response to racial test

The test on how racist you are I feel isn’t very accurate. Judging on how fast you click a button doesn’t determine how you view people.  I got a moderate preference towards white people. I’m not really sure that’s true I wouldn’t say I have a preference towards any race, and I wouldn’t treat any of them differently just because they’re not the same race as I am.

       The stories that I listened to on face to face were interesting to say the least. Its eye opening to hear their stories that people have faced or how they’re scared to live in American because they’re not sure how much longer the racial tolerance will hold up.  It makes me sad to hear that people actually think this way and feel like this in their own home.

       The story that probably stood out to me most was the one where the one where the Middle Eastern man poke about riding on an airplane. The last line he said was very powerful, he talked about if the plan was hijacked then he’s just like everyone else, and he’s going to die just like everyone else. Yet people are still afraid to sit by him because of his skin color.    

 

reading response #4

     online articles 

          The two articles I read were a humorous one about college and a more serious one about plagiarism.  The first article about college written by Dave Barry was in a way making fun of college and saying you don’t actually learn things just memorize it long enough to test over it then move on. The second article over plagiarism written by Trip Gabriel was about cases where kids in college had been caught plagiarizing and how it is becoming a huge deal in today’s society with the internet and kids not understanding that using other peoples words without giving credit is wrong.

            I really enjoyed the first article I thought it was funny and gave a different view of college then what you normally here from adults. The second article was informative and I like that I’m learning these things now so that later in college I won’t be caught in a bad situation for doing something I didn’t know was wrong. 

“PSYCHOLOGY: This involves talking about rats and dreams. Psychologists are obsessed with rats and dreams. I once spent an entire semester training a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence, then training my roommate to do the same thing. The rat learned much faster. My roommate is now a doctor. If you like rats or dreams, and above all if you dream about rats, you should major in psychology.” –Dave Barry on College

I picked this quote because I plan for my major in college to be psychology. And even though this isn’t everything that is involved in the subject in my psychology classes this year we have already talked about dreams and rats. So I could relate to what he was saying and he made it funny to see psychology from that point of view. I also choose the picture because it is basically the definition of plagiarism which is what the second article was talking about. I feel like if one of these was hanging on the door of every classroom more students would be aware of what it was and how not to do it. 

Reading response #3:

The Six Rules of Maybe

            The book I’m in the process of reading is called “The Six Rules of Maybe” by Deb Caletti. I’m not very far in the book but so far it something I think I could get into and really enjoy it. This is a fiction book told through the eyes of a teenage girl.

So far I’ve only read the first 3 chapters of the book, but I’m liking it. It is about a girl named Scarlet and her family. The book is told through her eyes as she goes through some surprising and big changes in her family. What has happened so far is her sister has come home from college for a visit, brings a bot they’ve never heard of let alone ever seen and BOOM shock to the family big sis is married to the mystery man and has a baby on the way.    

“And then we saw it. We both did, at the same moment.it caught the sun, so shiny and new was the gold. A wedding band. On the guys finger. We both did the same thing next, mom and me. We looked at Juliet’s left hand. And, yes, there was one there, too. That same gold band.” (pg.5)

 

This quote is one of the big things that happen in the book and it shows how you see through scarlet’s eyes as she discovers the new changes that are unfolding all around her. This is also why  chose the picture of the wedding bands, because other than also finding out her older sister Juliet is pregnant that is the only major thing that has happened.