...Name: Course: Date: Instructor: Societal Norms vs. Change People tend to stick to what they know, what has been normal and passed down to them from generations and apply these things to their own lives. Communities are simply afraid of change and afraid of the way it may affect their ways of living for the worst. Change will always affect different people and communities differently, whether it is positively or negatively. Following old traditions within small communities has both costs and benefits. The question is whether or not change could overcome both the benefits and costs of following old traditions within the community. According to Nancy Scheper-Hughes, an anthropologist and the author of The Anthropological Looking Glass, communities, such as small villages from Ireland like Ballybran, need to accept change to be able to learn the more modern ways of looking at situations. Scheper-Hughes critiques the Irish villager’s ways of living and, whether or not she actually noticed, compares this village to American way of living. Villages such as Ballybran may have a different way of living, but this does not necessarily mean it should be looked at as uncivilized or the wrong way, though change may have been a wise choice for the villagers, which Scheper-Hughes was trying to imply. Furthermore, Maxine Hong Kingston, the author of No Name Woman, emphasizes on the risks and effects of change when born into such a strict community such as a woman born into Chinese customs...
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...naturally without conforming to the modern society’s standard of “cool”. When you could be who you want to be without worrying about being unwanted or rejected. When you never had to feel guilty cheating a little more today than you did yesterday. When choosing clothes to wear was easy like you never even tried to bother to look in the mirror for the nth time just to examine every inch to make sure if it fits and matches just right. When doing silly things was fun and you were unembarrassed by doing them. I miss the days when crying was just something you did after getting a vaccination or if you get hurt on the playground at recess. When I didn’t have so many trust issues when it came to friends and when being humble and too kind wasn’t considered fake or sketchy. And how simple it was to live in fullness everyday without any of the responsibilities we have as young adults today. Growing up, my entire outlook in life changed; but I learned that all the old memories I’m remembering should be cherished because we’re never going to get those times back unless time machine exist. I’ve come to realize how being vulnerable is okay and being kind is more important than being right. And that some people are just curious as to what’s going on in your life and they’ll say they care when they really don’t. At times we can never avoid wrong decisions – but don’t...
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...genre or music now. Even seeing things like how common it was for jellied fish to be served in the 40's on every dining room table compared to how now we have absolutely no stores that even sell it, is interesting to me, The best place to turn to, to find out things from the past, aside from the internet, for me is museums first, there's a museum...
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...time for the lessons I learned along the way. Now, I may not be the smartest, best looking, most athletic, most hardworking or the most charismatic individual at AMP, but I have learned a thing or two during my high-school career. I just want to say that these opinions are based on my high school experiences only, so if you feel differently, it is probably because your high school experience was better than mine. Another thing to keep in mind, some of these may seem logical to most people, but I had to learn these things along the way, so bear with me. First off, I want to say that you should never get too carried away with anything. Never get over-excited about something because life doesn’t go the way it is supposed to. It is impossible to plan out everything and nothing ever goes according to plan. There are two main ways to go about life: Either you believe in destiny and no matter what, your life will end up the way it is supposed to or you don’t believe in destiny and you live life by the moment, in which case nothing you do spontaneously matters, because your whole life is spontaneous. I try to plan out every little detail of my life and something ALWAYS gets screwed up. I will admit that it is important to stay positive about certain aspects in life, but always try to keep things realistic. It is important to know your limits and assure that your dreams don’t interfere with your reality. Secondly, I want to talk to you guys about high school in general. I’ve come...
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...Essential tips to know how to motivate yourself. Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget There comes a stage in our when we realize that we should start taking care of our body. That’s when we make the decision of losing weight to get healthy. This decision may sound like “nothing big is going on you are just going to lose some weight”, but in reality, it's a big change in our life because it takes lots of hard work, dedication, and planning. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” There are things you need to stop doing in order to succeed. I wrote this article from my personal experience for people who want...
