JACKSON JUNIOR HIGH – ALCOHOL PROJECT

foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] carefully [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah I'm Barbara Murray you're a substitute teacher um Miss Gunther's sick [Applause] um this is your alcohol project week isn't it I saw some of the posters in the hallway and Miss Gunther called me on the telephone and told me a little bit about it um but I wasn't here when you started so maybe you could bring me up today yeah well Mark and I were having an argument about alcohol he says drinking's bad for you but if it's so bad how come it's not illegal oh there's no way they can illegalize it oh look look they tried prohibition once before and it didn't work so there's just no way they can illegalize it oh well um just one at a time so we can hear what you have to say well does anyone have anything to say yes alcohol is a drug who needs drugs yeah but isn't it right that all the important people in the world practically drink even the president drinks just to be sociable so what is really wrong with it my parents drink they're not drunks or anything I mean they can control it yeah so no Wingstop they don't know when to control it that's right she's right it's just a few people give alcohol a bad name and they're the ones we have to worry about what about you do you drink yeah yeah come on Barb try this no I I don't want come on you like it all right hey play something a little louder well I'm a little more path I don't think I want to well um oh whether or not I drink it's really relevant to the project oh come on that's not fair I'd really like to tell you but uh there's so much work to cover we really better get going here um maybe if we would move on to the next step in the project Oh you mean the history of alcohol [Music] [Applause] [Music] has been on this Earth ever since the world began [Applause] [Music] in the beginning along with the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees that were naturally sweet grapes a fruit with this fruit we know is grapes combined with yeast and then combined with the heat of the Sun the natural grape sugar underwent a chemical transformation [Music] wow that's terrific what do you call this stuff man called it wow yeah why how do you make it okay you want to be like that I'll find out for myself [Music] I'd better write that down I wonder if fish would work as well as a bunch of grapes [Music] fish fermentation yeah so man tried wheat and barley barley who said that never mind I think I'll try it now that's beer beer what a great name glad I thought of it I'd better write that down nice thing I think I've had enough man discovered beverage alcohol and found that drinking was a pleasant social experience [Music] if this still only works I'll have contributed something terrific to the world no just a few glands a barley [Music] a little more heat this deal is fantastic this deal is thoracic distillation that's it I'll call it Whiskey no no schnapps maybe I'll just call it a day [Music] Ludwig this is a less straw [Applause] people just don't drink cause that's how they think that's okay look I am but Hebrews like their wine Italians too Germans drink their beer washed like the African stuffing in China and Japan rice wine was always [Music] pick and choose it's up to you to pick and choose depending on who you are you know I I've really done it now my first teaching assignment has got to be alcohol I feel so hypocritical teaching those kids about drinking when I don't drink myself come on Barbara there must be something that you like to drink I like milk and soda if you want to know the truth I bet I could find something that you'd really like I don't like the taste of it I don't like to drink and that's all cut it out will you [Music] thank you thank you sir Barb there's so many varieties of taste coffee banana liqueurs creamed them in if you wanted to drink you could find something you'd really like if you don't like to drink then there has to be another reason find out what that reason is and you'll know a lot more about yourself and why you feel like you do about drinking oh that's funny oh that's just what we're talking about in the class right now why people feel the way they do about drinking I say one stereotype is say the Abundant drinks and gets drunk and weighs on the street corn a little scrawny guy with glasses who has a big fat white flies pecking on him and all drinks to forget well the big businessmen that go out and drink down their lunch let's take a look at some of these kinds of people you mean like real tough guy drinkers [Music] give me some room yet first there's the true sister drinker uh [Music] on television they always make drinking Look So Glamorous [Music] that's right the sophisticated drinker cut was that all right my high school friends believe that drinking a lot of drinking made you more romantic the fact is that if you drink a lot you often make a poor dog and that a lot of liquor actually makes you less romantic well yeah but what about my folks they drink and it's not because of any of those reasons what about you where do you feel do you drink or don't you no no wait a second look I've got an idea why don't we find out where we all fit in what do you mean I mean as part of your alcohol project why people do or don't drink everyday people hey I'm gonna ask her if you need ideas our big business big shot would be great yeah they drink all the time that's the sense hey how about an Italian restaurant down in DC yeah there's a lot of wine they're all colors all right do you think um being Italian has anything to do with your drinking habits oh yes yes uh it's a long tradition of drinking wine I don't know I probably go back to the Roman time well the Jewish people use one to introduce Joy's occasion one is a Joy's beverage well why do you drink well I enjoy drinking it helps me relax and the chicken that I now do is basically wine and beer and usually it has to do with a meal actually the alcohol does not fit into the Baptist faith in terms of its ceremonials always doctrines Baptists believe in total abstinence in order not to even introduce the taste of alcohol in the communion element we use grape juice uh normally it's beer maybe a couple of beers with the guys after work and wine with dinner well Becky I'm a Mormon and I've been asked that question a lot of times and there are many many reasons why I don't use alcohol alcohol destroying man's capability to react to govern his own mind his body is a very great sin in my destination uh why do I drink I drink because I like it it's really difficult [Music] you know you're not going to get drunk on just one beer that's why you won't try one more but through the teeth and over the gums and look how tummy here it comes come on no no your mom and dad I this sounds silly but was there anything in my background and the way I was brought up that makes me feel the way I do about alcohol well it never meant that much to me so we never served any in the house no why well nice to have a drink or two when we went out on a special occasion but when I saw that it made your mom uncomfortable it just didn't mean that much to me and we never had alcohol in the house so we never had any alcohol in the house I was never really exposed to it and you never developed a taste for it of course well I guess that's the way it was but we never did tell you that you could or couldn't if you wanted it just never came up and it was not that important hey Barbara we're sorry honey if we've done something wrong mother it's not a question of right or wrong I I just want to know when I began to feel the way I did about drinking so I'll understand myself better cold drink soft drink anyone so now you know I really don't like to drink and the pressure's on me you know I really don't have anything against drinking why did I just tell your friends you don't like to drink but how's she gonna do that I mean all her friends would think she's just a square and you know when do I have to come to all the parties and things well who needs friends like that she should do what she wants yeah oh yeah but what if she really likes those friends and likes being around them it'd be silly for her just to stop being around those people just because they drink a little she doesn't like to drink and they're pressuring her well what are you gonna do miss Murray [Music] [Applause]