Valerie

**03/14/14**
====A big topic I been hearing this week is the missing Malaysia flight, I think this is a very important because a plane is missing with more than 200 people in it, its just too insane. I find this topic kinda disturbing because people are thinking at this point that its a terrorist attack and they are calling this a terrorist attack because there was two people from Iraq on the plane. Its not fair and its not right, that's being stereotypical just because Iraq is near Saudi Arabia doesn't mean they want to hurt anyone.Many things could have happen to that plane. I just feel that everyone should have an open mind to this problem because what if this isn't a terrorist attack or have anything to do with these two people from Iraq.==== ==== lasagna ====

**02/28/14**
====People today I view as hero's are the people who take a stand but also make the right choices. I'm a big fan of Miley Cyrus, but I defiantly do not see her as a hero. Hero's are people who save you and who make you feel safe. Miley Cyrus does stand up for herself and doesn't care about being her true self but she does not make the right choice and we do not want anyone following her footsteps. it was very ignorant of her to say that shes a "Rule Model" ... like how are you a rule model by telling everyone its okay to do drugs. No. People like Beyonce seem like a role model to me, she's a strong independent women who set standards for herself and everyone should be more like her.====

**02/21/14**
====Where does sexism start? It can start with your parents, friends, or clothing... [|Sexist 'Avengers' T-Shirts Tell Boys To Be Heroes And Girls To Need A Hero] by Christina Huffington is about Marvel selling sexists shirts to children. These shirts are the begging to children, showing that boys are better than girls because girls cant be hero's. Theirs nothing good about sexism especially from a girls point of view. When we were born we were taught that everyone is equal, shirts like the Marvels T-shirts makes our society beg to differ.====

==== [|A Line Between Sweet and Skimpy]by Bruce Feiler is about a concern dad and worry about the generations style. Threw out the years our style does change, but this generations style is the last bit of modest. Girls these days show there Goodies just to capture guys attention, but they need to know that they're not always gonna be looking hot. The years will go by and you'll lose that guys attention. All that really matters is personality and dressing skimpy isn't going to make you look nice, everyone will get the wrong idea about you. W hither you like it or not, everyone judges a book by its cover. Plus you want a guy to imagine how you would look without clothes not with clothes. ====

==== We should always be critical of what we say because its might be hurtful to others, [|Brother Ali] is right. I am a lover of hip hop but every time I actually start to listen there's a lot of negative things. On a daily basis I hear the words ft and b***h they mean absolutely nothing to me but I can tell people surround by me feel uncomfortable with those kind of words. That's how Brother Ali felt at first, he felt hurtful words didn't really matter. Everyone is different and you start learning that when you start growing up, and that's what Brother Ali speaks of, as he grows up he realizes words really can effect you or others. When music comes on the radio and have awful wording not only adults or teenagers hear this but so do children and this influence our generation to think its okay to say these words but they're not. ====

==== Brother Ali article also speaks about homophobia, homosexuality is a big topic in today's world, like the song "[|Same love]". The song is protesting for gay rights but also telling the audience to have a positive view on homosexuals. I like this because it has a positive meaning and we should have songs like this more often, not of hate but of love, to love one another no matter what views they have. ====