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Paris Hilton, "Getting off the Hook" Again??

http://www.broadcaster.com/clip/17711

This video is about how Paris Hilton might have gotten off the hook again from going to jail. I picked this video because it is a prime example of how certain people can “get off the hook” just because of their status in society, their privileges.

This video relates to our class material that is on getting of the hook. It is an example of sick and tired. This is because when they announced that Paris Hilton was going to be released from prison people were like, “Well I knew it was going to happen, I’m sick of hearing about her.” So many people just brushed it off like it was ok, nothing we can do about it, sort of situation, because they are simply sick and tired of hearing about celebrities getting out of trouble all the time because they are wealthy and have a high status in our society. Johnson stated, “Privilege similarly encourages people to be self-centered and unaccountable to others. […] It makes avoiding responsibility for what they do and don’t do a path of least resistance” (123). This is saying that Paris Hilton never takes responsibility for her own actions because privilege encourages her not to. Moreover, because of privilege she follows the path of least resistance, the easy way out, to get out of all her problems. She thinks that because she is privileged and is wealthy that she can do whatever she wants and will have no consequences to face. In addition, society almost proved that true for her by almost letting her out of jail before her sentence was up.

I think that society defiantly encouraged people to believe that they have to get off the hook. By encouraging this, it results in people not dealing with issues and taking the easy way out, or the path of least resistance. When something goes wrong everyone has a different way of dealing with it, some say, “It wasn’t me!” while others might say, “Eh, it wasn’t that big of a deal,” and so on. Nevertheless, it is so unusual for someone to immediately come forward and say, “I am very sorry everyone it was my fault and I’ll be responsible for my own actions and take the consequences.” But, when that happens it is refreshing and inspiring for those to see that they do not always have to “get off the hook,” that they can stand up for what they did and deal with it for once. If we always take, the path of least resistance nothing in this world would get accomplished.