Moving, or rather, anything in my then-short life changing was always stressful. I transferred schools due to overcrowding during fifth grade and I remember feeling uncertain. Would my teachers like me? What if people don’t want to be my friend? Typical juvenile thinking, although I was convinced the first day would not go well. However, this proved contradictory as I met my best friend within the first 20 minutes, although I did not know it when. We were in the same home room and our teacher asked her to introduce me to the unfamiliar currents of the new school. The first thing I noticed was that she was perceptive. She assuaged my unspoken fears, assuring me the teachers and fellow peers were, in her words, “super-duper nice”. Ever since that day, conversation flowed endlessly, and it was always give and take. Everything was comfortable and easy, sharing secrets and swapping stories like there was no one else around. To no ones’ surprise, we spent an immeasurable amount of time together throughout middle and high school. This …show more content…
Simply put, life is better with a companion. We learn to adapt to the changes of constantly interacting with a personality that is always changing. You’re supposed to be able to say “I do not have any second thoughts nor regrets meeting you” and mean it. Silences are comfortable and we are flexible on our different viewpoints. Rather than feeling envious, I rejoice for my friends’ good fortune. You are always truthful because you know that honesty can sting for a moment whereas a lie can your whole relationship. In this world, there are people who will take you for granted and lie to but there will always be one person that you can always count on. This whole long distance relationship can be tough and we need to do what we need to do but it does not change anything about
Everything I dreamed about for my senior year was taken from me the day that I moved. When I left my old school I not only said goodbye to my friends, but I also said goodbye to an easy senior year. At my new school I am just another body. No one knows who I am. I talk to everyone I meet, trying to make conversation, but yet I still eat alone in the cafeteria every day, listening to everyone laugh while I try to hold back my tears.
The chapter “Clarify What’s Important to you” introduces several successful leaders and many praiseworthy values to me. Although each leader comes from different environments and possesses different characters, all of them keep their precious values in mind and persist in chasing their ideal lives. Even if each value can be interpreted by different meanings, they all lead encourage individuals to become better.
A theme that can be found within almost any film is the importance of friendship. The four texts I have chosen are Stand By Me (the novel), Goonies, Stranger Things and The Sandlot. Each of these text display the importance of friendship through compelling stories of each individual's personal experiences with friendship. I will explore multiple sides based on the truth behind friendships and how they can impact the individual. One side, touching on the bad experiences within friendships, where the characters can find a way to positively build off it to better their friendship. The other, exploring the pure heartwarming relationship between friends.
The story I chose for this analysis is “Why, you reckon?” by Langston Hughes. IN this analysis I will be focusing on how the great depression in Harlem had effect on the story, how racism played a part, and how or if the characters were justifyied in their actions. During this time period the intense racial divide combined with the economic harships that plagued the U.S. during the 1923’s makes for an interesting story that makes you think if the charaters were really justified.
Human to toad. Beautiful sirens. Homer’s text and the video “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” are similar in some ways and different in many. There are multiple versions of one story. People think differently, so when they read something they may get two completely different things from it.
Culture Centers in Higher Education: Perspectives on Identity, Theory, and Practice is a powerful and enlightening book by Lori D. Patton. Patton is a higher education scholar who focuses on issues of race theories, African American experiences on college campuses, student development theories, campus environments, inclusion, and multicultural resources centers at higher education institutions. She has a variety of publications and was one of the first doctoral students to complete a dissertation that focused exclusively on Black culture centers entitled, “From Protest to Progress: An Examination of the Relevance, Relationships and Roles of Black Culture Centers.” In Campus Culture Centers in Higher Education Patton collaborates with many higher education scholars and faculty members to discuss various types of racial and ethnic culture centers in higher education, their overall effectiveness, relevance, and implications for improvement in relation to student retention and success. Diversity, inclusion and social justice have become prevalent issues on all college campuses, and this piece of literature gives a basic introduction for individuals unfamiliar with cultural resource centers. This book successfully highlights contributions of culture centers and suggestions for how centers can be reevaluated and structured more efficiently. For many faculty, administrators, and student affairs professionals unfamiliar with the missions and goals of culture centers, Patton’s text provides a concrete introduction and outline for the functionality of these resources and also offers recommendations and improvements for administrators managing multicultural centers.
