Person of interest

A community is a social unit of any size that shares common values within a society. In A community get together to work under a friendly, familiar environment under the same rules to help the society that surrounds us. The community has different form of collaboration, whether is by sharing their culture, religion, believes and idealism that better the quality of life that comfort the people in the society. The type of community where I live is a small community that revolves around it. My…

people have about someone or something". It is how we think of a particular person. It can be good or bad, either one. For example, Stalin and Hitler were dictators with negative reputations which remain until today; on the other hand, Mahatma Gandhi has a positive reputation because of his fight for freedom and peace. Reputation is built of a special and unique personality, achievement, and effect that a particular person has or had over people, or sometimes, the continuation of a certain…

this, a hero, or a person who makes a good role model, needs four qualities: courage, tenacity, humility, and kindness. The first trait that defines a heroic figure is courage. This characteristic has been displayed, although in different ways, throughout history and by various cultures. For instance, the Greeks often held courage as an esteemed trait among their mythological figures. In the legend…

Erving Goffman is an American sociologist who wrote The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and views social interactions amongst people as individuals or “team performances.” He believes that we, as human beings, are actors and that the world is our stage. We wear masks that are very deceiving to the audience, because we present the best versions of ourselves. We are always “performing,” which refers to everything that we do in front of an audience or an observer. This gives an impression and…

Throughout society, there are many different types of people, some good and some bad. However, there are also people that are not are our type that we classify “rude” or “mean”. Sometimes, the movies we watch, books we read, and shows that we skim can teach the different personalities that lie within one another. The 2005, Disney drama, “High School Musical” shows different personalities within high school students and their complicated relationships. This movie compares two very different girls…

As humans we have an inherent need to fit in. We are mimetic creatures. We follow trends and follow rules and if someone breaks out of the order of things then we shun them. We try to assimilate to the culture of wherever we are so that we don’t stand out. Although we no longer face the same societal prejudices of the first half of the 20th century, there are new roles we have to fill and there are specific ways we have to do it. Increasingly, however, we see people who rebel against these…

Yes the kids my age were immature, but still they tried roughing up the wrong person. I had a hard time interacting with them, the stuff they did didn’t seem to interest me. So perhaps they thought that I thought what they were doing was boring. It was partly my fault that I was a shy person at heart, and have been so since a kid. This is one of the reasons I elected to volunteer at DFW Airport, in order to come out of “my shell”. But…

teenage drivers are driving too fast, texting, putting on makeup, reading books (I seen a middle-aged man driving and reading a book on a two-lane highway), talking on the phone, and yelling at their kids. I don’t think that I have ever seen an elderly person doing any of those things besides talking on the phone, and even that is a rare site. Therefore, in my opinion I am ok with elderly drivers. It’s the distracted drivers I worry about. 3. I am definitely an optimist. I think looking at…

Rosenthal, Whittle, & Bell, 1989). Discrimination can be lead numerous ways, just how perception is perceived through the eyes of someone looking into your life from the outside. We as a society are so quick to judge one another without even knowing the person. It’s a saying everyone has heard when they were a child “don’t judge a book by its…

of the book as selfish persons whose interests are to pursue their material desires and not love. Using satirical statements to describe their love, Zhang explains how the love of the two is a fallen city, with conflicting interests. In the book, Zhang describes how divorced 28-year-old Bai Liusu was only interested in marriage while Fan pursued the marriage for a platonic friendship. According to Zhang, the two were ambitious in their own being and pursued their interest for selfish reasons.…