Guidelines for Writing Paper 2

You wrote a paper about how you and your informant differ in terms of educational paths. You’re prolly a rich white kid who can afford a four-year university education, and your informant is some poor loser who is probably of black or Latino ancestry. Or you’re a rich Asian kid who falls under the “model minority” theory, which means you’re a white kid too.

Anyway, DON’T write about you or your informant in paper 2. We don’t care about you guys. Just talk about how rich people are better than poor people, and how white people are better than black people. Or how Asians are better than Latinos. Whatever.

If you and your informant are Asian and white, then talk about how Asians and whites are both whites.

To talk about WHY races are different, you’ll have to use some “social imagination” (aka make shit up).

You must build your paper around the following details:
-2 Differences between rich and poor
-2 Differences between white and black. Or Asian and Latino. Whatever.
-3 Authors who write about how gender and family are influenced by social location and race. It’s completely irrelevant, but I like to see you squirm.
-3 Authors who talk about how poor people try to be rich but fail because no one likes them.
-4 Authors who talk about racial groups. Pick two about your race, and then two about your informant’s race. If you or your informant is white, then you’ll discover that no one cares to write about white people.

Okay, NOW you can talk about you and your informant. Tell us how you guys may or may not match up with whatever the hell you spent 7 pages ranting about. But keep in mind, I really don’t give a fuck if you guys are “special”. Just make it short, okay?

Oh, and don’t forget to cite your sources!

I’ve been wondering why human beings are so different from any other animal. Of all species, we are the only one that is stupid enough to destroy its home. We’re one of the few that strives to inhabit every single square foot of land, whether or not it provides us with the necessary resources to survive. And we’re the only one that protects the weak.

But of course, this is human nature. This is a nature that is completely different from real nature. Real nature creates equilibrium and delicate balances. Yet the human nature continuously torments that balance. Why?

Perhaps this is what we exist for. To destroy the Earth. We seem to have the perfect traits for it.

First of all, we’re weak things. Think about it. We don’t have claws, sharp teeth, venom, or any defense mechanisms. Those things seemed to have evolved out of our species. Consequently, we have to make tools to help us protect our lives and to do everyday things.

We can barely eat dinner without knives, forks, and spoons. Our faces are not fashioned to lick water out of a pond, nor do we have a digestive system good enough to consume raw foods. So I guess we need energy to cook things, whereas most animals just eat whatever they eat on the spot.

And we’ve apparently grown lazy enough that we can’t just look for food. We have to grow it. This doesn’t bother me so much because ants farm as well. But they don’t use chemical biocides that would give them diseases. They don’t make things that destroy everything. We do.

I’m not sure if anyone’s noticed, but our appetites need some adjusting. First of all, when we’re thirsty, we think we’re hungry. So we grab some food. Little do we realize that this food takes much more energy and water to make than a glass of water. We’re sort of blind to that stuff, unlike other animal species. Secondly, we have no sense of balance in our diets. Other species seem to have a splendid time with this, but we just grab the first tasty thing we see. And it’s probably not a fruit. It’s probably something preserved by plastic goo that is packaged in plastic, too.

We’re so weak, we can’t just live in a tree, dig a hole underground, or build things out of dead stuff. No way, we’ve got to cut living things down first, and then build a home. It can be anywhere, of course, because we build huge systems that provide us with water and electricity. Everyone, everywhere, gets to live. But then we live in these sealed up boxes. So we have to install things to make the air on the inside be cooler or warmer.

And since we only have two legs and everyone’s suddenly living everywhere, we have to have transportation systems. Since horses aren’t adequate because they eat food and poop, we had to build new machines to do the job. Then again, they eat fuel and pollute. Great improvement, fellas!

An animal, on the other hand, has four legs, wings, and fins for transportation. They can fly or swim away from unsuitable conditions. Land animals either have fur to keep themselves warm, or shed the fur and lie down in the shade to cool themselves off. We don’t have things to shed. We have fat, and that’s about it. So we have to make clothes.

But we can’t just have any clothes. It has to look good and be clean, so we have to wash it in machines. And since it gets wet in these machines, we have to dry the clothes in another machine.

We make machines for everything. Even for saving lives, which is good sometimes. But what about the people who were born with diseases? How come they are still alive? Other species don’t waste time on weaklings. They die, so the next generation would consist of stronger individuals. We, on the other hand, don’t seem to be taking advantage of that whole thing. And to think, we may actually be a great species if we didn’t pick soft, pink mates.

Dying isn’t really that bad, though our species wants to stay away from it as much as possible. It’s supposed to happen, after all. When we die, we stop consuming resources. That’s great news for the people who are still alive and need those resources. So do I think retards and lame people should die? No – they wouldn’t be alive in the first place if humans had a natural mind. Secondly, our nutrients gets recycled back into the ecosystem when we die. It’s terrific for plants, fungi, and the animals that eat them.

Oh, wait…we put people in boxes or burn them, so their nutrients don’t get recycled anyway. Nevermind.