...Bigger Person Mahatma Gandhi’s quote, “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win,” demonstrates how people are quick to judge and how being the bigger person pays off. Being the bigger person results in a quicker solution than arguing about the topic. Being the bigger person additionally enables the person to feel good about themselves. They can view themselves as more mature and strong-minded. Gandhi is teaching his audience how to win a fight against ignorant people through this quote. “First they ignore you,” is referring to the beginning of the argument when people judge you, and do not take you seriously. Therefore, they ignore you. Ignoring the person who is talking does not do anything, but make the person being ignored feel disrespected. An example of this in life would be a professor. If students are talking while the professor is speaking it is perceived as very disrespectful. Because the students are talking, they are ignoring the opportunity to learn from the professor. Racism could be another real-life example of this idea. For example, if in a group of people there is only one person of a different race, this person may not be heard for what he or she has to offer. That is not justified because all people should be treated equally. Another example of discrimination could be if a person is judged as not as intelligent as the people surrounding them. Maybe that person is just quiet and afraid to speak. The group could judge...
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...do not know why people have good people in their lives and push them away. I do not know why people ask my stupid question that they already know the answer to I do not know why the person that murder my cousin don't turn them selves in. I do not know why I procrastinate with some things that I know I can do right away. I do not know why I am such a picky eater. I do not know why when people come into my room when I'm sleeping, leave the light on and don't close the door back when they are done what they was doing in my room. I am not a quieter. I am not selfish. I am not greedy. I am not mean. I am not over confident. I am not rude. I am not self centered. I am not arrogant. I am not dishonest. I am not unreliable. I wonder why I am such a loyal person. I wonder why I still believe I can dunk an I am only 5'5. I wonder why I call so many people a “friend.” I wonder why I let people in so easily. I wonder why I seem to always give people three and four chances. I wonder why it seem like bad things always happens to me. I wonder why I am so compassionate. I wonder why I am so sensitive. I wonder why I find the good in some people knowing all there is in them is lies n deceit. I wonder why God hasn't given up on me even though sometimes I ted to give up on myself. It made me made when I ask a person a question about something important to see if they will tell me the truth not...
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...Narcissism Loving Yourself! Narcissism is a term that originated with Narcissus in Greek mythology who fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water. Currently it is used to describe a person characterized by egotism, vanity, pride, or selfishness; an erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes. That is the definition of Narcissism. Sometimes I believe it to be a good thing and other times it can be the worst possible, depending on how you look at it. I mostly believe that you have to have the right amount of self-love. Some take it to far as to defining our generation as Generation Me. We want everythine for ourselves, we want evything to be our way or the highway. We want to be boss, and want people to deal with it. I think we could all be narcissists because im sure we all believe with the statement “If I ruled the world, it would be a better place.” I know I agree with that. Its shown in the last twenty five years, that narcissism in students have gone up a considerably thirty more percent than statistics showed in 1982. That eighty percent of the population, claim importance of some kind, from claiming to be the most important in the whole world, or to something little, like believing theyre the best at everything they do. Its like a person at the back of a line, fights and argues until they can get to the front of the line because they believe they deserve to be there. Its really becoming a fearful...
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...Do you have something you're thankful for? Thankfulness is being able to have a certain amount of gratefulness for a certain thing, place, or person. Appreciation is the main thing of being thankful. People who are thankful for something usually show their thankfulness in certain ways. One such way is through thanksgiving, where we celebrate our gratefulness of each other and the houses and meals we have been able to have with our families. To me, thankfulness means that a person has realized the true worth of something and is willing to do something to prove it. So I will be talking about the people and animals in my life I’m thankful for. I’m thankful for my mom because she is always there for me when I need her like if I'm sad she will make me happy and if I'm mad she will try and calm me down. I love my mom and she does so much for me by giving me food and a roof over my head and for...
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...desire to die. We use the term “irrational” here because no matter how bad a person’s life is, suicide is a permanent solution to what is nearly always a temporary problem. A 14 year old girl took her life after she was voted for Queen for her upcoming Fall Festival. Sarah Lynn Butler, took her life because of cyber bullying, she got some bad messages on MySpace saying she was a whore. She got teased every day at school. Cyber bullying is a cruel way of saying things to a person. Sarah Lynn Butler had a bright future and a wonderful road ahead of her. That all got taken away because of messages that weren’t true. Sarah Lynn Butler is very pretty and according to a family member she was sweet and helpful to others. Cyberbullying causes 4,500 kids to take their life at their own hands because of what people tell them over the internet that’s 99% not true. Signs...
