Social Issues in the Book

The book that's I'm reading, Girls Against Girls, is a nonfiction book with data and reasons to why girls are more aggressive than guys. According to the book, while guys may be able to get into a physical fight, it is less common in girls. Girls are psychologically more tougher, since we've been expected by society to be more sweet and kind. The book shows many scenarios of how girls fight, we gossip and get involved in other people's business. The same behavior has been noted in female apes. Scientists say that it does make sense, considering that present day humans evolved from apes. But this happens between girls almost everywhere.

Girls most of the time have a tendency to gossip. We hear something from someone, and we pass it on. Labels are used on people like "slut" and "fake" for the wrong reasons. Most of the time, this takes place in schools, were one girl might tell her "friend" a secret, who decides that it's something really interesting, so she should tell everyone. And she adds in her own twist to it to make it a bit more juicy and entertaining. The next set of girls pass it on with even more of their own versions of what happened, and pretty soon, everyone know about it. The innocent person has now become a "slut" even though she's done nothing wrong. This is how a lot of gossip is spread in school.

But according to the book, girls have been verbally tormenting each other for things they want. Girls have been proven to be the more competitive gender. Before in the olden days, many girls were not free from their parents until they were married. So siblings fought for this freedom by competing with each other for a better husband. Nowadays, we don't fight over these things with our sisters, but with our friends, we fight over many different things. We all want to be better than each other, but to do that, a lot of girls bring each other down using such labels as "slut" and "fake" and many more. If one girl has something, the other girl wants it too, or something better. So we're pretty competitive. 

A female brain is more complex than a male brain, and we have been affected by society to behave "sweetly", so we avoid physical fights to appear as that. Instead, we spread rumors and throw around insults to bring each other down and get to the top. This has been a common thin between girls of all kinds, like female apes, girls around the world, and in historic times. This has been a social issue since the dawn of time, and we can't really get rid of it, but we can avoid it, by thinking twice about what we say before we say it.

Comic Relief

Comic Relief is an English charity fund that helps the needy in the United Kingdom and Africa.

- It donates money to sick children
- The charity raises money to help fund medical treatments
- The program they use to raise money for Africa is called "Red Nose Day"
- They also help kids who have experienced deaths
- In Africa, they help people affected by HIV and AIDS
- In the U.K they help people who've been through domestic and sexual violence
- Helps prevent teenage drinking
- Stands for women's rights

Comic Relief has a website where people can get involved. This year, they've earned over 100,000,000 pounds. They use all of their money for charity.

Cirque Du Freak

Cirque Du Freak is a fictional book that teaches people to not do things without our parents consent, or illegal things in general. I know that it's fictional, but it can also be related to real life. The main character Darren Shan, is a teenager who sneaks out at night with his best friend to go see a freak show, which is illegal. When they go there, they see a lot of strange things. And they become curious, which leads to dangerous things. It gets so bad that Darren regrets going to the freak show.

One point in the book is when he steals a dangerous spider from its owner, Mr. Crepsley. He plays with it and uses tricks on it, which he saw Mr. Crepsley do at the freak show. The spider seems harmless, but Darren's little sister gets bitten. The spider's poisonous venom paralyzes her. Once again, Darren regrets going to the freak show.

His life becomes so upside down that Darren puts everyone's lives in danger. And he wishes that he had not gone to the freak show. If his parents had known, then they'd have protected him from going. But at the end Darren suffers along with everyone else.