In your opinion is it more prevalent to see:
Good people trying to be bad?
OR
Bad people trying to be good?
Support your opinion with three valid reasons based on personal experience, things you see on tv and/or things others have told you.
The one you can see the most is good people trying to be bad. For example people that get goods grades and do everything they supposed to do, than when somebody that is really bad comes to the school or start hanging around them the goo person want to act like he all types of bad. And do thing like not do his work, skip class and everything like that, and tries to prove that his is not a good kid. And this is just what somebody told me. But I personally seen this happen, when this guy got around a group of people he tried to act like he was a thug of some sort or just trying to be bad. When we all really knew what he was about. Like he would come around that group and talk about that he got guns and stuff like that, when we all knew he never seen a real gun a day in his life. Than I saw on this TV show that this boy was beating people up and robbing people and selling drugs. An some people would consider him a bad person but like towards the end of the show you seen that the boy was a really good kid he just got caught up in some bad kids and got pushed in the wrong direction.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion it’s more prevalent to see good people trying to be bad. Most people that have good behavior don’t like people to see that they are that good of a person at times. Some could have good grades and not a trouble maker but choose the wrong friends. They try more to be with the in crowd. I guess saying that they are more of a follower and not a leader. I can also say I use to be that person myself trying to be cool. About eighth grade through sophomore year I was always a follower now I am an independent person. That doesn’t get you anywhere, definitely if you have no education. In the movie meet the Browns, Lance Gross who played Michael was a great basketball player then he started to sell drugs. He was only doing it because his mom never had any money and just wanted to help her out. Once he got shot he stopped, his mom then was given a house from her father that was already paid off. Sometimes it’s mostly peer pressure that’s happening. You want to be good, but at the same time you don’t want to let your friends down.
ReplyDeleteI think that it goes both ways. A lot of the time I see good people trying to be bad to fit in. For example I know a kid who is a really good kid and gets straight A’s and everything but he gets teased a lot. To try and fit in he tries to do bad stuff like steal and do a lot of other bad stuff. The only reason he does this is to try and fit in. He’s a really good kid but rather try and fit in so he does bad stuff. Then again I see bad people trying to be good. Another example I seen a kid that gets in trouble a lot. A lot of teachers don’t like him and teachers usually just try and find a way to write this kid up. About a month ago i saw this kid stop a fight from ever happening. I don’t know if the bad kid knew the people fighting but he made sure they didn’t fight. He dropped his books and wrapped his hands around the student that was yelling. I don’t think the kid was bad as every made him seem. I think it takes a lot to stop a fight because usually people want to see a fight and they egg the fight on. But this kid who everyone thinks is bad stopped it and in I think that was a great thing to do.
ReplyDeleteKids try to be something there not all the time in high school and I think you would see it at the teenage level more than anywhere else. Teens try to be something there not to get attention, have friends and even to make a name for themselves at the high school level. I feel that most of the time you see good kids trying to be bad kids, in my view on this.
ReplyDelete1.) Good kids trying to go to parties, in high school. The good kids that stay home on a Friday night and do homework are looking to be cool and parties are the way to go at the high school cool scene. They might have never drunk before and they do and they get trashed to look cool. 2.) They would start being around the wrong group of people to make them look cool and popular. That is in middle school to high school, from old to young. But I think it gets better as kids grow up and in high school is when kids find there really friends.
3.) Good kids making up stories to sound cool about themselves and it just makes them look foolish, because you know they are lying and they are just doing it to fit in.
I think that good kids try to be bad because I guess I’m a bad kid at some points and I feel this way about good kids, because I know that good kids would say the bad kids try to be good because they are good. It will go on for a long time and it will never stop.
Alright, well I think it is more common to see good people acting bad. Not to often do bad people try to do good things, which makes sense because their bad. For some reason it creates a cool feeling when you feel like you did something bad. I’m guilty of it myself. Some times ill hop into a situation that I know is trouble but for some reason I do it anyway. Its tempting to do bad things, while its usually some sort of an effort to do a good thing. That’s why you’ll always catch one of your “ good “ friends or people you respect doing something “bad”. Its just plain out easier to do something bad, rather than good witch is why its more common to see a good person doing something bad. On TV you always see the character that you thought was innocent, getting themselves into trouble. You usually never see the villain stepping up to do something good. It just wouldn’t make sense really. Its not really a bad thing, its just how it is and how the odds are placed against good people.