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...The most influential person in my life is my mother. She taught me how to keep loving through the good and the bad. My mothers love is unconditional, it is a trait i wish to equip throughout my life. I was about 13 when I found out that my mother loved me unconditionally. The moment I lost my mothers necklace (that my grandmother gave to her) I thought she was going to kill me. I had never seen my mother so mad at me. I began to cry as she was yelling at me;I ran into my room, closed the door, and wept all night. The next day my mom walked into my room and told me she was sorry with the most regretful look on her face. I knew my mother was truly sorry. As we hugged in closure, she started to cry on my shoulder. I told my mom I will do anything to find it, but my mothers response was "That necklace will never amount to how much I love you". I will forever be amazed about my mothers love and care for me. She is also incredible at getting things done. It does not matter of the situation, my mother always comes through with whatever was needed. She puts others needs before hers and I love that about her. Whenever someone asks for something, she is always the first one to deliver. When I play softball we usually have 2 games a day, during these games somebody always runs out of water. My mother being the caring person she is, offers to go buy them water from a store near by. During are breaks between games she rushes to go get water. When she returns she comes back with water, snacks...
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...Dear Chris and Shelbie I am writing to you to give you some advice on Interpersonal Communication. I will explain on the importance of this to have a long and healthy relationship and of course how to communicate effectively. There are tons of topics to explore to do this but I have chosen in my eyes the top five to explore and explain for you. Make sure to take this advice on and apply this to your relationship and you will watch it flourish into much more. Identify the barriers to effective communication I will start out with the common barriers and how to get past them. The three common barriers are Silence, placating, and playing games. Silence is something that is used a lot against each other in a relationship when one is mad or hurt or as some might understand it as the silent treatment. One marriage therapist reports that people most commonly resort to silence when they are angry and/or hurt, when they are unable to communicate their feelings, or when they want to punish their partner (Slupesky, 2010). This can be very unhealthy for your relationship and can be very phsycologicalely damaging. It is best no matter the situation or why you’re mad or angry to always be open and honest. The only way to get past the anger or hurt is my communicating to each other. Sure in some point in life we have all used this to in our own way teach our partner a lesson. This is something that not only gets the message across that you’re mad but also is very frustrating to your partner...
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...others provide a negative image about something. All movies or shows have a type of message behind it, but people never spends their time to analyze or think about it. Regardless of the type of movies, they always impact or influence someone’s life, or they learn from it. Beyond the scene and acting, there is a scene that contains messages that might caught one attention and make them stare and think for a little while. Those types of movies sometime bring joy and sometimes they bring tears. In the movie “the diary of a mad black woman “by Tyler Perry gives a lot of good examples also a life lesson. In the movie “Diary of a mad black woman “by Tyler Perry tells a story of beautiful black woman. She is married to a wealthy lawyer. The man is abusive. She stress out so much that she had two miscarriages and all her hair fall. The worst thing is he drags her out their house on their anniversary like a trash. He keeps all the money to himself. This right here sends an important message to the viewers. This means that you might think you know somebody very well, in suddenly that person change toward you. One needs to think and analyze someone very close before he or she goes to the next level. That person needs to think who they are dealing with. They might it “I love you” but do not mean they mean it. People can start good and end up the opposite of what the expectations. In addition to that this section shows the stenotype they have in gender. The characteristic of...
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...feudal traditional conservative ideology and emerging modern thoughts. Hence, the authors always wrote the stories about how individuals reacted to such social changes. Like three stories, Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary,” Yu Dafu’s “Sinking,” Mao Dun’s “Spring Silkworm” which depict how the individuals’ respond when they face two totally different ideologies or moral codes. These three stories show three different conditions, three different choices, and lead to three different results. One common thing is that all protagonists are suffering in that old society. First, Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary” describes a madman who is the first rebel in modern literary history. The madman was born in the feudal scholar-bureaucrat family, everyone lived around him was bound by the feudalism. However, he was not one of them, he had modern thoughts and yearn for a just society. Unfortunately, he could not find a person with a like-minded goal, and everyone else saw him as a madman. He thought that society was an “eat people” world. For example, he read history intently half the night until he saw the whole book was filled with the two words “eat people”. He thought the history were all wrote about how the powerful people oppress the poor. And he felt sorrow that such merciless history still continue in his world. The madman had dual image, “mad” and “not mad”. On the surface, the Madman was described as a mad person, for example, his words, lifestyle, and thoughts were all unacceptable by that society...
