I blame myself because I left our home at age 16; she was left there with my mother and her father who weren’t always compatible. I hear things from the public about my sister which vibrates my blood vessels. I want so badly to be the first one that she calls when she has a problem or just needs to talk. I’ve tried to explain myself to her, it seems like she understands me for the moment. When I left I wasn’t thinking about how this may affect her or our relationship in the future.
Thrust into the real world with our confidence almost permanently shattered, we are expected to be successful and important when prior to that we were always told the opposite. Bullying harms us not only in our youth, but for the rest of our lives. In the poem “To This Day” by Shane Koyczan, we hear the story of children who have faced the effects of being bullied. A little girl for something as foolish as a birthmark on her face and a boy for thinking pork chops and karate chops were the same. Age did not change the words that cut through that poor little girl.
I feel sorry for his whole family having to go through this pain and disaster. I can’t imagine how they can lose someone so special to them, and who’s still way too young and has their whole life ahead of them. I feel like this is so common young kids dying for reasons that are unacceptable.
A solider that participated in the removal said I fought through the War Between the States and have seen many men shot, but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.”4 Imagine people being uprooted from their home where they occupied it all of their life as well as their parents and their parents. Imagine having your rights ignored to dealing with broken promises, and having to fight for what is yours. In the end, you are tricked or just too plain tired to fight anymore and go on a journey9. A journey where as each mile that goes by, you leave behind a mother, a father, a brother, and a friend. To even set this relocation into movement many of the tribes were tricked into signing treaties.
Tony also learns that everyone is as important as him. First of all, it's important to be aware that self-confidence comes from within not from making others feel bad. In the story, Tony would often bully others because he thought they were better than he and they had more going for themselves. For example, "You see I'm from a tough neighborhood and showing your weakness makes you a target. I was a target when I was young, both for my brothers and those who call themselves my friends.
One of the biggest problems that divorce imposes on children is the sadness of their family breaking up and having to adjust to one parent no longer living in the home. Usually it hurts all the family members, including the children that are very young and do not understand what is happening, but they still feel the loss of one of the parents not being around. Divorce, in any circumstance, rips a child apart limiting time spent with his/her parents, and confusing him/her. In Matthew 19:8-9 it says, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.
One may claim that Toni Morrison espoused a paradoxical view of the family in The Bluest Eye, yet this incredible novel perpetuates the effect of self-loathing caused by an anguish-laden family to a child. Throughout the entirety of the novel, Morrison elaborates an extensive plot in which Pecola, the main character, is attributed with vast tragedies. She is beaten, abused, harassed, and is the victim of incest. This is clearly the result of an unfortunate, vagabond family, which is unable to provide her with essential family values. Moreover, Pecola’s misery is forced upon her through the corruption of her family.
The significant event that happened to me in my life that had a life-shaping effect to me was being physically abused, mentally abused and sexually abused by my boyfriend from the time I was sixteen until I was eighteen. I remember every moment of that part of my life, because the reality of the situation is so painful for me. I wish that I could not remember the pain, but at the same time I am glad that I can’t forget either as weird as that sounds. I don’t know why the events happened the way they did. All I know is that it is a situation I will never allow myself to be in ever again.
“Yolanda” by Oscar Casares The central theme of “Yolanda”, by Oscar Casares, is that you can’t live your life wondering “what if”. You can never be happy if you keep dwelling on the past and what might have been. You can’t keep kicking yourself all through life because of something you did or didn’t do. If you focus too much time on wondering what might have been, regrets start to fill your mind and could lead to a life of self-doubt and feeling sorry for yourself. Life presents us with many learning experiences, we have all made decisions that we wish we could change.
Ethics of Erasing a Bad Memory When I think of all the terrible memories I have collected in my life, it seems like it would be nice to not worry about thinking of them ever again. But then memories play a huge role in learning, and how we as individuals change over time. Our personalities are a result of this, as seen in our behavior and the actions we decide to engage in at any given instant. So if we delete memories we might not be the same person. Imagine an adult who was constantly teased as a child.