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we were assigned to read chapters 3 and 4.  when we did, we were to choose 1 word that described chapters 3 and 4 like the previous posts that we did of chapter 1 and 2.  I chose mostly like 2 words iinstead of one. the word i chose were cherry and marcia the girls that ponyboy and his brother got know. In chapter 3 after the movie, two-bit offered them a ride home. then while walking to two-bits house, Marcia gasped because because  a blue mustang was coming down the street; and it was the mustang that contained the checkered shirt guys which were the one that tortured johnnny badly. But the mustang passed them slowly and went on right on by. But after talking, the mustang was back and came down the street slower and stopped besides them. later that night which turned out to be around 12 a.m. they got into the greasers territory and stopped where johny and ponyboy were at.   then johnny killed the guy that was killing ponyboy and all this was sort responsible for the girls.

this video gives a little better discription of what happened before and after they killed that guy.

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When we had a skype call with the kids of canada, it was a pretty cool experience. its a pretty cool thing that we have that kind of technoology. even though we had problems either we couldn’t hear or see the candian kids or they couldn’t see or hear us. But when we were ready and evrything was running alright, we heard some interesting things about what was power and how it was used in a relationship or why having iy affects you and the one around.  

Anyways, our group consited of Adrian, Adolfo, Skye, Katie, and me. we only got to answer about 2 questions due to the technical difficulties. 

In our first question, we were to define power. our group had many answers someone said money, or love,  another person said  knowledge  or just random things that could contain any kind of power 

in our second question we were to  explain how power affects a  personal relationship(s) in this question  we also chose many things. the ones we chose for example were money and love. in money for example you had when someone doesn’t have money, it can bring harm on a family, create stress and break relationships.  not enough money can also force people to do things like stealing, cheating and putting their jobs on the line. if they feel like they need to take money from others at work or through their work or love when you show love to others it can affect the relationship by making it stronger. but if you dont show any sign of love to your relationship, that relationship will eventually get rooted and die soon.

 power turned out to be many things for people because everybody thinks differently because their influenced by their surroundings or what they are tought or see. For me, i used to believe that power can be all kinds of things; i still believe that but i made that a second subject. My first subject of the definition of power of force if you think about that you’ll realize why i said that power can be a force. 

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I chose the word prodigious. Like when there where shouts and the ponding of feet, it sounded that the socs were being chased away by the greasers. i chose the word predigious because they had a predigious bad rep or attitude. predigious means immense, extradornary in size. for example, there was Dallas Winston which was called Dally. he had a hatred of the world, he spent 3 years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of 10. he was tougher than the rest of the gang-tougher, meaner,  and colder. it was said that he had quite a reputaion. he lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids and everything. the other members of the gang were pretty bad and on total, the gang was quite predigious on bad reputation and having bad people.

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Identify situations in personal relationships that reflect power struggles.

A personal relationship can be either family or friends. And a power struggle is something like an argument about something that you’re competing against another person for power for example, one day you are done with your homework and you decide that you want to play with your playstation 3 and your little brother or sister also wants to play with it too.  Then it turns out to be argument because you don’t want to play after your sibling and neither your sibling does too. And this is an example of a power struggle because you’re both competing for power. If you win your sibling, you’ll show power over them and if they win, they have the power.

Give examples of personal experiences of power struggle situations and what was the outcome?

 I remember when I was around 12 when I was at a friend’s birthday party. Then we decided to play soccer on his soccer field with like about 14 people. Then I had a power struggle with the birthday boy of who should be the team captain because he wanted to be on my side since there was a captain in the other team. And so we kept arguing about who should be the captain. Each of us gave our reasons why we should be captain. But I ended up being captain because the other captain got tired of hearing us arguing and gave up his position and made the birthday boy the captain.

When and how do you use power in interactions with others?

When you interact with other people this would mostly mean that you are conversing to talking to them. And we use power to interact with people whenever we talk to a person. it depends how you use your power to interact with people because if you use your power in a good way when your interacting with people, the person will like talking to you because when you use your power for good, you talk nice things, nice compliments, and so on. When you use the power to interact in a bad way, you will most likely talk about bad things and make the person you’re talking to not want to be near you.

Where do you see or have seen power struggles occurring in your surroundings? (Neighborhood, community, local government)

Not too long ago, there was this businessman that visited our neighborhood once and wanted to buy the building of apartments next door. but there was another businessman that also wanted to buy the building and the competition went on for a couple of weeks then one day I arrived home from school and found that it was sold to the businessman that visited our neighborhood. This is an example of a power struggle because there are 2 businessmen competing for power on having the building. Since the visiting businessman bought the building, he showed and had more power than the other businessman.     

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What kind of relationships do you see on the veldt?

I would say theres not a good reltionship between the kids and the parents, i think they would have had a better relationships if they spent doing things together, helping each other, and if they just talked together, and since the house theylivein is futurestic, and does many thngs for them, like for example the ohouse ties their shoes for them and makes food for them too. and the parents dont really do anythingo they are not that respected and that’s why the kids think the house or nursey is more like their parents.

How is power displayed (shown)? 

the power in the family is clearly shown more by the kids than the parents which is not right and weird. because have you heard of a family run by the kids instead of the parents? in the veldt, the kids are spoiled so much to the level of where they think that they dont need their parents anymore. because of this, the parents let the house take care of the kids mostly than themselves. soon, the kids said to themselves that they could take care of themselves so they killed their own parents. and that means those kids have mental problems and power over their parents. 

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Is having everything you desire a good thing?

 At a young age like our age we think that the question above is right because we always desire something like brand new shoes, movies, games, music albums and more things. But when we you  do get everything, bad things can happen to you. For example, you will always want things that you like or are interested on the TV. This isn’t good because if you were bought many things then most of the time you only like it for a day or two and then you want something else and if this goes really far, you can get greedy, unhappy, and many more emotions. In my opinion, having everything is not a bad thing but it will be a bad thing if you especially show off to your friends, or if you show disrespect to your parents. Then you’ll lose your friends and some trust of your parents or relatives then you wont be happy, some people will get jealous and a lot of more things can happen.

Desire vs Need 

 Desire is when you feel like you want it. It can be anything that can make you happy, excited, nice, cool, popular, etc.) When you desire something, it can be something that can turn out to be a necessity, or just something you want. For example, there’s these brand new nikes and you desire them so badly and they are also a necessity. Another example is a xbox 360 you can desire it but you don’t really need it.  You might think you need it, because you desire it so badly. 

Need is something that you need in order to survive, need can also be something that you desire. Like in some cases it can be money, or friends that you desire to have. more needs these two types of needs can be water, foods, a computer, paper, a phone, a home, a car, and I believe a school  you will need these things to stay healthy, survive, and do alright in your life.  

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