Bullying and Harrassment

• Has anything we have discussed with Mr. Verboomen, Office Schuette, or seen on MTV's "Flipped" opened your eyes to bullying, harassment, or how we treat other people?

Nothing has really opened my eyes other than about how cruel and unreasonable people really are. I am anti-bullying and try and help people the best I can in most situations. Im aware of signs of bullying and how it can really affect the person being bullied.

• Is their a line between ACCEPTABLE bullying or teasing and UNACCEPTABLE bullying? How do you know?

I think that there is a line that is crossed from teasing to bullying depending on how well you know a person and how close you are to them. Even though most teasing is still hurtful to most and still considered bullying.

• How can you as a KHS student make KHS a better place for all who attend? Can you change any of your behaviors to make all feel more accepted? Will you stop being a bystander?

If I see bullying in the halls or anywhere in school I can go up and see what's going on and see if it needs to be stopped or if I need to report it. I am already accepting of pretty much anyone and everyone. I will stop being a bystander and help people out more.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE



Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder





• I was confused as to why they weren't showing any one's faces. It was making me suspicious that some sort of twist was going to happen in the end. I was very surprised to see that the pig faced people were the "beautiful" ones and the attractive girl was the "ugly" one.

• I think beauty is very opinionated and influenced by groups and society. I also think that beauty does change over time, trends change and what is considered beautiful changes with the changing times and technology.

• I think that the beautiful "norm" in Kimberly is having a clear complexion, nice eyes (with or without makeup), thin, and dress nice and not too outrageous. I think that these are somewhat realistic but maybe not easy to achieve all of these standards at once.

Quiet Rage

Class Experiment:

Playing my part as "Disrespectful Kid" in class was interesting. I really changed to fit the role and over dramatized the disrespectful behaviors that a person might have. I actually even thought it was kind of hard to transition from playing this role in this class to my next class. It was amusing to me to play this part because I am usually never the disrespectful one. I changed into this complete monster in a teacher's nightmare once the role playing began. I compiled every bad possible behavior I could think of and was just terrible.

Life Example:

I have noticed that one of my former friends completely changed her image, personality, and hobbies to fit in with a different group of people. She's self-conscious of every single thing she does now so that people like her and don't think she's weird or different. I feel bad because there is no trace of the girl I used to know. She changed everything about herself to fit the 'role' that her new friends want her to fit.

Philip Zimbardo Quiet Rage Psych Experiment:

The role-playing behavior that surprised me the most was Prisoner 8612 because like all the rest, he started as a normal student but completely changed dramatically after an extremely short period of time. He was the leader of prison rebellion and was a respected leader to the other prisoners. After a few days he wanted to leave the experiment but the prison authorities denied his request and degraded him and called him "white boy" and pathetic. When he joined the prisoners again after his meeting with the authorities he told all the prisoners that there was no way out of the prison (even though technically the experiment said that any of them could leave at any time). He decided to pretend to be crazy so they would let him leave, but when he was telling the authorities about how he was going crazy he actually went into a fit of rage and they finally let him go. This showed how extreme this experiment really came to, and he was one of the earliest incidents to happen in the 6 day long experiment. I think that the 'idea' of the Prison experiment was good but the actual outcome of it was too extreme and went on for way too long before an intervention. All of the people involved in the experiment took everything to an extreme and too literally.