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The results were varying for each question, each question also had unique responses. Most people would join a sorority for life experience and friendships. However, seventy five percent of the responses thought of parties and exchanges when thinking about greek community. There us so much more to sororities than parties and friends. Fifty percent of students who took the survey find charity work in greek life somewhat important. Also, hazing makes fifty percent of users nervous about joining a sorority or fraternity. The financial aspect of becoming a Greek member does not affect most students in their decision.

Evaluate Karen and how her personality influences her to cheat on Greg.
Karen has low self esteem which causes her to do close to anything to make her feel better about herself, including cheating. Karen is a Beta Pi sorority girl at ULA who is easily swayed by peer pressure. She does whatever her mom and boyfriend want her to do, including writing Greg's school papers. Once, her mother told her she had a big nose, so she got a nose job. In the end, Karen wants so badly to fit in that she will go as far as it takes to get approval from her peers."I'm not pretty, but give me a half hour with 60 percent of the guy population and I can somehow get him to name that tune." (Welch 15) This quote shows how low her self confidence is, but how much she cares about what boys think of her. Karen swears she will marry Greg, but then cheats on him. She likes the idea of having a boyfriend, but more importantly, she loves the satisfaction she gets from boys attention. Karens personality influences her to cheat on Greg because she needs more than just a solid boyfriend, she needs approval from a lot of boys to feel that she is special. 

Sorority Sisters by Claudia Welch - Flyer

Sororities- More than just a letter on a sweatshirt

Sororities

In Glendale School District in Southern California, they are spending 40,500 dollars to monitor students on multiple social media platforms. This is the districts response to bullying on social media and how they plan to stop it. The district says that "monitoring is for student safety". Many people are saying that this is an infringement of privacy because no one, including the principals, has made a public statement addressing the monitoring.

The entire thing wouldn't be wrong if they just let the students know that they were monitoring. That would give them the chance to turn their accounts on private, and even think before they speak. If people knew that the school was watching everything they put on the internet, they would behave differently. Spying on them is wrong and having daily reports of what students choose to say sent to administration is unconstitutional. On the other hand, if you don't want your page or account to be public, make it private.

Anyone could look at anything on the 

internet and people need to be aware of that. This does not justify the fact that they are snooping on their students, but people just need to realize that if you are a public page, anyone could be reading your posts. This topic is very controversial. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you can read many peoples opinions in the comment section. 

If this happened at San Ramon, I think people would be infuriated. Not at the fact that we would be monitored, just the fact that no one told us. Also, I know me and my friends tend to joke around with each other on twitter and instagram. I think its hard for a computer generated program and people working for a  company to differentiate between posts that are posing threats and posts that aren't.  Its hard to tell over the internet what people really mean, but people have the right to say whatever they want. I could see this happening at San Ramon but i've never seen something on social media that would've needed the administration involved. I'm careful about what I post on the internet so it really wouldn't be a problem for me, but for other people it might actually be a good thing for them to realize that what they say is public and what is said on the internet will be there forever.

Lit Circle Reflection

My second Lit Circle was much better than my first. The first time, I was unprepared and it was hard for me to participate. I improved in multiple ways including that I had alot more to say and I also did my job well. I liked being the Discussion Director more than the Summarizer. My groups performance also improved a lot the second time. We all did our jobs and had in depth discussions. We all listened to what each of us had to say and overall it went extremely well. I'm looking forward to seeing how much we improve in our third Lit Circle.

Tuesday Write #5- 10/31

Tuesday Write #5

There are many factors that hold a civilization together. The first and most important factor is leadership. Without leadership, everything would fall apart. The leader has to be well respected and elected for people to want to follow what the leader says. Having a dictatorship does not work because people will ultimately always end up rebelling. I believe morality falls into the category of strong leadership. Even if people don’t have morals, if the government and rulers are strong and fair then the people doing wrong will be punished. Even better, if the rules are fair, the majority of people will obey. Economy also falls into leadership. I don't think a class system is necessarily bad because it is impossible for everyone to be equal no matter how great that sounds. Stronger nations with strong leadership are less likely to be poverty ridden.  

In Lord of the Flies, society fell apart because of leadership. As stated above, leadership is the most important factor of holding a society together. The leadership was unfair and the children rebelled because of that. If there is no leadership, then war is inevitable because people start to believe they can do whatever they want with no consequences.

Quotes from LOTF with the theme "Power Struggle"