No Equality

On a website called http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-7089&artno=0000308284&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Bullying&title=For%20Gay%20Youths%2C%20Middle%20School%20Can%20Be%20Toughest%20Time&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N I found out that gays' and lesbians' are still treated differently than others. I feel that gay people are no different than any of us. They should be treated the same beacause the question is:
 'What is so wrong with gay people that they have to be treated so differently?'
There is no flaw with being gay. In this atricle it said that the girl was so aware of her differences, that she cut herself, and didn't even tell her family. That's sad because that means that everyone is just judgemental. That doesn't make sense that gay people are treated like that because some people may only be treating them different because they are trying to hide their differences and flaws, so when they make fun of people it might make them feel better about themselves.So this article explain alot, and I feel like it is sad that that person actually had to go through that for about 6 years.

No Words to Explain It

I found this article on a website called http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-5246&artno=0000308066&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Animal%20welfare&title=One%20Animal%20Laboratory%20Closed%2C%201%2C100%20to%20Go&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N

This is so sad. I feel that those people shouldn’t even be allowed to ever se daylight again, meaning that they should die inside of their jail cell. How could they do that to animals, knowing that the animals can’t really defend themselves, or get away from those horrible, sinister, and cold people. Experimenting, and abusing animals, is SICK!!! I wonder what goes through their heads when they are doing that to those poor animals. The fact that they pick up the dogs by their ears and throw them at the wall is ridiculous, and also the fact that they repeatedly throw the cats back into their cages, knowing that the cats can’t do anything, or that they could break a bone. And all of this misery just to test tick and flea products on dogs and cats. WHAT IS THIS?? Why couldn’t they just build a model dog and cat, and then put live fleas and ticks on it, and if the products works, then they could start selling them. But, instead the doctors have to be (fill in the blank), and make the animals suffer. Some people are so stupid and cruel that it doesn’t even make any sense to the world. People forget that animals can’t do anything to fight back, making them defenseless. Animals don’t deserve that and people forget that since animals are animals, some are not able to defend themselves. I just want to go down there and make those doctors suffer the way they made those animals suffer!!!!!!!!! It’s wrong experimenting and abusing animals no matter what the purpose is, and everyone should know that. So I have just one question left: If you were the animal band you felt the pain that they were going through, that you were causing them, what would you do?

Social Awareness: Social Problems and Issues in Music

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's alright because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's alright because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie

[Eminem]
I can't tell you what it really is
I can only tell you what it feels like
And right now it's a steel knife in my windpipe
I can't breathe but I still fight while I can fight
As long as the wrong feels right it's like I'm in flight
High off of love, drunk from my hate,
It's like I'm huffing pain and I love it the more I suffer, I suffocate
And right before I'm about to drown, she resuscitates me
She fucking hates me and I love it.
Wait! Where you going?
"I'm leaving you"
No you ain't. Come back we're running right back.
Here we go again
It's so insane cause when it's going good, it's going great
I'm Superman with the wind at his back, she's Lois Lane
But when it's bad it's awful, I feel so ashamed I snapped
Who's that dude? I don't even know his name
I laid hands on her, I'll never stoop so low again
I guess I don't know my own strength

[Chorus - Rihanna:]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's alright because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's alright because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie

[Eminem]
You ever love somebody so much you can barely breathe
When you're with 'em
You meet and neither one of you even know what hit 'em
Got that warm fuzzy feeling
Yeah, them chills you used to get 'em
Now you're getting fucking sick of looking at 'em
You swore you'd never hit 'em; never do nothing to hurt 'em
Now you're in each other's face spewing venom in your words when you spit them
You push pull each other's hair, scratch claw hit 'em
Throw 'em down pin 'em
So lost in the moments when you're in them
It's the rage that took over it controls you both
So they say you're best to go your separate ways
Guess if they don't know you 'cause today that was yesterday
Yesterday is over, it's a different day
Sound like broken records playing over but you promised her
Next time you show restraint
You don't get another chance
Life is no Nintendo game
But you lied again
Now you get to watch her leave out the window
Guess that's why they call it window pane

[Chorus - Rihanna:]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's alright because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's alright because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie

[Eminem]
Now I know we said things, did things that we didn't mean
And we fall back into the same patterns, same routine
But your temper's just as bad as mine is
You're the same as me
But when it comes to love you're just as blinded
Baby, please come back
It wasn't you, baby it was me
Maybe our relationship isn't as crazy as it seems
Maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano
All I know is I love you too much to walk away though
Come inside, pick up your bags off the sidewalk
Don't you hear sincerity in my voice when I talk
I told you this is my fault
Look me in the eyeball
Next time I'm pissed, I'll aim my fist at the drywall
Next time. There won't be no next time
I apologize even though I know its lies
I'm tired of the games I just want her back
I know I'm a liar
If she ever tries to fucking leave again
Im'a tie her to the bed and set this house on fire
I'm just gonna

[Chorus - Rihanna:]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's alright because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's alright because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
        Eminem is a great rapper and artist, and has really good music, but this song has many examples of Social Awareness Issues. For example, he says ‘lie’ in this song a lot. This song in circulating around a relationship and how it’s tearing apart mainly because they are having problems in their relationship. The man in the relationship keeps on lying, while the woman feels trapped (sort of) and goes and flirts with other men. This is a Social Awareness Issue because many relationships are tearing apart because of this stuff and it’s really sad that it happens.

Social Awareness: Social Problems and Issues in Your Books

           A Social Awareness Issue that I found in the book FADE by Lisa McMann was an issue that included drugs. In this book, a girl named Janie who is a dream catcher, and a narc (undercover student cop), goes on a case that includes a sexual predator. It turns out to be worse because there are three of them. These people happened to be her Chemistry 2. teacher, Mr. Durbin, her Psychology teacher, Mr. Wang, and her PE teacher, Coach Crater. She ends up at a party with all of her other classmates at Mr. Durbin’s house, where he put a drug called GHB inside of the food and drinks that he was serving. On a website (http://www.k-state.edu/media/webzine/Didyouhearyes/GHBfacts.html), I found out that the drug GHB is for the victims to lose consciousness, without ever remembering what happened after they have ingested the drug. During the party, those three teachers interacted with the students who ingested the drug, and the teachers have ingested the drug themselves. Sadly in the book, a girl was raped by one of the teachers (Mr. Wang), and when Janie (though she had ingested the drug, and couldn’t remember a thing) called for back-up, all of the students were taken out of the house to be checked at the hospital, when

Mr. Durbin was found in his bed with three other female students. At the end of the case, each of these teachers went to jail.

            This is a Social Awareness Issue because drugs are bad, and it is even worse that a sexual predator would seduce teenagers into going to their house, and tricking them, for their own fantasies, and desires. I find this to be very sad that someone would do this to a person and it is sick. I find it to be something that only someone with an evil, twisted, and sick mind would do something like that.