Being

Jan Steen was a famous Dutch genre painter, born in the seventeenth century. In his paintings, he made his subjects mainly from his daily life. The scenes he painted were often lively and chaotic and the Dutch to this day often use the phrase “A Jan Steen household” meaning a chaotic and messy household. His paintings of household chaos were supposed to act as a warning to observers that life needed to be more organized and orderly. Today the Merry Family is a typical work of art that portrays a…

Also Victor is deciding his friend about how he looks. After his friend shows him how to scowl he thinks it is not him. This shows Victor needs to stop being subjective towards people.The author states, “‘..., Victor tried scowling. He felt foolish, until out of the corner of his eye he saw a girl looking at him.”’ (Soto 23) This shows how Victor instead of deciding what Micheal (his friend) did he tested…

interactions between his friends and his mental instabilities. As critics say, “Overall, by keeping all of the important moments in Charlie’s timeline and showing us more about our favorite side characters onscreen, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wildflower is a wildly successful film, capturing the ache and grandeur of growing up in the suburbs in the early nineties perfectly” (www.cinemablend.com). Watching the film is a key aspect of fully understanding and interpreting what is…

My first book for ABU was The Perks of Being a Wallflower. In this book it starts out with a fifteen year old boy named Charlie who writes about his life in a letter format. In the beginning of the book Charlie talks about the first year of high school and his friend Michael who went suicide. He talks about how much he misses Michael and he was confused on why he didn’t tell him that he was depressed. Then he describes his family. In his family Charlie has a sister, a brother, a mother, a…

dramatists in England, and especially to Congreve and Wycherley; but it is a type of comedy which can flourish in any civilized urban society, and we see it again in Sheridan (1751-1816). This kind of comedy makes fun not so much of individual human beings and their humors as of social groups and their fashionable manners. It is general satirical, though in a good-natured way. The comedy of manners is a highly artificial form of drama and is generally full of verbal wit. So, like…

exactly in my situation right now. There are many differences between being an outsider and an insider. If you are an outsider you may feel like you don't belong and you are not good enough to be on the inside. Then if you're on the inside you might think you are all this in a bag of chips, and that you could never be seen with an outsider. It is really the most meaningless thing ever. We are all human and we are the same, being on the outside or inside shouldn't matter. When I am at home in…

People think that being an outsider is a bad thing and they can not benefit the world's future. Yet, many people in history were considered outsiders. In fact, if people were not as willing and able to take the time to think of things in a different light or setting, everything would be the exact same as it was around 8,000 years ago. Just the same old boring routine with nothing new and exciting to think about or invent. Being narrow minded is never really a good thing. Being able to think…

different definition of a friend. Making friends on the internet can have advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages are: being catfished, and prevent you from socializing outside of the internet. One of the major disadvantages of having friends on the internet is being catfished. Being catfished mean is someone who pretends to be someone else online. Being catfished is wrong and dangerous because you might not know he or she background and what are their intentions. According to…

know, almost every human being faces judgment each and every day! But the real question is should we be afraid of it? The answer to that is of course not! First things first, we all must learn to accept that fact that being judged is the norm in today’s world and that no matter how hard you try none of us can escape the fact that we are viewed differently in each individuals’ minds. What if you can’t be yourself? Or what if you cannot let go of the fear that comes with being judged? To some of…

development of what it is to be an American to you can come from life experiences, goals, and simply the feeling of desire. Presenting to the table of the world your personal characteristics and contributing these to achieve self-fulfillment is what being an American is all about. As a woman, going into the medical field, the job requirements I must adhere to become even broader. I am to be mentally and physically strong for the days of 12-hour night shifts and the never-ending list of patients.…