MY ROLE MODEL MY role model is my dad Robert‚ he is an amazing guy. He was a little wild as a teenager but over came that after a couple years. He met my mother back in 1982. They both started dating; she jokes and says he wanted me for my chicken‚ because she was working at church’s chicken. I found that really funny growing up. When I came along they were stationed in Germany where I was born in September 1983. I don’t really remember to much about Germany other than my dad had
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Dictionary defines ‘celebrities’ as ‘famous or celebrated people’. In Oxford Dictionaries‚ the phrase ‘make for’ means ‘tend to result in or be received as (a particular thing):’ ‘Bad’ means ‘unfavourable’. Lastly‚ ‘role model’ means ‘person looked to by others as an example to be imitated’. So‚ the full definition of today’s motion is ‘famous or celebrated people are received as an unfavourable person to be looked to by others as an example to be imitated’. Now‚ please allow me to rebut the point
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Celebrities are bad role models Do celebrities make bad role models? I believe they do. Kids see celebrities in the news everyday and mimic what they do‚ thinking that they should be like them. But that is wrong. Most celebrities don’t know what they are doing in their life because they have a hard time telling reality from fantasy. They are like you and me‚ but people think that they are more than that. Most magazines and movies have pictures/videos of airbrushed celebrities and when teenager look
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After hearing stories of World War I pilots she had a sudden interest in flying. Due to discrimination Bessie could not go to an aviation school in America‚ so she moved to France to pursue her dreams. After this she came back to America and became a stunt show pilot. Not only is she a role model for African Americans but also to women. Bessie Coleman was born January 26‚ 1892 in Atlanta‚ Texas to a poor family of sharecroppers. She was one of thirteen children of Susan and George Coleman. According
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Audrey Szabo CWV-101 Christian Worldview 1/11/15 Andre Mooney Role Model Review Essay – Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt (born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt) was born on October 11‚ 1884. She was born into a very wealthy New York City family. Despite her parents’ marriage problems and her father’s alcoholism‚ Eleanor was raised in a very strict Protestant home (God and Mrs. Roosevelt‚ 2010). Her parents died before she was ten and her Grandmother raised her. It was not until her marriage to Franklin
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There are an abundant amount of African Americans that have influence my life. However there is one person that I can say has truly inspire me to be the person I am today. That person would be Destinee Hooker‚ an Olympian‚ professional volleyball player but most of all a person I chose as my role model. She has made a influential impact on my life and inspire me because I learned how to play volleyball by watching her and she taught me how to be a team player. Playing sports has always been something
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of Atlanta‚ Georgia. For those who don’t know who she is she stared in the movie “Legally Blonde.” She was the good girl of Holy wood until that night. She used those cocky words “ Do you know who I am”‚ now normally you hear those words in the movie‚ but this is reality. My topic is “ Should celebrities or professional athletes be viewed as role models”. I said they shouldn’t be viewed as role models because it seems like the time you say someone is your role model the next couple of days they are
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are around. This is especially true when it comes to celebrities. Every day in the modern world we as a society are exposed to the media‚ which tells us that celebrities can be viewed as good or bad role models. There are many celebrities that can do good things for the world and model behavior that is honorable; through this we as a society can mirror that behavior in our everyday lives. One celebrity who is an extremely talented model and talk show host‚ Tyra Banks‚ can be a model for women
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2-25-13 Society considers athletes to be the perfect role models for children. Athletes teach kids determination‚ how to stay encouraged‚ be physically active‚ and proper behavior. These life skills may be very important in a child’s lifetime. Looking up to these amazing people should diminish laziness‚ and other degrading qualities‚ and hopefully change the way society is viewed forever. Athletes make such marvelous role models‚ because they encourage kids to stay physically active. To
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weakest‚ slowest‚ or the only one in your class? This was the situation of Edson Arantes do Nascimento‚ or Pele. Pele was born on October 23‚ 1940 in Tres Coracoes‚ Brazil and is still alive today. Pele was considered one of the greatest soccer players of all time. He also overcame many hardships in his lifetime. He fought for a better life for the people in Brazil. Not only did Pele have many accomplishments on the soccer field he was also a role model for his country. Growing up Pele had a very
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