Alexus's Life Analysis

Alexus grew up and spent most of her childhood in Jamaica. All of her family lives there. She’ll be the first out of all of her aunts, cousins, uncles and more to go to the states. She is currently living in the household with her father. He is remarrying and that’s why she has to move to the states. Alexus has mixed feelings about being apart of a blended family. This doesn’t bother her too much because her father is happy in his new marriage. Alexus did research on her new home before she left Jamaica. She found out that the population in Washington, D.C was 658,893 people as of 2014. There are 49% blacks, 43.6% whites and 52.6% females as of 2014. Lastly, she found out that the percent of persons 25 or older that have a bachelor’s degree …show more content…
That’s when she knew she had to get a social network and talk to him. Everything went downhill after that day she decided to follow him on twitter. She exposed so much of her personal lifestyle to social networks that people started to think she was promiscuous. This is when Alexus started to fall victim to Sykes & Matza’s Labeling Theory. Alexus always felt she had to prove herself now because she didn’t like what her peers were labeling her as. This bothered her so she started acting out in school. She felt that acting out and being like the other kids would make her fit in. They wouldn’t talk about her if she was doing the same thing they were doing. Alexus slowly started to lose Carla and Ava as friends. They said they didn’t want anything to do with her or what she did in her spare time. Alexus was highly upset because they told her to get a social network to make more friends, in actuality she lost her only two friends. The social network ruined her life and made her start having suicidal thoughts. She had to tell her father what was going on and why she was having the terrible thoughts about suicide. He suggested therapy with the schools guidance