Marisa (: 5/17/11

    In Steven Greenhouse's article, "Going for the Look, but Risking Discrimination," he states that companies are hiring people based more on their appearance then by their qualifications. This is being considered borderline discrimination. In my opinion, it is not. I believe that companies have the right to hire whom ever they want whether it is someone that is thirty, thin, and thriving with knowledge, or someone young and unexperienced.. All businesses have a certain "image" or "look" that they want to go for, so why is it considered breaking a law to hire someone that represents that? On one hand, this act is thought about as discriminatory. On the other hand, if you are not part of the company, you would have no say in who is hired. 
   The specific meaning of discrimination is: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or thing, eps on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Referring to Greenhouse's article, it didn't state that businesses were hiring on those bases. The companies were hiring based on a level of attractiveness. Some may see this as discrimination, but in reality it is not. They are not breaking any laws, so businesses' should continue to hire whoever they want. 
   My conclusion then, is that I agree with the companies' decision. If I were to run a store, I would hire whoever fit my personal  image. Discriminatory or not, that would be my right. 

Marisa and Angel 5/11/11

In Steven Greenhouse's "Going For The Look, but Risking Discrimination," he states that "companies have been skirting the edges of anti-discrimination laws." This is a thin line for companies between discrimination and projecting an image. On one hand, a company has every right to hire who they want to represent them. On the other hand, the general public might see this as discriminating. For example, a tuxedo company would most likely hire a clean shaven, attractive, young man, not someone with piercings, tattoos, or a mohawk. To the company, this is just projecting an image, but to that tattooed reject it might seem as though they were judging and discriminating against him. So is this discrimination? Or is this just a companies' right? No, this is not discrimination, and companies have the right to hire whoever they want if it's not crossing the line of being biased against race, religion, age, or sex. "Skirting the edges of anti-discrimination" is controversial, but ultimately is the companies decision to select who they want to work for them.

Marisa and Angel 5/4/11

   "Skirting the edges of anti-discrimination laws," is like saying there is a thin line between discrimination and projecting a company's image. Companies hire people, most of the time because of the way they look, and they do not think it's discriminating. That is just the way society overlooks the world today. To some, this is the same as not hiring somebody because of race, religion, or age. That is where the problem comes in for the companies. The question rises, is hiring somebody that is able to represent the company because of their looks the same as not hiring somebody because they are not the same race as everyone in the store? This is where anti-discrimination comes into contact with companies and their hiring procedures.

marisa and Angel 5/3/11

   It was my last year of high school and I walked into Cathedral City High School on my first day as a confident senior ready to take on the year. 

   Pre-calculus was my first class of the day, and I couldn't believe what I saw when I walked in. All the seats had been filled (and it wasn't a small class). I had no where to sit. Mr. Riley said I could take his chair at the teacher's desk. It turned out to not be a bad trade. Instead of sitting in one of those uncomfortable blue school chairs for an hour, I got a nice chair with a cushion.

    I was still surprised though that no chairs were open.

 Is this what school has come to? Where the students significantly out number the teachers? I was about to find out in the rest of my classes.

marisa and Angel 5/3/11

   It was my last year of high school and I walked into Cathedral City High School on my first day as a confident senior ready to take on the year. 

   Pre-calculus was my first class of the day, and I couldn't believe what I saw when I walked in. All the seats had been filled (and it wasn't a small class). I had no where to sit. Mr. Riley said I could take his chair at the teacher's desk. It turned out to not be a bad trade. Instead of sitting in one of those uncomfortable blue school chairs for an hour, I got a nice chair with a cushion.

    I was still surprised though that no chairs were open.

 Is this what school has come to? Where the students significantly out number the teachers? I was about to find out in the rest of my classes.

marisa and Angel 5/2/11

Today we learned that an anecdote is a new way to start a paragraph or essay, which is just starting off with a short story.

Parallelism is taking a couple of sentences and starting them off with the same words.

Alliteration is when the beginning  of the words sound similar.