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Chaos on Bus 57: Peer Pressure and It’s Flaws

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why is problem and conflict often times a result of peer pressure?

Peer pressure is a common thing amongst all ages from tiny 2 year olds that might not understand what other people even are; to 70 and 80 year olds who are wise in their choices. Everyone makes mistakes, but to pick and choose who you talk to and associate with is a more personalized decision. In alot of cases people want to seem cool to the others around them, this then leads to a chain in wich the people peer pressuring want entertainment and the person being pressured wants to seem cool by being all “ballsy”. This is a very common scenario when it comes to impulsivley stupid things that teemagers get up to. In the book “The 57 Bus”, the author shows this scenario in a perfectly described way in wich it shows the picture perfectly. When Sasha is on the bus sleeping and richard along with his friends are sat on the bus, Richard’s friends and him see an opportunity. From and with the pressure of his friends Richard proceeds to light Sasha’s skirt on fire with a lowly lighter. Once the whole heat of the moment blows over, the reprucussions that Richard faces afterwards are so not worth it. He is charged with several adult charges when it comes to the deeds that he did for no reward at all, simply just a laugh from his friends.

Amongst one of the worst social outcomes, peer pressure is a widley known cause of conflict in the teenage world. It leads to damage in friendships and in general individual’s lives. As having experienced it myself i know how bad it can be. Its like a slippery slope and youre at the very top, so near the edge. The people down below are trying to drag you down it and once you reach a point in wich its too steep to come back up, you are gone and lost. It’s scary, and for sure a large problem when it comes to kids and the societal pressure, along with the stigma of “Doing bad things to be cool”.

Response to Literature – Pleasantville

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Pleasantville

This movie when I first had the opportunity to view it was astounding. The idea behind the movie and the idea that came out of it and how it was represented through such a unique view, it really left me dumbfounded. In this movie to breakdown the jist of it, the main charachters Jennifer and David are, through a wave of anger and misjudgment, transported into david’s favourite tv show “Pleasantville” where they strugggle but manage to fit in.

what the storyline is trying to get to as it progresses is that change can both facilitate good and bad to an individual and/or group of individuals. The fact around this is shown in many parts throughout the viewing of this show. Peasantville is a perfect town, it is happy and jolly and everyone lives an ideal life with an ideal family and an ideal role in society. Change is foreign to any and all of the citizens as shown on many cases. This is first shown when David, who has been reknown as bud due to the change of setting, is late to work and finds Bill a mess in the diner as the daily routine that he follows was disrupted by bud’s being late. He doesnt know what hes supposed to do so he just doesnt open the diner at all. This shows how in sync everything is in this town and how terribly routined everyone lives.

When Mary-Sue or formerly known as Jennifer goes to school miss teacher is teaching the class a lesson about the geography of Pleasantville. Confused as to the simplicity of this lesson, Mary-Sue asks about what is exactly past the Main Street of the town. In response she gets looks as if she were some madwoman. The people in this town dont know what she even meant by the word “beyond”. As things like this continue to happen due to Bud and Mary-Sue’s meddeling with the routine of the town, things start to change. Color starts to come to the black and white world that all these charachters live in. Many people are happy and surprised by this as its all new to them, however there is also a part of the community that finds this outrageous. To the few people that didn’t like this they would stop at nothing to exterminate this change. The movie outlines a very inportant and sensitive part of actual history in wich the “coloreds” are discriminated against in the mass because they are seen as different to society. The people see them as a threat to normality. This is shown in many scenes of the movie, one of wich stood out to me in specific. When the whole town went to court it is reminicent of a particular scene in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” where the black people of the society in the courtroom were seperated from the rest of the courtroom in mass. The main level was where all the white people would sit and the black people would sit on the upper level farther away from the action and given less power within the law.

The movie has this same picture set out where the black and white people are all on the main level of the courtroom all with opinion while the coloreds are on the secons level segregated against from the rest of the courtroom with less power. This shows how change can facilitate issues in society and life, though this does not mean that the people in color were any different than the people in black and white. It is the sad truth as with many other situations ,though in the end of the movie this issue was proven to be pointless as it was found out that all the people had the ability to be in color. The black and white people just hadnt found something new about themselves that cuts out of the routine life that they live. This resulted in the blind thout that the colors were bad as change changed how they lived.

Reality and it’s flaws

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To me this concept of a story was very interesting, it has led me to think
of many upon a train of thought in which I remembered watching this movie once. Titled
"The Truman Show" this movie was created in the late 20th century in the year 1981,
it was a huge hit across many audiences and it certainly intrigued me which 
has led me to share this here. The movie is based around a guy who grew up and
lived in a practical fake simulation of reality. his friends his love life his
environment it was all a lie to broadcast to a tv. There were cameras set up everywhere
the bubble from the movie^^         to record all that was happening in his life and what he'd do with his time. He
suddenly starts to notice his life is getting very repetitive and follows his growing suspicions to find out the truth.
It has had a huge effect on me and has made me think of the possible situations in which everything to an extent is
kind of like a false truth.

In life for a lot of people the ultimate goal is a made up virtue in which we are led to live a life restrained by society
and its plans. The theory behind what job to have, what family to build, what life to live, it's all created by idealism in
today's society, the idea that a set plan is in fact the best for an individual and their needs. Sometimes I feel as
though even I am living for a false sense of accomplishment in which my goals are deeply outlined by what humanity deems
proper or ideal. In many ways this corelates to the allegory of the cave in which it shows that life is to an extent only
what one may perceive it as through the senses that we are granted at birth. The things we see, the things we taste,
touch, smell, feel, and experience are what defines our sense of reality. In fact as those are limited, like those of the
people in the cave and Truman from the movie reality is not what it is for others as that is all they ever knew. To state
that such reality is false to what reality is in its full glory would make them think you are absurd.

lack of motivation – alex

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When an individual who suffers from a depressed mindset lacks hope and puts off needed tasks, such an individual may feel overwhelmed resulting in a lack of motivation and ambition.

 

As someone who suffers with such a mental state i cant write this. Thanks for coming to my ted talk! 

 

I was going to delete that but i’ve now noticed its a prime example of what goes through someone’s head when they may be suffering from depressive thoughts that prevent them from finding motivation and joy in the things they once enjoyed or are expected to enjoy in life. I am a really bad procrastinator and i find that this is caused by me being sad and therefore not able to focus on the good and the things i need too do. My thesis statement applies to me personally because i find school hard due to impatience and lack of motivation, therefore i just dont do stuff i need to do because it gets overwhelming. Even writing this thesis took lots of convincing from my friends.

 

People in the world often suffer from the same things i do leading to lack of motivation. This is common in people my age and in my opinion that is why a lot of people fail or drop out of school because depression and suicidal thoughts in teenagers are higher than a lot of other groups. While depression can seem like an excuse not to do things it isnt an excuse.