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...Personality Reflection Shannon Johnson PSY/250 10/05/2015 Phoenix Personality Reflection How would I define personality? To me personality is made of so many different things. It takes allot of individual traits to make up someone’s personality. The way that you have been raised from just a little baby. The DNA that has started your foundation in life. What your beliefs are. Five factors have been narrowed down. * Openness = Appreciation for emotion, art, unusual ideas, and a variety of experience * Conscientiousness = Mostly dependable, organized, goals, and self-discipline * Extraversion = Positive energy, assertive, positive emotions, seeks stimulation from others * Agreeableness = Cooperative, trusting, compassionate, competitive * Neuroticism = unpleasant emotions, anger, anxiety, low stability Remember OCEAN To me people are all different. Might have the same hair color, like the same kind of tv shows, even the same first name. Personality comes from traits that you are born with and traits that are learned. If two people go through the exact same thing that does not mean that, they will react or feel the same way. Everyone in this world is unique in his or her own way. Personality is what we have in order to live life on life’s terms. . Every person on this earth thinks of things differently. Personality is an individual’s thoughts, feelings, behaviors and how the individual sees and acts with each altogether. To understand different parts of...
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...Business English Report Report SUBMITTED TO: Dr. Tanveer Anjum GROUP MEMBERS: Signatures Samreen Sabir (21570) Junaid Naeem (21545) Ushair Fareed (20988) Tajdar hassan khan (20789) DATE OF SUBMISSION 24-Dec-2012 Letter of Transmittal December 24, 2012 Course Instructor – Business English Dear Madam: Dr.Tanveer Anjum IQRA University, Karachi. Dear Madam: We feel immense pleasure in presenting the final report on "The effects of peer pressure on youth". This report is the outcome of the conducted research which outline the results of "peer pressure" In this report peer pressure is defined with its different aspects. The discussion then focuses on the Impact of peer pressure on our youth. Furthermore the survey questions and the relative effects of peer pressure are discussed. The crux of our report is based upon the findings from the questionnaires we asked respondents to fill in. We have tried our level best to complete this report as in accordance with the desired requirements. Kindly accept it; we hope this report will prove to be satisfactory. Yours Sincerely Samreen Sabir (21570) Junaid Naeem ...
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...“The Things They Carried” written by Tim O’Brien is a book based on the life of the author who was a soldier in the Vietnam war. The book can be said to be unchronological since there is a mixture of the past and the present, life after and during the war. O’Brien talks about the experiences he went through as well as some of the ones his friends went through. Even though the novel was written based on the Vietnam War, there are multiple times where the author states that the novel is fiction. In an interview with Texas Monthly, O’Brien stated,"Good movies -- and good novels, too -- do not depend upon 'accurate portrayals.' Accuracy is irrelevant. Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape; finally makes us look inward at ourselves." Accurate portrayal, in my opinion is based on real life but may have some exaggeration in order for many people to believe it and relate to. Without that, people will doubt the author’s credibility because they know that whatever they’re...
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...posed “What is, is and cannot never be” concludes that something that exists cannot cease to exist, for when it departs it is re-located to an alternative place. This substance would then exist somewhere. For example, if a living being dies and decomposes, the components of said being will return to the earth in a combination of different elements. This coincides with the law of thermodynamics and the idea that energy can never be destroyed, and that while it appears to be lost or consumed it is merely converted or displaced. Here it appears as though the being in question ceases to exist, however, they are merely transformed and transferred somewhere else into a new combination of matter. One might argue that said being only exists corporally and while its elemental parts are recycled into the environment, the being as a distinct concept ceases to exist. Or beyond this obstacle if the ‘is’ is referring to the existence and continuation of some latent form of consciousness or the soul, we have no way of verifying its existence...
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...Another noteworthy symbol existing in The Catcher in the Rye is The Museum of Natural History. Holden mentions that the best thing about the museum is “that everything always stayed right where it was” (Salinger 121). Holden finds comfort in the notion that no matter how different he becomes, the museum will always be the same. This reveals Holden’s fear of change and desire to live a steady, consistent life (Alsen). The Museum of Natural History is in some ways, a safety blanket for Holden. It emblems calmness and stability, two things Holden craves. The ideology that “some things never change” is both pleasing and soothing to him. Throughout the novel, Holden constantly grapples with his viewpoint on growing up. He believes that nearly all...
