Adversity- Something to Appreciate or Despise? BANG! A gun is fired from down the hall‚ and one can hear the panicked screams of children and adults alike. There is a shooter in the school. You only have a minute at most before the shooter makes his way down to your classroom. It’s too late for a lockdown. Children are crying and you can’t calm them down. You feel like wailing and crawling under your desk like the child in the corner is doing‚ but you can’t. You’re the adult in this situation and
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The Forgiving Bad Girl (Critique on So I Ain’t No Good Girl by Sharon Flake) “So I Ain’t No Good Girl “is a short story from a collection of short stories called “Who Am I without Him”‚ and “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is about your average bad girl. The Author‚ Sharon Flake‚ writes a story about a girl who thinks she’ll be nobody without her boyfriend‚ Raheem. The narrator in “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is a girl who thinks of herself only as a bad girl. This specific bad girl obeys her boyfriend
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Is something illegal also immoral? Everyone knows the definition of illegal. Illegal is contrary to or against the law. Laws are straightforward‚ written on paper‚ easy to live by. However what is immorality? By definition it is the violation of moral principles. But who decides on those principles‚ and who says what is moral and what not? Is morality defined by our cultures and personalities‚ or by laws that were written by other people? This is a question I am going to look at. Is everything
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Leadership: Innate Ability or Learned Skill? There are many different opinions on how a person becomes a great leader. One view is that leaders are born. They are gifted with the ability to be natural role-models and have the capability to cause others to want to follow them. Another view is that there is no way a person is just born with leadership ability. Instead‚ people learn from others and develop leadership abilities through trial and error. The most sensible view‚ however‚ is leaders
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“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.” This line really struck me when I first read it. At first glance‚ such words quite obviously appear harsh and cold but this aphorism is really just a stone-cold truth‚ one most people are not entirely comfortable with. The majority of said people who might question the ethics of such a statement would most likely be those who are on the receiving end of such a comment or rather the indifference of
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You can only learn from a mistake after you admit you’ve made it. As soon as you start blaming other people you get farther way from overcoming it. But if you courageously stand up and honestly say “This is my mistake and I am responsible” the possibilities for learning will move towards you. If you admit a mistake‚ even if only to yourself‚ it makes moving the focus away from blame and towards understanding. Smart people admit their mistakes easily. They know progress happens when they do. If
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ending unallowable parts. Censorship can be a good‚ or a bad thing. The good part about censorship‚ is that it helps end things that are not useful. The bad part is‚ it sometimes is not needed‚ extremely debatable whether it should be questioned or not‚ or it can cause a huge ruckus. In the article‚ “Fighting Against Tradition‚” by Emily Scott‚ it talks about how Emily’s high school newspaper staff used censorship to try and stop students from disrespecting their school mascot in a manipulative way
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Something that I learned to do non academic is a to play cymbals. Why cymbals you may ask? Well I was never really interested in band even though I was in it for a year. I wasn’t interested in playing a wood‚ horn‚ or drum. I never knew that my school had cymbals cause my class period there were none. The first time that I ever seen actual cymbal players was at TSU football game. I saw how they twirled and danced as they played the instruments. My cousin was in the drum line he bounced around to
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enough not to respond. This is a textbook example of learned helplessness. In psychology‚ learned helplessness is defined as the behavior of an organism to ignore‚ assume and/or submit to pain or other unfavorable stimuli after having been repeatedly exposed to the said unpleasant stimuli for an extended period of time (Hiroto & Seligman‚ 1975). The concept that this submission can lead to clinical depression or mental illness is known as the learned helplessness theory. With depression contributing
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feelings through various outlets. We are born with senses that allow us to feel and express a wide arraignment of emotions. When one of these senses fail we are automatically disabled‚ but many find alternatives to express these emotions. Erin McGraw in “Bad Eyes” learns to express her emotions through the use of extensive metaphors that allow the reader to feel what she is writing. The metaphors create a bridge that helps us to understand what McGraw faces throughout her life. The reader gains insight
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