Heroes vs. Villians

I think that when stereotypes affect your behavior you are more likely to live up to it. I think being labeled as a hero puts more pressure on most of the survivors to play the game honestly and to be good people. But then you have James, who is not living up to his hero name at all. But also, in the end i think that it's not going to matter if you're a hero or a villian. In the end each person is going to do what is best for them and not care about anyone else. So, i dont really think the heroes are going to keep their stereotype as a hero, i think that all of them will turn on eachother in order to stay in the game. But until they get to theat point in the game, they need to start working together and helping eachother out. However, i dont really think the villians are THAT mean, but i think that as the game goes on they will truely live up to their villian name. They are on that team for a reason. I think that maybe having the name as a villian might make them act more as a bad guy. But for either team, it might not be a stereotype at all, the team they are are maybe how they really are. At this point, i think they heroes are falling apart because they dont know how to listen to eachother. Some of the people want to do everthing their own way and they dont care what anyone else wants to do.

Second Impressions

After viewing the first episode of survivor, my opinion has kind of changed how I view Tom, but not really. I still think that he's a strong player. But my opinion has changed now that I've seen him in person. I imagined him to be stronger than he his, and I think that he's not as in good as shape as he was when he was first on Survivor so that might have an impact on his performance. Also, he's older than he was when he was first on the show too. However, i think that's the case for almost everyone, so I'm not really sure if this will hurt him or not. I think that we judge people so quickly because it's just what everyone does. Almost everyone judges someone when they first see them, you can't really help it. We judge people on their appearances right away. Like if someone looks more athletic or stronger than someone else than you're going to think that they're going to win. Or if someone isn't as fit as someone else than they're the weaker person. But even just in watching the first episode of survivor I realized that the stronger person doesn't always win. I think that you have to have a good mindset and good strategies and be able to do the challenges to be able to win. I loved the first episode of Survivor. I think that it's a good way to spend a Friday morning and I think that it definitely does have a lot to do with psychology. After spending so much time on an island away from everyone you know and not really being able to trust anyone but yourself, that has to have some kind of impact on how you think and how you play the game.

First Impressions

My survivor contestant is Tom. He is from New York, where he is a fire fighter and his department helped rescue people on September 11th. He is also very athletic. He held the pole volt record at his school for 20 years. At first I didn't think that he could win and I thought he looked kind of old. But then Mrs. Schaffer told me that he won his season, so now I think he has a good chance of doing well in the game or even winning. But there are other people in this season that won the season they were on, so I think that it will be a good and ineresting season to watch since all of the people seem like they are pretty good contestants.