Lesson Learned “Opportunities don’t happen‚ you create them.” Chris Grosser I remember getting off the yellow school bus that morning feeling very anxious. While walking towards my school’s office‚ my mind began to drift. My mother’s conversation with me that night began to slowly repeat in my head. I knew this was a great opportunity and getting accepted would make her happy. In order to get accepted into the career center there are requirements that I had to fulfil. These included a 2.0
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I have always known my brother was different. From the day he was born he was hooked up on beeping machines and glow fingers‚ he wasn’t on them for very long but enough to make me always remember the way they sounded. I knew he had a scar on his chest‚ I knew he looked different from me. I always just wanted to know why. I would never know why until middle school. Middle school was when I started noticing the kids that where different. I noticed the kids that screamed down the hall‚ the ones who
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defined it as a prejudice based upon the color of one’s skin or race. Although laws have outlawed the practice of segregation and racism‚ we have seen as a class that it is still practiced within a country that declares it to be illegal. We have learned that there doesn’t have to be laws favoring one race over another for racism to exist. Rather‚ we have seen that racism is more than a political issue it is a social issue. We have seen that racism isn’t confined to the mountains of Tennessee‚ hills
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Gender Gender is beyond biological sex because it is a persons’ understanding of their life on being either a woman or a man. To me being a woman is being independent‚ strong‚ and means to never rely on a man because you’re stronger than that and don’t need one. Being a woman can also mean being extremely dramatic about everything and of course being nurturing. Now I believe my understanding of women has definitely come from all the strong women in my family. Growing up I had to see my mother struggle
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Natural or Learned Behavior? Human beings have an innate ethical sense that urges them to make predictable choices. Although most people believe their actions are guided by logic and reason‚ reason often acts only as a way to justify these choices. Ethics is a learned behavior‚ a behavior that starts from childhood. Every individual has choices in life. And everyone’s perception of right and wrong may not be the same. This discussion will be based on is ethics natural or learned behavior?
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Learned helplessness is an engrained reaction to perceived unavoidable situations or outcomes. This adaptive behaviour is a process of interest for various health reasons‚ and thus is an area of focus within many psychological studies. It is a complex mental state‚ which encompasses multiple attributing factors. Helplessness transpires when deficits develop in response to expectation of uncontrollability. The learned helplessness model presented by Seligman claims the behaviour exponentially
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" Is there such a thing as innate talent?" is the question that is asked by the author Malcolm Gladwell‚ in the text. In the text the author presents evidence to help us understand his claim. Which is that there is such a thing as innate talent. He tells us how ‚ not every hockey player born in the winter becomes a professional hockey player‚ only the one with innate talent. However‚ the Gladwell also makes another claim. it is that‚ natural talent is not how you achieve greatness. Gladwell
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Today I would like you share with you three lessons I’ve learned so far in life‚ and how those experiences have changed me. My two main focuses in my life are school and volleyball‚ and I have reached a considerably high level in both. Both are extremely demanding and time consuming and I have often been overwhelmed with the amount of have to do and how little time I may have to do it. The easy thing‚ would be to back away. The easy thing‚ would be so slack off and make excuses. The easy thing‚ would
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Gender inequality Gender can be defined as the socially constructed roles and duties society constructs‚ assigns and expects of males and females on the basis of their biological and physical characteristics. Gender is learnt‚ not permanent and differs from one community to another. Gender roles and responsibilities are found in all spheres of society be it economic‚ social‚ political or religious. Gender roles are affected by age‚ social class‚ ability‚ ethnicity and race. The gender roles help
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a major theme in contemporary identity informed through the help of feminism and other major groups. The term is related to but distinct from “sex” (used to refer both to the physical distinction between men and women and sexual intercourse) and “gender” (the social and cultural distinctions between men and women). Sexuality is used to refer to “erotic desires‚ practices and identities” or “aspects of personal and social life which have erotic significance” (Weeks‚ 1985). Debates on sexuality in
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