...beautiful shiny blond hair, has smooth glowing skin, also, she is very very slim ––– Seriously. Sounds like a Barbie doll to me. Not to mention, it’s called “Photoshop”, where any ordinary person can be turned into a beautiful swan from an ugly duckling. TV channels like MTV and CW, they have all changing drastically over the years. Most of my friends waste their time watching shows like Teen Wolf, Jersey Shore, Sweet 16, ANTM, Degressi and various types of shows. Funny thing is that, all these shows have one thing in common, and that is “physical perfection”–––– Seriously. How’s that even entertaining? I thought entertaining was about laughing at hilarious shows and crying when a sad sitcom comes on. How is staring at plastic faced actors even funny. Yeah sure, they are very attractive, but that is not entertainment. What I am trying to say is that, TV shows have gone far out of hand, and it is influencing teenagers in a very bad way; and I’m not liking that because every single one of friends act like they are possessed by the beauty of “perfection”. For example, most of the teen boys, I know they are all going to the gym to build some muscles and...
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...that. My mother cared for me throughout my early childhood.1 She would always tell me stories of how she almost did not make it after giving birth to me and was relieved to find out I was a boy; for if I was born a girl my father would have certainly sent me away to either die or brought up in the life of servitude.2 Being apart of a family considered agathoi, when I was seven I went to school to learn the alphabet and memorize poetry.3 A few years later, my friends and I were invited to attend a symposim at the house of one of my father’s associate. Aware of the customs and traditions, my friends and I accepted. We had only heard about what goes on at symposium from older teenagers and among them their experiences varied, as well as their impressions. Needless to say, my friends and I were feeling a mixture of curiosity and fear. Prior to the evening’s festivities, my father had told me about the symposium and the importance of taking part in one within our culture. He had told me that it was an important event in a young man’s life where he learns from what is being discussing by the elder men as well as establishing important contacts that my help as I grew into an adult.4 The symposium was scheduled to begin after sunset.5 All the men, along with my friends and a few other boys my age, assembled in the house’s andron. This particular room in the house was specifically for symposiums. There were couches on every wall except the wall with the entrance.6 Before the...
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...Down My legs are torn and eaten by mosquitos, because I’m allergic to mosquitos, my skin blisters and swells up with every mosquito bite; puss even comes out if it swells up to much. It’s a hot summer evening in the middle of July the sun is blazing down on everybody in its path. Family is over to have a cook out; it’s a special occasion because we only see all of us three times a year which is: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the family cook out in mid July. I’m the only girl in my family out of five boys in the grandchildren on my dad side of the family. Difficult growing up, because I was a huge tom boy reason being the only girl and my sibling was a boy and 11 years older than me in fact; it was difficult growing up without a girl to look upon on.. My brother the oldest grandson, 20, was still a huge kid who loved to pick on us. His name is Raul but we call him Omar because of his middle name. He was wearing his favorite, black and silver Raiders jersey. Back in time when jean shorts for males were cool he would wear those with some Nike tennis shoes. Then came my cousin who was 2 years older than me, he was 11 at the time, I was still taller than him by an inch; he was stronger and picked on me a lot because I was a girl and taller than he was. His name is Abraham but called him Abe for short. Abe’s brother was only 2 months younger than I am and had long hair, smelled bad because he would never take a shower. He smelled like rotten cheese it was a strong...
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...Case Study Role Play- “Curses, Foiled Again in France” Roles CEO of kiosk photo printers (Joe Wesoloski) Assistant1 (Beixin Zheng) Assistant2 (Fan Yang) Assistant3 (Beihao Xu) Assistant4 (Anqi Zhu) Erin Barker (Sofia Zhidro) Cultural Interaction Trainer/friend (Jessica Zawada) Gilles Naulleau (Jiao Wang) French Colleague 1/Pierre Chevalier (Junjie) French Colleague 2 (Lei Zhou) Role Play Scene 1 (Company conference room) CEO: I just got off the phone with our team from Dijon, France today and we came to the consensus that it would be beneficial to create an “international liaison” position within the company. This person would spend about five days per month in Dijon in the role of home-office representative. The liaison would offer some advice to European operations and function as the intermediary between the home office and Dijon. Any thoughts on who could fill this role? Assistant 1: It would make sense to have one of our internal employees fill the position since an internal applicant would already be familiar with our business operations and goals. But we also need someone that speaks French. Assistant 2: Erin Barker, one of our product development managers, could be ideal for the role. I hear that she studied French in high school and college and spent one semester in France as part of her college program. Assistant 3: That’s great that she knows French but she might not be able to adapt to the French environment. Perhaps we should...
