Hyprocrisy

As a high-school girl, I face situations every day in which people are extremely hypocritical. However, the majority of these high-school quarrels are trifling and not very notable. No, if I am going to spend my time recording one of these many situations its going to be a recording of something that irks me to the point of insanity. One such act of hypocrisy is demonstrated by none other than my own mother. Two years before I turned 16 I got behind the wheel of a car for the first time with my mother. Since that day I have heard a perpetual nagging in my ear every time I get in the drivers seat; "Betsy, you are going way too fast, SLOW DOWN!" It is not my mothers concern for my safety that bothers me though, its the fact that every single time I get in the car with her she speeds horribly. Sitting in the passenger seat of her vehicle on I-75 the other vehicles appear to be going at a chelonian pace and if I dare pipe up with "mom, you may want to slow down" it is received with "I have been driving for thirty years! I know how to drive!" It is completely ridiculous reasoning; "driving experience", as she calls it, does not give anyone the right to break the law, especially as severely as she does. This is only one of many hypocritical situations I have faced, but it is definitely the most blatantly annoying. 

Glee

Ryan Murphy's very popular show Glee is not only an extremely successful pop culture sensation but it is also a major benefit to society. Glee's central theme is acceptance of others regardless of their circumstances which is both consistent with American political culture and a reenforcement of the idea that every one is of equal moral worth (a notion expressed in the very first sentences of the U.S. constitution.) It is undeniable that raising a new generation anchored by this value is not only desirable but a necessity if the United States is to further progress as a nation.
The show is certainly controversial, which some critics may negatively point out, but the controversial issues discussed on the program forces its watchers to reflect and evaluate their own beliefs, a process that leads to political maturity according to the widely accepted structuring tendency of political socialization. Becoming politically mature is a crucial step in becoming a more well informed population, a better informed public will lead to a more advanced form of democracy in which American policy makers must acknowledge public opinion, and a democracy in which policy makers must acknowledge public opinion is what America has fervently striven for since it's origin.
Glee is a definite benefit to society. It not only reenforces U.S. political ideals but forces an advance in how democratic society operates by making its citizens evaluate their personal beliefs. By playing more shows of the same nature U.S. society can and will progress even further.

Racist or not?

Troy Maxson is racist. His political ideals are the misfortune that plagues this once great nation and they are the sole reason that he turned to the horror that is discrimination. His capitalistic/darwinistic attitude has existed in the hearts and minds of Americans since the 1930's and it was still prevalent in the 1980's when Fences was written. August Wilson noted the populous that believes in the republican idea of elitism by creating a character for his story named Troy Maxson. Maxson, who's very name parallels Marxism, believed in the supremacy of the white race. This supremacy thus made him feel under the white race since he was an African American. Maxson felt as if he did not have the same rights and authority, because the whites were superior. Therefore, Troy Maxson, in my opinion, is racist of the white people because of the how they treat him and their "superiority."