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Stereotypes; Are not All True
Alexander Gil
Scroll Staff Reporter
Today in this world people want to believe what they see or hear, unfortunately, what your eyes see or what your ears hear is not always true.
People sometimes watch too much television, that what they see starts to get to their mind. For example, television shows such as “Popular” depicts cheerleaders as “air-heads.” They are shown cheating on tests, chewing and popping their gum, and rolling their hair around their finger. People automatically assume that this is true about all cheerleaders and they criticize them for no reason at all.
Football players are also categorized in television as “slow-minded” jocks that can only answer questions with a “what” or “huh?” Because of this, people believe it is true about all football players.
Nowadays smart people are shown in television as dorky, goofy-looking people with big glasses who have no social lives, and only focus their attention on their studies. In addition, dorks are shown to be shoved around and put in trashcans by bullies.
Bullies are also stereotyped by their appearance as well. They are described as “bulky things” that boss people around and take lunch money away. People at this school could not be like that because it would be impossible for anyone to be so cruel or mean but sometimes when another person does not like someone else they just throw it down. Bullies may not even exist at this school. People see someone and they judge him or her by their appearance. If they see someone that is really big, and is wearing baggy clothes they may think that person is a bully.
People can also believe that the people you hang around with define you. Which can mean that if you are a smart person the same thing can be said about your friends, since friends may.
People also believe what their ears want to hear. For example, if they do not like someone because of a reason or another they can start a rumor about this person. So that other people can think badly about that person. Then either the person who started the rumor continues it or people who are walking around being nosy pick it up and continue it with more details. This can start a bad reputation about the person/ persons/or subject.
People accept the truth as they see it being shown on television, what their friends tell them and maybe even, what is already in their minds because it is literally considered a fact, since so many people believe in it already.
Regardless of these false stereotypes you should not care about what other people think, what really matters is what you think of yourself and the self-confidence that you have in yourself.
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Tobacco; People have Smelled what the Tobacco Companies are Cooking
Michelle Castro
Scroll Staff Reporter
Every time someone does it, 400 chemicals are inhaled. It causes lung and throat cancer, and it is also 100 times deadlier than rat poison. Smoking!
According to a survey done to twenty-five hundred teens between the ages of 16 and 17, the smoking rate has decreased by 32.5 percent, by the California Department of Health Services.
People know what nicotine can do to you. It narrows their blood vessels and puts an extra strain on their heart. You also have shortness of breath when you exercise, and it makes your heart beat two to three beats faster than people who do not smoke. It makes smokers’ hair, clothes and breath smell like they just liked an ashtray.
Okay the decline may partially be due to the financial deficit smoker experience while buying cigarettes. An average smoker, smoking a pack a day, would spend about 112 dollars a month. That money can be spent for something that is actually worth more than tobacco, something such as: CD’s, clothes, video games, shoes … and much more important than things that are addictive.
No one really knows why the smoking rate dropped to 32.5 percent for ages between 16-17. With the percentage having dropped, maybe more teenagers have now realiezed the consequences that tobacco has on them and their bodies.
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