Many individuals expect life to be easy for everyone. I believe that some individuals have more obstacles in life than others. The reason I believe so, is because I had to deal with certain issues throughout high school that I know some people deal with on a daily basis and some people don 't have to go through it at all. I come from a different family culture and things are very different when someone lives in the United States and has a culture that is completely different than the American culture. The laws here states that child abuse is illegal and not acceptable. I believe that happens to be true. My parents, well my mom, did not believe so. I dealt with many beatings throughout my high school career but decided to ignore it and continue with my daily life. I then decided to tell an …show more content…
I was distracted my first two years of high school because of course, there had been many changes in my life. But once junior year came, it all changed. Teachers started talking about colleges more often and even though I had been distracted before, I still wanted to have a future for myself. It had become harder for me to stay focused in school because things were getting worse at home, a lot worse. I got to the point to where I told my librarian, Mrs. McMillan, a person who I trust completely, and she went by protocol and reported the situation. Next thing I know, I 'm on the phone with social services, they become more involved with me at school. They don 't really keep things as private as they should because teachers found out, students found out and it was very stressful for me to deal with. They interviewed my mom and she lied about everything. I had proof of marks on myself, but since my mom received a phone call and she knew social services were going to visit her, she made marks on herself to make it seem like it was a physical altercation. I had lost the battle my junior year, but it was not over
...Instead of going with the Stasi to search Dreyman’s apartment after the interrogation, he flees to do the right thing.
As a young adult in high school I was given a lot of responsibility along with peer pressure to exceed my family’s principles. The first day of high school as a freshman, was overwhelming, stressful, and full of anxiety. I felt as if I had no one to count on including my family and friends. Felt alone most of the time and didn’t unspoke about problems that began to bother me emotionally, physically, and mentally. My problems arose freshman through sophomore year. I reached a point where I could no longer keep this a secret.
I haven't had the easiest life growing up, but I guess who has right? I grew up with an addict, a functioning addict but an addict. I also grew up with my mother and the siblings I know and love who have shaped me to be the strong young woman I am today. My personal development has come so far. I am now almost 20 years old starting to figure out who I am and what I want to do with the rest of my life. Throughout my personal life I have learned you have to get through the storms to have rainbows. Hard times pass you by and you keep moving on. I have been in behavioral health hospitals for anxiety and manic depression, I was attacked, had to deal with sexual assault not once but twice , have dealt with hard earned money being stolen by my father
‘Das Leben der Anderen’ (The Lives of Others) is a striking example of how a director can convey narrative links within a film by employing various styles and film techniques. The Lives of Others relies upon these visual means to assist with the telling of the story as much as it relies upon the script. In this selected sequence of the film, several narrative links are drawn here to form the conclusion of ‘Operation Lazlo’. These narrative links are further cemented by Donnersmarck’s use of various lighting styles, diegtic and non-diegtic sound, revealing camera shots and intricate mise-en-scene.
Experiencing hard times is something that human beings endure at some point in their life: Death being one of them. Death affects everyone, whether it is a family member, a close friend, or even a pet, losing someone or something is still a hardship that is never easy to encounter. Gustave Flaubert said, “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies”. I could not agree more with this quote. Dealing with the loss of a friend so close to you, takes a part of you away as well. No parent should ever have to bury his or her own child and no thirteen year old should have to face such a loss at a young age, however, on April 21, 2011, my whole life changed.
In a society where more than one-third of the population is victimized by surveillance, people are forced to choose: to betray or to silence. A secret police Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) and a successful playwright Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) in The Lives of Others are no exception. At first, they appear to be securing a firm stand. Upon Jerska (Volkmar Kleinert)’s death, however, they start questioning their stances. The movie unfolds as the two main characters become alike. Hneckel von Donnersmarck’s use of outstanding mise-en-scene and sound—especially the musical leitmotifs—powerfully persuades the viewers that the pursuit of goodness alone can bind two seemingly different human beings.
