...Essay writing In the poem “Being sixteen” the author has shown us a few different aspects and ideas of being sixteen which are pointless education, having dreams and being yourself around your friends. From 16 year old students’ perspectives, he described the hardness of being sixteen well as he used variety of techniques and different attitudes of language. He delivered the readers the ideas and the hardness of being sixteen quite simply although there are some meaningful messages that the readers can find if they can get deeply into the text and understand the deep true meanings of the ideas that the author tried to give us. The author introduced his idea of pointless education at the start of the poem. He described the idea from a 16 year old student’s perspectives on education with sarcastic attitudes. This quote, ‘Searching for words with crystal clear meaning’ shows us the sarcastic tone of this idea. It also suits with the theme of the poem by connecting with 16 year olds by emphasising that education is not always the most important aspect of life to care about, but there are other important aspects of life that can lead you into better future life. Another technique that the author uses to build up his idea of pointless education is allusion. The author put an allusion of Shakespeare which creates a communication between the author and the readers who have most likely to have read or experienced at least one of Shakespeare’s works from school or social life. In the...
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...characters, Cady, is the new transfer student at the high school, who finds herself wanting to gain that greater social status which currently lies within the ‘Plastics’. The ‘Plastics’ are considered the “mean girls” in the movie and are three girls; Regina, Gretchen, and Karen. Cady soon meets two not-so-popular students named Janis and Damian, who like most of the high school, despise the ‘Plastics’, and they all three become friends and create a plan to ruin and de-thrown the main mean girl; Regina. As the movie continues, Cady soon finds her way into the ‘Plastics’ friend group with intentions to take her down, but ends up actually becoming one of the mean girls herself. Cady then is known as the student with the greatest social status for the time being, until Regina fights back; stating that Cady is the one who wrote the Burn Book – a book created by the ‘Plastics’ stating horrible things and secrets of those they go to high school with, and she goes back all the way down to the very bottom of the food chain. She soon realizes that her two true friends all along were Janis and Damian, and that having the greatest social status isn’t all that matters in life; a lesson we should all learn from. Social status is defined as “a person's standing or importance in relation to other people within a society” and was introduced by sociologist Karl Marx. Marx proposed a theory known as “conflict theory” where society changed as a result of conflict between the bourgeoisie, who are those...
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...Gender Role Stereotypes and Children’s Television For this paper, I had to watch a wide variety of different shows. I had to watch a few cartoons, sitcoms and PBS shows. What I found in this study I found very interesting. I found that the most traditional roles in men and women were found in the PBS shows. I am sure this is because when children watch these, they are usually at the age where they are establishing the roles of girls and boys. I found that in the sit-coms, especially friends, my research correlates with what the Signorelli article says. According to the article, “Women make up at least half of the characters in soap operas.” This is true in Friends; there are three boys and three girls. Also true in The Office, they have just as many women as they do men. In the article I also found that “women characters have the stereotypical role of emotional, romantic, and affectionate emotions.” This is true in the way that Monica has a stereotypical occupation of a chef. That is very domestic. She also does all of the cleaning, and nurtures all of her friends. Another way is that Rachel is a waitress, which is also very domestic. They are both pretty emotional. The article also states, “On average women tend to be about 4 years younger then men.” I am not sure of the exact ages of the women or men in Friends, but they women do look a little bit younger. It makes sense; Ross is Monica’s older brother. The research in the Signorelli article states how women in television...
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...Friends are vital to school-age children's healthy development. Research has found that children who lack friends can suffer from emotional and mental difficulties later in life. Friendships provide children with more than just fun playmates. Friendships help children develop emotionally and morally. In interacting with friends, children learn many social skills, such as how to communicate, cooperate, and solve problems. They practice controlling their emotions and responding to the emotions of others. They develop the ability to think through and negotiate different situations that arise in their relationships. Having friends even affects children's school performance. Children tend to have better attitudes about school and learning when they have friends there. In short, children benefit greatly from having friends. Parents play a crucial role in their child's social development. A child is not born with social skills. He needs parents who take an active role in preparing him to interact successfully with his peers. The most important thing parents can do for their child is to develop a loving, accepting, and respectful relationship with him. This warm relationship sets the stage for all future relationships, including friendships. It helps the child develop the basic trust and self-confidence necessary to go out and meet others. It provides a firm foundation on which the child can develop social skills. Parents also teach their child various social skills by being a good...
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...my major, Interactive and Social Media. The job is very customer focused and connects to all different types of people. I want to be able to incorporate my communication skills and contribute positivity to my future peers as well as creating new friendships. The job would give me the opportunity to innovate new designs and benefits for everyone. I would be able to apply my craftsmanship and my artistic ideas. It would give me the chance to give back to the community and strengthen my career skills in the future. University Center is home for people from diverse backgrounds, abilities, lifestyles, and cultures. Please write about a significant experience you have had with people different from you. How have you grown from this experience?...
