Everyone is starting to care more about how people see them, what social standing they are in and focusing too much attention on unrealistic dreams/goals that they are forgetting about how they see themselves, social standings do not mean anything and that there is more important things to focus on. This is demonstrated by the characters behaviours in The Great Gatsby and The Bluest Eye. Even though everyone was made to be their own unique person, different from everyone else, it can be hard sometimes when you are surrounded by peers and think you are not good enough. Pecola from The Bluest Eye is a prime
He starts off by working in a town with minumum wage and believes that he will be able to gain a better education and runs off to a university. Later on, he comes back as a well knowledgeable man and a teacher to young children in a school. Although he is educated, he is still looked down upon the white people of his town as well as being distanced from his own black bretheren. Grant is able to see and think more sophisticatedly from his education and teachings. He feels anger towards the white community for radiating such a negative attiude towards the black community for being uneducated yet does not feel that he will be able to help them.
Both kinds are wrong, students don’t learn the right way. The bad conditions of boarding schools make education more difficult. In both stories the educational situation was wrong and needed to change. Hard Times is about a school in which there is a professor, Mr. Gradgrind, who doesn’t like personal opinions or anything that is not just facts. There’s a girl, Sissy, who answers right but the teachers don’t like her because she has imagination.
Wood also suggests that initially one should avoid passing judgments. “Imposing our own judgments separates us from others and their feelings” (Wood, 2013, pg.158). During the first interaction, Alan starts the conversation by criticizing the woman for working too slow and how it is in turn slowing the entire team. This leads to the employee feeling that her job is now being threatened, leaving them both feeling uncomfortable and ineffective. 2.
Even with her Father’s prompting she doesn’t seem to understand, as she clearly has prejudice towards people like the Ewells and Cuninghams just for being poor, or different than her. Despite this Atticus still prompted her towards doing what is right, even with everything around her telling her to do differently. Atticus seems to understand this though, and doesn’t scold her when she is prejudice. He knows that its difficult for
“We and them” are words that people use in everyday life and they have no clue that they are so insidious. So I am now going to elucidate my reasons for feeling the way that I feel about these two words. The words “we and them” can separate people from others without them even knowing it. And they can also put people into their own categories. An example of how these words separate people from others is, at times, racism.
We are so concerned with what we have to say or what we are upset about that we don’t listen to the other persons input. When a problem arises in a relationship you have to solve it together. You can’t try and fix it yourself because it just won’t work. The lack of communication can also lead to other reasons relationships fail, like cheating. Cheating is a symptom of lack of respect and communication.
After reading the article, I came to the conclusion that we are not doing well at all when it comes to communicating with each other. I strongly believe that self-disclosure in our relationship is coming to an end, because of the lack of interest, and the unwillingness to listen. When it comes to self-disclosure in a relationship, I believe it is extremely important to be able to share intimate things, such as ideas, feelings, likes and dislikes, an many other things that you would share with your best friend. How things were in the office, with the kids, maybe a fight you had with your boss, anything that would help you feel better, and that you believe the person who cares about you and that you care about will be interested to hear even if it’s just to get it off you back. If someone can’t have self-disclosure in their relationship, I think it is very important to start having one.
These bad habits aren’t something you can simply not have, but they are for sure something that you can overcome. One of the worst habits I had this year was procrastination, and it only led me to completing my work in a bad quality, as well as made me more irresponsible. If I think about it, grade 9 actually should’ve been quite an easy year. You get so much time to complete projects and assignments that sometimes, we use the time badly. Take my geography summative for example.
Self Discipline The article titled “Finding Self-Discipline in Others” by Wray Herbert explores the study that there are indeed psychological reasons for what makes undisciplined people turn their life around and gain self control. Herbert also explains the idea through research that people are attracted to others that compensate for their own flaws, resulting in a desire to then better themselves. The stereotypical troublemaker in high school usually never learns from their mistakes, but there are rare cases in which an individual lacking self control becomes less dependent on others for success and takes matters into their own hands, changing their surroundings and ultimately their behavior. I was extremely interested in this article right from the start because of the universal audience it spoke to. Everyone knows the kid in high school who was helpless and hopelessly always in trouble.