Teenage Wasteland

   In this article " Teenage Wasteland " the author speaks about teens and older adults from the age of 15 years to 24 years old has been committing suicide. However, young teens and young adults would commit suicide from drug over doses, alcohol and car crashes. The author is trying to figure out what's making these teens and adults to commend suicide. In the article the author cities about "Burn Outs" which mean the drugies, drop outs and dirt bags students perhaps, the burnout's are the most that commend suicide because they barley have anything going for themselves so they just intend to give up on their life as dropping out of school and not working but just being lazy or been bullied.

  

    The author states in the article that schools should provide students with more activities such as sports or clubs. For students can feel they have extra circular things to do instead of being depressed, stressed or doing any type of drugs and other dangerous things to commit sucicide. Futhermore, the author starts to mention about teens and adults should not give up and end their life because their's a step to everything as setting goals and if you work hard then they will become somebody in life and would keep them away from commending suicide. However, the author Gaines has use a lot of research to be able to explain her theory. She points out the key questions and explains the data that she has collected to get a better understanding of why things like this is really happening to people in their lives.

SYMBOLISM

Culture the collection of values, beliefs, knowledge, norms, language, behaviors, and material objects shared by people. For example my culture is Garifuna. Garifuna is originated from run away slaves from Africa that lend on the East coast of Honduras. Being Garifuna we are family orientated with a very strong religion, values and morals. We do a lot of celebration for weddings, funerals, birthday, carnivals and ect. One thing you can always count on are the DRUMS. The DRUMS Symbolize happiness, or sadness depending on the event. Growing up my mother took me to an awake event and they was severing coco bread and coffee. There was people there playing the drums and older woman singing and dancing to the drums beats. I felt so weird and emotional at the beginning because of the lack of not understanding but as I got older now I understand what the drums mean to the Garifuna Culture.

CULTURE WAR

Culture War is an intense disagreement about core values and moral positions. An example of culture war is demonstrated in the image. Abortion is a topic that have been argued for certain years now. On how the government feels like they have the right to control a women's reproductive system when some women are not stable to become a mother. Im pro-choice I was felt that no government should take control on a women fetus and forcing the women to keep a baby even though sometime abortion is not good because sometime a women won't be able to have a child again if she was to want to have one when she ready and it's all about life beings at conceptual.

LANGUAGE

Language is an elaborate system of symbols that enables complex communication. Garifuna a mixture of French, Arawak and Carib the language Garifuna is spoken in Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Nicaragua and now it's being familiar to United States in New York And Texas. Garifuna originated in St. Vincent and Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Nicaragua people communicate in Garifuna but since these countries speaks Garifuna they would speak it in a different dialect. My parents from Honduras and in the house my parents speaks Garifuna and Spanish. I speak Spanish but I don't know how to speak Garifuna but I understand a little of Garifuna when my grandparents speaks it.

MORES

Mores is norms that are strictly enforced, with potentially severe penalties for violating them. For example everyday in this world somebody is associated with drunk driving and they know the norms of drunk driving. Drinking while driving is against the law there are consequences which are maybe just paying a fine but normally  be sentence in jail because they putting other people life in danger and normally the license get suspend. However, in this society there are a lot of people still drink and drive and don't care that they putting their self in danger or others.

Non Material Culture

Non Material Culture is the ideas of a culture, including values and beliefs, accumulated knowledge about how to understand and navigate the world, and standards or "norms" about appropriate behavior. For example, In my country we celebrate sweet sixteen. Sweet sixteen in my country means to them as becoming an official young lady/ women and however a sweet sixteen is very traditional in the Garifuna culture because you know everything and understanding everything. Perhaps is like knowing your norms instead of anybody telling you because your older enough to have a better understanding for everything. It's like you playing a little bit of a mother role because the mother show the daughter everything while she growing up and before turning sixteen.