stood the wrong way. I stood backwards facing the back instead of the door. I got various reactions ranging from laughing to even being asked if I was ok this contradicted my hypothesis and proved it wrong which was even if I stand the wrong way in the elevator and go against the social norm then people still won’t really react. The experiment proved a lot about social norms and breaking them. It showed the significance of social norms how much social norms play a role in society and how people
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My First Time Away From Home Leaving go to high school was my very first time away from home‚ and it took a lot of adjusting to a new surroundings. I didn’t have my mother or my grandmother right by my side anymore and I needed to become more independent on doing things on my own. Adjusting to a new city‚ community‚ and school was a challenge because I was used to being in my own city‚ with my old friends‚ at my old school. I often got homesick and wanted to go home‚ but I soon adjusted. Another
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The Internet takes away from community involvement Kenneth Soward COMM 400 Winter 2012 Abstract The following research paper explains that the more an individual spends time online the less they get involved in their community. The research findings in this studies shows how negative effects that technology poses to our human interactions. Lager amount of time that we waste on the Internet takes away from our communities. Introduction The use of the Internet is rapidly growing into
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Courtney Thomas Ms. Klein Soci 1 Jul1‚ 2011 Breaking the Norm Society is a box and in this box are the normal things that people do and the values that people believe in and different sanctions. Different cultures have different values that they abide by and different norms. What I do here in the California may not be normal to the way they do things in Florida or any other country. When learning people you learned about that person values and standards that they go by. Every culture has
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"My First Time Away From Home" Leaving to go to college was my very first time away from home‚ and it took a lot of adjusting to a new surrounding. I didn’t have my mom right by my side anymore and I needed to become more independent on doing things on my own. Adjusting to a new city‚ community‚ and school was a challenge because I was used to being in my own city‚ with my old friends‚ at my old school. I often got homesick and wanted to go home‚ but I soon adjusted. At first when I originally
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Breaking the Law Throughout history many situations have called for noble individuals to break the law to stand up for a particular belief or idea. Two Individuals from the text that have done this successfully are Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Jefferson. Today in our society there are hardly any forms of acceptable disobedience to the law without large support groups that can make a change. Choosing to overthrow the government such as Jefferson and the continental congress did or choosing
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ENGL 1301 Composition I November 9‚ 2013 Is Torture justified? What is torture? Basically‚ this is the action of physically or psychologically hurting a person without their permission and against their will. The torture has many goals such as obtaining a confession or information of the victim‚ revenge for an act committed by the victim or just for entertainment morbid and sadistic of the torturer. According to the 1984 United Nations Convention against Torture‚ the torture is: “any act
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The Battle of Britain was one of the most epic all-air battles in history. The battle took place between the United Kingdom and Germany‚ during World War II‚ from July through September 1940. Germany wanted to take over the land and seaports in the United Kingdom and spread their fascist ways. The United Kingdom wanted to protect their “island”‚ Europe and the world by fighting back and defeating Germany . The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom‚ Winston Churchill‚ is quoted as saying in his famous
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Breaking Bad A typical audience tends to support the main character of a serial television show‚ which can lead to the viewers to be blind to the fact that the protagonist may be becoming the antagonist. Spectators begin to form special connections with the characters and root for their success or their demise‚ “fans will frequently develop sincere emotional attachments to characters”(Mitell‚ “Characters in Complex Television” 10). But for those of us who have not invested our time into the fictional
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What were the aims of the Documentary Film Movement in Britain? The British Documentary Film Movement describes the group of film-makers‚ put together by John Grierson and they produced content‚ which engaged in social issues. There were several aims to it‚ including: trying to highlight and improve the living conditions of the working class‚ to show the ‘real society’ in comparison to Newsreels and to incorporate a poetic element into film. Before discussing the movement‚ the influences on
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