Skateboarding

to the previous example. My last example would be watching brother skateboard. My brother was not just a model that reinforced or punished behaviors, but he was also my role model and essentially my mentor on many things. When we would go out skateboarding, my brother, his friends and myself would all practice a variety of tricks at our elementary school…

The big buildings surrounding us, giving no colour but just greyness, doing the same activities everyday, not noticing that beyond those walls there is beauty to be seen. In Secret Life of Walter Mitty the main message states by Stiller is “to see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life”. We hide ourselves in the dark, hoping that no one 's notices us, living our extraordinary selves in our minds. As…

Introduction • A shoe brand called the Hush Puppies became popular out of nowhere between 1994-1995. • The crime rates in New York dropped drastically in 1995. • When small factors causes something to become an epidemic or trend, it is known as a "Tipping Point". Chapter One- The Three Rules of Epidemics • There are three rules of a tipping point: Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context. • These rules can be used to explain why STD epidemics such as syphilis and HIV…

Becoming a leader takes more than just natural skill. There are those who are natural born leaders and are destined to be that outspoken person that commands a rooms, and there are those who are more introverted and require some coaching from other leaders. As a society leader are everywhere we turn. They are in our families as parents or siblings, older and younger, they could be our neighbors, bosses at our job, teachers, even people we elect to run the great country we call the United…

Sadly, bullying has been occurring very often. I remember reading a story regarding a 13-year old boy name Steven who was a sweet, touchy and aesthetic child. He worshiped his more established sister and he adored skateboarding, baseball, music and his pooch, Finster. He likewise happened to be somewhat unbalanced. He was a smallish child who was distinctive and simply didn 't exactly fit in. To some degree he had dependably been the objective of teasing, yet it was in center school toward the…

Humans enjoy organizing things. More specifically, we enjoy grouping other humans. Many social categories are formed based on the similarities of people in them. Stereotypes are clusters of characteristic that are associated with all members of a specific social group, often including qualities that are unrelated to the objective criteria that define the group. They are based on the assumption that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. Attributing…

Lynda Mullaly Murphy author of One for the Murphy’s was born in the late sixties. Lynda was the youngest of five children and found herself enjoying skateboarding and bike riding more than playing dress up or with dolls. She attended Conard High School in West Hartford CT, and continued her studies at University of Connecticut. She aspired to be a teacher and received a degree in education as well as another degree. Once she began teaching she fell in love with writing, she would write stories…

When walking around a college campus, almost everyone in the vicinity will be on their phones. No matter if people are walking, skateboarding, eating, and even talking to their friends, everyone will still be fidgeting with their personal electronic devices. The rise of technology and social media is obviously prevalent in today’s generation of mainly millennial teenagers and other young adults. We definitely praise the easy availability and advancements of mobile technology here in the Silicon…

Their debut album ‘Don’t Need Much‘ is about all the “important” things – drinking cider, getting high in the sun and going skateboarding. For two years ‘Cynics’ was the name for Giles Bidder, back then an 18-year-old living in Brighton. He played one of his first solo shows in July 2009 with Holland’s Tim Vantol. That night, a last minute decision was made that he would join him…

Self-Made Millionaire; 20 Habits of Eventual Millionaires “What do you think that it takes to make millions?’ Well now a day, our society has seen an up roar of people who are becoming rich and famous millionaires. The odds of achieving this goal through business or brain power is very difficult. Most, but not all people use sports, acting, or music as their gateway. However, not everyone entering into the world of rich and fame had that as their main goal, it just came along with their…