In high school we all get a label, sometimes its one we spend decades trying to live up to, where others spend a lifetime trying to forget those painful years. Unfortunately, every high school is dominated by different cliques. Many teenagers believe the only way to be recognized is to be in with the popular crowd. Cliques can be emotional to a person who does not fit in to one of these groups, while others are satisfied with their group status. Cliques are and will be a part of every teenager’s life, we need to look at it as a life experience and a way to build
This group is usually your more attractive, stylish, snobbish group. This group normally participates and excels in sports and clubs within high school, thinking that academics are not an important aspect of high school expecting to attend college on an athletic scholarship with colleges passing them through because of excelling in sports. The nerdy, geek group of kids are typically made up of the more intelligent, reading type of individuals who seek solace from within their self. This group is the one that most of your jocks and cheerleaders run to when they are in need of tutoring or a paper written. Your popular group otherwise has no association with them.
In the short story "Everyday Use", Alice Walker emphasizes the aspect of individuality. The story concentrates on the lives of two sisters, Maggie and Dee, growing up together under the same conditions clearly created two very distinct individuals. Maggie is almost the complete opposite of her sister Dee. Maggie does not agree with her sister on many aspects, but she does look up to her. Maggie starts off in the story as having very low self-esteem, Walker describes her as, “Walking with chin on her chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the house to the ground.” This has caused her to feel unattractive and not as confident compared to her sister.
Johnson 2 “When Blanco comforts a mentally challenged high school student after being teased by the football team captain, however, she wonders if maybe she is looking for acceptance and friendship in the wrong places. She finds meaning in helping the special education kids organize a senior prom. Later, she becomes friends with Annie, the school's tough girl, who like Blanco, is an outcast looking for acceptance”. (Pior 4) Its normal wanted to be expected in high school. No matter whom it’s always good to feel wanted and liked.
Romeo is hopelessly in love with Rosalind which he explains when he says, "I am too sore enpiercèd with his shaft To soar with his light feathers, and so bound, I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. Under love’s heavy burden do I sink" (1.4.19-22). Romeo says that he is too much in love to be able to be happy because the kind of love that he has is a burden. The love that Romeo has is good because he likes being in love, but it makes him sad and it is a burden for Romeo. He wants to be in love and be able to be happy, but right now he is wounded by
Great Themes Make Great Novels Man’s greatest achievement? Probably not, but as John O’Hara once said: “Great themes make great novels”. It is true that themes are used in every novel, story and poem ever written, as Barbara Haworth-Attard’s Theories of Relativity has quite a few. Some of the themes mentioned throughout the novel are how trust can easily be broken, how people aren’t always as they seem, how selfishness affects those around you and how nothing is as you think. To begin, the theme of how easily trust can be broken is expressed multiple ways throughout Theories of Relativity by Barbara Haworth-Attard.
Suzanne Silva Lit & Comp Professor Noonan December 14, 2012 Comparison Fulfillment and Failure “From A Secret Sorrow” and “A Sorrowful Woman” This story’s between “A Secret Sorrow” and “From a Sorrowful Woman” is about marriage and family and what two women go through. We can see that there are two different views of happiness when it comes to marriage. Love for some is the ultimate answer to every problem in a person’s life. With love, nothing is insurmountable. However, love in the two stories did not result to happiness for the unknown woman in “A Sorrowful Woman” as in “From A Secret Sorrow” Faye ends up in a happy marriage and a great family.
To ensure that people continued to believe this concept the church used this verse from the bible as proof “woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man.” This belief put women in a state of being mentally isolated from men. Being second-rate citizens meant that few of them received any formal education; because they lacked schooling they became intellectually isolated from anyone whom had received any type of formal education. During this time period women were beaten into submission when they failed to instantly comply with the orders any male relative gave them. Shakespeare wrote about many of these Elizabethan beliefs in his play Othello. The play centralized around the lust for one very beautiful, young girl Desdemona.
Ever have that feeling of not being accepted into a certain group you really wanted to be friends with or join. Many high schoolers have been through this. The main high school cliques are the popular groups, nerdy groups, and the neutral groups. Whatever group you're in, it shouldn't matter. We've all been wanting to be friends with those couple of cool kids to feel fully accepted and that you actually matter.
Our generation’s answer is sadly quite the antithesis. As a student currently attending high school, students’ priorities our quite low when it comes to the overall progress in school, but high when it relates to the social spotlight. Can you blame us though? Has the latter generation of adults ever actually considered the types of role models developing minds look