ReplyDeleteIn today's society, the new generation of kids think it's cool to be a badass. Well you know what, that won't get you far in life besides ending up in a body bag. Doing well in school isn't a bad thing. Just go to school, do whatever you have to do and go home. All this acting bad nonsense drives me insane. I myself am humble I have to say. I don't look for trouble at school, i go to learn. There are bright students that get brought down by losers to get attention. I think it's ridiculous. I have a friend who told me there are too many tough guys, or think they're tough and they're not. I agree because it's not about your intelligence or goodheartedness, it's about popularity and competing to see who can be the biggest moron in the group. I wish we lived now how it was when my parents were kids. Kids would be set straight with respect towards others and themselves.
ReplyDeleteI think its more prevalent to see good people trying to be bad but at the same time you see bad people trying to be good. More what you see is a good boy/girl that does good in school and is a good kid in general and gets with the wrong crowd and goes bad. Why? To fit in. On tv you have sickening shows like jersey shore or bad girls club. Sometimes people try to act like that because they see them having fun and theyre on tv getting ''attention''. I could go on about this but im getting annoyed thinking about it. I personally have been through that. I use to be a badass in school..i just didnt care about anything or anyone. Detentions, iss and suspensions all the time. Part of it was my own personal choice and another was letting others convince me that thats who i am. But ive changed from bad to good i still got some bad in me but im working on it :)
ReplyDeleteI honestly think it is way more prevalent to see good people trying to bad. I think kids think its cool to be bad and people look at you like "oh wow don't mess with them because there bad", then if your good people aren't scared of you and people step all over you. Most people rather be friends with someone who is bad because then thy won't be mean to them and pick on them. Although I think deep down inside they really hate the bad person and would like to not be friends with them. It is rare to see a bad person ever trying to do something good. I think that it takes a lot more energy trying to be good and do your work and stuff, so people take the easy way out and be rebels and act out in school. Really everyone knows that the people who are good and do their work are going to go somewhere later on, the people who are bad are just going to regret it in the long run.
ReplyDeleteYou see a lot of people who are bad trying to be good, and a lot of good people trying to be bad. People try to change the way they are for reasons like trying to fit in with a group of people, or just because someone said they don’t like the way they are so they try and act the opposite of what they are. I’ve seen some people who are disrespectful people who try and act like they have manners but you can tell they are just acting. There are people all around you that are fake, like teachers, students, family. I have friends who moved into a bad area and they didn’t change they are but they act like a bad kid to fit in with gangs around them so that they won’t be judged. It deals with a lot of trying to fit in and also trying to stay out of trouble and trying to make you look good. You see on TV all the time where the good guy has to sometimes act like a bad guy just to get the real bad guy. It’s like a movie but instead of a movie, people are acting in the real world. I also heard then other day that one of my good friends started a fight with one of my other good friends all because he was acting like a tough guy towards him and he didn’t like it. It’s everywhere and people see it every day.
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ReplyDeleteI think theres more bad people trying to do good then good people trying to do bad. The reason is because once the bad people end up in a bad situation such as jail or juvenille that makes them rethink there actions. They always want to go back and change what happend in the past so they wouldnt end up in jail or juvenille. If you notice there is over thousands of people in jail that are bad wanting to get out so they can do good in life and get back on the right path. Some of them have kids which when they get out of jail so they could set good examples for there children and not let them goto jail like they did. So its basically more people that are bad trying to do then good people do bad. Just count the people that are in jail and juvenille detentions.
ReplyDeleteIt’s hard to tell what I see more of because at least once a day I see someone pretending to be something they’re not. But if I had to make a choice I would have to say I see more people that are good trying to be bad. All the time in school and out of school I hear people trying to talk about how tuff they are, all the bad stuff they do, and how there so hard. But most of the time they are all talk never did anything they said they did and won’t do anything they said they would do. Its aggravating to me because I feel that there is no reason to pretend or act unless you are making a movie or you’re in a play or something along those lines, but not in life if your soft then be soft, there is no need for people to try and act like your tuff If you’re really just a punk. I don’t see the reason for it at all, if your good then be good don’t try and be bad. I think that this is so popular in today’s society because of rap I listen to rap all the time and most artists them self’s glorify and promote being bad and the some kids just want to fit in so they act bad I think its stupid in my opinion but I do notice that lots of people participate in this act of pretending
ReplyDeleteI can say that people who do good are the ones that turn out bad. I seen it in a movie. This girl was a straight a student and then she met these new people and she was tryin to fit in with them. So she started changing how she dressed and the way she talk to her mother. I guess thats how her friends were acting so she wanted to fit in. One the other hand i have seen someone bad turn good. This person i know got arrested so many times for drugs. Now he has a shop and doing ok for himself. So it can go both ways. On this show this girl hanged out with a shoplifter and one day she tried it and she didnt like it and she told the girl that she didnt wanna be her friend nomore. Then she returned it. So a person can see themselve getting into something bad and stop it from happening again.
