The Way Back

varying from different colored eyes, skin color, height, weight, hairstyles, clothes we wear, and different names. Everyone is an individual and has their own way of how think and the way they interpret the world around them. We also project people a certain by what is said about them by people, the way the media portrays them, or simply by the way they look like on the outside. This is a thing called stereotyping or labeling of a person. In the TED Talk, which I very much enjoyed watching and…

went out of the way and tried to make Holly never talk to me, but in her amazing stubbornness she said no, and since that day, Hank wasn’t as mean or cruel to me, he must have moved on to some fresh-meat that just transferred from some place in Ohio. As Holly and I got to know more about each other from talking, training together, doing chores and just hanging out, we started to spend more time with each other, and this is about halfway through the time I spent there. I was on my way to ask her…

novel Truth & Bright Water there is a confusion of cultures due to the fact that British colonial ways have been integrated into the community of Truth. The three ways that British colonial ways have caused a confusion of culture are the way the people in Truth think, the tools they use and how the people of Truth act. Each of these effects cause confusion in their culture. To start off, the first way that the people of Truth are loosing their culture is how they think about different…

communicate with another. People have altered the way language should be interpreted by associating a language with a personality. As people continue to adapt to these changes, it will soon become the cultural norm. A norm that says people are to be judged based on their language and, not their personality. Sociolinguistics have proven that society has developed a norm which illustrates the way a person judges another individual, the way they treat them, and the way an individual is labeled in…

understand what it means to get to where I want and be able to answer if what I want is really what I want and not because that’s how someone else got theirs. And if it is, why in the world are my still sitting and thinking that there’s no way I can achieve it or what way do I choose to go to achieve…

actions. Major social problems such as racism, discrimination, standard of living and even the way the media shapes are behaviors are some of the things we may come encounter with on our daily lives. The symbolic interactionism idea is made up of the three processes which are meaning is derived from social interaction, value of the interaction process and also the idea we all interpret things in our own way. The media is everywhere we look and almost everyone is able to access it without a…

We all find ourselves in a funk every now and again, some let it get so severe that they feel as if there is no recovering from this deep seeded depression. Some take this depression as a sign that they no longer belong and feel at peace with this choice whereas others search for help and in many cases find a saving grace if you will. In “Saving Grace” we meet Grace, she 's a 17 year old dealing with the hardships of being a teenage girl, as well as being in that transitional stage between high…

Exercising your body helps in improving your concentration. When you engage in moderate physical exercises, your concentration improves by a big margin. You will realize that exercises basically help the brain to ignore distractions. This can go a long way in improving your concentration levels. 10. Practice mindfulness throughout the…

ringed thumb out toward the quad, “I don’t think you’ll find five people out there who’ve heard of YO-YO Ma. And by the way, what kind of the name is that? Is it ghetto or something? Yo Ma?” She answered right away “It’s Chinese.” I shook my head and laughed. “I know plenty of Chinese people. They have names like Wei Chin. Or Lee something not Yo-Yo Ma.” I found it very amusing the way she expresses about Yo-Yo Ma. “You cannot blaspheming…

Wally, having made up with his brother Barry, tells him of his crush on Ally, although he had only met her the previous day. My troupe, The Squad Squad, is planning to perform scene six of As You Like It. We have translated this scene to a modern day setting which will be more appealing for children in middle school. Our troop is made up of four middle schoolers attending Old Donation School, which is a school constructed of the most academically advanced students in Virginia Beach. We have…