Connections for Argument: Social Network Rogerian developed an argumentative technique used by many writers to find a common ground with their audience so, the writers will be able to connect with a wider audience. The evolvement of the internet and the emergence of social net-working sites have influenced the life of many in different ways. Some people use social media solely to communicate to their friends and family about their life whereas people who use these sites can cause false imagination about someone’s life. The author of “I’m so Totally, Digitally Close to You” Claive Thomas explores both sides of the social networking spectrum by using Rogerian theory to life. There are many advantages to social media that lead to an improvement of understanding and the capability to communicate in a more diplomatic way.
Starting high school is tough for some people. Moving to a new city is also tough for some people. Or me I had to deal with both. I can remember my very first day of high school, I was so nervous. I didn’t make any friends over the summer so I didn’t talk to anyone. I was pushed out of my comfort zone to talk to people and make new friends. A few months into school I received my first interim. It wasn't the greatest but , I blamed it on my transition to high school and promised that
Boundaries are an integral part of being alive and therefore they are present at every stage of the process of living. This makes them, first of all, necessary because they contribute to the creation of all animate and inanimate forms. Without boundaries there would be no form; there would only be an ever-expanding mass. At the same time boundaries can also be constricting, limiting, especially if accepted as insurmountable and all encompassing. When this happens, boundaries can stunt growth on all levels; they can turn something historical that should be analyzed, understood and placed within its proper context into something natural or worse, eternal. In the formation novel My Brilliant Friend, boundaries play a variety of contrasting roles
Stafford, Laura, and Andy J. Merolla. "Idealization, Reunions, and Stability in Long-distance Dating Relationships." Sage Journals. University of Nevada: Reno -- Library, n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2014.
I can remember sitting in class, feeling eyes burning through me, dodging inquisitive glances from all sides, and anxiously awaiting the bell to ring for lunchtime. As most people know, lunch is the most dreaded part of the first day at a new school. First day of school memories are still fairly vivid for me; my father was in the JAG corps in the Army and my family moved with biannual regularity. In fact, I even attended three different high schools. While this may seem highly undesirable to some, I learned an incredible amount about myself, the world, and other people through movement that I may never have learned otherwise.
The term “long-distance relationship” can often carry a negative association for those seeking love. There is a perception that geographical distance will prevent a strong and happy relationship from developing; however, it does not deter all couples from staying together. LDRs are identified by several factors, including: distance, the length of a relationship, and time living apart. Reasons why couples (married or dating) find themselves in LDRs include career, college, military deployment, and/or preference.
The journey of life follows a predetermined pattern; we evolve from needing influence and guidance to finally reaching that point where our lives are up to us. I consider myself very lucky up to this point in my journey. Some people become sidetracked and wind up on a far different course than initially planned, but the detours I made have only assisted in embellishing the individual instead of devouring it.
It was the second semester of fourth grade year. My parents had recently bought a new house in a nice quite neighborhood. I was ecstatic I always wanted to move to a new house. I was tired of my old home since I had already explored every corner, nook, and cranny. The moment I realized I would have to leave my old friends behind was one of the most devastating moments of my life. I didn’t want to switch schools and make new friends. Yet at the same time was an interesting new experience.
I wondered how I would meet classmates with different ways of thinking, many of them with different ages, customs, nationalities and ways of life. This really was one of my greatest expectations. Nowadays, I have met so many different and wonderful people, willing to support each other in everything, starting over with a primary and a common goal for all, fighting to get the final result, becoming nurses. More than that, we have become good friends that support each other most of the time. In our open spaces we share the experiences that we live in each class, we analyze our weaknesses and we always look for the right solution. Likewise, we talked about family and work issues, and in our spare time, we organize activities to hang out together and rejoice in