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ReplyDeleteId say its bad people trying to be good. Iv seen on many shows like jerry Springer or whatever that show is called were they have the kids that act tough and say they hit their parents, but by the end of the show its usally showing the kids apologising to them. Also, their are people that have gone to jail and come out tring to make up for the things theyv'e done. Finally,I dont think it has to do with just crimes people in school who always get bad grades may try to become better.
In my opinion it is prevalent to see good people trying to be bad because either they were being picked on because they always do good or the fact that they think if there bad they will fit in to certain clicks or groups of kids because they don’t want to be left out and feel as if they were not wanted and then again the good kids that act bad could also do it because the want the attention and they just to the bad things that other kids do just so they think there cool when in reality they are not cool at all I see this happen all the time for instance I have this friend who lives in Mississippi that I hung with every summer and he was a good kid and then he started doing drugs thinking it would make him cool but the only thing that happened was he started to flunk out of school now I don’t really talk to him anymore but hopefully he turned himself around to me I think if you are a good kid act like it don’t sit there and be something that you aren’t and then turn in to something that you’re not.
ReplyDeleteI think you see more good people trying to be bad. They do everything that they are supposed to and then they start hanging out with the wrong croud and they start to do things they never thought they would be doing. Mostly i think they start this habbit because they want to experiance the life they never got to experiance. Its most common in high school students. I see it alot in school people hanging out with crouds you would not usually see them with because they are tired of the life they used to live and want something else. Its to fit in so people dont judje who they are. Its times like now that people are killing them selfs because they think people are going to care who they really are but you need to stand up and show people that it dont matter who or what you are you are who you want to be. it should not matter what you are or who you want to date. Be your self and dont be who your not its not worth putting all the effort into being someone your not.
ReplyDeleteNow a days in school and in society I see more of good people trying to be bad rather than bad people trying to be good. In school I don’t know why but to me it seems like you are cooler if you are “bad” like the kids that leave school or that talk back to teachers and get in trouble. There just trying to be cool so that people think that their badass and in reality there just putting a show on and it just makes them look dumb. Everyone just wants to fit in wherever they are at, whether they have to dress inappropriate or how they speak. Like the music people are listening to isn’t the best. Even though I do listen to the rap music that’s out now I don’t let it affect who I am. I don’t go and get myself in trouble and try and be bad because that’s what rappers are singing about. On TV shows there is always an episode when I good kid meets a cool new friend who gets them in trouble and then they realize what the kid was doing was so stupid and they are just trying to be popular. It’s a waste of time and you could ruin your life…as I’m getting older I see more and more people going down the wrong path because of this. Being bad is just a cover up I think that person has something wrong and they are trying to hide it or something. There is no point to go through life pretending you’re something you’re not just to fit in. It’s a waste of time.
ReplyDeleteI’m definitely going to go with good people trying to be bad is more prevalent. First of all, the reason why I didn’t choose bad people trying to be good is because there are many more reasons for good people trying to be bad. You rarely come by a person that is bad and tries to act good. Well, at least for me that’s what I see. One good example of a good person trying to act bad was a student. This student was a straight A student. Until one day he wanted to party and have some drinks. Something told me that the reason why he did this is because maybe he thought that he wanted to be like other people. Not just some type A student.
ReplyDeleteIt's more likely that you see good people trying to be bad, than bad people trying to be good. Most "good" people tend to get caught up in peer pressure, and doing what is "cool". This is mostly relevant in high school. There are so many occasions where I see a person who is branded as "good" doing something so heinous such as bullying someone, or doing drugs. Many enter high school confused about who they are, which is why, more often than not, this happens to many younger people, not so much when you get older. For example, the other day I was watching one of my FAVORITE movies, My Girl starring Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Macaulay Culkin. Anyways, these three girls make fun of Vada (Chlumsky) because she is a bit of a tom-boy, and as the three ride away on bicycles, one looks back in despair; she truly feels bad. Long story short, in the end, the two girls are friends. It's very rare that you see bad people trying to bed good, but then again, I don't feel there are bad people in this world, just people who make bad decisions so technically, in my mind, it's rare that you see generally bad decision makers making good decisions, see what I'm getting at? Another good example, liars. So many people build their lives on lies, and they're so used to lying about everything, that they never tell the truth, and they basically live a lie. Constantly making bad decisions constitutes for continuing of that same habit. Lastly, I'd like to bring up money; I'm sure everyone can agree that the sweetest people get money hungry. Here's a scenario, you're walking down the street (la di da di da) and you see a wallet. Inside there is information of who it belongs to, and some money. Instead of turning it in with the money, you take the money and turn in the rest. BAM. That happens so many times in this world, but that good person is just so money hungry he does a bad thing and just forgets the person that owns the money and may need it. Therefore, I feel more good do bad, than bad do good.
