Doris Lessing Group Minds Essay

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In high school my older sister and her friends pressured me to skip class; I didn't want to look scared or boring so I ended up going and the whole time I was thinking it was a huge mistake and wished I had courage to say no and share what I thought.
1) When I skipped class I was pressured and worried into making a decision and when making the decision I wasn't thinking clearly.
A. When I made the choice to skip class I knew it was a bad one and I had no one to blame but myself, instead of thinking what my mom or teacher would say or tell me what to do I just ignored it and went.
B. The whole trip was suppose to be fun and the whole time I was worried what would happen if we got caught and what my parents and teacher would think about this, I could've just had the courage to say no but I didn't.
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A. One way that my situation and the story compare is the pressure, just like me many people are pressured to make decision that don't want to make or do.
B. What she is saying in her essay were part of the reason why I said yes to going for example, when says she “ It is the hardest thing in the world to maintain an individual dissident opinion, as a member of a group.” That relates to me because thinking I wish I would've just had the guts to say no this is wrong.
3) Another story that connects is "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram because like the other people in his experiment I went against thinking right from wrong.
A. When Milgram did his experiment most people went with what they wanted to do against doing the right thing.
B. When I had the control of making the decision if I wanted to go or not I didn't think of what I would think of myself or the people I would effect for example, if my younger siblings would find out and think it is the right thing to

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