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Henry Cloud once stated, “A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.” Culture is a system of meanings that provides a way of life for a certain group. Within our culture, there are culture norms, which are accepted ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving by which members of a social group are guided. Like Henry Cloud…

forehead. I stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, waiting for my mother to do my hair. Once she came in, she brushed my hair and styled it into high pigtails, tied with brightly colored scrunchies. I grudgingly walk to the kitchen to grab my backpack, already tired of the idea of school and wanting to get over it. My mom stopped me, with a puzzled face, asking me if I had breakfast. I shrugged and said nothing—until she broke the silence. She reminded me that I had to eat breakfast,…

Day 27: I am reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. We are introduced to the main character Katniss Everdeen, she is a part of District 12 who lives with her mother and little sister, Primrose Everdeen. She goes outside to meet her friend Gale, they both go to the reaping, which is the ceremony where they take your name out to participate in the Games. When it was time to pick the names out of the bowl to see one girl and guy from District 12 gets to participate in the Games, Prim’s name…

The artwork of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei is characterised by a desire to critique the political agenda of his home country’s government. Although the social activism Weiwei engages in is criminalised and often censored in China, he has won international acclaim for his work, which has been exhibited in such major cities as London, New York, Tokyo and Sao Paulo. This global admiration is made all the more impressive on the basis that Weiwei has faced strict travel restrictions, resulting in…

Goggles are imperative for keeping your eyes safe in the lab. By wearing goggles you can protect your eyes from foreign items and substances from hurting them. Keeping goggles on at all times, when working with any chemical substance is mandatory, if any chemicals splash into the eyes, the eyes are protected by the goggles. The right clothing can help avoid many accidents in the lab. Wearing your lab coat can protect you from any chemicals coming in direct contact with your skin. Also,…

One year later my mom marries a guy older than her about fifteen years old, but he looks younger than age. He is a US citizen, he has a son younger than me three years old. He is a nice guy, and I have no problem of him and my mom getting together. Middle of my seventh grade, all the sudden I and my mom travel to the US to live with my stepdad. Soon after I start to go school at Davis Middle School, and everything are so new to me unlike anything I could think or imagine in my head, and one…

Anxiety in today's world is not uncommon; it is more common that people are diagnosed with it now than ever before.Anxiety can make a person overthink every single thing, makes you leave the things you love behind, becoming freaked out over something for no reason, etc. Anxiety for me feels like I am locked away in a cell that won’t let me experience adventures that I might enjoy; that I know I will enjoy. Instead of enjoying though, I generate a continuous list of all the wrongs that could…

It was 8:45pm, a cold breezy night, the stand were filled but the filled anticipation. I stood there in my marching uniform with the thought of dreading to perform. The old dead sounding announcer yelled the next marching group. I hated everything second being in a part of my high school marching band. I invested three whole years, and what came to follow? Nothing. Yes I learned to drop the tv show i was watching and rush to practice or giving up thousands of my saturday to go to far nowhere…

media’s use in music is useful in getting merchandise to the fans. Before the Internet, musicians were selling albums or other merchandise was in some form of person-to-person communication. This could be at shows, music stores, whether it is out of a backpack or the trunk of their car. Media has completely transformed the way people cooperate with each other. Bands and musicians have changed the way they promote them selves. This variation has improved in the way music is sold through the…

“Family Luke. You promised.” This is a quote from The Last Olympian, the final book in the Percy Jackson series. However, this quote, and the book it comes from, are not included in the movie franchise. The Percy Jackson books are about love, family, identity, isolation, deceit, and trust. They transport you into an intense world of adventure and danger. The movies destroy this point of view. Not only are the Percy Jackson movies a disgrace to its fandom because it completely changes the plot…