Affect

in has an immense effect on their development trajectory, and can ultimately alter who they become as adults. The systems within Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems theory reflect that there is a connection between all of the environments that affect our lives, whether one has control of them or not. In Elsewhere and Into the Wild, readers explore the contexts that Richard Russo and Chris McCandless grew up in and see the detrimental and supportive effects that these contexts have on them.…

Steroid use for high school sports can have many negative affects on your body, that people don’t realize. The human body reacts differently to different things. People take steroids to help their performance in sports. They may also take them to enlarge their muscles. What they don’t know is that it has more than just positive effects. They are too caught up in their appearance to even realize all of the side effects it can put out. Males are proven to take most of the blame for the use of…

it greatly affects my educational career. Where even one of my greatest downfalls was flunking a grade. The biggest supports and obstacles are your family, your social life, and yourself as a person. Everyone does make mistakes, but it 's up to them to fix it. It 's always up to the person to find a way to fix their problems, it is your own responsibility to find your own supports to help motivate you throughout your hardships. Family can be your greatest obstacle. It can affect your…

Effects of Loss Tupac Shakur once said, “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive...” This quote states, that the things one may lose in life can cause great affect on the emotional and mental well-being of a person. How loss affects a character can be seen in both film and in books. The film, Shenandoah, which takes place in 1965 in America during the Civil War, reflects upon the Anderson family who tries their best to avoid the conflict…

Media exposure can cause short term and long term effects. Short term effects are immediate and occur during the timeframe of exposure to the form of media. These short term effects can affect thought processes, beliefs, evaluative judgements, attitude, emotions, behavior, and physiological responses. (Potter 2014) Cognitive processes may be effected by supplying information and implementing new ideas. An example of a short term cognitive effect would be learning the outcome of a sports game or…

Interpersonal Conflicts: The Importance of Maintaining Face During Adolescence Why is it important to maintain one’s public image or face? Why is it that we as a society form these images? Is it to hide who we are or is it a strategy used to fit in with a given culture? Face theory “helps us understand why and how people construct their public images and the strategies used to maintain or restore these images” (Baxter, pg. 203-204). Symbolic representations or images reflect our knowledge about…

Most actions a person does are motivated by some type of emotion. That is why people laugh and smile when they are happy, cry when they are sad, and yell or stay silent when they are mad. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the reader reads about a group of boys stranded on an island without any civilization. As time progresses, the mindset of the boys begins to evolve into the mindset of animals. In the beginning of the book, rationality is primarily used in decision making, but…

Two weeks before I had my interview with the Honors College directors my house burned down. I remember the horrible day in which I walked into my home to find it full of smoke. My family and I had spent the whole afternoon together, we went to dinner and talked for a while. Once my dad parked the car in front of the house I remember feeling uneasy, something was not right. I got off the car as fast as possible and headed for the door to find a cloud of smoke hitting me across the face. My dog,…

In life, people must make choices, but not every choice leads to a good outcome. In the novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson, a teenage girl faces an extraordinary life change with an illegal secret she did not choose to have. Jenna Fox has just awoken from an 18-month coma to discover that she must regain her memory and find out who she really is. Jenna’s parents, Claire and Matthew, decide to keep Jenna alive using illegal medical practices, causing many dramatic consequences.…

for me.” (Page 9 First Paragraph) This is one of the quotes in the story that breaks the ice for the reader and shows also her development as an outsider. Jen does a very good job of explaining about how her actions affect different members in her family and others around her. This affects the places she lived in by showing how irresponsible her parents were. The actions taking place while she was on fire showed that her parents did not really pay too much attention to what their kids were…