Embarrassment

In a competitive world, success seems to be the only reason to exist. Society pushes people to act and look a particular way and, if not, they are an alien. Success is business suits, briefcases, the American dream. Many People fear failure because they do not want to feel humiliation, they want acceptance, and they want to leave a positive, yet memorable legacy. Sweat, embarrassment, anxiety: Humiliation is the worst feeling anyone will experience. The world is no different from High school, a place where there is no room for uniqueness, it never changes. Humiliation is like walking in a hallway full of people pointing, staring, and laughing at your defeat. For instance, if you don’t fit in you are deemed an embarrassment, a failure. The point of existence is a contribution to society by working and volunteering. Those who are receiving government assistance are sometimes…

Happiness, expressed in an everyday sense, is a mental or a psychological state of being sound and well defined by positive energy or joy. One may feel happy in a different manner, and due to a different reason than another. For example, one may be happy to win a million dollar lottery, whereas another may be happy to just to be alive. It is subjective when it comes to interpreting happiness as it differs with every individual. As a matter of fact, happiness compels an individual to embrace…

It can make them put on a front, act overconfident. Opposing to these reactions, fear can also make people run away or hide. In the mid to late 1900’s during the Vietnam War, soldiers were faced with this same fear. The men did not want to appear weak to each other, their community, their family, or to anyone. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried he reveals stories of the Alpha Company, a United States unit of foot soldiers, that he was in during the Vietnam War. Some men went to war to…

someone feel shame. Shame, embarrassment, and guilt are feelings that come from our own conscious, not a court order. An additional flaw of public shamming is the term itself. Due to its ambiguity, what is considered shameful is at the judges discretion.This in turn could result in, “widely and unfairly different punishments for the same crime between owe courtroom to the next” (Morrison). In one case an Ohio woman was sentenced to spend a night alone in the woods after abandoning…

wore 2 different outfits, a light brown hoodie with black shorts and a dark blue shirt with the same black shorts. The kid smelled like he had never heard of the word hygiene. I figured he just didn’t like to shower or put too much work in his appearance. A few people in the class would always say out loud, “Mr. Holton it stinks so bad in here open up a window!” I think he knew people thought he stunk I mean he had to of known. I remember walking to Lunch one day; when I saw Jackson walking in…

for immigrants from other countries to adapt to the language. In Amy Tan 's essay “Mothers Tongue”, she explains how earlier in her life she expressed disdain for her mother 's “limited English” (Tan 282). Amy felt ashamed, limited in her perception of her mother 's image, and feels her mother 's English dwindled the quality of her thoughts. The fact that “people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her [Tan 's Mother] seriously” (283) make Tan feels ashamed. Tan 's…

The gym, it feels so natural, so free, like my new second home. My words when I went to the gym for the first time. I loved the gym. I wanted to be big and strong just like the people around. Yeah I didn’t fit in quite yet but how hard can it be? They all did it, so can I. So there I went, I started my first day at the gym. As many of you can see when you look at my arms that look like spaghetti noodles or my biceps looking like a bean my gym craze stopped after that first time. I lifted…

much interest, but they were not aware of its importance and use. Hence, Miss Moore 's social and intellectual expertise helped because she demonstrated its use and informed them that it was used to see thousands of bacteria that they could not see with their naked eyes. There was also a paper weight made of semi-precious stoned, and the group did not understand or appreciate its value; all these encounters with the other aspects of life were overbearing to them. Bambara and Cisneros express a…

pants, something of that nature, I believe that public shaming is totally unacceptable. Now if a child were to commit a heinous crime or bully another person, i find public shaming appropriate for the situation. Same for adults. If you do the crime, do the time. Three more types of shame would be humility, embarrassment and guilt. Adam and Eve, the first human beings on Earth, felt these kinds of shame. "Humility is what you feel when you 're in the presence of someone who is superior to you.…

Embarrassed and hiding her face, Amy Tan struggles to accept herself during an excruciating dinner her mother had set up with an american family. The lesson she was taught here is one she will come to remember for a long time. This story, Fish Cheeks, by Tan shines a light on the idea that parents lessons are better learned through austerity. Kids will remember the moments in life where they felt strong emotions, like anger, embarrassment, and shame. Kids remember lessons through thoughts and…