Embarrassment

Pride is a confusing emotion that can affect you for the rest of your life as it can be linked to shame and embarrassment. In the story “Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, Brother’s actions show he is motivated by Pride. There are many perspectives of Brother whose pride becomes a destructive force in his life. When his younger brother’s physical disability is linked to Brother’s shame and embarrassment, these emotions has tragic results. Brother’s judgment is strongly affected by his pride as it…

the anxiety when doing a presentation or playing plays in front of the whole class. For me, being judge is the worst fear. Social anxiety is the fear and anxiety of being judged and evaluated negatively by other people, leading to feelings of embarrassment, humiliation, inadequacy,…

Third grade soccer is my earliest memory of embarrassment. My remembrance coming from the conversation with one of my teammates asking which grade I was in. The simple response of “third grade” had resulted in a patter of laughter. My mispronunciation of the word “third” turned the grade into a matter of feces. That is when I began to be self-conscious of my speech. I had been in the English as a Second Language program throughout elementary school, and in the fifth grade I realized my biggest…

followed by Buzz Aldrin. Millions of people believe that this is a hoax, to win the “space race” of the 1960’s. Me personally, I believe it was a hoax, to prevent embarrassment. in 1961, JFK said that we would have had humans on the moon before the end of the 60’s. I believe we would have faked going to the moon to prevent embarrassment. Surveyor 3, another unmanned mission, was sent to observe the moon. it was broken down on the moon, and…

states that, “You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance.” This quote goes along with what I was taught in my English classes throughout high school. When writing a persuasive paper, I learned that you should…

Doodle and his brother were pretty close, but his brother was embarrassed by him. Doodle is a very young and frail boy that is not fully functional. The book “The Scarlet Ibis.” symbolizes a bird which is called a Scarlet Ibis. The bird and the boy are very similar, they both have physical weakness in there legs. With Doodles legs being weak, his brother (the narrator) is very embarrassed. His brother is very serious and very determined about his legs. He wants to help Doodle walk, which then he…

Scarlet Letters “E-L-E-A-N-O-R” My teacher leans over me, exasperated, as she loudly spells out the letters of my first name for me. “What kid doesn’t know how to spell their own name?!” Third grade standardized testing is bad enough, but being scolded for not knowing how to put the letters of my own first name into the little boxes in front of the whole class just makes it worse. I’ve gone by “Ellie” for as long as I can remember. It’s a good name; solid, catchy, and most importantly (for…

2.4 Corrections to Fandom-as-Religion Literature In his article, “Is Elvis a God?,” Frow questions whether we have a methodological approach to understand dead celebrity, particularly its religious dimensions. One of the more apt comments on the use of the religion analogy stems from Frow, “The religious relation exists midway between a dead metaphor and a theory which has yet to find itself” (1998, 200). Using relevant literature on Presley (Harrison 1992; Spiegel 1990; Vikan 1994; Rodman…

A range of finger foods can always be found in the fridge and cupboards and requested from the kitchen. Dietician Denise Burbidge (2013) explains how finger foods can prevent embarrassment from requiring help at mealtimes and give people more control over what they eat. Food choices, the way we eat, and with whom we eat with have all been recognized as ways of creating and sustaining individual, family, and cultural identities (Fischler…

crime will help the victims that are embarrassed and assaulted often by the bullies. The bullying is known to cause some intense emotional meltdown since the victims can no longer handle the consequences. The emotional meltdown arises from the embarrassment and frustrations that will be evident since they will have to interact with people that know certain secrets about them. For instance, the bullying might be a result of the nude images or even the suggestive postures that are clearly…