Prison

More and more people are locked up in prison everyday. Here in America we have the most people locked up. People are locked up for dealing drugs, stealing cars when the get out of an institution, taking illegal drugs. Some of these people in my mind should be going to prison they should be going somewhere for help. Prison isn't going to help many people. In class we watched 30 days where Morgan went to live in a prison for 30 days and was treated the same as any other prisoner. We got to see how lonely and boring it was. The prisoners didn't even get to go outside, except once a week. All they do is eat, sleep, and play card games or read. There is no structure there is nothing that they are doing to prevent them from doing what they did to get in prison, its just eat and sleep. I wouldn't want to live that life, and it seems like they do because once they get out they commit the same crime.

Masculinity

This whole week we've been talking about masculinity. Men try their best to be attractive, as much as women try their best to look attractive. The difference is men try to be strong and muscular and women try to look pretty. We are all victims of this. Many men believe that being violent is the best way to show their masculinity, but it isn't. Yesterday in class we learned about Aikido. Aikido is similar to martial arts. The difference is you don't severely injure your opponent. In my opinion its a better way to defend yourself. I think more people should learn about it, I know I would love to learn more. It seems like it could benefit a lot of people, especially men who think their tough.