Opening stores on thanksgiving has only recently become a thing. You used to have to wait until the day after Thanksgiving for black Friday. Possibly one of the craziest days of the year I might add.  What with people being trampled and whatever else happens on this crazy day. But now instead of stores closing Thanksgiving day they are starting to open sooner so that they can start the black Friday sales sooner. I’m not sure if this is greed for the money that the store would be getting more of or that they simply think it is more convenient for the people.

            Thanksgiving is a holiday. A holiday that has been around for a very long time. When a holiday has been around for this long families create traditions. Traditions are something that you do not break. Now all families do it differently and I understand that. However the typical household in America celebrates Thanksgiving with the turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, corn, and more. That is what the tradition has become. Also in the tradition is that pretty much all stores and all businesses close. Except for the hospital, nursing homes, and hotels things like that, but a lot of other stuff closes. The mall, restaurants, the bank, grocery stores, and more. So much closes that if you have forgotten something on thanksgiving you are going to have to drive all over to find just one little thing. It should still be that way. Stores should stay closed until midnight when the clock strikes 12 that’s when it becomes black Friday. Not at 10 pm on Thanksgiving, that’s still Thanksgiving a time to be with your family and friends.

            The obsession over black Friday is make stores open earlier when they should still remain closed. You shouldn't break tradition just because you want to earn more money or whatever your reasoning is. Part of the fun in black Friday is waiting in line at your favorite store to get the best deals of all season, and hopefully not being trampled or hit by something in the process. 

I have decided to write my argumentative paper on “What we should do about the Ebola outbreak”. I know you all are probably like ugh more about Ebola but a lot of people don’t really know a lot about it, you think you know a lot about it however people are freaking out for no reason. I’m not saying it’s not a problem, it is a very serious problem that needs to be dealt with, but I’m going to try to make you understand that you really don’t need to freak out about it.

Ebola is a very serious problem, however people don’t really understand that we should be worried but we do not need to be in a panic….. Yet, there may come a time when we do need to panic but that is not now. Currently in the U.S and Europe only three people have actually died from Ebola. Only 19 cases of Ebola have been treated Europe and the United States. If you do get Ebola you are not contagious until you start showing symptoms, if you do start showing symptoms though the virus is then present on your skin. These symptoms will usually begin about eight to 10 days after the exposure to the virus, you will think you have a flu: a headache, fever and aches and pains. Then your health will take a turn for the worst you will start hemorrhaging. You may start throwing up blood, have blood in your urine, and bleed under your skin or from your eyes and mouth. Then your blood vessels deep in your body begin leaking fluid, causing blood pressure to plummet so low that the heart, kidneys, liver and other organs begin to fail.

I think that if we need calm. We have no reason to panic yet about this in the U.S. I believe that if the problem does become worse than we should panic. I have been asked if I have Ebola just from simply coughing at a gas station, I was asked by a police officer. I think that the panic is getting more out of hand then the actual virus in America right now. If you are cautious then you have nothing to worry about. If the problem does happen to get worse then I think we should stop letting flights in from Africa.  

Public or Private which is better

When you become a parent you are met with so many new challenges. You are in charge of someone’s life now. Whatever they need you are there to provide. A child’s education is something you have to think about also. Do you want to send them to a public school like a lot of society does or would you like to send them to a private school which, is a lot more expensive? When I was looking this up this is a very debated topic.

                According to greatschools.org “The most obvious discrepancy between public and private schools comes down to cold, hard cash.” (5) I know for a fact that private schools are a lot more expensive then public school considering public school cannot charge for tuition. When you think of the typical Catholic Central kid you think of the spoiled rotten rich kid, but I know a lot of people that went to that school and they are some of the nicest people I know. However a lot of them are spoiled rich kids. Some people say that a private education is better than a public I think it’s the same. Both schools need to teach the same thing. Both schools have certain things you need to cover in class. Private schools may have more classes you could choose from but they generally teach the same things. 

Ted Talk: How to spot a liar, by Pamela Meyer

Pamela Meyer talks about how to spot a liar. She goes into the explanation of how we, as individuals have to be willing to be lied to. Lying is a cooperative action. Meaning it’s like a two way street. You have to be willing to except the lie that someone else is telling you. She talks about how lying is a way for people to connect, and how lying is something we wish we could be. She then goes into how studies show that you may be lied to 10 – 200 times a day, and how strangers lie three times within the first ten minutes of meeting them. We lie more to strangers then we do to our friends and family.

It amazes me how much we actually lie to each other. I do think that we lie to strangers more then we lie to our friends and family. From what she is saying I feel like we lie to each other to be liked by the other person. The need to be accepted by people is so strong that we will do anything to earn that acceptance, even lie to them about something that we never needed to lie to them about. I know that I personally do not like being lied to. I also know that not a lot of people can ever say they have never told a lie. If it’s to protect yourself, or maybe someone you love. It could be to protect that person from getting their feelings hurt. You could also be doing it for your own selfish need, there is lots of reasons that people lie. I just don’t understand why the need to do it is so strong.