Some people start bullying others for different reasons, but I think the main reason is that they think they're invincible when they get together in a gang. They find weaker students that are alone to start picking on to make their lives miserable. Now, not all bullies get the victims to a point of suicide, which was the case with Jamie Hubley from Ottawa, who committed suicide because he was bullied for being openly gay. He never meant to harm anyone by saying he was gay, nor did he choose to be gay. Noone is safe from bullies, and if you do get bullied, you should tell someone right away and if they keep going after someone has talked to them, you should put pressure on adults to stop it. There is noone that accepts bullying and people should know that.
Most bullies will grow up to be mature and witness that what they have done was bad and some might take steps to stop bullying in schools. Others, who just don't care, will never end and always live badly and think they're the the best. The bullies themselves aren't the only ones to blame. There is the adults and teachers around them that don't play their roles. They are supposed to look after the students and prevent these kinds of situations.
I don't think there is alot we can do about bullying other than insist on the fact that bullying is not tolerated and have the school teachers and supervisers check to make sure noone is getting bullied. You can't make it stop if the victim himself doesn't tell anyone or you haven't witnessed any bullying.
dimanche 13 novembre 2011
vendredi 28 octobre 2011
Youth crime
Youth criminal justice act
The youth criminal justice act should definitely be changed. It should be focused towards rehabilitation purposes and not just putting young offenders behind bars. Now where do we draw the line between which should be sent in rehab or jail, because there are some crimes that i would still have jail being the answer such as murder or attempted murder, that kind of stuff. Now, studies have proven that if you lock up young children they are more likely to stay a criminal all their life, so before putting anyone in jail i would suggest that a psychologist check to see if it could be possible to put him in a rehabilitation center specialized in that situation.
Why or why not the proposed law will work for young offenders
I think the proposed law by the Harper government will not work, because as I said earlier, is has been proven that young people put in jail will have a tendency to stay criminals all their life. Now that doesn't mean we should just lock them up for life, I don't think it works that way. The Texas government also stated that it will cost more money making new prisons and keeping the prisoners inside than making new centers where youth crime offenders may go to be rehabilitated.
What leads to youth crime
In my opinion, the main reason children would grow up to be criminals is that their parents weren't there for their child or if the children were treated badly. It's hard to know wether or not a child is being treated badly by their parents because in most cases they are told that if they say anything it will be worse. What they don't know is that if they do say it to another adult, that adult might take the child somewhere that deals with those situations therefor not having to see his/her parents alone. Another reason could be influence by friends. If a gang pushes you to commit a crime, like stealing or vandalism and saying that he's a loser if he doesn't do it. In a situation like that, the child who commits the crime might get involved with the gang and grow up doing that kind of stuff even if he knows it's illegal.
The youth criminal justice act should definitely be changed. It should be focused towards rehabilitation purposes and not just putting young offenders behind bars. Now where do we draw the line between which should be sent in rehab or jail, because there are some crimes that i would still have jail being the answer such as murder or attempted murder, that kind of stuff. Now, studies have proven that if you lock up young children they are more likely to stay a criminal all their life, so before putting anyone in jail i would suggest that a psychologist check to see if it could be possible to put him in a rehabilitation center specialized in that situation.
Why or why not the proposed law will work for young offenders
I think the proposed law by the Harper government will not work, because as I said earlier, is has been proven that young people put in jail will have a tendency to stay criminals all their life. Now that doesn't mean we should just lock them up for life, I don't think it works that way. The Texas government also stated that it will cost more money making new prisons and keeping the prisoners inside than making new centers where youth crime offenders may go to be rehabilitated.
What leads to youth crime
In my opinion, the main reason children would grow up to be criminals is that their parents weren't there for their child or if the children were treated badly. It's hard to know wether or not a child is being treated badly by their parents because in most cases they are told that if they say anything it will be worse. What they don't know is that if they do say it to another adult, that adult might take the child somewhere that deals with those situations therefor not having to see his/her parents alone. Another reason could be influence by friends. If a gang pushes you to commit a crime, like stealing or vandalism and saying that he's a loser if he doesn't do it. In a situation like that, the child who commits the crime might get involved with the gang and grow up doing that kind of stuff even if he knows it's illegal.
mardi 18 octobre 2011
Community
What is community?
A community is a group of people that share the same goals and ideas with laws to prevent anyone from doing harm to others. You don't have to like everyone in the community to be part of it, anyone can be part of any community they want, that is if they feel the same way about opinions or thoughts.
What does it mean to be in a community?
To me, being in community is being where you belong, a nice place to live where everyone supports each other. It is also a place where you can engage yourself and feel safe. You also have to obey to the laws that rule the community in which you live.
What does it mean to be a citizen?
