Jeff Bliss Vs. The Perils Of Obedience

Max Serna
M. Williams
English 1A
August 26, 2013

Jeff Bliss stood up to his class teacher because she would not teach the class properly, she would not put any effort into her teaching according to Jeff, and she had not interactions with the students whatsoever.  Jeff spoke on behalf of the entire class when he stood up against the teacher, his purpose was to make the teacher realize that she needed to actually do more than just hand out packets of work for the students to complete.  In addition she had to show the students she actually cared about their educations and their future so they could be successful in life.  In "The Perils Of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram, an experiment is being made using two people, the learner and the teacher.  The learner is a subject who has to memorize a group of words and then say the second word in that group, for everyone he gets wrong he must receive a shock from the teacher who is controlling everything from a room.  The Experimenter is telling the teacher what to do, even though they are inflicting pain on the learner they are forced to obey the Experimenter since he has the most authority.  One teacher, Gretchen Brandt sees that the learner is having a really hard time answering and has a heart condition, she then asks the Experimenter if she may stop because she does not want to be responsible for the death of the learner.  She is told to keep going, but she refuses, its ongoing until the Experimenter calls of the experiment.
The relationship between these two situations is that both Bliss and Brandt stood up to the person who had a higher authority than them to make a point.  Bliss's point was that the teacher had to make a better effort to teach the students, while Brandt's point was that she was not going to keep going with the experiment and be held responsible for the learner whom she and the Experimenter both knew had a heart condition.  Both disobeyed to reach what they wanted.

Max Serna
M. Williams
English 1A
August 20, 2013

Electric Vibe

This blog reflects me because of my main taste of music, which is "EDM" (Electric Dance Music).  Ever since I first heard it, my whole perspective on music changed.  The different types of edm that are out there sort of reflect the person I am.  The music can also describe how I am feeling at times.
Although music is really important to me, my success in life will always be number one in importance.  Being successful is what will help me, my family, and future family.  Pursuing my career as a psychologist is what is always on my mind, its not my passion to be a psychologist, but it is a career I would love to have.  My passion though is and always will be music, listening to it, making it, exploring it and so on.  In the case that I changed my mind about majoring in psychology, I would definitely take my passion to a new level and strive to become a famous producer and share my love for music with the world.
There are many reasons why I am in school, the most important reason to me is simple because there is still a lot for me to learn and a lot of experience for me to gain still.  With the current knowledge that I have I wouldn't go very far, I wouldn't be able to have many of the luxuries I would like to have for myself, and for my family.  Being in school will also help me find myself, at the moment I may think I want to major in psychology but perhaps i'll realize that its actually not for me, therefore i'd try new classes and explore different areas until I find my true major.
I hope to have a way better understanding of critical thinking, and improve in my essay writing and strategies.  I hope to push myself to get assignments done ahead of time so I can have spare time to proofread my work and add extra detail or edit, because I usually always procrastinate and don't have time to reread it and make any changes.  I also hope to get an A in this class but I know its all going to reflect on my effort and completeness of my work.
What I value most is the support of my family, meaning that their support is what will help me throughout my college career.  Just having them help me with what they can and showing their support is enough
to encourage me to give college my all and make them proud, and in the long run I will make sure to do what I can to repay them for all they did for me.