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...True Friendship We will only make a few true friends. A true friend is good to you and reliable. A true friend is there backing you up on all sorts of hard times. They should always be honest and have your back. A true friend knows when your having a bad day. I only have 2 true friends, which are my sisters. Friendship is something that takes time to happen. We may think that having a friend means, We share a friendship, but I do not think so. Friendship to me is getting to know someone so well that we can tell what the person is feeling even when they won't admit it. A friend is a person who will always be by our side when times are bad. When we feel like no one cares for us, it is not true only a true friend does and will know when we are feeling this and will do everything in his or her power to make us feel better. A true friend is some one who will understand what you are saying even if it does not make any sense. If I did not have my sisters in my life, it would change completely. Not a day goes by in which I do not talk to them. They can sense when I am feeling down or when something amazing happened. My sisters are an important part of my life and if I get into a fight with one of them, we make up in a minute because we cannot be mad at each other since we know how much the other one cares for us. My sisters mean so much to me. If everyone was mad at me about something I did, my sisters would stick by my side and defend me. Friends are important...
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...Protest is the recurring theme in Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Originated in his political stance to bring change within the society through revolution, protest is explored both through the content and through the structure of the play. At one level, protest is explored thematically through an absurd situation: a madman investigating ‘accidental death’ of an anarchist by questioning those officials who were involved in the interrogation. Whereas on the other hand, protest is structurally represented by employing multiple aspects of various theatrical traditions in the character of madman– as the protagonist who successfully convinces the audience to believe all that he exposes despite his repeated insistence that he is insane....
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...and they seem to always get away with it. Others are not so lucky and actually get caught. I personally think its wrong. You should be yourself and not worry about what other people want you to be. Be yourself and not the cheater. Cheating has so many forms, I think the worst one would have to be cheating in a relationship whether its a boyfriend or a girlfriend. If your going to be in a relationship with an individual you should be committed. You shouldn’t be going around behind each others backs seeing other individuals. What especially makes me mad is when a person in a marriage and they cheat on the spouse. What happened to the saying “till death do us part.” There are those very few who actually commit to that. Others end up cheating or ending up in divorce. I say that if your gonna cheat don’t be in a relationship. Throughout my school life since first grade, till now i’ve always encountered cheaters. I remember myself studying for a test for hours, then came the test days when id be sitting there taking my test and I look up and see a handful of individuals looking over at other peoples tests. It would make me mad to have studied for so long just to have someone look over my shoulder and take all my answers. When the grades would come back the cheaters always seemed to get a higher grade then the individuals who actually studied. Its not fair to the ones who actually took the time to learn the material and study. There are those individuals who cheat their whole...
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... taking exams for your grades and having problem every week because of your tasks. It is normal when you’re having hard time because of pressure, tense and stress; however, you need to surpass this if you want to have a better life in your future. If you want to become more successful than you wish for you need to study harder than you are now; but have you even asked yourself what are the blessings of being a student. Every single day is a blessing even if it is the worst day of your life there will be a blessing. Every day we see different people with different personalities in different places. Some of them are familiar or you are close with. Some of them are your parents, friends, professor, enemy, and most of them are strangers. Those are the examples of blessings of being a student; you meet different people that may help you build up who you are. Friend is a person who you like and enjoy being with. If you are a student you’ll meet different kinds of friends for example; that one friend who keeps your secret, that one friend who wants to take pictures with you and that one friend who’s crazy. I said that they are blessings because they give meaning into your life, they make you special. They are blessings because they make you happy and that’s one definition of blessing, something that helps you or brings happiness. Your professor in every subject or course is also a...
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...The Short story “The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is a fictional horror story about a man who murders another man. The title is perfect for the book because the murderer goes mad after hearing the other’s heart even after he was dead. This book is written in Old English, but is very enjoyable. “The Tell-tale Heart” is an example of fiction because a man’s heart does not beat after death. The story Begins by the murderer explaining why he was not mad but cunning. He decides to murder a man because of his eye. This eye is a dull blue with a film over it, as the murderer explains. He describes it as a vulture’s eye that always was watching him. After years of being scared of this man’s “Evil Eye” the murderer acts. He was determined to kill this man. A week before...
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...years – Began his artistic career at 10 years old when his father sent him to the best drawing school in England – Apprenticed to an engraver at 14 • Adult life – Always worked as an engraver and professional artist – Was very poor, especially later in life – Always felt rich in spirit IV. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE A Poison Tree BY WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night & morning with my tears: And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. HYPERBOLE And it grew both day and night. Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine. PERSONIFICATION HYPERBOLE/Symbolizes Sin/Wrath And into my garden stole, When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning glad I see; My foe outstretched beneath the tree. V. Symbolizes of Innocence Symbolizes Anger Symbolizes Experience PERSONIFICATION Allusion of Garden of Eden PERSONIFICATION METAPHOR METAPHOR MESSAGE STANZA 1: I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow As stated in the first line, the persona said that if he is mad to his friend he will tell it and he will immediately feel good but if he is mad to someone who is not a friend, he will consider it as an enemy. He will keep his bad feeling and will last or continue STANZA 2: And I watered it in fears, Night & morning with...
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