Being a citizen involves having responsibilities and rights. It is the same for every citizen, therefor everyone should respect one another's rights. Some responsibilities could be going to vote when comes the time for elections, or going to work like an honest citizen.
A community is a group of people that share the same goals and ideas with laws to prevent anyone from doing harm to others. You don't have to like everyone in the community to be part of it, anyone can be part of any community they want, that is if they feel the same way about opinions or thoughts.
What does it mean to be in a community?
To me, being in community is being where you belong, a nice place to live where everyone supports each other. It is also a place where you can engage yourself and feel safe. You also have to obey to the laws that rule the community in which you live.
What does it mean to be a citizen?
Being a citizen involves having responsibilities and rights. It is the same for every citizen, therefor everyone should respect one another's rights. Some responsibilities could be going to vote when comes the time for elections, or going to work like an honest citizen.
Tuition hikes
What do i think of the proposed tuition hike?
I don't think it is all bad. If they are asking for a bigger tuition fee, there must be some explanations behind it. I mean, if they are investing in new technology and to help the students learn, then that is fine with me. If the money is used to give teachers a bigger salary or even give the owners or other high placed people more money in their pockets, then that's just stealing. I would suggest that if the tuition hikes do happen for parents to inform themselves on how the extra money will be used by the university. It is even a bigger problem if the students arleady have debts during university and now have to pay even more for no benefits on their learning.
Will it have a serious impact on my education?
It might have an impact on my education, but not a major one. I'm one of those lucky students that will get financial help from my parents because they can, but mostly because my dad will be proud to have at least one of his kids go to university. I have no doubts that i will have to pay part of my university, but not all of it.
What type of effect will tuition hikes have on society in general?
I think that it will distance even more the social classes in society. The students who come from the lower class will be concerned alot more if the tuition hikes occur than those who come from higher income families. It will also create inequalities between programs that have a lower percentage of placement after university from the ones that are almost certain to get a job to pay back the debts they owe from their education. It will also make it harder for students that come from lower income families to get out of that social class because they might not want to go to university and get a higher value job with a better salary and overall income. In my opinion, it will have a significant effect on society in general.
I don't think it is all bad. If they are asking for a bigger tuition fee, there must be some explanations behind it. I mean, if they are investing in new technology and to help the students learn, then that is fine with me. If the money is used to give teachers a bigger salary or even give the owners or other high placed people more money in their pockets, then that's just stealing. I would suggest that if the tuition hikes do happen for parents to inform themselves on how the extra money will be used by the university. It is even a bigger problem if the students arleady have debts during university and now have to pay even more for no benefits on their learning.
Will it have a serious impact on my education?
It might have an impact on my education, but not a major one. I'm one of those lucky students that will get financial help from my parents because they can, but mostly because my dad will be proud to have at least one of his kids go to university. I have no doubts that i will have to pay part of my university, but not all of it.
What type of effect will tuition hikes have on society in general?
I think that it will distance even more the social classes in society. The students who come from the lower class will be concerned alot more if the tuition hikes occur than those who come from higher income families. It will also create inequalities between programs that have a lower percentage of placement after university from the ones that are almost certain to get a job to pay back the debts they owe from their education. It will also make it harder for students that come from lower income families to get out of that social class because they might not want to go to university and get a higher value job with a better salary and overall income. In my opinion, it will have a significant effect on society in general.
jeudi 13 octobre 2011
Young people and community service
· Why is there a lack of participation?
I think young people these days don't get involved in the community as much as the other generations did simply because of the way we were raised. We were always told we could do whatever we wanted, we were praised and cherished for almost everything we did even if it wasn't something meaningful. A problem with this is that they developped a very high self-confidence about their emotions and they are the priority when it comes to talking decisions, they are always right and will always have what they want. They were born in a community where there is alot of competition and everything is based on performance, not based on helping others since that would mean they are not the main concern. In my opinion, it's not that young people don't want to help by doing community service, it's that they don't think it's going to change something for the world. It might not change the world, that's true, but it will change the life of the people around them and that's exactly what they don't know.
Which is better? Volunteering or service learning?
For me, service learning is a better way of doing volunteering. It is in someway volunteering but it has another meaning to it and is more apealing for the new generation. They can see the effect of it, because it is organized by a school and is meant to help them understand the importance of knowing the place you live in and acknowledge the fact that people could really use their help. Although, I'm not saying that if a student decides to do volunteering it's not going to be worth it for the community, it's only going to have to be on their free time and some students don't have the time to do it because they need to work in order to have their basic needs.
What is the best way to encourage people to get involved?
