Friends And Peers Speech: Make New Friends

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Friends/Peers Speech “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other’s gold.” Once it seemed like just a silly song we would sing in girl scouts, but now it could mean much more. New friends or old - your friends and also your peers affect you in many ways. These people influence how people look at you. On the other hand, how you look at others. Your peers also influence how you look at yourself. Your friends and peers all influence these factors and ultimately your identity. Your friends and peers influence how people look at you. Most people would make the association that if you see someone hanging out with good people, they’ll be a good person or vice versa with bad people. People view you by who you hang out with.…show more content…
People spend a lot of time worrying about what other people think about them. These views cause you to either be confident about yourself or not feel so comfortable with yourself. There are peers that put you down, also know as bullies, but there are also friends that can boost up how you feel about yourself. Most people like of peer pressure as negative. A lot of it is, I don’t blame you. In a quote by Charles D. Hayes, he says, “Peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power has an extreme force a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way.” People are constantly putting people down and it cause people to do things and change things that they wouldn’t have normally done. People, especially our age, want more than anything to fit in. When you don’t look at yourself in a positive way, it can be very challenging. In the Scarlet Letter however, Rev. Dimmesdale is viewed as a trusting, high figure in society. These views of himself the townspeople have is incredibly hard for Dimmesdale to bear. Almost only Dimmesdale knew that he was living a lie. Because the views people had towards him were so far from reality, it silently killed Dimmesdale inside because he then looked at himself and was completely ashamed causing him to kill himself. How you look at yourself is greatly influenced by who you’re

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