Second person

“We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.” -Stephen R. Covey.(“StevenR.CoveyQuotes”) If people thought about the consequences of their actions before they did them and didn’t always live in the moment there would be less pain caused by the people around us. In The Odyssey, Odysseus went to Troy to go to war, but on the way back to Ithaca he encounters many challenges along the way. In the movie Troy, Pairs is the prince of Troy and…

Malcolm X’s significance have continued till today. He might have not been able to fully address his final ideology to his admirers and to the world, but he have been able to show the real meaning of being a human. People liked him regardless of his mistakes when he figures them out. Malcolm set a very good example of the human mind and soul development throughout the course of his life. He was also able to convince people with his beliefs regardless of their accuracy with his great charisma,…

People start their live everyday by meeting someone different and new; from these interactions they judge each other. However, the most important message behind these judgements is whether or not they accept each other as another human being. Through her quote “We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves”, Barbara Jordan introduces a way to see beyond these judgements. Jordan is conveying that these judgements should be taken as something positive, and…

From these type of similarity-attraction experiments, subjects create judgments about an unfamiliar person (stimulus person) after seeing a section of the stranger's answers to a sequence of opinion enquiries. Furthermore, the stranger's opinion replies have been made so as to outline levels of resemblance to the subject's own formerly documented opinion retorts…

In the media today, people with disabilities are no longer seen as normal human beings. They are being portrayed as a person that has overcome a huge obstacle, or a hero that has won a fight against their disability; they are never portrayed as people who have accomplished something despite their disability challenges. In an excerpt from Charles A. Riley II’s book “Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change,” he shows how badly the media is displaying people with disabilities and why it…

While there are many distinctively different things about antagonists and protagonists, they do have some similarities. To begin with, they have different moral views, wants/needs, and personality traits and assumptions. On the other hand, they have some similar beliefs, influence, and sources of power. Antagonists and protagonists have very different moral views. Protagonists tend to have a desire to aid people in need, but antagonists tend to have a want to do the opposite. They also both…

be anything from small too big. Willy has many, but one in particular would have to be that he is somewhat bipolar. His mood changes “a lot”, and his wife is worried about his state of mind. For example he calls his son Biff lazy one second and not lazy another second. Willy has a clear sign of having a temperamental nerve which can snap at any moment. People want to leave the world knowing that they made a change in it. Willy was desperate to leave something tangible behind. He wants to know…

Often times, people think about a person’s character before we even meet them. These biases and thoughts often can lead them to treating that person differently, simply because of their perception to us. The self-fulfilling prophecy is connected to the perceptual bias in many ways. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that does come true, but only because the predictor affected the outcome directly or indirectly. Our actions impact others beliefs about us, those beliefs cause others…

times throughout the book. Firstly, Ponyboy, the main character, decided that he should try to help all the people that lived at the bottom of their society. He chose to write about his experiences in the lower class area. Ponyboy doesn't want every person that's thrown at the bottom just because of where they live to have to suffer like he did. The way his society functions drove him to do a good deed for all the lower class people in other cities. Another example is when Ponyboy said, "I was…

gotten to know many individuals before I came to college. During my lower grade levels, I was stuck at home most of the time, and my extracurricular involvement was minimal. When I came to college, I began to become the social person who wanted to interact and get to know every person I talk to. Therefore, during the course of my undergraduate career, I met several people who would be influential in helping me a dependable list of contacts for when I become an athletic director. However, before…