Abusive Relationships

Why do people stay in abusive relationships?
I feel there is no one reason that people stay in abusive there are probably many reasons varying the situation.
One reason is that people keep believing that the abusive person is going to change.
Anther reason is that maybe the abuser is supporting the victim and the victim thinks its okay because they aren’t on the street and hungry.
Maybe the victim has children with the abuser and doesn’t want the children to be missing a father in their life.
Another reason is that victims feel so worthless that they feel they need the abuser.
Perhaps the victims were raised in an abusive home so they think abusive behavior is normal.

Eli

Breathing Underwater; Prediction

I think it will be about his hardships. I think it won’t be very nice but it will probably be a good book. I kind of like books like this. Because it puts you in check because it tells you about others problems and you think wow they have it worse than you. So it makes you feel a little relieved .I know I don’t have it that ruff, well anymore. That’s what I think about it. But who knows how it is going to turn out. maybe he use to hit his girlfriend? That’s why she knows he is not perfect and may be he tells his group about his hard times so they know the real him. Maybe he will be different at the end. Who knows? Well that’s what I think anyway. Can’t wait to find out what happens.

Nena

Violence

Is violence ever ok? I would have to say yes at times it is ok to fight. Should we always fight? No I mean people are always trying to “prove how tough they are” or how cool they are and it’s stupid. We are constantly trying to hurt one another over ridiculous things. I can understand those people who just have anger problems ,but if your like that, then get it taken care of because no one wants to be around that. I think that it is ok to fight if someone is hurting you or if someone you care about is getting hurt. That doesn’t mean you should just like kill the person though. There is self defense then there is just over the top beating the crap out of someone and that’s only ok in rare occasions. Everyone is just so caught up on being “tougher, bigger, better.” When in reality you look ridiculous always trying to fight people. So yes you will win a few fights and there may be some a little scared or think your cool for a little bit but then what? Exactly nothing. So only fight to defend your self or someone you love, and don’t like murder them just defend yourself.


-Kesha

Breathing Underwater: Characters

Tom is a boy who tries to look cool and be funny. Also he is obsessed with his muscles. Nick is a guy who likes to chill and lay-back. He does not care if he has a girlfriend or not until he sees Cat. Mario is his anger therapist and is pretty pushy with Nick. Nick’s dad is pretty abusive with Nick. He doesn’t care about anybody else but himself. Nick’s therapy group is okay, everybody doesn’t like to talk that much, but they do talk they have to. They mainly just let the therapist talk to them. I relate to Nick the most because I just like to lay back and chill. Cat is a girl that cares about people she really hates it when Nick tells here to get rid of her friend. Even though she has been her friend for over ten years. I think she stays in the relationship because she has seen it happen with other people and she thinks it is okay to be in abusive relationship.

Jordan

Violence

ok, so I think that violence is never the answer, it is never necessary, but there is always violence in the world. I don’t think that it is the answer because you can always talk it out no matter what the problem is, but no one ever does that because they don’t know how to talk with their mouths, just their fists. Obviously they don’t have enough brainpower to talk about their problems so I doesn’t break out into a fight that doesn’t need to happen. I think that you should always stick up for yourself, but you also should learn how to talk out your problems and not start fights. I think that the only reasons you should fight are for self defense, and if someone is getting mugged. I also think that sticking up for your beliefs is really important too. That’s all I got to say.

Tom

Violence

Is violence even necessary? If so, when? If not, why not?
Now there are many reasons to this, many different points of views to this. People go trough so much, so many struggles in a every day life. What do you do when it happens to your? I guess that’s the only way of answering this question with the most sincerity.
But I think, personally, violence should not be something we should use in order to control and organize things that need work. To sit down and think about everything that is really going on, to get the real picture, instead of thinking with anger of egos. Many people do this and end up in drastic results. Choices have results and we are responsible for them. We always wish we could go back in time and change the things that we did that we end up regretting in the future. I’m sure nobody wants to feel this way, I’m sure nobody hates there close friends/family so much that they really want to hurt them. Now what I can say about the people that have, I know they regret it as they sit right now in jail or in whatever program they got put in.

Ricardo

My Brother

So I chose to write about my brother because I feel like I don’t deserve him. Cade and me started fighting, and he asked me what my problems were. I said why do you care you have never been there for me before why start now? I feel like he doesn’t care cause when I started to tell him what was going on he just was like I have got more problems then you. Aren’t brothers supposed to help you and give you advice? Not make you feel like crap when you already do, but after the fight I realized Cade has helped me he has done a lot for me. That’s no excuse for how he makes me feel he tells me how I will never do good, and if I do he will be surprised because I have never done good before. I have tried to get along with him but everything I do is never good for him. I feel like he cares a lot more about his girl friend than me. To him im just a little know it all brat. I thought this would be a good journal to write. Just to get my feelings out.

Kirra

Respect

Well what I want to talk about or mention is relationships and how some men treat girls. Because the other day I was talking to one of my girlfriend’s(friend) and she was telling me how her ex-boyfriend hit her and that pissed me off. Also she told me how he got pissed at her and he left her up in the mountains so nobody could find her. I told her that he a dumb*** and nobody should treat anybody like that. She didn’t really say anything, but that did get to me and I just wanted to go beat him up myself because she is a human to and nobody just leaves somebody up in the mountain like that. So the reason I wrote this is because it relates to Nick I mean how he’s all controlling in the book towards his girlfriend and there are a lot of people like that and I just wish that their wasn’t because it pisses me off, well that’s all I have to say.

Christian