl of TV with an already huge salary, wants more! Now she reminds me of the classic case of the upper class getting away with everything. Yes, that’s exactly what we read in class, but, I think now people know this and are conscious of it. They know they can get away with there actions.

Then we have my girl Lindsey Lohan. She has got to be the rough neck. She always gets in trouble for crashing cars and drugs. She is always in the eyes of the cops because they know she is capable of all this. And she cant get away.

Both have media on them but Martha gives a vide out to people that she is only a sweet little old lady who runs a crafty show. And Lindsey gives the impression that she doesn’t care what all those people think.

Pets and Neglect

so they are showing stuff about puppy mills on tv and how neglect effect them and they showed this one dog walking in circles till he passed out and he had one popped out eye. reminded me of that one girl we talked about :[
-SHaily