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Consider sitting in your high school with multiple different groups of people around. You hear numerous conversations coming from every direction and laughter filling the halls, but you are left standing in the hallway alone, feeling outcast, because you have no connection with those people. Having desolate feelings comes in response to this situation, and overall, it takes away from that sense of belonging. The unspoken rules present in these groups are responsible for the loss of belonging. People that do not fit the requirements within the rules often find themselves feeling as though they are outcasts in society. Individually, they will perceive themselves to be outsiders without a belonging in the social order because their traits do not match the desired ones in society. Additionally, the people in each specific group will begin to exclude the said outcasts because they do not belong in the clique. As a result, social events and conversations become more exclusive to those who fit the unspoken rules. This unfortunately can lead to bullying, for the exclusive people will make the outsiders feel unwelcomed and criticized. One who does not “fit in” with others will find themselves feeling insecure about their life and role in the community. Therefore, the unspoken rules of society affect each individual’s sense of belonging in both a positive and negative

When a person isn’t developed enough or doesn’t have appropriate intellectual abilities to be adapted within the society. This group can also include alcoholics, people who use drugs, etc. All of those people are part of the largest third section of marginal. Here are people who don’t maybe don’t want to be, but are in the margins of society for various uncontrollable circumstances or disabilities. For example, poverty, mental illness, homelessness, unemployment and other reasons such as physical, social, racial, ethnical, psychological, etc. Frequently, people are on the edge of society, because they are poor (beggars), because they have different religion (in some country, people who believe in Jehovah), etc. Some people from various cultures think that people who have different beliefs are danger for their culture. So what they do is to not make “those enemies” part of their society. I think marginal people should use this situation as a motivation to become better. They have to prove they are valuable parts of society. People who don’t have education must do their best to develop intellectually, people who are poor, must work hard to get what they need. They feel alone, nervous, disappointed, but as a chess peace pawn, they must continue to move forward, never back down despite the obstacles they will encounter on their way to success and be sure that after hard-work they will achieve desired place as pawn achieves after slowly moving

In your life, there is a life skill that assists you with anything you can imagine. That life skill is called “Standing up for what you believe.” Many people don’t realize the importance of this skill. Standing for what you believe in is how all the successful people made it in life, most of the famous athletes or business owners you see today came from nothing. Meaning that they mostly came from a

I am writing in regards to your book, The Outsiders. The world often categorizes people according to their wealth, appearance, and popularity. We tend to think of the upper class as professional, powerful, and problem free, while the lower class is looked at as problem prone, uneducated, and criminals, but after reading your book my perspective changed. I realized that problems do not have a specific category, and being superior in society doesn’t bring you true happiness. Instead our value can be determined by how we face the challenges we are given, and the people around us.

For example, if a person is told that they are worthless, meaningless, and good for nothing everyday for a big chunk of their lives, they eventually start believing that they are worthless, meaningless, and good for nothing. As a result they devalue themselves. I think this is the same thing that is happening with the African American community. During the slave years they were told that you are sent by god to do slavery and serve others. They were shown that they are a less then a dog. The same concept is taken place in today’s society. If a black man is raised in the “hood” or the “ghetto”, the society views him differently. They automatically perceive him as a criminal or someone that is up to no good. This type of stereotyping is one of the causes for nihilism in African American society and makes them think that they cannot accomplish their dreams or goals. West discusses many solutions for fighting against nihilistic threat in black community. He says that more African Americans need to be activists’ leaders in politics on the local level with many equal leaders. And secondly we need give love, care and sense of worthlessness to the

According to them, I’m not supposed to be smart, a nice person, or responsible. So, everyday I try to do the best I can in school, my job, and even at home. When I have some extra time I try to do more than my teachers ask me to do. And, I don’t do this effort to impress anyone or to show how wrong they are, I’m just trying to let them see that it’s never okay to judge people because of how they look or how you might think they are. I might not be an athlete to actually talk about how to use strategies to play an actual game, or a popular cheerleader to plan a routine and think how to beat the other team, but, we all have our battles and different ways to see and confront them. Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit. Life and its prejudices are my game; sometimes I’ll win, and sometimes I’ll lose, but the game goes

