...is no textbook definition of what a friendship looks like, it comes in all ways, shapes and forms. You see this in the book the separate peace. The two main characters Phineas nicknamed Finny and Gene, are polar opposites but they hit it off quickly after they meet. They become best friends, and as any true friendship they hit some rocky patches on their road of friendship. We all know that no matter how good of friends you are with somebody if you spend to much time with them it's not a good thing, we also know that it's human nature to be jealous or envy somebody, and we also know that sometimes we do things that we don't know why we did it. Finny and gene were at boarding school together which meant they spent pretty...
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...colors. If you ask someone why those are “girl” colors or “boy” colors the response is generally “because they are”. Who decided that those colors have a gender preference? Who even decided those are those colors? This class led me to question society itself and realize we give things an identity based on what we are told. The most important thing I learned was the inverted spectrum. I am going to define what the inverted spectrum is, explain what it is, and provide examples how it applies to everyday lives. Then I will explain that the inverted spectrum is important to me because in reality no one can understand my mental state no matter how I explain it, I learned to think for myself, and perception is our reality even though it may be completely false. I will then explain some counter arguments against my reasons such as knowing someone’s mental state because of a similar event or emotion and that we believe what we believe based on facts that are then passed down from person to person. Then I will explain how the counter arguments are incorrect. Finally, I will conclude my argument. The inverted spectrum suggests things are not just input, output because of our own experiences. We do not learn through input and output such as mathematics but our experiences. What this means is someone could pick up a pink crayon but see black but are always told that that color is pink so they see the pink crayon as black but no one else will ever know that. An example of this is you can think...
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...Download all 8 books on PD and Life Skills from http://lifeskills.wordzila.com FREE! A miracle Miracles can happen if you believe in them. Scene setting Read the following statements. Which of them are true for you? Tick them. I believe in myself. I know Ill be a great person someday. I love and respect other people. I listen to my parents and teachers. I dont listen to people who say negative things. I am courageous. The first statement above is very important. You have to believe in yourself. You have to know that you are an important person. You have to know that you can do a lot of things. You have to know that you are the best. Now sit straight and say out loud: I am the best! Thats good. When you believe in yourself and know that you are the best, you can even do miracles. You can increase your grades. You can play better games. You can make lots of friends. The first and the most important thing is to believe in yourself. Then the whole world will support you. Reading Here is a true story of a little girl Angela who always said, I can do it. She believed in her dreams. Finally her dreams came true. Let us read how. Angela was an eleven-year-old girl. She was suffering from a nervous disease. Hence, she was unable to walk or move. Doctors said she would spend her whole life in a wheelchair. They said that Angela could never walk. But, Angela did not listen to the doctors. She believed that she would walk someday. Thus, she said, I will definitely walk someday...
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...house this week. While she was sitting in the living room watching the dogs I asked if I could ask her some questions about her life for a project. The fifteen minute interview taken that afternoon is as follows: Q: Where and when were you born? A: I was born in 1945 in Hobbs, New Mexico. Q: And you have brothers and sisters, right? A: Yes, four brothers and no sisters. I’m 73 so my oldest brother is 75 [Carlton]. Then I had a brother [Charlie] who was killed in a car wreck when he was young, so he would be 70. Jerry is about 68. And my youngest brother Roland is 62 if I had to guess. Q: So when you were growing up who did what in the family? Who did all do chores and work and stuff like that? A: When I was really you we used to live next door to my grandmother and I remember having to do chores over there all the time. But when we moved to the other neighborhood I remember my brothers having to do chores but not me. I’d do dishes with my mom but I didn’t have anything else to do....
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...In short, it means that people fitting in the society. Do you think this is normal? Well, I think it is. However, based on “The Sociology of Leopard Man” by Logan Feys, conformity is seen as the world’s common dangerous psychological disorder. Psychologists also said that most of the abnormal people suffer from psychological disorder. Does that mean that we are abnormal then? Let’s start with how us, people, see it. Some of us say, “Oh look at her! She looks like one of those girls now. How pathetic,” “Ewww why is she wearing that? She probably wants some attention,” “She looks like...
