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Suicide
Kurt Cobain committed suicide -
Social interactions
Started pre-school which introduced me to interacting with other kids and learning the basics of life and how to act with people -
Social Institutions
Began kindergarten in public schools where everyone goes and learns the social norms -
Patriotism
This was the first fourth of july I remember when my dad and I went to wyoming to get good fireworks and came home and celebrated the fourth of july with fireworks -
Hard work/material success
I work for three summers mowing lawns in my neighborhood to save up to buy my first dirt bike -
Assimilation
People from mexico crossing the border illegally, but trying to assimilate now -
Upper Class
I helped my mom clean a doctors house because this was her side job and they lived in the Ken Caryl Valley and their house was huge. I found out how the upper class live -
White Collar Crime
The enron scandal was busted -
Personality
This is when I started middle school and started meeting people I never knew and started becoming an individual and creating my own personality -
Middle Class
When I was 4 my family moved back to Colorado from Oklahoma and we moved into the suburbs where we were part of the middle class -
Social Ranking
I started high school and began to see all the different groups and how social ranking works in society -
Self Reliance
When I got my license I could drive myself around and do whatever I needed to and not have to rely on anyone driving me or picking me up which freed me up by a lot. -
Juvenile Delinquency
This is when i got a speeding ticket the second summer after I got my drivers license and I wasn't even going fast but the cop gave me a ticket I think because he wanted me to learn my lesson and not become part of the group labeled juvenile delinquents -
Income
When I got my first job I started earning a small income so I could pay for little bills I had and things I had to buy -
Crime
I took American Justice class my junior year and learned all about crime in America and all of the processes and punishments -
Hunter Gatherer
My father and I went hunting which is how the hunter/gatherers lived back then. -
Prejudice
In my class American Justice I took my junior year we watched a movie called A Time To Kill which was about prejudice. Besides that, I see prejudice everyday -
White Collar Crime
Obama's stimulus package is an example of white collar crime where the people in power abuse it to better themselves and ruin everything else -
Lower Class
When I lived near Federal and Louisiana I used to see this homeless man every day at the gas station who lost his home because he lost his job and I would give him any change I could because I know it must be hard being in the lower class. -
Stereotypes
I heard a bunch of funny jokes from my friends but realized that a lot of funny jokes come from stereotypes
