I was reading today and came across a poem that really caught my attention. I thought it was worth sharing since I’ve been on my writing so much about diversity this week… Becoming Joey By Paul. C Gorski Jose’s ten. Looks six by size, twenty in the eyes. Down the school-morning street he ambles along [...]
Archive for the ‘American Society’ Category
9 Oct
Becoming Joey
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Diversity, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Equality, Hate/Intolerance/Prejudice, Life, Poetry, Social Topics. Tagged: acceptance, becoming joey, diversity, diversity poems, diversity poetry, immigrants, kids, multicultural, paul c. gorski, poems, poetry, students, teasing, white privilege. 3 Comments
5 Oct
Teenage Gays Epidemic
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Celebrities, Diversity, Education, Equality, Goals, Hate/Intolerance/Prejudice, Health, Life, Mental Health, Rants, Social Topics, Uncategorized. Tagged: billy lucas, bisexual, bullying, ellen degeneres, gay, gay students, gay teen suicide, harassment, homosexual suicide, kathy griffin, lawrence fobes king, lesbian, oprah, physical harassment, school, sexual harassment, sexual orientation, teenage suicide, the trevor project, transgender, tyler clementi, verbal harassment. Leave a Comment
Bullying is hardcore right now, as we have all heard about the recent increase in teenage suicide related to school bullying. What’s really sad is that a freaking lot of these teenage suicides are related to gays. (Five gay teenagers just committed suicide this past week.) Right now dealing with homosexual harassment and prejudice is [...]
4 Oct
America’s Children Potential
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Diversity, Education, Equality, Goals, Hate/Intolerance/Prejudice, Life, Pregnancy/Children, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Work. Tagged: acceptance, america, american society, bullying, children, cultural differences, education, homophobic, progressive, race, racist, reforms, schools, sexist, teachers, teasing, tolerance, u.s history. 1 Comment
My number one reason why I want to be a teacher is because I love kids. Absolutely, genuinely, whole heartedly love them. But there are other reasons of course. One major one is that I believe in order to produce education that is going to contribute to our society and democracy later, we must teach [...]
26 Aug
Veggies Can Feed the World
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Education, Environment, Health, Life, Meat production, Social Topics, Vegetarian/Vegan, Waste, Weight Control, World Hunger. Tagged: americans, crops, environment, ethiopian famine, fat americans, livestock, meat consumption, meat production, vegan, vegetarian, waste, world hunger. 1 Comment
One of the most depressing things to me is waste. I’m a huge advocate of recycling, reusing, and leftovers. I don’t like seeing things wasted, ever. Although I am liberal in almost all parts of my life, I am very conservative with my money-which also aids me in my ability to never waste. I don’t [...]