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...her head her eye made a scandalized sweep of her kitchen. It was no ordinary thing that | | |called her away--it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in Dickson County. But what | | |her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted | | |and half unsifted. | | |She hated to see things half done; but she had been at that when the team from town stopped to get Mr. Hale, and then | | |the sheriff came running in to say his wife wished Mrs. Hale would come too--adding, with a grin, that he guessed she | | |was getting scary and wanted another woman along. So she had dropped everything right where it was. | | |"Martha!" now came her husband's impatient voice. "Don't keep folks waiting out here in the cold." | | |She again opened the storm-door, and this time joined the three men and the one woman waiting for her in the big | | |two-seated buggy. | | |After she had the robes tucked around her she took another look at the woman who sat beside her on the back seat. She | | |had met Mrs. Peters the year before at the county fair, and the thing she remembered about her was that she didn't seem | | |like a...
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...As a human we can see color, feel love, and have feelings, but in the Giver the community does not have feeling. What kind of life is that? In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry it is based on a utopian society. Jonas lived in a community where they had not feeling, no love and no color. Jonas accepted his very normal life until he became the receiver of memory. When he became the receiver the Giver transmitted many memories of good times and bad times. He noticed that life had more meaning. When he watched his father releasing a baby he noticed that nobody knew what they were doing when they were killing someone. He decided to run away with Gabriel the boy, his family was taking care of. He ran away, on the way down a hill he heard music,...
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...painful memories he knew about things that the normal people the community did not know about. For an example Jonas knew that he had to stop the game of good guys and bad guys because it was a game of war and the text states "'Asher,' Jonas said. He was trying to speak carefully, and with kindness, to say exactly what he wanted to say. 'You had no way of knowing this. I didn't know it myself until recently. But it's a cruel game. In the past, there have--' 'I said I apologize, Jonas.' Jonas sighed. It was no use. Of course Asher couldn't understand." (135). Also when Jonas found out about the Release was death and that Gabe was scheduled for released he decided to leave the community with Gabe early so that he did not die. The text states “But it was necessary because it had the child seat attached to the back. And he had taken Gabriel, too. He could feel the little head nudge his back, bouncing gently against him as he rode." (167) In both of these situations Jonas uses the pain to change his actions to do something that the other people in the community would not think of doing because they do not understand and Jonas with the knowledge of the pain decides to do what he thinks is best for everyone. Now that is what is good about pain, now this is how the community acts without the painful memories to judge what they do. Lastly, the community has a lack of pain that makes it so they can live a life with no pain but it also makes them do things that they would not know was bad...
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...The chapter starts with a quote by Tolstoy. At the end of the quote, Tolstoy said, “The degree to which we draw near this perfection cannot be seen; all we can see is the extent of our deviation” (Yancey 73). Those two lines stuck out to me than the other lines for some reason. In my interpretation of the quote Tolstoy said we cannot see if we are nearing Jesus in his perfection, yet we can see our own deviations from Jesus’ perfection. This quote reminded me that most people will always remember their failures more than their successes in their lives. People will probably remember all of the bad things they have done, the mistakes they have made, the lies they have said. Maybe if we recognize all the good things in our lives more, we can see ourselves being more like Jesus....
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...In John Gamel’s “The Elegant Eyeball” we see how the eye is structured, we see the complexity of it and we see how diseases can completely ruin this miraculous organ. In Gamel’s essay it is brought to our attention how the human being cherishes their eye sight; one would choose to tolerate pain in the hope that one may regain their eye sight; however, we are never shown why the human being cherishes sight so much. “(En) trance” by Chris Arthur shows the reader how this organ allows the mind to explore all different options. In this essay we see how the eyeball allows the human being to see things in a different perspective than their own and how others may perceive an image or a building based off of their own experiences and sight. We see the importance of the eyeball in regards to memory and we see its importance in the way that sight impacts people’s lives. Although “The Elegant Eyeball” by John Gamel explains the importance of the eyeball it is through “(En) trance” by Chris Arthur that we see the emotional and physical impact it has in one’s life. Throughout his essay Gamel explains how the eye works. He explains what a normal eye would possess opposed to an eye that acquired a disease, which would eventually obtain scaring. He explains the importance of the eye stating that, “Forty percent of the brain is devoted to vision, which provides us with more information than our other four senses combined” (Gamel, 39). The importance of the eye in regards to our other sense is...
