Social issues project

Social Issues. #1

I got the idea of this poem from a book called “Give a boy a gun”. In that book two kids are bullied, and their friends decide to ditch them and friend more popular kids. The end of the book, is definitely different from the end of this poem, but it has some of the same meanings. While the poem seems light, it talks about an especially dark issue that people need to recognize more. Just because you don’t see the bullying, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Just because you don’t see people physically hurt, doesn’t mean they aren’t hurt.

Bullies bully Yat

He cries on his cat

Nobody will help Yat

The system is messed up

Yat wants to give up hope

But his parents say nope

He has no friends

His old friends have left him

They like a guy named Tim

People don’t like people who don’t play sports

Yat just sits at home in his shorts

He doesn’t need those bullies he says

He can live just fine without them

Yat finally convinces his Teacher he is being bullied, but

All she says is that boys will be boys, and he should stay put

Bullies bully Yat

He cries on his cat

The process of my poem was thinking of an Idea, and taking ideas from other stories of bullying. Like how nobody likes him because he doesn’t play sports– that was taken from another book, “Give a boy a Gun,” and how all his friends like Tim, Tim symbolizes the popular clique, and it rhymes. I got that teachers say that boys will be boys, and they don’t understand. The main social idea here was bullying, and how people ignore it, and some of it, like losing his friends, the kids who were Yat’s friends don’t really realize what they are doing, and they think that Yat is just some loser who they used to know.

Social Issues #2

It all started with Frank Shankwitz in the Arizona department of public safety. Frank Shankwitz was assigned to Highway Safety department, and sent to Yuma, Arizona. He was there when he started to help disabled kids, coaching them for the Special Olympics programs. Then, two years later, in 1974 Frank joined the Arizona Highway Patrol motorcycle program, and was transferred back to phoenix, where he met Chris, five years later, who was dying from leukemia and only had a few days to live. Chris’s dad told Frank that his dying wish was to be a Highway Patrol Motorcycle officer. So from there the first case started. Frank granted that wish by making Chris the first honorable Arizona Highway Patrol Motorcycle Officer. From that, he started the make-a-wish foundation

Zooming into the future, thirty years after he started the make a wish foundation it now has 96 chapters worldwide and 230,000 wishes have been granted. One wish is granted every forty minutes. He is someone who makes big changes to the world, just from one thing he started one of the best organizations for dying kids. He has changed many lives, and granted many wishes. Celebrities such as Oprah have met kids who their last dying wish was to meet them. Wishes from meeting celebrities to becoming honorary Arizona Arizona state police officers, helping dying kids all over.

I chose to write about Frank Shankwitz because he is the unknown hero, the man behind the scenes, who you don’t often see, or hear about. He is a true hero who tried to help others. Not everyone can be a Frank Shankwitz, but you can still change the world. Recycle, help people, and donate to charities, and you can change someones life, or even change the world.

Social Issues #3

After observing a lot of things over a few days, I have noticed that a big problem is that middle class families find it increasingly hard to pay for college for their kids, and student loans are just plain old bad for the kid. 

Because college is so expensive, it’s no longer about just getting in, if you get in without money, you can’t go. Many middle class families are at a big disadvantage point because unlike the rich, they can’t afford college, and unlike the poor, the colleges expect for middle class families to be able to afford college.

The cause of this problems is probably two things, the first one being the recession, and the second one is the intense competition between schools. For once, competition between two things in the world is bad. Because of the compettion between the top schools, one wants to be better than another, so the schools start spending more on professors, facility, and more, to come out on top. And who are they going to charge for this? Everyone else attending to the school.

A way we could fix this would be if Schools spent less on things they don’t entirely need. Cutbacks. Just like any other school, private colleges need to cut-back on things that are costing too much. They need to cut back so middle-class Americans can afford college, instead of going to China to find kids who will pay full fair.

I think the price of colleges is definitely a big thing we need to concentrate on, because we need an educated workforce, and we can’t have that if only rich people can afford college.