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...Samantha Costello 11/1/13 ENG 127 The Vacation House Bergen County is located in Northern New Jersey, just a short train ride away from New York City. This area, prior to World War II, was a huge resort area. Many wealthy families would come during the summer months to vacation and spend quality time with family and friends. Because of the close proximity to New York City, trains were filled with people constantly coming and going. Greenwood Lake was an interstate lake, lying in both New Jersey and New York State. During the resort era, several steamboats operated on the lake and they would meet the trains and take passengers to various resorts around the water in both states. After World War II and till this day, the area went under major renovations to change from a resort area to year round residences. A fellow friend of mine and resident of Bergen County was kind enough to share her experiences with the supernatural, all which occurred right under her own roof. It is not surprising that an area with so much history and life would generate ghostly phenomena. What makes this ghost story so interesting is that it is so unexpected. Sitting on a cold bench, right before practice, I figured I would ask around to see if anyone had any good ghost stories to tell. Little did I know that I would find one that would send chills down my spine. As the oldest sibling growing up in their two story house in Bergen county, Dana remembers a lot of her childhood as well as her...
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...Pink for girls; Blue for boys? Nowadays if we walk into a department store we can be sure that we will find pink and some blue clothes, toys and little other objects for children such as books, bikes, lunchboxes, board games, toy cookers, cash registers, even games consoles. If we look at these objects there is no wonder everybody knows that pink is specified for girls and blue for boys. But how did this become a common thought? Since when do we use colors to make a difference between genders? And why exactly did we choose pink and blue to fulfill this role? In the 1800s most infants were dressed in white and both boys and girls wore dresses or short skirts until the age of five or six. Although, there was a few small difference between boy and girl clothing. For example girls wore dresses which were buttoned up in the back while boys’ dresses were buttoned up in the front. So gender difference wasn’t highlighted just in a little scale. Why wasn’t this important in that age of time? One theory is that distinguishing boys from girls was less important than distinguishing kids from adults. Childhood was a time of innocence while adulthood typically meant working hard. By the 1850s other colors than white had started to appear in baby clothing, but gender-based distinctions were slow to emerge. For example a Times fashion report from 1880 says that boys and girls were dressed alike in shades of blue, pink, white or violet; another report from 1892 says young girls were wearing...
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...juveniles growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the 1960’s. Lorenzo Carcatarra claims it is a true story, but New York denies anything and everything. The four boys are good friends with their Catholic priest named Father Bobby, who is played by Robert DeNeiro. Father Bobby is a good priest who likes to have fun and play basketball, smoke, and drink, but he really cares about the boys. One time one of the boys was hit by his mother’s boyfriend and he had a talk with him and basically told him if you hit the by again ill kill you. One day the boys are hanging out on a rooftop and they decide to steel some hotdogs from a portable hotdog vendor, they’ve done it before so it was nothing new, but this time as the decoy boy orders a hotdog and don’t pay for it, and is chased by the hot dog vendor the three other kids start to push the cart, and as the other kid returns they move it over a subway stairway and as the vendor appears the boys cannot hold on any longer, so the cart goes down the steps and smashes a guy into the wall, h does not die but is hospitalized. The four juveniles go to court and three of them are sentenced to at least 1 year and not more than 18 months, and the other one is sentenced to at least 6 months and not more than one year. They are required to serve their term at the Wilkinson home for boys, it has 5 units and holds 780 juveniles. While serving there sentence a guard Shawn Nokes played by Kevin Bacon beats them and sexually abuses them with the help and...
