The Long Walk

My experience at Balfour Collegiate in Regina, Saskatchewan began much like others. In grade nine I wanted nothing more but to be accepted. I was sincerely lucky in the case that Balfour was one of the smaller schools in Regina, so within time I found my place. How I found my place was involving myself. At the grade nine open house almost every other student stressed, “Get involved! It’s the best way meet people and find your place!” This statement was so true. I never particularly new who I was…

1. Interpersonal communications has taught me a lot that I need to know about myself and how I can efficiently interact with others. The number one area of communication that I need to work on is speaking up for myself. I tend to let people walk all over me instead of defending myself. I try to avoid conflict anywhere I am but by ignoring the problem, it doesn’t ever change. In order to ensure that I improve this area of communication, I will be more assertive. Whenever I encounter a situation…

taught to “not judge a book by its cover” or “walk a mile in someone’s shoes before you judge them”. This relates to “The Danger of a Single Story” where instead of getting to know someone, we prejudge them off what others say or what we see. Without getting to know who an individual really is or where they are coming from, we misconstrue and prejudge unjustly. Within TED Talk featuring Chimamanda Adichie’s speech “The Danger of A Single Story”, “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples and even in my…

Service learning is taking time in the surrounding community, and making a positive difference through the words or actions that occur. Doing this allows for us to be out and connecting what we are learning to do in the classroom and applying it to the real world. In my service learning time I spent I was able to make a positive difference in the lives a few children even if it was just for a day. I spent a Saturday afternoon working with a Milton Hershey employee in what they call a “home…

American Society’s Materialism in A Perfect Day For Bannafish J.D Salinger believes society turns each and every one of us into bananafish. In his short story A Perfect Day For Bananafish he expresses some of his views on the American society and the problems that he has with it. He believes Americans put too much value in material possessions and that their lives, shaped by a constant bombardment of advertisements and new products that are bigger and better than the last, are harmful to…

Movie Analysis Take yourself back to 1963 in Jackson Mississippi; you are right in the middle of the civil rights movement. The movie The Help (Taylor 2011) is an enlightening film depicting a group of women who are deprived of simple luxuries because of the color of their skin. There are many examples of: Modern Racism, Outgroups, System Justification Model, and Social Categorization in this movie. Most of us would say if I lived in that era I wouldn’t stand by and do nothing while these…

Throughout the novel “Divergent” by Veronica Roth, Tris as well as everyone else in her society is separated into five social groups they refer to as factions. People have lived liked this for many years because they thought it was best for their society. However, can these ways of life that are already embroidered into their minds, end up taking a toll on their society? Some benefits of sorting people into social groups is that the society stays organized, and there are less conflicts since…

Day 2, Work of your first “red traits”, the first piece of the puzzle or an introduction to the materialization technique. As said earlier, building up confidence or learning how to become more confident with your everyday life, can be compared to the trials encountered by those mythological Greek heroes trying to find salvation or defeat the enemy. In that case, with this training it will almost feel like you are fighting to find pieces of a relic scattered all over, that you will…

Sammy made the unjust choice of staring and ogling at the three girls. In addition to that, Sammy also creepily paid attention to even the most minute of details pertaining to the girls. He was also unjust for quitting the job that his parents helped him to get. The story hinted that Sammy did not have much of a future but rather his parents cared about his future more than him. Sammy was morally wrong for continuously staring and strangely interpreting the leader of the group’s upbringings,…

Hilly Holbrook is undoubtedly the main villain of this novel. She presents herself to be a well put together woman on the outside, but throughout the novel, her true colors show and shows how she is manipulative, cruel, and wicked. Despite these characteristics, what makes her such a complex character is the way she treats her children. Hilly is unexpectedly an exceptionally loving mother. This complexity furthers the meaning of the novel by showing the audience that even though you have an…