ReplyDeleteToday I see the good trying to act bad. You know when someone is good and you notice them and could point them out. Usually knowing that someone is good you never expect them to act bad or do wrong. In life good sometimes has to do wrong and the wrong always has to do something right. Now days you see good trying to act bad. When a kid is smart and always does right what makes him cool? I mean he is cool I wish I was smart like they were but those kinds of people never seem to fit it. Some people just want to fit in and would do anything wrong just to. There is this girl I know who is very smart. You would never expected her to hang out with who she does and wouldn’t believe the things she does. I meet this girl two years ago in Florida by my cousin. She is in all honor classes and so her parents think she is all goodie goodie and thinks she is smart enough to make go choices. When I went down to Florida we hung out. She told me that she always steals and will do anything and if I needed her to do anything she’ll have my back and she barely knew me. I looked at her and knew she was doing it to make friends or to be my friend. I asked her why she does what she does and she told me it’s the only way t show that she was cool and not only a geek and not cool. This shows that she wanted to fit in and be considered cool and daring.
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ReplyDeleteI think it is more prevalent to see good people trying to act bad. In my opinion, I can sometimes just tell by the way certain people act, that they aren't being themselves. People see how others act around them and to fit in, they try and act the same way. They try and act like a completely different just to seem cool or fit in with people but really they are just making themselves look bad. Instead of choosing to fit in with good people, they tend to go for the bad. Why fit in with people who others might say are immature or just plain stupid, rather than have people who can have a good influence on you. I see plenty of people (especially high school) act like people that they aren't. It's embarrassing and kinda pathetic to see them, when they think they are something when really there nothing because they are pretending to be people they are not. Plus, pretending to be bad will effect you in a bad way ens up just changing you for good.Maybe people do it to fit in, but who would want to fit in in a negative way rather than in a positive way. Why be something your not? If you want to fit in, be yourself. Its dumb to be "bad" because that doesn't lead you anywhere except for trouble.
ReplyDeleteI think good people trying to be bad is seen more then bad people doing good. For example around school you can see good kids that do real good in school and have strict parents, you see them trying to act bad because they think it makes them fit in. Because bad is known as a popular way to be that, that Is the way people think they should be. You also see it a lot on tv all these stars that deep inside are good people are acting up because it gets them attention. People find it easier to be the "bad guy/girl" than to do the right thing. In a way you can day that to some people being good got overated. I also see it in the bad kids themselves, I see a good person that acts bad fir either attention or because it's easier. I believe that everyone starts off good but some people turn to the bad because of circumstances, guidance, or because there lost. I don't think people are neccessarly bad and that's why I think you see more good people being bad.
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of view, i see more good people trying to be bad. Its all about whats IN nowadays, its not about whats right anymore, and bad seems to be IN. For example, rappers, who could use their potential to make great music, show guns, drugs and sex in their videos. Thats what sells nowadays, a rapper talking about problems going on in the world will not get any sales or records because his/her videos dont contain any of these three things. (guns,sex and drugs) Another good example from my own experience is people in school. Most teenagers in school would rather join gangs, get in trouble, fight for no reason just to get respect or gain popularity. The worst part is that most of these teenagers have a potential to be something better, but influences and peer pressure, push them away from their true potential. Last but not least, we see good people, like actors and actresses, who arent making money anymore so they get invoved in public scandals to keep their popularity up, regardless of how bad their reputation is hurt. (ex. Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan) Unfortunately, money runs this world, and all these bad things are what sell the most and we've created a world where being bad is what makes you popular and earns you respect faster than doing good.
