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We're all fighting this battle- teenagers, kids, adults, and even the elderly. We're all struggling to be ourselves. It's pretty admirable--to try to be yourself-- because at the same time we're all trying to find ourselves. Some people stand up for themselves, while others follow. Few show their true personalities; others hide behind a mask. The ones hiding behind a mask are scared of what people will think of their genuine character. They're scared to be judged, and they want to be accepted. These people unwillingly settle for the label "follower".
Other people are born to be followers. The idea that some people are born to be leaders is true. Will Freyley, author of Leadership is Innate, claims that social skills are genetic. The scientific explanation for the courage to be ourselves has to do with our serotonin level. Serotonin helps you to be calm in problem solving situations, have conflict management, and have social ease People with higher levels of serotonin are more likely to lead. The desire to lead comes from a place in your brain called the amygdala. When you ...
Our behavior usually is controlled and decided by us, but that is not always the case. As we saw in the play Marty's behavior was not always his own decision. The behavior of any person can be greatly manipulated by society. There are a few points in the play and in normal life that can prove this statement is true. Marty's actions were greatly inf...
Education in America needs serious reform. The ways in which schools are to this day are the same way they were when our parents were in school. This way of teaching is getting very old and redundant. A change must be made soon. We are living in a time where technology is booming, where jobs require more education, and where se...
Each year, hundreds of North Americans join one of the increasing, estimated 3000 unorthodox religions that exist across North America. The increasing number of , to date in North America, is due to the fact that are a social movement that attempts to help people cope with their perceived problems with social interaction. Cult recruiters target t...
Animals have been the loyal companions to humans since the beginning of time. Americans collaboratively own ''90.5 million cats, 73.9 million dogs, 16.6 million birds, 11 million reptiles and 18.2 million small animals'[and] 63 percent of U.S, homes have at least one pet'(3A). However, animals often become the silent subjects to laboratory exper...
Print media provides its readers with information, but what the reader very often does not recognize is the bias within the articles. Bias is not so easily recognized. Writers have the gift to blend the bias in with their work. It is so well done, that in order to see the bias, one must thoroughly analyze the article. A person...
Yes, the military does have sexual harassment and discrimination against women in the nineties. "Firestone and co-researcher Richard J. Hurns analyzed a 1988 DOD Survey of men and women in the military and found that 51.8 % of men and 74.6% of women reported either experiencing or knowing of sexual harassment. Amoung the women surveyed, 70.1%...
Imagine you?re standing atop a high bridge, you take a deep breath, say one last silent goodbye to your friends and family, and you leap to your death. By doing this, you?re making a permanent solution to a temporary problem. You may be solving your own personal problem, but imagine the pain, suffering, and anguish that your frie...
Many people feel that animals have no rights and are here solely for our use. Humans are animals too, we shouldn't take advantage of other animals just because they can't reason like us. Animals are used in medical research labs as experiments. These experiments are meant only to benefit humans. I'm not totally against testing,some good can come...
Canada?s copyright law is one of our hardest laws to enforce. The reason the police have so much trouble enforcing this law, is due to technology. This law is very easy to break, and once broken, it is very hard to track down violators. So although some form of a copyright law is needed, the one we have has, too many holes to b...
As a teenager in a present day society the media helps form the reality of the scene expressed by teens today. Television shows such as Talk Shows, that are watched by me frequently have persuaded me in making many of my judgments and dissuasions. As I lay back with my remote control browsing through the channels. I come across at...
While driving home from work late one Tuesday night, he noticed the blare of a siren and the blinding lights in his rearview mirror. 'I was stopped and questioned five times, by five different police officers on my three-mile drive home,' said a 16-year-old from Monrovia, CA ('Do You Know Where Your Children Are?' 1). Sadly, Monrovia, CA. is not...
. The whole history of progress of human liberty Shows that all concessions Yet made to her august claims Have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle There is no progress. Frederick Douglass, 1857 Introduction; To rationalise or ?make sense? of the Australian states attempts to control Aboriginal socialisation and...
When thinking about what a school uniform might look like, Angus Young of AC/DC comes to mind. His uniform, or performance costume, is that of an English schoolboy, dressed in a suit type uniform with shorts instead of pants and a funky golfers hat. A group of girls and boys all wearing the same colored uniforms assembled in front...
Bureaucracy - Red Tape of America Bureaucracy, simply defined can be called the ?red tape? of the American Political system. Also, this red tape can further be explained as the life blood of the very structure. It is the dominant institution, the institution that epitomizes modernity. Bureaucracy is an organizational form of pu...