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...old boy protagonist Sora who has lost his friends Riku and Kairi to the darkness which destroyed their island, called Destiny Islands. After being set adrift and landing in Traverse Town, Sora finds out from Leon, a mysterious swordsman, the darkness was from the Heartless and the only way to destroy it is through the weapon called the Keyblade, which is in his possession. Along with the Keyblade, Sora meets two companions; Donald Duck and Goofy, who were sent to find the Keyblade, joins him on his journey. Eliminating the Heartless was not the only thing the Keyblade could do, it could open the gate to different galaxies. With this, Sora set on this wild adventure to find his friends. Kingdom Hearts is a video game that is classified under the genre of an action RPG. RPG is an acronym that stands for role playing game. A traditional role playing game includes a menu based combat system, a central quest or storyline that flows through the game, and levels or character statistics that a character can gain and build up throughout the game. An action game, however, usually consists of a real time battle combat system. Kingdom Hearts accurately combines the two genres into its game style. Unlike most role playing games that have a menu to choose certain attacks from, Kingdom Hearts is a button masher that can issue attacks with the different buttons on the controller which makes it better at interacting with the player than other role playing games. To make up for the missing...
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...What are the different factors that might affect an individuals self presentation The different factors that might affect an individuals self presentation can vary from gender, self esteem, roles, age and ideal self. Self presentation is the way you present yourself to other people and so this can depend on who you are with. This can also link with Cooley’s looking glass theory where he argued that our self-image is shaped by how we think other people perceive us. According to Yeung et al, there are three stages in the formation of what Cooley called the ‘looking-glass self’ – 1. We imagine how we appear to others 2. We imagine how others judge us on the basis of that appearance 3. We develop a self-image through those imagined judgements. This can be based on our self-esteem depending if we have high or low self-esteem. If we have high self-esteem then we are going to feel good about ourselves and have a different judgement of how others see us compared to those who have low self-esteem. The way we think others see us can sometimes be either correct or incorrect. We can find this out by getting feedback from friends/family. High and low self-esteem can vary depending on who you are with, feedback and sometimes the clothes you’re wearing or hairstyle. For example, if you have new clothes or a new hairstyle then this can make you feel good and have high self-esteem or if you have a bad hairstyle then this will most likely give you low self-esteem. If you look...
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...When watching The Bare Bears, one amazing thing I have noticed is that the friendship among them. They are so close to each other, but when a girl later involved in the friendship. Things seems have changed. Panda fell in love with the girl, but they other bears see the girl as a good friend. Later, there are funny things happen because of this. I was wondering what is this thing that makes friendship different between opposite sex. According to this, the question I used to lead my research is “What is the difference between same sex and different sex friendship?” This question is kind of broad and what I intend to do is looking to some specific aspects about it, especially gender. I searched a few research articles and found some that fits...
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...and society. It blends elements from psychology, sociology, social anthropology and economics. It attempts to understand the decision-making processes of buyers, both individually and in groups. It studies characteristics of individual consumers such as demographics and behavioral variables in an attempt to understand people's wants. It also tries to assess influences on the consumer from groups such as family, friends, reference groups, and society in general. Here we are analyzing buying behavior of three customers. The products are of three categories: - low end, medium end and high end. For low end, i have chosen the product- Shampoo. For medium the product: - Dress kit and for high end i have chosen the product: - latest released Mobile (HTC m8). These feedbacks will show what are the thinking process and the perception of the consumers about these products and then analyzing these responses. Here we are analyzing the response of only three persons. The description of each analysis is given in the next page. Here interview is taken for three people on three different products Category A A mundane product or service costing less than $5. * Here product is PARK AVENUE BEER Shampoo. * Bought by Mounika stays in Hyderabad. * Made from beer and it is for normal hair. * Frothy goodness for soft, silky hair, naturally. * Product is purchased from Big Bazar as she wanted to buy some personal care products also. * She got for half price in an offer. * Customer...
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...most popular and what system it is played on. Kids enjoy games that have to do with story lines and keep them occupied because if it was boring they would not play it. Most of the kids today enjoy three types of video games, role-playing, shooting, and sports because they are the most fun and competitive. Role-playing video games’ gameplay is like the well know game Dungeons & Dragons and Skyrim. Most of these games get the gamer in the role of one or more "missions" with a certain player who specialize in specific skill sets such as hand to hand combat or casting magic spells. While progressing through the predetermined storyline that the game already has set up all players will end up with same ending result. Many missions involve maneuvering these character or characters through another world, usually populated with crazy giant monsters, that allows access to more important game locations, such as towns, dungeons, and castles or sometimes the future setting. RPG games widely focus on getting that one character extra points by doing these missions to level up and make that person or creature stronger and faster. These type of games are more fun with no competitive nature because everyone is playing by alone with the same goal. Unlike role-playing games, shooting games are...