Rooted in philosophical and religious contemplation, questions on human’s existence and life’s purpose, or existentialism questions, is the question as old as the human race. In trying to find the answers to the questions , humans have approached them from different disciplines; from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations. Unlike adults who may wonder and talk about such concept in intense complexity, young children begin to inquire about such concepts and try to seek answers within their own capacity and their experience. At times, their position in the society as the youngest members of the community complicate their search for answers. Their inquiries and questions are often taken lightly

It is common that a person will live their entire adult life in the same class structure in which they were raised. (Martin, J. & Nakayama, T. 2011)The Horatio Alger myth, teaches that anyone can overcome trials and difficulty to be successful and raise themselves into a higher class status. ((Martin, J. & Nakayama, T. 2011) This myth gives many false hope, when it is rare that a person will have the means to rise above the life they are born into. How do we change this unrelenting stigmatism brought upon all of us? We look at ourselves and begin to change who we are and how we judge

Ones achievements in life are not determined by your brilliance or abilities, but the character that you choose to display to others. Someone who wasn’t expected to amount to anything was Louis Zamperini. Louis ended up proving everyone wrong when he became an Olympic athlete, war hero, and a father. He wasn’t always this well accomplished man. He was once just a kid struggling trying to fit in. As a child he was always getting in trouble with the police, his parents, and people. Louis wasn’t a kid who cared about school, respect, grades, adult’s approval, his own health, and people’s personal boundaries. He was one to always push people’s boundaries trying to see how much he could get away with. No one had much hope that he would change his

There’s a point in your life when you realize that you need to stop caring and letting what others think of you define who you are or what you can or cannot do. I had never realized how much I cared about what other people thought about me but it hit me when my own father told my he didn’t believe in me from that moment I stopped caring what other thought of me because everyone will say whatever to bring you down. People don’t like seeing others succeed. I am 17 years old I come from poverty like most people from Rio Grande Valley we never had much but we had enough to survive. Both my parents immigrated into the United States and didn’t finish their education. My father was raised believing that men should be have control on everything and not have women have a say so.

We tell people it’s possible... And then we are told it’s not. We are told sometimes that what we seek, has never been seen before and we’re made to believe, deep down, that we cannot achieve it either. We all seek for a purpose in this world. We all find a calling, but some of us are told we do not mean all that much. We are told we have big shoes to fill, and that we have a long way before we will be like the greats. We are compared to single people throughout history, told that we are like them. We are told that when we are smart, we are like Einstein. We are told that when we are great leaders, we are like Martin Luther King and Lincoln. We are not told we are like

Just because I wasn’t into every Sunday church… just because I wasn’t born a man to have power… just because I’m not an adult… just because I don’t have money and not class doesn’t mean that I’m like a slave. People in this town treated me like I was just a small girl and that I didn’t have anything, they treated me by my power and treated me and all the other girls by gender and saying that girls are powerless. From the start of my life, it has been like this… starting from my parent’s death and me having no family… as an outsider.

In this day and age, everyone is expected to act and speak in a certain way which is controlled by society’s will. Individuals may try to hurt you emotionally and/or physically but you shouldn’t let them change who you are. Society may create standards for all people but that doesn’t mean you have to conform to all of these standards. In my experience, some of the best people I know don’t fit in with the rest of society. In the poem, “Still I Rise,” by Maya Angelou, readers must come to the conclusion that in most if not all situations, individuals must stay true to themselves and not change themselves, in order to create a sense of self achievement and feel a sense of self-worth.

Questions are powerful tools for assessing the understanding of facts to beliefs and behaviors to dreams and wishes. Most questions are framed for receiving the ‘right answer’ rather than discovering what the ‘right question’ is. A powerful

In life, people are free to do what they desire. We have the ability to choose our own path; a path that teaches us not only lessons that lead us to social/academic achievement, but a lesson about morality, self-respect, and integrity. It’s importance are the key components that inspire us to strive and want to succeed. The path that each of us chooses to take surrounds us with problems and obstacles that derogate the self-confidence that we have in ourselves away and leading us to distress. However, these problems that torment our mind are the reasons we learn the morality of self-respect. It's not about how great you can succeed without fault, it's about how critical you can fail and still maintain the determination to move forward in order to mature to this mindset of self-respect and integrity, which are the fundamentals of