Summary: In class we read a sample essay called "Spending quality time with your children is important" in the essay the write talks about how even when mothers work they can still spend time with their children. The writer talks about how moms and their children can cook , work on homework and take walks to the park together. The main point the writer is making is that just because a mother works that doesn't mean they cant spend quality time with their children.

Response: I agree with the point that the writer makes. I feel that just because a mom works doesn't mean they cant spend time and be their for their kids. When I was little I always remembered  my mom working to support us and sometimes even working two or three jobs, but that didn't stop her form spending quality time with me. Even thought I remember my mom having to work a lot; I also remember all the good times we had going to six flags, shopping, going to the zoo, going to Disneyland or just having movie night at home. So with that being s aid I do feel that aother can work and stiol have quality time with their kid(s).

Summary: In class this week we read "Working Mothers Are Benefiting the Family" by Supreet Mann. In this essay she argues how she thinks that working mothers help their family more than hinder. She explained how when a mother works it doesn't only bring an extra income into the families house hold but it also sets an example for their children. when a mother works it can set a good worth ethic for their children. she points out that people say that when a mother works it leads to divorces and likelihood of cheating, but Mann makes a good point that people don't cheat and get divorced because of both parents are working, but because they have deep-seated problems that happen over time,

conclusion: I would definitely have to agree with Supreet Mann she makes many good points and arguments. I don't think a working mother can harm the family, but if anything make the family more stable and make the families financial situation more stable. I find it crazy that people will go to blaming divorce and cheating on working mother- rather than just seeing that there is actually problems in the relationship like maybe the couple just don't connect like they use to. I also do agree with Mann on that working mothers can set a good worth ethic. I think if mothers work it can influence their daughter(s) because it shows them that women can also work and accomplish just as much if not more than a man. I also think that working mothers show their kids that their  isn't a "gender roll" anymore and that the mom and dad need to contribute in every aspect in the house hold.

Summary: this week we read "why we crave horror movies" By Stephan King. In the essay he writes about why he thinks we crave Horror movies. In his essay he states that "We're mentally ill". He rights about how we all have something inside of us that likes to watch these horrible things happen in these movies  because we know we cant do these things in reality. King writes that we all have these alligators in our mind that need to be feed, and since we cant feed them ourselves by doing the things people do in horror movies like killing, we go to horror movies to feed these alligators. King also writes that we go to these movies to basically face those fears of the dark, tight spaces or what ever our fear may be.

Response: Before I read this essay I never thought of the point that king makes, that we go to horror movies to feed this craving we have in our head. After reading his essay I can agree with his point that we are all a little mentally ill and we crave horror movies to feed these "alligators" that we have in our head. But I also think people just like horror movies for the feeling of getting scared or the adrenalin rush we get not knowing what will happen next.

Summary: in the essay "Small Change: why the revolution will not be tweeted" Malcolm talks about how we will not make big changes in the world through the Internet. He talks about how activist on social media are really not activist. Those so called "Activist" that are on the Internet don't risk anything so they truly are not an activist. He defines a true activists as someone who risk something, someone who risks their life or their freedom. Malcolm's main point is that if we want to make any real changes we have to risk more, we have to do more than just like or re-tweet something in order to difference

Conclusion: I do agree with the essay that a real activist needs to risk more than just a like on Facebook or a re-tweet on Twitter in order to be an activist. A activist back in the 90's risked their life or  their safety in order to fight for something they believed in and you really don't see that kind of activism now a days. Although i do agree with the essay I think that social media can make positive impacts, like spreading awareness to things like ALS. The Internet brought extreme attention to ALS through the ice bucket challenge, but the meaning of the ice bucket challenge also got lost through the Internet. The internet can make changes and bring awareness to things, but I think if people take more risks like the activist in the 90's; there would be more changes and making risks would give more meaning to what they are fighting for.

Summary: In the book "they say I say" I read a essay called "A Lifetime of Student Debt? Not Likely. In this essay many different people talk about how students go into school debt because of lack of knowledge. Or they go into debt because they go to a school way out of their price range for the fact that it is their dream school. The essay also talks about how a student takes out to many loans and are not able to pay them back in the future because the degree of certificate they obtained may not land them a high paying job. which means they wont be able to pay back their student loans and they then will go into debt.

Response: I really found this essay rather interesting. Because I always hear how a student will have to work the rest of their life to pay off a student debt and how student loans are so bad. But I never hear the other side that a student just dosent know what they are getting into when they get a student loan. The student may just have lack of knowledge and that is the reason they go into student debt. I like how this essay gives another view on student loan debt. It  also shows that maybe its not the loans that are the problem, but maybe its the lack of knowledge when getting a student loan is the problem.

 

 summary: in the essay "forgotten children" Cassandra J. talks about how its unfair that a man can have a child with a woman and then just leave her. For her to have to provide for that child all by them self. She also talks about how is so hard for a mo to get child support from the father and eventually the mom gives up on the system and just dose what she has to for her child. The biggest point she wanted to make in this essay is that fathers get away way to easy. In the matter that the father can basically talk there way out of child support and end up not having to pay the mom for what ever reason they have. Cassandra just wants for stricter laws when it comes to fathers and child support

response: I totally agree with this essay. I think fathers get off way to easy now days. It shouldn't be so easy for a man or a woman to create a child and then not contribute at all to the child. To just leave a parent hanging with a child to support all by them self is not fair to that parent and definitely not fair to the child. I also agree that the government should be more strict with getting child support from the absent parent and a little more easier on the parent trying to get the child support.

 
 Summary:
 This week I read a "This I Believe" essay about a girl named Ashley. She talked about how she believes that people should be able to be who they want to be with out being judged. She believes this because she is a girl that likes girls she is a lesbian but doesn't let societies thought of the way she lives effect her. She believes that society has no say in right and wrong.  I really like a part of her essay where she talks about how society always go to the bible when it comes to same-sex relationship's but if god can forgive one for murder, then god can forgive one for being in love with some one the same-sex as them.

React:
 when unread this essay I really agreed with her. I don't think someone should be told who they can and can't be with. Who they should and shouldn't be.  I have friends and family who are gay and it breaks my heart how someone can be embarrassed of who they because of what society is going to think. I know society has came a long way from years ago but society is still so harsh on people. when I see on TV how this state or that state is passing same-sex marriage I think to my self why is this even a law. Who is the state to tell someone who they can and can't marry. Its crazy how  America has so many religions and races but yet certain states wont let tow people of the Sam-sex people get married. Society should have no say on how someone should be, who they should love, how they should dress or anything else. People should be who they want to be without being afraid of what society has to say or think about it.