Face Value

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…

Amelie Thinking outside of the box is to think creatively without building up limitations for our thoughts or imagination. It is to be open minded about others and their values and beliefs and thus, not focus only on ours but also take theirs into consideration and accept the possibility of they being right, and us being okay with it. Also, thinking outside of the box is stepping out of our comfort zone, of what we’ve gotten used to and daring to try the unknown and do what has never been done…

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel and autobiography that encompasses Marjane Satrapi’s life as a child in Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Satrapi writes a beautiful story but her use of graphic imagery really allows readers to connect and understand to her personal and mental growth. Throughout the story, Satrapi goes through a great change in personality which is fueled by her residence in revolutionary Iran. Her personality matures and is greatly affected by the repression and the…

heart for something that he is passion for. He said seeing the child’s face when the door open and seeing the child smile was enough reason for why he did what he did. There was soul and heart in the work he tried to…

are quarreling,” one figure says, his voice commanding as it fills the courtyard. “Greetings, instructors,” the crowd says in unison, straightening themselves out from their bow. My eyes begin adjusting to the figures. A man with a round, friendly face and drooping eyes laughs. “We have a lively bunch this year,” he says, eyeing us with amusement. “I suppose so,” the commanding voice from before says. It belongs to an abnormally tall man with long lengs and beady eyes that resemble a…

Many people fear death at the back of their mind, unconsciously dwelling over the surreal fact that they would have to come face to face with it some day, yet most do not bring themselves to explore it completely until it lurks in the corner or appears on their doorstep. The sonnet “And You as Well Must Die, Beloved Dust” and the dramatic monologue “Identification”, explores the concept of death and how each writer comes to grips with it. Both poems express reactions to the inevitable nature of…

Twist I have always contemplated the idea of a traditional American family. Thinking about a white picket fence life with a dog, two parents, and a big house with a red door has been a way to pass the time in my less than ideal life. Why do I imagine a family outside of my own? My family is pathetic. While I dream of my family being similar to the Brady Bunch, the tragic reality is, we are nothing like a sitcom family. My only family is my drunk, druggy, prostitute mother, who is not exactly…

Some things ought to be taken at face-value, like the theory of ancient astronauts, for instance. Oh, but you haven’t seen an ancient astronaut’s face to value, right? Now does the lack of that tidbit of information spoil the whole theory? Well, it doesn’t according to the German rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun, who said: “Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think…

that Corporal Desmond Thomas Doss lived by every day. He lived up to the Army’s Warrior Ethos and the core Army values and did not deviate from those even though his religious beliefs forbade him from carrying a weapon or killing another even in combat. Doss refused a section 8 discharge and consequently became a combat medic in the 77th infantry division. This is where PFC. Doss will face the most difficult challenges of his life as he heads to the pacific theater and later as he returns a…

Vallario’s class he showed the students how to draw a face. He explained it in four steps and as he was explaining it he was drawing the face strep by step on the board. He tells the students to follow the steps along with him. First they draw an oval outline that tapers down at the bottom. They do this because heads are never drawn circular; they…