I picked this from Christy's Blogg

Usually pretty girls are the popular ones.I was friends with one of the popular girls back then and you know they are selfish,conceited, and come with attitude.Popular girls believe that they should bring other people down to make themselves feel like they are on top of the world.There was a time where one of my friends,the popular one,we were just walking around the school when she saw a girl that was sitting by herself,and she decided to go up to her and started to make fun of her asking her why she is ugly,why she is a loner,why she is talking to someone else's boyfriend,and etc.At that point i felt bad for her because she was constantly being made fun of and because i should have told my friend to leave her alone and should have stood up for her.In this situation my options were to help her and stand up for her and actually lose one of my friends or I can stay quiet and not say anything.It is my belief that people bully others because it makes the bully feel good, something that happened to them in the past and they want to let their anger out on someone,they have problems at home currently,they don't like that person,and it is for revenge.I believe they want to hurt their peers because they can see how vulnerable they are and how easily they can bring then down.Sometimes they do it because other people do it,they just want to feel cool,or they feel like they are tough.

This quote shows that , a person has to be strong and ,make decisions that help anyone even, if it is a person that we do not know or hang out with. being bullied is a serious and difficult thing that people go through. for the girl that was constantly being bullied, she did not need the extra amount of hurtful words. even though Christy did not react and or respond the the problem at the moment she was able to analyze and bring out what she did wrong and how she should have fixed it. which makes her as almost strong as if she confronted her friend bullying another.

The ASTI constitution consists of ten :

1. Think before you speak or act

2. Include, don't exclude

3. Accept others for who they are

4. Build mutual trust or respect

5. Assume positive intent

6. Speak up for yourself and others

7. Strive to understand where other people are coming from/be empathetic

8. Take responsibility for your actions and words

9. Make a positive impact on the people and environment around you

10. Resolve conflict peacefully

These ten things are important for an letting people in, accepting, being tolerant, and having an experience at school feeling safe and secure in a learning environment. No one should be bullied for any reason especially because they are different or people are unaccustomed to them.  These rules, were made to be follow and are expectations that should be held up and important and necessary to school.

The Flight of the Iguana: The Face of a Spider

Everybody and everything is different and many complex ways, whether it would be by looks, personality, feelings ect. , in simple words, nobody will ever be exactly the same or perfect. Every person is accustomed to and used to different things, whether they learned and were familiarized by their family or their own beliefs and thoughts. There will always be situations throughout life where as people we will be unaccustomed to something, a place or a person’s view and how they may look and seem to us. However, we have to learn not to treat a person differently than the people that we may know. We will have to learn to change our or hard and hating ways to appreciate and see distinctive things and people as exclusive and unique. As the author David Q., explains he didn’t decide to kill and end the life of the spider, instead he decided to let its life go on and see it as something that deserves to live rather than anything less. Even though he, had killed and or squashed several other spiders and bugs before throught his life, he decided to make a change and decided that it was not necessary and let the spider remain in its home, which was David’s office desk. The author made somewhat of a metaphor with the spider and himself and he is trying to make a comparison to demonstrate to people that, even thought things and people may be different, look different and may not have many similarities with each other. People should not judge the things by what is on the outside, but rather with is in the heart and their feelings and after you are able to know them. A person finding themselves in a position with new experiences with life, food, religion, should be able to find themselves giving effort to try to understand something that is different and new, rather than blocking it out.

Guns, Germs and Steel

I believe that people that are able to recognize and analyze many things in the community in which they live in and see that there is a great difference among where they live and other parts of the world. Many people that sight the and notice the differences will all usually be able to understand and comply with the thought that the differences are because of the environment and the main resources the land is provides. The United States the health insure problem and high cost for medical treatment is a huge problem, while different countries among other lands offers free or low cost medical treatment to all its citizens. Cuba is an example, of a country that is giving free or low cost health insurance. While Cuba may be giving healthcare, it has less resources given to its citizens, less educational and job opportunities. No country is perfect! This statement means many things to the bay area and to our community. Living in Oakland, a place where many people are killed, decreasing amount of officers, difficult places to get an education and many other things that play a big role in why Oakland has less resources compared to other borderline cities. This took place because people did not take importance to how Oakland would look and what happened in city, people did not make the change in the time where it was necessary.

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

Their has always been many situations in schools, were groups of people make cliques, and somebody is left out and feels out casted . Unfortunately, I have been on both sides. Both sides feel awkward and uncomfortable in many different ways. When been on the side of an alliance or group and others are left out and feel out of place, I began to remember and feel what is the feeling of not having a friend and somebody that is next to you, and will help you when in need. In some ways it reminded me of the times that I was on the other side. While being on the other side, left out I would just feel out of place and in some ways lonely and very uncomfortable, not necessarily depressed or frustrated but just having a peculiar feeling. People bully others for several reasons. A reason that may lead a person to bully someone, is being bullied at a young age and building up aggression, and finding a point and finally deciding to let it out by hurting and making others feel bad. The bully wants to show others the feeling and pain that they had and felt when they were being bullied. Another reason, that may lead to making a person becoming a bully is not having a healthy environment, either at school or at home and they may find themselves not receiving the proper attention that they feel that they deserve. By becoming a bully and hurting someone and acting out in class it will lead to people and teachers around them to paying more attention to them and they will feel better knowing, people know who they are.