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...Natural Effects on a Boy Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions has the entire life of its author’s experiences, virtues, and detailed imperfections. Rousseau’s Confessions is one of the first notable autobiographies and has influenced many forms of narratives. It inaugurated modern day autobiography and inspired a narrative technic used in many great novels. Rousseau wrote this autobiography in order to tell the world about himself and express the nature of man. He did not want to be known by how people thought of him, but rather be able to tell people exactly what happened in his life and let them be the judge. Rousseau begins Confessions by stating, “this is the only portrait of a man, painted exactly according to nature and in all of its truth, that exists and will probably ever exist” (57). He included embarrassing experiences and personal thoughts from throughout his life to show every possible virtue of his life. He portrays what every boy encounters from mischievous trickery to entering sexual adulthood. The events that change his life and himself become a consistent theme while he describes his childhood, sexual cravings, and natural thoughts of a boy’s life. One of the most common subjects in Rousseau autobiography is the story of his childhood and the nature of a boy. Rousseau’s mother passed away during his birth, which strained the relation between him and his father. When they tried to speak of her the conversation would end with tears because his father saw Rousseau’s...
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...Living in a world where you feel like you are not seen or heard can be mind blowing and depressing. A young high school boy named Brandon in the short film, The Most Beautiful Thing by Cameron Covell, is a social outcast and has an isolated mindset. He feels as if he is never seen nor heard. Knowing that, he realizes that prom is just around the corner and he has to build up the courage to not only find a girl but also to ask her to go to prom with him. He has his eyes on one girl in particular and attempts to speak to her every time he sees her. The first time he speaks to her in the hallway she keeps walking. He later sees this girl outside sitting beside him and he speaks again. She did not respond. He persists and yells, “You can’t hear me?” She realizes he is trying to get her attention so she looks over at him. She writes him a note informing him that she is deaf and refuses to speak and that her name is Emily. They start writing notes, and then transition into hanging out, texting and even liking each other. Then he realizes he just might have a date for prom. First he has to figure out how he will ask her. But one day just might change everything for the worst. An unexpected obstacle occurs and he has to figure out a resolution. The acting of the main characters, the setting where the short film takes place, and the music that is playing in the background all has a positive impact on my thought of this film. The acting in this film was highly significant. Due...
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...Physical Education Teacher “As the time came, I started to ponder. What could I possibly do five days a week, year-round, and not get bored with it.” As her hands were flipping she said, “My brain was rushing with thoughts and ideas.” It then hit me, choose something you love doing. Be something you’re good at and perfect it. Never slack. At this moment what I love doing most is playing sports and working out. With that being said, what better job than a physical education teacher? Five days a week, weekends off, holidays off, and two entire months off, what a better job?” Looking like a skeleton, I can see where she’s going with this. She was a sophisticated looking woman, with dark skin, but not gloomy. As she talked about her job her eyes lit up like stars in the sky. It was obvious she loved her job, and wouldn’t choose be anywhere else. The students moved on to new activities or sports every other week. The students were respectful, and disciplined very well. They were also cooperative and seemed to love the activities they had to participate in. Some activities included: basketball, soccer, hockey, badminton, table tennis (ping pong), and other teamwork involving activities. She taught all of the students how to use teamwork, and inspired many people to engage in sports. Some people who never even thought about playing sports before, played soccer because she opened up her own soccer team. She was the teacher of the year. This interested me even more. Maybe I could...
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...great deal of short stories, but he also created novels, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, and literary criticisms. Lawrence was obviously a unique individual, and this is reflected in his short story writing. Many other authors of his time wrote with a common characteristic, passion, or setting; but Lawrence uses his unique personality to write with a common theme of intimacy, emotions, and instinct. More specifically, in D. H. Lawrence’s short stories “Tickets, Please”, “You Touched Me”, and “The Blind Man”, Lawrence reflects the characters’ level of intimacy with the sense of touch. In “Tickets, Please” D. H. Lawrence tells the story of a young boy, unfit for war and “crippled”, who tries to win over as many girls as possible. John Thomas was the only decent looking boy left at the tramway system during the war, and he used that to his advantage. Every night, John Thomas would “walk” a girl home; however, he never came close to an actual relationship. Eventually, John Thomas had been with every single girl at the station, and by that time, his girls were fed up. The ladies were tired of being used and treated poorly by John Thomas, so they all got together and came up with a plot for revenge. The girls decided that they would make him choose just ONE of them to be with. When they asked him upfront, he didn’t give an answer, so they tried something else. The girls have John Thomas turn and face the wall; then, each girl was supposed to touch...
