Views of Homosexuality: 1950's to Now

In the 1950's, homosexuality was not seen as a choice, but as a mental illness. Since the American Psychiatric Association listed homosexuality as a mental disorder, many gay people hid their sexual preference from society. Homosexuals were also considered being evil, disturbed, and pathetic. Homosexuality was not seen in any books or movies. If there were supposed to be an appearance of a homosexual, they would immediately remove it. Society was so worried about homosexuals, that in 1953 President Eisenhower gave sufficient reason to fire any federal employees from his or her job if they were homosexual. The government even went as far as putting tracers on those who they suspected as being gay. Homosexuality was something that no one wanted to admit or dare to talk about. Moreover, commercials were produced warning men of homosexuals, and their disease.

Views of homosexuals have changed since this era. Society has grown more comfortable with the thought of gay people, and homosexuals embrace their unique sexual preference, instead of hiding it. In the recent years, homosexuality has begun its shameless effort to be noticed, tolerated, but most notably, accepted. The media has given rise to several television programs with elements of homosexuality. Shows like Will and Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and Grey's Anatomy include actors leading roles either playing a homosexual or live the actual lifestyle. As the popularity of these shows increases, awareness and open-mindedness universalizes and, in turn, the gay community comes another step closer to acceptance and justice.

Advertising on Facebook

Facebook advertising is an excellent marketing technique and a great opportunity to reach out to hundreds of millions of active users. Today, Facebook has become one of the most popular online social networking websites, making it a gold mine network for traffic and business. People spend a great amount of time online on the Facebook website looking to make new friends, interact with people, play games and interact within interest groups. When you make it possible for your advertising message to travel to these people through Facebook, you will absolutely see a rise in the amount of website traffic that you attract, and you will also see more members, more subscriptions, more sales and more inquiries as well.


There are different ways to advertise your business or message across on Facebook. First there are social ads.This is one of the most straight forward ways that you can promote yourself on Facebook. You can use social ads to target people based on a number of different functions including age group, gender and interest for example. By targeting your ads in this manner, you can increase your click through rate. This will give you more visitors to your site and also an increase in the number of customers that you are able to attract. Also there is Groups and Pages.You can create groups and pages for your business, company or website on Facebook, and then you can get people to become a fan of your page or to join your group. Both pages and groups are two excellent channels that you can use to gather more potential customers as well as to build more brand awareness on Facebook. 


Facebook is able to read the information you post on its site and then stream ads that are connected to that information in hope to find similarities and spark opportunities to gain new customers. It will also be a great up to date source on whats going on not only in your community, but all around the globe. It is a very good resource for any business that is trying to make a name for itself for the right price and has potential to be the leading form of advertising on the web. All in all, advertising on Facebook at this point in time is a win/win for anyone looking to spread their idea or products quickly and effectively to the masses.

Social Class in America

The facts regarding social class in America are blurred in the sense that this is a rather controversial topic. Whatever your thoughts are on social class in America, the fact is there is, always has been, and always will be different social classes in America. What is Social Class? Dictionary.com defines social class as “a broad group in society having economic, cultural, or political status.” An individual’s income being different than another individual’s income is an example of economic social class. Cultural social class is the difference between the majority and minority of ethnicities in one’s community, region, or country. And finally, political social class is the difference between an individual’s political views in comparison to another individual’s political views.

The social class in America has changed with each decade. In the ‘30s, social class was dependant mainly on financial status, and it changed as the economy fluctuated and individual’s finances changed. A wealthy individual affected dramatically by The Great Depression for the worse experience change in their social class. People found themselves on the same level as those who were previously socially ‘beneath’ them. In the sixties, when peace and equality began to fight its way to the surface, social class was being threatened as things began to change economically, culturally, and politically. In the last five to ten years, social class has fluctuated with the fluctuations in economics, the increase or decrease of cultural differences, and as politics began to rage its own battle as it continues today. The changes have affected families differently, and some may not realize the effects. These changes have been affected by the economic stability that America experienced in the ‘90s, as well as the cultural growth that brought more people and diverse ideas to the country.The past election has brought an outpouring of change to social class as the current recession has caused a higher rate of unemployment across the nation and political control has forced local and federal governments to make cuts in programs that aided the lower class.

There are different classifications that define social class. You can ‘Google’ the term social class to find these different classifications and use that to determine the social class you might be considered a party of. The changes that have affected the status of social classes make it imperative to find the classification that fits your family for today. You may be surprised that it has changed with time and circumstances. The concept of social class is not often considered by the average person and social class may not seem as important today as it was years ago. Understanding ones social class may help an individual be more aware of real life situations that are directly affected by social class. In business or personal situations social class may be affected by the annual income, taxation, and size of your family. Many people have taken their status and improved it from when they were young and classified by their parents’ social class. As the next generation grows into the role, they will find themselves improving their own social class and building a future that redefines the social classes in America today. 

Kids Owning Cell Phones

Cell Phones have become less and less a luxury, to the point that people say they don't know what they would do without one. As an adult, that's fine. Spend your money as you'd like. However, I do not think that kids need cell phones. Kids these day are exposed to way to much information and try to grow up to fast. With texting, picture sharing, and face-time, it is almost impossible for a parent to have a good understanding of what their young kids are really doing or saying to one another anymore. Kids should be doing homework, not texting their friends. 

It bothers me to see kids talking on their cell phone. You are nine years old...who are you calling, other nine year olds? What do you have to say to them that can't wait? Parents need to wake up and realize just how dangerous it is letting a pre teen have all the freedom that cell phones posses. It is very easy for a young kid to abuse their cell phone privileges and be persuaded to do foolish things such as rack up thousands of texts a month which sends the bill through the roof, or talk to their friends at any hour of the night without their parents knowledge, or send inappropriate pictures and video of themselves and having these pictures end up on the internet for all to see.

If safety is the sole concern for a parent getting their child a cell phone, then they should get them a child's phone that allows calls only to specified numbers such as the parents, a grandparent, and the authorities, like the Firefly.

For me, the cutoff to getting a "real phone" would be when the kids can pay for it themselves, with money they earn (not gifts from Grandma). If they are responsible enough to work for one, then they are responsible enough to have one.