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...edited transcript of his remarks. “How the Internet Is Changing Our Social, Political, and Economic Lives” Thank you. I am overwhelmed at this turnout. I don’t think it’s for me. You must be interested in this Internet thing we’re all talking about. But before we talk about all this, I’m going to tell you a little bit about how I got interested in the Internet, and how this ties into some of the work I’m doing. About three years ago, I discovered something that was really compelling to me. I discovered that television viewing among kids under the age of 14 was down for the first time in the history of television. For the first time in the 51 years of television, since 1948, kids had found something they liked as much or more than television — computers and the Internet. And this made me, as a social scientist, begin to realize that this technology phenomenon, which is not a fad, really will affect everything, and will transform much. It will have an influence like the printing press did, I believe, on just about everything. And I want to demonstrate some of that today. We can already see some of that beginning to happen. Alan Greenspan, a few months ago, called the Internet “the engine of the economic expansion.” It’s been linked as the single biggest cause of the increase in productivity. As we do some historical comparisons to television, we can see that television — the most important communications medium of the last 50 years — was primarily about entertainment...
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...learn what we see and hear. If kids see their older siblings doing something, regardless if it is bad or not, they will learn it and do the same things. Kids should be given a good education because our future depends on them. You gain what you give, and if you give your kid a good education and treat them well you will receive good result from them. The hard times that kids have in their childhood affect their character and their future as they grow up because sometimes they demonstrate the same towards their kids, live a very unhappy life, and can create hate towards those who are involved in them having hard times. Kids are just little people trying to learn their way towards what life is, and the process through their learning should be the best period of their lives. Fifth Initially, depending on the environment that you lived in, that is what you show in the future. Probably you live with parents who all they do is fight and they get you involved by also fighting with you or even punishing you, and not letting you go out or play. In some cases people like that, when they have their family they give all their loves to their kids and partner, but they could as well develop the same habits towards their kids and fight all the time with other couples. Hard Times, by Ron Rash, is a story about a hen’s eggs being stolen. Jacob was trying to find out who was taking them. They thought it was an animal or something, and at the end they found out that a little girl did it. In her...
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...Amber decided it was time to go to the doctor. We were sitting in the hospital room to where she was admitted, just Amber and myself, when her water broke. Neither of us had any idea what was happening. Your water does not break when you have appendicitis. Your water does not break unless you are having a baby! (Keep in mind the doctors also think Amber has appendicitis.) I ran into the hallway and screamed for the nurse! When the nurse went into the room and realized what was going on, she called for the doctor. Still standing in the room, the next thing I know. I see a baby coming from her body! The view not many see. I see Isaac coming. I was so embarrassed that I was still in that room with her. There are areas of people that are meant not to be seen by your step daughter. I just stood there, shocked, watching a baby being born, The most embarrassing miracle! I did learn something from this embarrassing moment, Even the most unexpected things that happen can change your life for the better. Even if all you really did in the whole situation was get embarrassed, it can still change your life. Every day something happens that changes your life, or it is preparing you for a big change in the future. You may not notice it, but every little thing...
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...the war, soldiers feel out of place. He also talks about how war brings out the worst in people and how it affects the mental/emotional health of soldiers. The lives of sons, daughters, parents and friends are lost for the purpose of what? War. The effects these losses can cause are seen when Maria Remarque states, “I must go and see Kemmerich's mother. I cannot write that down. This quaking, sobbing woman who shakes me and cries out on me: "Why are you living then, when he is dead?"--who drowns me in tears and calls out: "What are you there for at all, child, when you --"--who drops into a chair and wails: "Did you see him?...
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...college students have Facebook pages that can affect their future job and friends. Sometimes people do not think before they write. When someone posts an ugly comment about someone else, it escalates on Facebook and maybe to where you are known. There are times that people will post nasty videos on their wall so others can view. For example I have a Facebook page and someone post up a video of a High School girl doing something that she is not supposed to be doing on tape. Well, I did not recognize the person but someone else did and now everybody knows that it was her. The High School girl was treated like garbage, students call her bad names, and she got teased. That same High School girl know that she as being video tape but she did not know that she was staring on Facebook for everyone to see. Posting personal information about you or someone on Facebook or any other media sites can affect your future job, lack of respect from others, and possible termination from current job. One thing that I would not post on my Facebook page is a rude comment about someone else. When I see others posting rude comments about others, I personally feel that person is trying to accumulate respect but to me I think it is disrespectful and pointless. I barley post up things on my Facebook page and I do not know when last I have been on Facebook but to other is like Facebook is their live. Some of them probably think that it is fun to post rude comment about others and that is what will make Facebook...
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