So, Which Cell Would You Like to Call Home?

30 days in prison doesn't seem that long until you're actually the one serving it. Sal had showed us a movie today where a man had spent 30 days in jail, and was treated like any other person that gets sent there. At first, it didn't seem that bad. They gave you a mattress, pillow, and they told you to pick your own room. Sounds nice of them, huh? Yeah, it's nice when most of the cells are already filled with 3 people or some just don't want you there since it's such a small room and you spend a good amount locked in there for the night with the people you chose. Sounds like they are living the life. The funny part is you don't even have to think in jail. You have 3 meals a day and if you are lucky a visitor every once in a while. Me, personally, I think I'd go crazy after just spending a week in the slammer. Speaking about going crazy, a good amount of the people that are in prison have a mental problem that, in my opinion, shouldn't even be in prison! I mean what is this? If the judge had sentenced them to X amount of years to a mental institution for them to get better, then it would make just a little more sense instead of stuffing them into the already filled up jail cells we have in America. When I found out the statistics about the amount of prisoners we had, that was a shock, but an even bigger shock was the fact that most of them need mental help not just to be locked away and forgotten about. The laws that society made up needs some revising, big time. Most of them don't even make sense, I mean I understand if you did a horrible crime like murder then, of course, you should be locked up for good, but not when there's something wrong with you. Oh, and another thing most of the criminals are in jail for drugs and have longer sentences than the ones who committed murder, which is the most ridiculous thing I have ever herd in my life. Yes, I'm aware that some drugs are illegal in the U.S., but come on, life sentence plus another life sentence plus 16 months on parole for taking a drug or selling it. And these murderers get away with just 20 years in prison and are set free to kill again? This sure does not make sense to me, but i guess it does in court.

Toga Party, Anyone??

A week before Halloween my friends and I decided to do something fun and different then we normally do on a Saturday night. Yeah, you guessed it, we had a Toga Party. And yes, you guessed it again, wearing a toga was a must. The main purpose of this party was not actually having a party, it was more like a game. My friends and I split up into 4 groups of 4 people and we had a list of things we had to do, some were on the stupid side, but most of them were an act of kindness that most of us wouldn't do on a normal basis. For example, one of the tasks was to help an old lady cross the street. We had to video tape us doing the task for "points" that would be added up at the end of the game. Oh, did I mention we were wearing togas this whole time? It was strange, especially for the guys. We kept getting weird stares/looks from random people about the guys wearing the togas. To me it was just funny, but I thought it tied into what Sal was talking about in class today. When he showed us a piece of clothing that a guy had to wear for an Egyptian Wedding, just got me thinking about the guys that were wearing the togas and how "out of the norm" it is for that to happen around here. Another task we had to do was to help someone out with bags or a large object that they were carrying. This, I considered a positive deviance. Even though it was something to cure our boredom I felt good about myself after going out of my way just to help someone which i normally wouldn't do, obviously.
P.S. My Team won ;)

McDreamy

"Come on son, be a MAN!" says a father to his son. If you're not a man and can't stand up to others then you're obviously a "fag" says almost everyone you ask. Stand up for who you are, come on, get into a fight, knock someone over, or put them into a hospital;that's what parents are telling their kids now a days. Not only do boys get a speech about it, it's publicly advertised everywhere you look. Can't believe it? Yeah, either could I, when children have been growing up with this message in Classic Disney movies. I have never stopped to think that a Disney Character, like Hercules, is portraying the way men should look now a days, with their tough guise and muscular bodies. Please, give me a break, if EVERY guy looked like that then, well, the world would be just too boring. It would be like a where's the real waldo type thing, with everyone looking the same. I mean masculinity can be advertised in a different way, a little less suddle and a lot less violence. People don't understand that people in movies are digitally made to look "tough" with their fake accents and fancy suites, for example The Godfather. Yet, everyone treats tough guy actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger like a god. What a world we live in....