Fastfoods

I felt like blogging about this because lately I've been eating alot of fast food and it's really hard to stop. Mostly when it's senior year and everyone during lunch or during 6th period wants to go eat it's just tempting. In what i was reading i saw that 1 in 4 Americans eat fast good everyday and every year we spend about 110 billion on fast food. Another fact is that french fries are the most eaten vegetable here in the U.S. That is just really ridiculous because if other countries aren't so dependent on fast food than why can't we. We're always put at the top because of how great we are and have so much power but even the poorest countries have better atributes than us they don't do such harm to their bodies as we do. It's all these influences that we have that we eat such bad things when we go out to eat. Also it leads up with laziness because some people just don't like to cook at their houses because they come too tired from work or whatever their excuse is. I have no room to talk because in my house we eat so much fast food because making food isn't so common and through out the years there are more and more excuses to buy fast foods. That is why 60% of Americans are obese.






http://www.vivavegie.org/101book/text/nolink/social/supersizeme.htm

continuation to my response about the internet video

Today watching the video during government class it was about the internet and how it affects teenagers at this time. It causes affects at school and at house holds. You would think that all kids would understand the dangers but there are still victims being affected til this day. For example in one of the cases a thirteen year old kid killed himself because of all the verbal abuse at school and on the internet. That just shows that how serious things are of real life as in on the internet that is not face to face. It also  gives comfort to those with low self esteem. In those ways it brings to them doing things that are just disrespecting themselves like the girl posting really revealing pictures on the internet. I think more parents should take action with what their children are doing on the internet. Maybe having the computer out in the open would be safer but once they get older they can be trusted with a computer to them selves. I was also shocked to see how internet has affected kids in their education. You would think that new technology like this would be helping out students but at the same time its making them be use to fast response and learn things an easier way. That's probably why the test scored and students grades have not been improving so good throughout the U.S.

Child abuse

Child abuse is 15 percent more of a chance to happen in a household if adult abuse is also happening. In this article it talks about how sometimes the child gets abuse because of the intended abuse of the mother. Sometimes children are just the the target of the household to get abused. I think that since the child is the weakest they're the easiest to get abused. Sometimes the neglect from the parent to help out is because of the fear of the abuser. When a kid gets a abuse early and don't understand domestic violence they can see violence as the only way to getting one's need. Some kids turn out to be a certain way and not even know why that is but because of their abuse as they were a child. Like for instance in my sociology class we were learning about a little girl that just wanted to kill her brother and her new family that adopted her. What she was doing was because of her father sexually abusing her when she was a baby until her and her brother were taken away. This just show how much child abuse can affect the child at the time and even as they grow up.



McKay, M. M. "The Link between Domestic Violence and Child Abuse:
Assessment and Treatment Considerations", Child Welfare, Volume IXXIII, No. 1 (1994) pp29-39.

immigration and emigration

At this point America has been going through a big immigration wave ever since the 1920's. Both parties Democrats and Republicans have said that there needs to be a sweeping change. That is why there's at this time people are being deported. In some ways they are being taken away from their family members are stay here. In this article it points out that the immigration law in Arizona 2010 has yet to be the toughest law for immigration. Although Democrats put forward a way for illegal immigrant students to earn legail status through military or education. There is also another law that wants to be passed which is to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants. Also to limit college access to shorten illegal immigration.
 I think immigration is a big issue in the Unites States but some way that they are trying to control it is not so right to me For instance the law in Arizona is not right to me because your judging a person by how they look by asking for proof of their citizenship because obviously they are not going to ask someone that's caucasian. Through out time it's just going to get worse. If there is already propositions like limiting things for illegal immigrants I think they'll pass through.


Preston, Julia.New York Times.Immigration and Emigration.2 Feb 2011.

Gas Prices

Gas prices are very important to Americans and that shows by seeing how much traffic there is on the high ways. Studies say that Americans drive 3 trillion miles each year. Since more usage of gas is used during the summer and holidays because of all the vacation trips the prices are demanded up. Disasters also raise prices like for example when Hurricane Katrina occurred the Price went up to $3.05 in 2005. Prices are like a roller coaster in this country i think because they go up for a while and then go down but it never ends. Since they go up it encourages people to drive less. Also growing demand can outpace refinery capacity. 
I think that the gas prices are always going to be going up and through out time they are just going to get worse. When they are going to lower it's probably not going to be that lower since the high prices are going higher. It's just making the economy worse for the people. 
 Bosner, Kevin. "How Gas Prices Work". How stuff works a discovery company. 2011.