Accept

How to Get the Prefix Tank Top before Your Name Step 1: Be a fat kid, get bullied, and avoid tank tops To a fat kid, wearing a tank top is like sticking a note on your own back that says kick me. You’re a target. Kids would make fun of the rolls that weren’t hidden by cloth. Although no matter what clothing you have on you’re a target. When you put your hands up and your shirt follows exposing the fleshy mounds that is your stomach you my dear reader is a target for bullying by kids. Have you…

the way others view them and causes them to lose sight of themselves and give into society’s expectations. In the book, Matsu’s sister struggles with accepting herself after discovering leprosy on her own body because the Japanese culture did not accept her illness. She views her beauty and public image as the most important aspect of herself. “Tomoko had a spark which seemed to ignite everything she touched” (Tsukiyama 132). Tomoko’s personality lit up everyone and everything around her. She…

Janelle Monae has been taking steps toward becoming one of the most influential recording artists of our time. Monae's video "Q.U.E.E.N." from her second album titled The Electric lady exemplifies her influence on the society where you can be judged for your appearance. This video was a statement declaring her happiness with who she is despite the judgment from others in a society where your image, your cultural values, and what is viewed as acceptable and appropriate behavior is looked down…

be happy and successful if they are not confident as other people are going to have a hard time in believing and accepting them if they themselves are not ready to accept ones selves. Although everyone have their own weaknesses and certain challenges to overcome, pointing it out and complaining about it is unavailing. The key is to accept what one has and embrace it to overcome the toughest of obstacles and challenges. This is what defines as success. “Being happy is a quality of successful…

icebreaker for Kelly to not only introduce herself to the world as transgender but to inform others about a lifestyle that some do not accept. Once she understands herself worth it may not matter to her what others think about her. She may even get more support or some may not even care about how she choose to live her life. Not everyone is judgmental and will accept you for who you are no matter what. This could be done by having people draw what they think they know about the transgender…

During the last 15 weeks, college has taken me on a roller coaster of emotions. I have experienced happiness. I have experienced stress. I have experienced sadness. I have felt hopeless, but also invincible, all while trying to fake that I know exactly what I am doing and everything is okay. If on move-in day someone had told me I would barely spend anytime time in my dorm room with the gray walls and ugly, patterned carpet, I would not have believed them. Despite it not being the coziest or…

most of those close to them moved past the deaths, the two continued developing issues as a result, due to a lack of proper support through their grief. Because of this failure to accept the grief, they become very unstable,…

The novel, Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live by Kevin Breel is an autobiography depicting Breel’s struggles with mental health. In the book, Breel discusses everything from his family life, to high school, to depression. He was not afraid to tell of his darkest moments to the audience, but instead brings them to the light for everyone to see. He encourages readers to seek out those with troubles like he had and attempt to help them in any way possible. Boy Meets Depression…

Guyanese students and began to reconnect with the culture I once lost. I believe it was this occurrence that partially molded me into who I am today. Little by little, I began to accept who I was again without feeling sorry for it. It wasn’t until I got to college and declared my minor of Human Services did I fully accept myself and learned to not apologize for who I was anymore. Throughout all the CSL courses I have taken, I’ve come to realize culture plays a huge part in your identity and no…

This week I chose an article about how car services began to make their apps to go against Uber. Uber is an application that is used by individuals to request for a car service to appear wherever they are with a touch of a button. I personally believe that this is a great application to use for transportation. However, the yellow taxis, car services, or other transportation are not quite fond off this system. Other car services have been complaining about Uber and have become frustrated with…