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...same rights as men. They're now permitted to voice their opinions in ways like never before. In 2018 women are finally being heard. Some relationships between women, and men are being altered all around the world,...
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...could pop up into anyone’s head once he/ she really put their heads into it. Upon taking just a glance at our lives we could manage to understand that we make things more complex than they have to. Confucius once said, “Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” This quote ostensibly covers the whole idea of this essay. We as humans have had rough time through our evolution; we have gone through much as a race that it has affected us to our core. Goulish explains it in his essay that it is our nature to complicate things. “Irreducible complexity seems to characterize the late twentieth century itself” (Goulish 557). Goulish seems to have a pretty good idea of what complexities are and how this trait of human beings has been us for as long as we can remember. Goulish does not hesitate to explain to his readers that making things complex is our nature. Goulish hits this spot right from the beginning of his essay, “Each time we experience a work of performance, we start over almost from nothing” (Goulish 557). Why does he say that? Goulish tells us that when we experience an act of performance we tend to look at it from the fresh eye instead of using our previous encounters in similar situations. He tells his readers that, come what may, we will look at things with the thought in our head that we have never encountered it before. Goulish mentions it multiple places in the essay that we are critics but “Why do we engage a critical mind?” Throughout the whole essay...
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...do you believe have had the most significant influence on geography? I would have to say that humans affect geography greatly because as we tend to live on this earth we adapt and change things where we go. Some of these changes tend to have great affects to the earth and to others who share the earth with us. We tend to cut forest down which has an affect on green gasses put into the atmosphere, we make other changes which is starting to affect global warming and making natural disasters stronger which is affecting where we live. I do now believe that human culture has the most significant influence on geography because of the way we have been altering things throughout history though we think were making it better for ourselves there is always some consequences to deal with but we don’t realize it until further down the road by that time its sometimes too late. 2. What are at least three geographic or cultural factors that would stop one country’s culture from spreading and mixing into another country’s culture? Provide a solution for each factor identified. I think that one factor that would change or stop one countries culture from spreading would have to be traveling, if no one was traveling to the country the culture would never be learned or spread from country to...
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... She was a woman of luminous intelligence, high ambition, and great accomplishment. She was a woman to stand up for her believes in and would challenge anyone who would stand in her way. She had an ability to demand and captivate her audience. She was outspoken in her principles, and she inspired change in the way people with visual impairment were treated. She pushed revolutionary changes in the law that would allow people with disabilities to have jobs and an education. I am inspired by Helen Keller because she was a person with so many challenges at such a young age. Yet she was able to overcome them and change some many things in our country, but she didn’t stop just in our country. She went overseas where some people also had no way to speak their opinions and needs. Even with her disabilities she never wanted pity. She asked for sympathy and understanding. Helen was an extraordinary woman. When Helen was nineteen months old, she contacted a virus with a high fever and that was what caused her to deaf and blind. Unfortunately, being that young, what memory traces were left became impossible to say. In 1887, unknowing to Helen, someone was going to change her unruly behavior, that’s when Anne Sullivan became her teacher (Keller 15). One day when Helen and Ms. Sullivan were getting water, that’s the day that changed her whole life, in Helen’s own words, “Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as something forgotten-a thrill of returning thought; and somehow...
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...I do it because I can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn't. If someone is stupid enough to walk away from you, be smart enough to let them go. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. One of the hardest decisions in life, is whether to walk away or try even harder. Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. Nobody wants to hear this, but sometimes...the person you want most is the person you're best without. A relationship with God is the most important relationship you can have. Trust him and everything will always turn out fine. Pretend you don’t love him, just pretend. 2 things might happen. He’ll realize he misses you or you’ll realize how much you don’t need him.. I'm currently making some changes in my life. If you don't hear from me anymore, then you're probably one of them. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills "To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are." Author Unknown "Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are." Theodore Roosevelt "Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." Henry Van Dyke "It is not length of...
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