Entry 24: What's Your Problem

There are many situations in life that are unfair and many people mistake equality with fairness. Fairness and equality are two completely different things. Fairness is when people are treated without discrimination and treated to the level they deserve. Not everyone deserves the same kind of treatment. Equality is to make everything equal, the same and being fair is not always being equal. For example if someone broke their leg and needed help up some stair and he receives help he is treated nicely and it wouldn't be unfair to other people who don't get any help because they don't have a broken leg. That situation would be fair but not equal. In my year of life I have experience types of unfair situations. The most reoccurring one is of teachers having favorite students and giving them a higher score even though they don't deserve it. Some times I am the one that is the teacher's favorite but many times other are the favorites. For example during history class I had back in my old school we had a essay to write and everyone had only 30 minutes to write it. By the time 30 minutes ran out one kid was still writing, the teacher took away my essay that was near to completion but not quite complete without me being able of asking for more time. Then as she walked over to the one student still writing she stopped next to him and waited until he was completed his essay. Then when the scores came back I received a 70% for in completion and the kid who had extra time received a 95%. Yet when I read his essay it had grammar errors all over the page and spelling errors as well making it unworthy of the 95% and the extra time given by the unfair teacher.

Entry 23: Address an Issue

In my community today there are many issues that effect me, both big and small. Small things would be things such as the late policy because I am not use to being late for school or class so I wouldn't be effect as much. However things such as not being to stay in school after 5:00 pm due to the people that goof around after school effect me greatly. First of all I like spending time after school to socialize but that's not all I do. I also stay to work, to work on my portfolio because school is the only place with enough supplies, space, and peace that I need to work in. I can't bring 3 feet tall sculpture back home to work on, due to transportation of the sculpture and also I wouldn't have materials to work with. By limiting the time to 5:00 pm after school I can't work and it slows down my process on completing a piece (Which with normal after school working time can already take 2 weeks), sculptures are the main issue but paintings also because bits hard for me to focus at home. I have to have a working space and atmosphere to work productivity. I have found holes in the policy which allows me to stay longer, until my dad comes after work. However I am still being troubled by some of the administrators from time to time for staying after school and it greatly effects my work ethic and productivity.

Entry 22: Late Policy

I believe that the new late policy is one that wouldn't last long. This type of policy has been enforced before but it seems that the enforces never take it seriously themselves. They only want to use it as a way of intimidating the students at the school. The policy of locking people outside of school is completely ridiculous. We pay to come to school and if you are going to force us to leave for a day just because we are 1 minute late you better pay me back for that days cost of tuition. From what I've heard this policy was created only because of the behavior of few students in school and not many. So why would there be this policy that effects everyone? The school should just pick out the few bad behaving students and punish them and not trying to scare everyone else into being super punctual. If I was the boss I would not punish everyone for the actions of a few but to create a policy that would only punish those who are not punctual in a less drastic way. I would lock them out and send them home, because that would only result in more trouble, even law suits. I would give them detention. Detentions that would be related to punctuality and not just cleaning up the school because they can slack off while cleaning.

Entry 21: Helping the Reader

Every writer has his own purpose of writing whatever it is they are writing, poems, essays, novels, and even articles. With a purpose of writing a writer also has an audience that he wants to write to. The audience can be one or many, there is no limitation it all depends on the author. To write something that appeals to that audience it is usually better if it is written from a readers point of view or at least considered  from a readers point of view. If you only write from your own point of view other might not get it and if they don't then you run out of an audience. The audience is suppose to understand your writing and by writing it with a reader's point of view it only helps them to understand it better. Especially in a personal narrative the writer should write with a write or evaluate it from a reader's point of view. Making things more personal is making it more strange for the readers because their may be specific things that only you understand, like inside jokes. Evaluating the writing from a reader's point of view would help the writer find the flaws in the writing and to check if everything comes together smoothly as one piece of writing.