Review of "Bullied"

Yesterday in class we watched the movie "Bullied". I really enjoyed the movie. I liked it because it was a true story and those people made history. They made it known to everyone that watched the film that bullying was wrong. Also they made it known to people that kids sometimes aren't the ones that have the problem. Like in the movie the boys were the ones that bullied him but none of the administrators did anything about the boys bullying him. He got bullied one time so bad that he had to have surgery to help his injuries. The worst part about that story is not one kid got punished.
I just read an article called "100 Days of School, 100 Days of Bullying". It was a very interesting article because it is a teacher writing about bullying that goes on at the school where he teaches. something that he said was very interesting. He said that studies show that kids who feel uncomfortable at school have trouble learning. So not only are these bullies ruining their self a steam but also their education. I think that is horrible because you go to school to learn not to get bullied.
http://www.tolerance.org/blog/100-days-school-100-days-bullying 

Image Chef Picture

            I just made an image chef picture for my blog. I really like this program. It was one of the most user friendly program I have used. They give you so many options on pictures to use. Also they give you many different kinds of fonts to use. This is very helpful because you can really make it your own thing. Its all about how you want to customize it.

            I thought that my picture was very unique. I used the quote, “Can you slit my throat?” I used this because it kind of told the story by its self. I think it tells the story because Tyler isn’t very happy and this quote shows it because he told the paramedic to kill him. I used the tear drop as my picture because I think it represents sadness. In twisted Tyler is very sad. I used a grey background to tell that his life is just kind of boring.  I think my picture really represents the book twisted.

Here is the link to my picture:

http://cdn-img1.imagechef.com/w/120127/1bd88cdef81f5b29.gif

"Clothing Optional" Day

   In chapter 21 of Twisted, Tyler talked about how they had a “clothing optional” day. This is a day where a lot of starring goes on around the school. It’s a really awkward day for everyone in my opinion. I just think that people always dress appropriate. I think it’s nasty the way some people dress. If it’s boys sagging, girls there cleavage, or even a little more inappropriate parts of the body. Lets just be honest some stuff you shouldn’t show in public ever!

   I experience instances like this everyday. I see people who do get written up or really should for the way they dress. Honestly I think if u want to get noticed for dressing like that people won’t notice you at all because it’s just trashy. People who dress normal seem to get noticed more because they are normal. When people dress like this it usually ends up resulting into sexual harassment just because people who have those types of minds will do what they want to do with these girls. Did you know sexual harassment is against the law? Most of the time it is ignored because nobody thinks it will make out to anything. Well it does because if they can get them past sexual harassment then most of the time they get raped.

Do you think high schools should stress more on dress code and sexual harassment?

Please comment.

To learn more about sexual harassment visit the link below.

 http://www.equalrights.org/publications/kyr/shschool.asp

Josh Gunderson

            On Tuesday of this week, Josh Gunderson came and spoke to us about social networking and also things like sexting, and how you can avoid them. What he said was very interesting. He made it so there was a lot of humor because he is a comedian, but also got us to listen about the topic. He was telling us about how he has experienced with cyber bullying and what we can do to stay away from it. Everything he said was helpful to know me and I also think everyone in the freshman class. He gave us many examples of kids just like us that have got bullied and killed their selves. This really made me think about the topic because kids just like me are getting bullied to the point where they feel they should commit suicide. The stuff that some of the bullies do is just horrible, such as bully people over who they date, or how they dress, stuff that doesn’t even concern them. These bullies are essentially the ones that are killing these normal human beings who were just trying to enjoy life and be themselves.

          What Josh talked about is goes with what we are reading in are book Twisted. Twisted is about a boy named Tyler who is having trouble with a lot of things. His problems are at home and school. At home his father isn’t very happy with anything that he does. He goes to his community service, goes home plays on the computer until three a.m. then goes to sleep and wakes up at five and starts over. In the first part of the book they go to Tyler’s dad’s bosses how for a business party and causes and accident at the party and Tyler’s family are very unhappy with him. At school Tyler has been bullied since fifth grade. It’s fair to say Tyler doesn’t really enjoy life right now. Just like what Josh talked about how bullying someone can ruin their life. That’s why I enjoyed his presentation because we are reading a book that is basically everything he talked about.

Visit Josh’s website to learn more about what he does.

http://www.joshgunderson.com/index.html

Grades

            In King of the Mild Frontier Chris’ older brother John takes school a little more serious then Chris does. John is not satisfied without anything but straight A’s. Chris on the other hand is perfectly satisfied with C’s. This reminds me a lot of me and my brother. Like the Kutcher boys, my brother and I are very different. My brother is all about school. I get good grades but I have never been straight A’s. I’ve always been about sports. If there is a ball I’m in.

            This is one of many things Chris and I have in common. Chris is a little different he would just barely pass. Me, I love to get good grades but don’t be surprised if there are a lot of B’s. Chris gets C’s or D’s. I try in school and to me it sounded like Chris just never tried. But at the end of the day school is very important. Maybe Chris should try to be like his brother a little more. Even I could try to be a little more like my brother.

Death is Inevitable

            In King of the Mild Frontier Chris’s grandfather passed away. This showed Chris that death is very inevitable. Then when Eddie Breidenbach Chris started to think that he could go to heaven any day. Chris thought about it even more when he saw a very little boy’s picture in the news paper because the boy was his age and had passed away.  Chris just felt very bad about these deaths that had occurred and couldn’t stop thinking about it. Chris had a dream that him and his grandpa were sledding then towards the end of his dream when Chris was about to wake up his grandpa left and went back to heaven. This made Chris really think about his grandpa.

            Just like Chris my grandpa died. I was older than Chris but it is hard either way. Just like Chris I was very close to my grandfather. He was probably the closest I was to anyone in the family. He gave me the confidence that I could do anything. Just like Chris I had weird thoughts. One is the night of his funeral I kept seeing his face in the moon at night. This just reminded me of how special he was to me. Also how death is inevitable. Death is going to happen sooner or later it is just a matter of time. But at the end of the day there are going to be people that care about you so much. Also when you die yes people are said but people are going to celebrate your life and what you have done for them and everyone else.

Something Neat

           In King of the Mild Frontier Chris's brother and Eddie Young got Chris to do "something neat". This was always something that Chris's brother wanted to do but never wanted to get in trouble for it, so he would convince Chris to do it. Some of these instances were to pee on the furnace to make the whole house smell like pee. Then the worst instance was when they wanted Chris to run naked at the bottom of a hill and they would shoot at him from the top of the hill with a BB gun. This wasn’t there best plan. Every time they wanted Chris to do something neat they would always tell him we won’t tell. This time they had to tell their parents because they hit Chris and he was bleeding. Chris never did “something neat” ever again.

This reminds me of something that my friends wanted me to do. This thing was to ding dong ditch someone’s house. They kept telling me it will be funny and all this stuff. Unlike Chris I didn’t fall into their peer pressure. I didn’t do it and I kept telling them that it would be wrong. Also I told them that we would get into trouble for it. They agreed and none of them did it. If I was Chris I would’ve told them not to and hopefully they wouldn’t have. Or I just would’ve said no and left the situation.