ReplyDeleteDear Bunje, I know I’m late...sorry! I didn’t have an actual computer to write an Op on a blog. But here I am, Puerto Rico is amazing but hot… to hot! The reason why I’m here is because every time I would walk in my house it was honestly like walking into nothing I felt empty. I know it sounds dumb but I was alone. My mother sometime could care less about me actually doing something good. My friend Jessica texted me yesterday and said how brave I was and that never let anyone put me down because I have the courage that she didn’t have. I was like “what in the world are you talking about? I was stupid for leaving all of the good opportunities for comfort, but at the end of the day to me it’s all worth it!” Now I’m kind of struggling. School here is hard. Yea I have a lot of friends and they help me out, but damn I wake up and it’s like “let the stress begin” Oh well it was my choice, and I wanted to be with my family. Believe it or not I’m happy. My grandma is sick with her back problems but there’s nothing I can do. My grandpa, Bipolar… he drives me nuts but its part of being here. My aunt, she’s pregnant always complaining and my uncle just bought a car (a lancer evolution 2009) he has to pay 480$. I have no idea how the hell he’s going to do it cause of the new baby. Anyways, at the end of the night were all together and happy. We literally just miss my mom and my brother here. But I can say we actually find our ways around our problems and we help each other out. Oh I almost forgot to tell you I found my dad. Well my cousin has a friend which works for the FBI and he found him. I can’t wait to ask him “why did he abandon me?” oh well… I wake up in the mornings to a nice warm breeze, I’m happy here. I’m not going to lie its amazingggg! The views are wonderful, and the beach is clear/clean! You would love it here. It’s actually not as bad as everyone says, that’s depending on where you go. Where I’m at it’s nice and calm. When I first got here it was like I had 1000 pounds lifted off my shoulders. I had many problems, and it was as if they all just disappeared. I’m only stressing now because of school and I’m not too worried because I know I can do it. I believe that all this hard work will pay off. Anyways here I have too big rooms and a big house; I also have a nice Nissan Altima 2005… I love it here because I’m calm with the crazy people I love . I really miss my mom and my little brother. She says that she is going to surprise me and come down here soon. I’m guessing she’s coming May 23rd the day of my graduation! I’m suppperrr excited. Do you imagine me walking when they call my name up to go and get my diploma… uffff I’m happy! Oh and about this blog….it’s mainly good people getting influenced by the bad. That’s when the good start doing bad things. It’s sad, but that’s life. Well ill keep entering into the blogs and telling you more and more about how things are here. I really miss you and our class; I miss our good conversations about life and the cruelty of reality. Love always -Stephanie
ReplyDeleteIn my experience it is more likely for good people to pretend to be bad. Pretending to be bad gives them some kind of thrill that they hide behind bad behaviors. The real thrill lies within the deed its self whether it requires them to act as if they don't care, or for them to show they are incapable of caring. It's all just pretend really because as I have learned there is good in all people it just may not be in their behavior. For instance i have a friend who likes to be rude and crude and get under your skin but in the end he'd be the only person to have your back if everyone else left you alone. In another situation i have a friend who likes to pretend hes weak and not too bright just for someone to ask him for help and you realize you've just ask the exact right person. On tv they got the show house and hes always trying to come off as a "you know What" head when hes really just a sad doctor but the best one they got. That is why i think it is more prevalent to be a good person trying to be bad because the truth is thats all their really was in the first place.
ReplyDeletenow a days, kids are prone to be the typical badass, so i would have to say when good people try to be bad is just stupid because they know there smarter than that.. i just dont get itt, but a bad person trying to be gooooodd is a way of life, people realizing what they have beeen, and what they should be. its more than likely you see good people trying to act bad. in my opinion, its a way they are around certian people. no one can stop them.. it normally happpens with high school kids (teenagers), kids who dont know who they are yet, ammatures, if i spelt that right hahaha. in my experience when i was a freshman it was scary as hell walking into oakcrest not knowing where your gonna go, who your gonna be besties with, or even who the boys like. its a totally diffrent situation, i know i went through a badass stage where i thought i was cool because i did things my friends did, now that i think about it, it was really stupid. i realize this now because of the four years ive been in this hell hole, you find out who your real friend are.. and trust meeee, ive beeen down every raod, case, senerio, ect
ReplyDeleteA good person trying to be bad is more accepted rather than a bad person trying to be good. Because one the good person is already known for doing the right thing or just making the smarter decision. Two because on one will trust a bad person trying to be good because if he or she is already though to be a bad person. There for people will think he or she is trying to trick them into a bad situation which will turn them look like a bad person too a example of this will be if a person like Greg Mortenson stole something unintentionally compared to a man fresh out of jail for grand larceny saying it was unintentional that he stole $500 from an old lady leaving the bank. Trying to say that she gave him the money it just would be very hard to believe. Or like O.J. Simpson saying he did not get arrested for decisions he made in Las Vegas, NV and is serving a life sentence for it.
ReplyDeleteI think that its easyer to see a bad person trying to be good.its easyer because once you know a person is bad you expect him to be bad and when they start acting good you notice it. most kids in highschool try to act like there bad but alot of nthem arnt and its easyer to tell them apart.
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