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...In The National Gallery ”In the National Gallery” is a short story written by Doris Lessing in 2007. The story is a about a person visiting in the National Gallery. The main character has decided to spend an hour looking at one special picture. At first the person is sitting quietly studying the picture, but then an elder man enter the room and sits next to the main character. After a little while another man sits down next to the older man, but the second man is younger. As they sit the elder man starts to tell the younger boy about the painting and the painter Stubbs. The main character can’t help but listen to the elder man and his knowledge about the painting and painter. As the two men has sit for a while the young man suddenly gets annoyed and snaps at the elder man and then leaves room afterwards. The elder man stays in his seat. The room gets filled with some young French schoolgirls; they are loud and noisy and get a lot of attraction from everyone in the room. But there is one girl that the main character especially observes. The main character notices that the man next to him/her is staring at the girl as well, but more as if she was really something special. The main character starts to analyse the girl and also see that there is something special about her. The girl suddenly leaves the rest of the group and sits down next to the man. At first she watch the picture but then falls asleep. The man and main character starts to talk about her. The man tells that the...
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...Romance is a term that is described as a pleasurable feeling of excitement and wonder associated with love. With the coming of age for adolescents, it is normal to experience such emotions towards another individual. However, sometimes these feelings are misinterpreted or misdirected. In John Updike’s short story “A&P” and James Joyce “Araby”, both authors tell of a tale of teenagers and their struggles with young love. Updike allows reader’s to see through the eyes of a teenager in his story “A&P”. The story begins with Sammy, a young clerk who becomes fascinated with the arrival of three girls in his store. The girl that grabs his attention the most is Queenie, by carefully observing her walk through the aisles and talk to her friends, he goes through a tremendous change in his character. At first, Updike shows us the immature side of Sammy, he quotes “The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece…where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs” (pg. 835), this shows the reader that Sammy is immature concentrating on the girls instead of doing his job. However, as we go further into the story, his somewhat obsession for Queenie leads him to question his own life. His feelings become so powerful that he forms his own conclusions about Queenie and her life and wonders if he could be part of that life too. When the girls finally approach the register, they are embarrassed by Lengel. This angers Sammy and causes him to change from...
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...Emily Clark Dr. Dicke HST 122h-999 Examination 1 Imagine being a young boy in 1899. Now imagine the fact that there is no time for play. Imagine having to sit in to coal mine day in and day out breathing in the dirty fumes from the coal itself. Young boys in the year 1899 did just that. They all imagined what it would be like to play outside in the streets instead of working underground for hours each day. What would it be like to have time as a kid? Men worked. Boys worked. Everyone worked. Labor was intense, conditions were not always the best and overcrowding in the factories was a problem seen from day one. With this, the greatest social and economic change in America occurs; Industrialization, in which a society or country transforms itself from an agricultural society (human power) into a society that is based on the manufacturing of goods and services through machine power. Individuals in this period are replaced by machines and craftsmen are replaced by large assembly lines. No longer do men, women, and children have to do everything step by step, the use of machines is now implemented, making it so the production of goods and services is more beneficial and effective to all. In the year 1899 industrialization has reached its adolescence stage, in which the U.S. becomes a developing nation. In its previous infancy stage industrialization created few factories and steam ships, neither being significant enough to see a change to the economy itself. In 1899,...
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...Title: Lord of the Flies Author: William Golding Other books written by author: The Inheritors, Darkness Visible, Free Fall, The Spire General Plot: During a horrible war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Two boys named Ralph and Piggy come across a conch shell and realize they could use it to summon the other boys. Once they gathered everyone, the boys started electing a leader and planning a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph chooses another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group. When they first start off they all still act like young boys and play around and stuff but as they live on the island longer every ones true colors come out. Some people turn against each other and some become violent. This leads to destruction on the island. Main Character: The main character is Ralph. He is appointed as leader of the group in the beginning. He is a young boy with a good heart and just wants the best for the rest of the boys and wants to get everyone off the island. Most interesting character: The most interesting character to me was Jack. Jack has attitude and fights and stands up for what he wants. He’s the antagonist in the book. He ends up turning evil and doing bad things and that intrigued me because it made me realize we all have a little bit of Jack in us. Passage 1: ‘Maybe,” he said hesitantly, “maybe there is a beast.” The assembly...
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