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...has changed over the years. I had friends that I was forced to hang out with and some that just grew with me and now we are in same school or classes. 2. Tell about a time when your friends’ opinions were different than your parents’ and how you felt about it. There have been a lot of times where my friends made fun of me because of my parent’s decision to not allow me to do specific things. I had a time where my mother told me “No” I could not attend something because she did not know my friends parents well enough. I was mad but I knew that I had to listen to my mother. 3. How did your ability to manage your emotions change from elementary school to middle and then to high school? Well, I have managed my emotions to be truthful by knowing that I only have a few years left to living with my mom, then I can do anything I want to. I will be 18 and not have to worry about what I am told by my parent or sister. 4. Was your parents’ or your friends’ view of you more important to you when you were a teenager? I am a teenager now and I would probably say that my friends view are more important because I am with them every day and I see them every day. I choose on if I want to speak to them or not. 5. Do you remember changing a behavior, clothes, or taste in music as a result of your friend’s influence? If so how? No, I don’t. 6. Do you remember changing friends because their actions or opinions were very different than yours? How old were you when...
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...the ideal of an orderly society but also the ideal of a perfect human being” (p. 230). With this information, the paper will provide information on the five great relationships according to Confucianism, the ideal person act, and the role of Confucianism in Chinese culture and society today. The Five Great Relationships According to Confucianism, relationships are perceived to be a combination of individuals interwoven, and exist as a unit despite inequalities. However, these differences give rise to the development of different class of relationships which are divided into five groups such as: • Father and son – Confucians see family as the foundation of existence and the father and son relationship as the core (Molloy, 2013, p. 231). Parents have the responsibility to provide and lay a foundation for their children. Children should at all times be respectful to their parents, and when the parents are old, children are obligation to care for them. • Older and younger brother – An older brother is expected to assume the responsibility of helping to care for his younger siblings, and the younger siblings are supposed to be obedient. This relationship is designed in the event their father pass then the older brother has to assume the paternal role. • Husband and Wife – Husband, is the head of the home and wife is the homemaker. Over time, the wife may even adopt a motherly attitude toward her husband. • Elder and young – This...
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...characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Love come first, then you feel can feel happiness. Such as mother loves her baby and she makes baby feel happiness. When you really love someone, your love will transfer happiness to someone who you love. How can we gang happiness from our life? In our life, there must be someone or not only one always around and support you. Family, friends and partner are the roles who cannot miss in our life. They will always distribute joy and support to make us feel happiness. There are three periods in our life; young, adult and old. In each period will have different role distribute joy and support you. First, in our young period, we have our family show their love to us and make us feel happiness. Second, in our adult period, we have our friends support us. At last, in our old period, we have our partner stay next to us. In each period, we also will grow up and gain a lot of experience to explore the future. We aspire different things in each period. So family, friends and partner will separate in three period to give us different love and support. When we born, we are a piece of pure paper. The first thing we learned from our family. They put a lot of efforts to grow us up. Baby learn thing should go step by step, and always will fail. Such as when we learn crawl, walk and run, we must fall down more than thousand times. But they will not give up, in addition they will give a million support to us until we achieve the goal...
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...some pre conceived notions about my eight friends that were playing with me. But during and after the game, I realised that majority of them, six to be precise did not behave the way I thought, they would attributed by their personality. Though, the cooperative part asked for cooperation so my friends did the same. But, six of my friends acted selfishly during the game when they had to save one person as a doctor and they saved themselves. I could not expect such behaviour prior to the game. Their behaviour in general was quite meek and helpful. Surprisingly, my best friend did not cooperate with me during the game at times when his purpose was not getting solved in the game. The remaining two behaved in synchronisation with their personality traits. I gauged them as the wisest in the group and they showed the same, when at the end of the game they turned out to be the clear winners winning 5 times each, out of the total 11 times. They showcased their prudence while deciding upon whom to save and whom to kill which could help them in winning. They moved throughout the game smartly, gaining the confidence of others when dialogues regarding who the mafia is, at the end of each turn, were organised. Nobody could pin pointthem as mafias, when they actually were. So, I found out that the behaviours were pretty different during the game from the real based scenarios, as observed by me. These assessments of personality traits of my friends helped me to understand that behaviours are...
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...reading through many examples. It describes the way an individual’s behavior is influenced by others and how their own personalities can influence other people. Sarah’s behavior is influenced by her parents and her friends. Both roles play a factor in the decisions that she makes while with her friends and her family. Sarah has many different schemas involving her behavior. Her parents have a schema for her in the way they want her to follow their rules and curfew regulations. The social role they want her to follow is strict and meant to be followed without fault. The schema that Sarah’s friends have for her is different and involves her social life. They ultimately convince her to forego the rules and regulations set up by her parents. Sarah is torn between wanting to follow her parent’s rules and her desire to conform to her friends and attend the party. After a subconscious battle with herself, she decides to attend the party and intentionally disregard her parents wishes. Sarah specifically displayed cognitive dissonance during the beginning of the reading. She was at war with herself on whether or not to attend the party with her friends. She set precedence by never disobeying her parents in the past and always arrived at home on time. Her friends attempted to persuade her by telling her that the party would be fun and she would be missing out if she did not attend. Sarah contemplated the issue and decided to go against her parent’s wishes and attend the party...
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