I think young people these days don't get involved in the community as much as the other generations did simply because of the way we were raised. We were always told we could do whatever we wanted, we were praised and cherished for almost everything we did even if it wasn't something meaningful. A problem with this is that they developped a very high self-confidence about their emotions and they are the priority when it comes to talking decisions, they are always right and will always have what they want. They were born in a community where there is alot of competition and everything is based on performance, not based on helping others since that would mean they are not the main concern. In my opinion, it's not that young people don't want to help by doing community service, it's that they don't think it's going to change something for the world. It might not change the world, that's true, but it will change the life of the people around them and that's exactly what they don't know.
Which is better? Volunteering or service learning?
For me, service learning is a better way of doing volunteering. It is in someway volunteering but it has another meaning to it and is more apealing for the new generation. They can see the effect of it, because it is organized by a school and is meant to help them understand the importance of knowing the place you live in and acknowledge the fact that people could really use their help. Although, I'm not saying that if a student decides to do volunteering it's not going to be worth it for the community, it's only going to have to be on their free time and some students don't have the time to do it because they need to work in order to have their basic needs.
What is the best way to encourage people to get involved?
The best way would be to not force them to do it, because when you force them(especially if you decide the place where they will work) they will not be interested and will either not go or be more of a nuisance where they work instead of helping others. If you let them decide where they can go and if they want to do it or not, they will feel that it's their choice and not urs, wich is what matters most for the new generation. They always come first.
vendredi 30 septembre 2011
Career choice
Someones interests and hobby's will be the biggest factor when choosing a path in which they want to study in. While groing up, a kid is exposed to so many interesting activities and is influenced by everyone around them. Choosing your career of a dream is something that doesn't always work out for the best because dreams can be out of reach depending on your abilities in school or your motivations. So choosing just because it's a dream can lead you nowhere, but if you succeed it can be the biggest accomplishement in your life.
The second most important influence when choosing a career is your parents. They have raised you and taught most of what you know. ''The data revealed that if parents had not encouraged their kids to attend post-secondary school, there was only a 4% chance that kids would end up pursuing a STEMM career in college. In contrast, 41% of students choose to pursue a STEMM career when parental encouragement was cited.'' People normally go to their parents first when they have no clue of what to do later on in life, meaning that it is true that parents are a big influence on kids.
Another influence comes from friends. When you see your friends do something, you kind of want to do the same thing so you could study and be with them all the time. Also, it is sometimes because you admire them and just want to follow their steps.
http://www.familyanatomy.com/2010/04/07/can-parents-influence-their-childs-career-choice/
http://www.familyanatomy.com/2010/04/07/can-parents-influence-their-childs-career-choice/
dimanche 18 septembre 2011
Immigration
A) What we can learn from Sophia's story is that not all immigrants that arrive in Canada have a hard time getting involved with the community and have trouble learning french. As Sophia described though, the majority of immigrants think it's very hard getting settled in and going out in public but there is alot of agencies that have people willing to help immigrants get used to our lifestyle.
B) One way of helping immigrants is going out into an agency and offering your help in any way possible to make it easier for the immigrant. An other way would be to not laugh at immigrants if their having difficulties in class, assuming you have an immigrant in your class, because if you laugh at them their confidance will greatly decrease and they might give up that class. The actions we take don't have to be big, anything that can help an immigrant in some way is, I assume, greatly appreciated by them.
C) Being part of the community, we are indirectly responsible for the intergration of immigrants in our society because if we don't accept immigrants there is a small chance that they will get involved in our community. To answer the question, yes we can get involved in helping the immigrants but we can't help them as much as the professionals. I would expect the people to be friendly towards me if i would move to another country and also expect them to be helpful in any way possible.
B) One way of helping immigrants is going out into an agency and offering your help in any way possible to make it easier for the immigrant. An other way would be to not laugh at immigrants if their having difficulties in class, assuming you have an immigrant in your class, because if you laugh at them their confidance will greatly decrease and they might give up that class. The actions we take don't have to be big, anything that can help an immigrant in some way is, I assume, greatly appreciated by them.
C) Being part of the community, we are indirectly responsible for the intergration of immigrants in our society because if we don't accept immigrants there is a small chance that they will get involved in our community. To answer the question, yes we can get involved in helping the immigrants but we can't help them as much as the professionals. I would expect the people to be friendly towards me if i would move to another country and also expect them to be helpful in any way possible.
mardi 6 septembre 2011
Poverty
Some causes of poverty could be a lack of individual responsibilities, being exploited by buisinesses that has alot of power, etc. The person himself is not always responsible for being poor, but sometimes it is his fault. For example, if he drops out of school and doesn't get himself a job and gets himself into drugs, he could see himself live on the street very soon. On the other hand, it could be because of bad governement policies. To try and get out of poverty, you can try to find a job. Other than that i don't really know any solutions, it isn't a well known subject for alot of people.
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