American Me American Me The film; American Me is an epic depiction of 30 years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles‚ California. The movie focuses on the life of a 1950s teen named Montoya Santana‚ who forms a gang with his close friends. The gang is arrested for a break-in‚ and sentenced to time in juvenile hall. Santana finds trouble on his first night in juvenile hall and goes from juvenile hall to prison for 18 years. There he created and led a powerful gang that operated both inside
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Optimistic Person What does optimism mean? Basically‚ it means focusing on the positive aspects of life. I consider myself to be an optimist because I always hope and expect events and plans‚ and everything surrounding me to turn out well‚ and that I look with a smile‚ positive attitude on the future. I’m absolutely sure that being optimistic is a lot better than being pessimistic. In my opinion‚ pessimism is disastrous. It ruins hope and possibilities. If a person is pessimistic‚ he doesn’t
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AMERICAN ME The movie American Me was nothing new to me‚ I must have seen that move at least 2 other times‚ but never really focused on the main issue itself‚ returning to society. Never did I really realize till this class that that was a huge problem with prisoners who are released back to society. Especially those who knew nothing but the 3 walls in that small cell they were sentenced to‚ Prisoners that have spent most of their lives in and out of those barb wires. In the movie there are several
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to make their own mark on the world as this generation presents higher levels of work ethic than any other in history. Millennials are known to be narcissistic‚ self-assured‚ and lazy generation but they are surely known to be the only generation who will transform the world in many astonishing
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Successful Person (interview) April 17‚ 2013 Antonio Gonzales is more then just a mentor‚ he’s a great friend with great advice. We briefly met my freshmen year at AHS. Before I got to AHS he was a social studies teacher‚ teaching in English and Spanish. He was the activities director my freshman and sophomore year and became the 9th grade assistant principal my junior year. My senior year was when I got to know him a lot better. He became the 10th grade assistant principal and he asked me to be his
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Response to Text for ‘Remember Me’ The writer’s purpose in the poem ‘Remember Me’ written by Ray Mather‚ is to tell about a boy has been bullied in the past. He felt sad when he got bullied and being excluded from being with other boys. Some of the ways that the poet tries to show this idea are with some of the rhyming that happens in a pattern‚ the question mark and capital letters in certain words. The rhyming words are used in the poem for many times. The pattern is very interesting. The rhyming
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Person Centered and Experiential Theory and Therapy Person Centered and Experiential Theory and Therapy Acquired Skills I have learned that my role as a therapist is not to bring in a client‚ but to enroll and engage the client in a therapeutic relationship. Thus‚ creating room for the client’s current state and allow room to change. The emphasis of fairness and impartial treatment as the therapist gives the client the ability to recognize and understand their problems
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Person-centred approach - Carl Rogers Person-centred approach is a psychological trend which was invented by Carl Rogers (1902-1987). Carl Rogers was an American psychologist and psychotherapist. His hypothesis was that each person owns a reserved potential of self-understanding and the power to change themselves positively. The task of psychotherapy and helping relationship is to help to mobilize those reserved potentials. The person-centred relationship has three main features: 1. Empathic
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THE PERSON I ADMIRE/THE INSIPER There are so many people who have changed so many lives in my community especially to the youth‚ but Mandla Ndlovu was born to save the community with his uniqueness to others. He gave up his high powered job just to make sure that his community is a better place for everyone. Mandla Ndlovu was born and raised in Estcourt‚ he was very popular in the community their say it takes the whole village to raise a child. Everyone knew him at an early age and many parents
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A person is defined by the past events and people in his or her life. My personality has been shaped by the experiences I’ve had and the individuals involved with my life. Certain events in my life‚ such as my parents’ divorce‚ and the move that followed have helped me develop certain personality traits that I may not have acquired otherwise. When my parents divorced‚ I felt helpless and everything came falling down. My grades started to suffer substantially‚ I began to see a therapist‚ and it was
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