Worry

As a young teenage boy, a highlight of my summer occurred at great-grandma's cabin. We called it such because great-grandpa long ago passed away, and only great-grandma was left. Going to great-grandma's cabin was commonly referred to as "going up North." Most referred to any trip away from the cities in Minnesota as going up North. Up North existed a plethora of lakes offering endless activities of summer fun. "Our lake" existed where the family cabin sat on the channel waterway connecting Lake…

The robot takes over the world, people sleep in the program that they created and live in a virtual life. My eyes are kept focus on the screen. The love for The Matrix goes back when I was in middle school, the first time I watched the movie.The Matrix is a science fiction film. This movie is about Neo, a guy who sleeps on the Matrix for a long time and one day he gets hacked. A group of hackers promises that they will tell him the truth about the world that he is living in He follows his…

The advancement of agriculture and society during the Agricultural Revolution had a negative effect on the human race. While it has given countries like the US amazing advantages, it has made governments all over the world violent over different government styles, made gender roles more defined and unfair, and created large gaps in social classes. The Agricultural Revolution has made a great percentage of the world violent towards each other because their governments have different views.…

Most people, myself included follow the assumption that everyone we meet is heterosexual. We follow this assumption until we are proven right or we are proven wrong. This assumption is called heteronormativity. It is following the speculation that everyone is straight until proven guilty. It is popularly believed that, “Heterosexuality prescribes what is proper intimacy, who is a proper citizen, and what is a proper family” (Steinbugler 423). It is this quotation that summed up the belief that…

last you for about 4 hours and produces 220 lumens, the second is 50% and the third is 10%, next would be the SOS, and strobe, with strobe being my personal favorite for causing even more of a disorientation than the regular direct light, and don’t worry about memorizing the settings, they have it all on print on the side of the flashlight. I put it in my hunting pouch, where I have my extra shells, and if not I just keep it in my hand, or mounted on my rifle, you never know when something might…

Big five My results of the Big Five personality test show a 53% Openness to Experience, 3% on Conscientiousness, 4% on Extraversion, 22% on Agreeableness, and 76% on Neuroticism. I believe my openness to experience should be higher, I love trying new things and learning new things. This summer I travelled to Japan with a couple of my friends and tried a ton of new things. My 3% score on conscientiousness seems correct, I am unreliable and completely disorganized. 4% on extraversion seems correct…

The worry of ridicule is something that we all have actually experienced. We've all had that 'butterflies in the stomach' feeling when we are positioned in the spotlight or in other social circumstances. We usually get by and on with our daily activities with self-confidence. However, there are those who can't, or can't seem to ward off the scenario taking control of every social realm of their life. People who experience the idea of being critically evaluated continuously, and have an extreme…

Have you noticed that everyone’s child is an Honor Student? Honor Students are supposed to be the best of the best, cream of the crop, but it seems you always see these “My Child is a Honor Student” bumper stickers. The standard grading system began as grading students for what they did, for example work in class, homework, and tests. The “standard” for most teachers now is to grade on effort put into an assignment not necessarily what they achieved. Both of these versions of the standard…

effect of these symptoms in her life is an almost constant thought about her breaths. While breathing is typically considered an automatic process of the body that should be effortless, she finds that she tends to rate her breathing and has excessive worries about the quality of her breaths. The client would like to reduce her experience of asthmatic breathing by managing her anxiety. The client also has trouble managing the stress she experiences due to school, work, and social commitments.…

which benefit more to us and make us better. So we have good reason to express the conclusion in the way we do. (Rosenbaum 122) In Epicurus’s opinion, the death, which scared most of people, actually is nothing for him and we also have no use to worry about death or something after death. As he said, our “ends” can separated into three different parts: dying, death and being dead. Death is the moment…