Honors

The article and youtube video was about how the penny has lost its worth. I talks about other countries that have abolished there one cent coin and also how everything is now being rounded to the next 5 cents.

I think that the penny is getting to be useless. Coming from a retail background i do not like having the old ladies come in an count out exact change using pennies or the annoying people that do come in and pay there whole purchase in pennies. The penny as a whole lost its value after it was made out of 95% zinc instead of copper. The only thing that we will really lose is the luck we get when we find a penny heads up on the ground. I think this metal could be used to make something else instead of a coin which has no face value. The only reason that i actually keep pennies is that in the end ill be able to trade it in after i get so much of them. I have noticed another trend when i actually do give change. When it is less then a nickels worth of change most people tell me to keep it. If we lose the penny what will we be able to do with all that metal?

This weeks article was about Sexism in the presidential election of 2008. It talked about all of the ways that Palin and Clinton were portrayed throughout the whole election. It talked about how being a mother, Iron Maiden, and beauty all were used to attack these two candidates. It also talked about how some of the sexism was not noticed by some men. It talked about how women should go inform more people about sexism and how common it is. The article used several different examples for all of the sexism that the women were put through.

I found this article pretty interesting. Because i did not follow the election in 2008 i did not notice all of the sexism that they went through. I knew that sexism is everywhere. It is prevalent throughout our society as a whole. I think that sexism is wrong and that both male and female should not take one over the other, especially in the work place. I do take over some things that i dont think my female counterparts can handle, such as lifting and other things, but im not doing it to spite them but to help. My main question is how can people not see the sexism in our society and become aware of what it does to people?