Anthony Griffith 7th Period Reaction

The video mainly showed me how different people can be behind closed doors and how it’s very hard to know what they are truly going through. Anyone and everyone can have something that hurts them, but they are just unwilling to bring it up to anyone so many reasons. It also shows that the longer they keep this private and to themselves the worse it can get, as he even says he began blaming people for his daughter having cancer. They probably tell themselves that everything’s okay and they can just man up and get through it, but a lot of times it takes more than one person to tackle an issue of any kind. As far as we know, someone could sit in their room every night and cry themselves to sleep for any reason possible that’s why it’s our responsibility to talk to people and make them feel happy any chance you get so maybe they will be courageous enough to tell someone about what goes on inside their head, and find help.

This video is so true in so many ways. Our world today wants everyone to see the happy side of everything and to be happy all of the time, but for some people, that’s not always the case. This guy had everything going good for him. His daughter was in remission and way just steps away from being cancer free. Then he gets an offer to be on the tonight show. There’s not a whole lot better than that. But then he receives word that his daughter’s cancer had come back up and harder this time. He was so upset and was looking for someone to blame because he didn’t know why this was happening to his daughter. He then got another offer to be on the Tonight Show again. He loved every bit of it getting applause breaks but inside he was frustrated and upset. He wanted to tell everyone how upset he was and how he’s not actually this happy inside. Then he just kept telling himself to man up. I think that this video is a great lesson for everyone. Many people may have a lot of things and be famous and popular, but you don’t know what they actually have going on in their life. They could be going through unimaginable things that you can’t see just looking at them. This video is a lesson for all of us!

This was a very emotional speech. I’ve personally never dealt with anyone in my family having cancer but my nana got really sick and my mom had to pull the plug on her which made me cry a little bit. Nana had been to the hospital every year on the same month and it got worse every time she went. The last time was the worst time and she finally passed away. I hope this man is coping with his anger and getting better no one should have to live with something like that. This is what this video reminded me of

He said he would’ve given up all of his days being a comedian and all of his dreams that he had accomplished… for just one more day with his daughter.

I also think that the title that he gave his speech was wonderful, after all life is full of ups and downs and sometimes they come at the same time and you end up just focusing on one of them.

That man has suffered greatly and it is unbelievable that he was still able to perform after all that he had been through, let alone tell his story, relive his story, again.

Are students snowflakes?? 7th Period Web Design Responds!

I’m not a fan of people being called snowflakes, especially if it is intended in a negative way. It sounds like calling someone fragile or weak.
I think teenagers – girls, at least – definitely experience the fear of being left out. If you’ve never had all of your closest friends, or so you thought, sit around and plan an event together with their shoulders turned away from you, then you may not realize that it kind of hurts. Fear of being left out not only happens on social media, but in real life as well.

I firmly agree with this article. I have seen a transition from technology appeal to technology reliance in my childhood, throughout the entire world. The capability to contact anyone at any time has allowed parents and guardians to become extremely involved in the lives of children, causing them to see flaws or problems and making them want to fix or help them and then after seeing one, they want to see more. They have good intentions but it is hurting their children in the long run, because their children can’t live on their own. They don’t know how to do anything. They don’t know how to decide things for themselves or be themselves. Although anyone can say anything at any time with new technology, they are not face to face, and therefore have more courage to say things they don’t mean, that are hurtful, that are untrue. It is much easier to face a mistake or a wrongdoing when you don’t directly see how it affects someone or yourself. I also feel as though people need to start owning up to their mistakes and realizing what they can and can’t do, have and haven’t done, have or don’t have. People need to be realistic about themselves and start working on themselves instead of feeding off of the lives of everyone else through a screen. Everyone needs to stop getting offended by anything that is said. If someone is offended, they need to keep it to themselves, work out their own problems, or talk to the person or somebody else about it. There is no need to put their problems out on social media, taking the risk of making the other person look bad, because they could have misunderstood what they person meant. There is so much wrong with this generation. They hurt themselves instead of healing themselves, they complain instead of sucking it up. The reason  for these negative increases is because everyone is reporting it now because they can’t fix their own problems and take it to the government and blame everyone.

This article is very truthful. There are many kids that think that things should go their way, and think that if they don’t it isn’t their fault. It would be better if parents were honest, and sometimes brutally honest with their kids as my parents are with me. After basketball games that I do not perform in sometimes my parents won’t tell me that I am bad at sports, but will tell me that if I want to keep playing then I will have to give more effort and work harder. I feel that I myself have not been raised as a snowflake, but I know that there are kids all over that were, and that is not right. Parents need to focus more on the future of their kids in the real world than focus on if they are being mistreated as kids. Some kids do get mistreated by peers, and sometimes by their authority figures as well, but that is just life, and if you want to be successful in life you have to toughen up and work through all the things that are happening.