Blog Assignment

What is the value of social responsibility?

The value of social responsibility is for the corporations to not harm people or the environment. That they cause no harm to others, unfortunately even if corporations try to be socially responsible, they still fail, it is in their nature to be socially irresponsible. They should put the customers needs before their own needs, but corporations are selfish and reach for their self-interest. This is what causes them to be socially irresponsible, because they only care about their own interests, while they affect everyone in their way, even the people that buy their products we are being fooled into believing that what they are selling us is good, it can cause harm, and they won't tell people.

Revision Plan

Blog Assignment Title: (Title your blog posting like this) Unit 1: Revision Plan

Today’s date:  05/07/2012

DUE DATE: 05/09/2012 (before class)

Directions/Description- Please write a response to the questions below- be sure to number them on your blog (For example, 2a, 2b, etc.) Read over your peers’ comments and annotations Review the expectations of the essay (minimum requirements) and determine if you have met all the minimum requirements. Did your peers guess your thesis correctly? Yes/No Yes my peers understood my thesis. Did you peers believe your thesis is an arguable one?  Yes/No Yes they did. What, if any, revisions do you think you need to make to your thesis based upon the annotations and comments your peers made? Explain. If you don’t think you need to revise your thesis, explain why not. I need to rephrase my thesis so it is clearer, and I have to make sure that I can prove my points. Choose TWO comments from your peers that you believe are the most helpful to you. Then explain how you will use these comments to help you revise your essay.  Indicate the name of the person who made that comment in parenthesis. Comment 1: The strongest part of this essay is the points…(Susie Amaya) This will help me revise my essay, because now I know I only have one topic per paragraph. Your response: How will you use this comment in your revision?  Comment 2: Yes but can be developed more to be strong (Erick Gatchalian) Your response: How will you use this comment in your revision? I have to develop my analysis more for it to be good. Are there any other important ideas you have about how you can improve your essay? Explain. Make sure that the order that I put the things in my thesis are the same as the order in my body paragraphs.

Tentative Thesis Unit 1

After reading Rodriguez's book Hearts and Hands: Building Community In Violent Times, I now have a better understanding of why there is violence in our communities, it's deeper than there being evil people in the world, which is the assumption as to why it happens. I think that the solutions that society has put in place to "fix" violence In our communities aren't very successful: putting people in places that are filled with corruption won't help them overcome their violent ways, nor will having zero-tolerance policies that make it so our children feel on the defense in a place where they should feel safe, and lastly our society should have faith that these people will be better, they don't trust them, which i think makes them also not have trust in themselves.

Looping In-Class Freewrite

In-Class Free-write-Discovering Thesis:

My view on violence is different then it was before, because now I see violence as more than just people physically hurting others. There is a deeper reason as to why they do it, and unfortunately society doesn’t accept those reasons. They just automatically assume they are bad people, and send them to institutions where they don’t learn to do better, but instead learn to keep doing bad decisions. His solutions to the problem are reasonable, I agree with him in that parents and the community should be more involved in Youths’ lives. I hate zero-Tolerance policies, I hadn’t noticed them before, but now that I know about them it makes me angry that schools are so cruel to students they should be given chances to improve, yet because of these policies students are forced to fall. I feel that the way to improve violence is not by locking people up and expecting them to be better, but like Rodriguez said, give them sentences that make a difference.

They just automatically assume they are bad people, and send them to institutions where they don’t learn to do better, but instead learn to keep doing bad decisions.

Society doesn’t give these people a chance to improve their lives. These people are thrown into prisons that have even more corruption than the outside world. How can people become better people, when they are forced to change themselves for the worse, because prisons force them to. They are forced to do things to survive in the prison world, yet when they are out of the prison world and into the outside world they are so used to doing things like they did in the prison world that it is hard for them to readjust to the outside world. It is sad that people put so much money into the prison system, just so they can keep making money from the prisoners, they should instead focus on helping the prisoners take control of their lives, but because there is so much greed in this world, money is the most important thing in this world, and it shouldn’t be.

How can people become better people, when they are forced to change themselves for the worse, because prisons force them to?

People are thrown into prison supposedly to learn to do better, to learn that they messed up and now they have to pay in order to fix it, yet instead of learning that, they are learning how to become better criminals. With all the crime and injustices in our prison system, the criminals aren’t learning to do better, they are learning how to do worse. The only way people can learn how to act in a community is to be in a community. They are taken from their community and thrown into the prison system, and they learn how to act in the community except they learn how to act in the wrong community. Then when they are let out back into their old communities they have accustomed so well to the prison community that their old community is not a part of them and they are not a part of the community.

The only way people can learn how to act in a community is to be in a community.

Sometimes the criminals are put into jail because of how they are forced to act in some communities, or else they could get hurt or made fun of. I can pretty much bet people don’t join gangs because they aspire to do so, sometimes some factors come into play fear being one of them. The fear of getting jumped, or the fear of not having someone to have your back. Sometimes that’s how communities are and the “criminals” are adjusting to how things are. Same goes for those who are let out of the prison community they can’t adjust to the outside community, even though, they were there first.