There are two different mind sets to reacting to difficulties in life, the Victim way and the Creator way. According to David Mirman’s article on Victim and Creators: a Victim is someone who when faced with a negative experience tries to find someone or something else to shift the blame on, that mentality is counterproductive, because it does not help someone reach their goals in life. He describes a Creator as someone who when faced with a negative situation tries to learn from and overcome the situation, adopting this mentality helps people tremendously in reaching their goals in life (Mirman). Skip Downing author of ‘On Course defines Creators as: “people who consistently make the chose which results in the outcome they desire (or wish to achieve).” He defines Victims as: “people who feel they don’t or can’t influence their own outcomes in life and, therefore, end up and end up responding to decisions that others make or passively letting other things happen instead of actively shaping the outcomes they desire.” (Downing). I choose to live the Creator life style after noticing the major differences between my Victim and Creator friends.
In life we face many ups and downs, many challenges, and stressful situations that create pressure that either bursts pipes or makes us wiser, stronger, and able to adapt to things put in our path ways. I have faced many challenges and obstacles in life they have not been walks in the part to get through. The toughest obstacle that I have had to overcome on the way to becoming the man I am today is growing up without any parent guidance in my life. This caused me to have so much self doubt and depression that I have fought off the last twelve years it has at times hindered me while in college I have been in and out school constantly. But I have been fighting it and succeeding as a freshman at Alabama State University I gained thirty-two credits while being alone and having no one to depend on. These were some of the toughest times I could not go to my mother or my father the relationships I had were not the strongest at all.
Laughing can be expressed in various ways. Some people chuckle, some people snort, some people sound like hyenas, or if you are like me, you laugh so hard that you actually pee your pants. That moment was not my proudest, but there are far more embarrassing things that have occurred in my life. There have also been times where life was tough and sometimes the only thing that could help me get through it was laughter. Laughter as the best medicine was not something that I regarded highly of until I was a senior in high school. Schulz suggests that we “don’t assess evidence neutrally, we assess it in light of whatever theories we’ve already formed on the basis of whatever other, earlier evidence we have encountered.” (372) And Schulz is right,
I often find myself wondering what my life would be like with her here or if I turned out to be how she imagined. I have come to the conclusion that no matter how hard I try, no amount of research or begging for answers from God will help me. Unlike these few things that will never be known, I will always know her smile, crave her laugh and appreciate the impact my beautiful mother had on this earth. Some days it hits me harder than others that I no longer have a mom, but remembering the feeling helps like medicine. Not knowing at the time the little moments I shared with her would turn into memories I would cherish forever. Through my mom’s journey with cancer she always had a smile on her face, even on her last birthday she would ever experience, just nine days before we would have to say our goodbyes.
In the end in order to achieve success within an individual's life, and become the person one would like to be, you have to go through tough times to become a tough person. Nobody wants to go through pain but in the end that is what defines a person and shapes who they are. An individual can only learn how to grow and flourish through life once they have been faced with hardships that they have defeated.
Hope can for someone be a difficult subject to talk about. They might have lost hope or did not have any hope in their childhood. Some might also have a bad picture in their head perhaps from their childhood or when they had grown up about their parents of friends that they trusted, abused or misused their trust and hope. Maybe they had nothing or no one to give them hope or any sign of hope. If you look at Junior in the book, the only one that gave him hope was his grandmother. When she passed away, it sounded like Junior had lost all hope to this world and his family. His dad was an alcoholic, he did not get a real connection with his mother, and his sister just lived in the basement and never walked out or upstairs
There’s a lot that I have to be thankful to God for this month, just for all the ways he’s been speaking to me through messages, ministry and recent events.
My Life, My Fantasy, My Philosophy - Descartes' Fourth Meditation, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Sir Francis Bacon's The Four Idols, and Walt Disney
I was raised in a Baptist family of four. My childhood was calm and pleasant. I was raised with solid principles and moral values that created the sole foundation of what has shaped me today. Growing up, I was taught to embrace the idea of being respectful, passionate, responsible and understanding. From these ideas, I grew to have a powerful sense of wisdom and work ethic that has always allowed me to accomplish what I set out to do. Watching my parents and church from a young age has shown me the commitment and right lifestyle I needed to start my personal journey to a successful life. However, after arriving to middle school the real shaping point in my life began.