College Admissions Essay: The Rise Of Social Media

Everyone has struggles. Many teenagers struggle with self-esteem, stress, bullying, body image, drinking, and smoking. Many adults struggle with marriage, jobs, money, drinking, smoking, health problems, and stress. There is not one person that has an easy life with no struggles because it is impossible. Having struggles teaches us life lessons.

For as long as a lot of us can remember people have been using social media. People put a large majority of their lives on Facebook or other social media websites or apps. Since they do that, anyone could go on someone’s account and find out a lot about them. College admissions officers and potential employers do it all of the time. College admissions officers and employers should look at social media accounts because it will help make their decision easier, they can see if the applicant could be a potential embarrassment, and can get a different view of the applicant that’s not on paper.

To my mother, In society, we struggle with the norms presented us that have conditioned humans from infanthood to adulthood and from the beginning of civilization to today. The social environments that we live in constrain us from being our true selves and restrict the idea of being something different. For women, it is truly hard to break out of these societal gender norms and when a woman chooses to set her own character, it is often looked down upon on society. A woman’s weakness is subject to the tyranny of gender norms. You and I are both women part of the regressive idea of female inferiority that society perpetuates.

Growing up I was easily influences and immature; as a result I had a lot of ill-conceived notions of my gender that led me to reinforce stereotypes and unconsciously take part in sexism. I am in no way saying that I am now an enlightened feminist guru but I am saying that education, life experiences and maturity has made me more aware of how being a women affects my life on a day to day basis. As I have grown I have become very aware of how my gender benefits me on a rare occasion and oppresses me on regular occasions. As Howard Ross points out in his book Reinventing Diversity when you are part of the nondominant group you are keenly aware of what makes you different from the dominant group. You understand the ways in which you are not accepted that the dominant group takes for granted. I am more aware of how male dominated culture oppresses women in subtle ways than most men. Take for instance our language and they use of the very common phrase guys to mean a group of people. “what’s up guys,” “Hey, guys,” these common phrases reaffirm male dominance. Even the term girls is a loaded gun. This of course connects to age. In our society women must maintain their youth as long as possible and loss value in our community as they age. A woman's age, maturity and wisdom is not celebrated as it should be, instead women are pressured to hold on to their

In life, everyone will face some form of hardship. Some people may not go through as many hardships as some others might but we all still have our own personal problems. In my life I have not faced many hardships like some others have which I am very grateful for such things not happening to me. But even though I haven't gone through many hardships I have still had my own fair share of hardships. One such hardship I have gone through is overcoming the death of a loved one.

I wonder why the hardships feel eternal but sometimes they are the best things for us. Do times of trials really make us better? Sometimes I really don’t believe this. But how do we learn and grow if things are never hard? If we lived in a perfect world then we would all be the same. Our circumstance must make us the people we truly are and who we become. I have never had much of a hard life. I’ve only had two people in my life die, my parents are still both together, and I got in to a great University. I have had pretty good odds through out my life. This was until last year I felt that my life was going under quick. It was never something that I thought would happen to me.

I agree that I have not lived the life of a woman, but as a young man who has grown in a family in which the aforementioned innate expectations manifest, I assume a position of credibility to empathize, and use the privilege bestowed on me to fight for equality. Deutsch’s “The Male Privilege Checklist” solidifies this claim as it states that it “is not a “victimizing” position to acknowledge that injustice exists; on the contrary, without that acknowledgement it isn’t possible to fight injustice” (21). Additionally, it should be noted that men are not to blame for the privileges given to them by society, and those taken away from women. However, are men willing to relinquish their “first big privilege”- “the privilege to be oblivious to privilege” (Deutsch

tough portions of our lives are what shape us and turn us into the people that

Although, that confidence gets a bit out of hand, and turns into arrogance. You know what I mean, like when girls at school say, “Oh my god, I got two iPhone 6s plus for my birthday, you know just incase one breaks. You still don’t have one yet? Wow. . . embarrassing.” Okay, let’s pretend that phone gets lost, or get stolen. What’s left? Embarrassment. Don’t be arrogant. Now this is not the case, I’m trying to talk about. It’s about inequality today. Like when men have such overconfidence, they believe that women can’t handle the things they can. Let me tell you two word, they wish! Women are just as powerful as men. Here’s a funny story I need to say, even though it makes me furious. One time, my aunt asked me if I could pick up the bottle of the dispenser that was filled with ¼ water and throw it out in the sink. I was about to pick it up until my cousin, who’s 15, came in and told me, “No, I’ll pick it up, you can’t. It’ll be hard for you.” At first, I was fine with it because I thought the was talking about my age. But then, when my sister, who’s 18, offered to help, he said, “No, you girls can’t even hold it, just keep cooking.” It was a beautiful day. The leaves were dancing, the wind was humming. But then, that’s when my face turned as red as Vision’s from Marvel. How is is that he’s living in the 1900’s? In 1967, 49% of the women did not work outside their homes. It’s 2016, we should be equal by now. A hundred

Central Idea: The three ways social media is changing education has affected how the students express themselves, behave, and interact with each other.

In life everyone will face some form of hardship. Some people may not go through as many hardships as some others might but we all still have our own personal problems. In my life I have not faced many hardships like some others have which I am very grateful for such things not happening to me. But even though I haven't gone through many hardships I have still had my own fair share of personal hardships. One such hardship I have gone through twice is overcoming the death of a loved one.

Mistakes happen and they follow us throughout our lives whether the outcomes are positives or negatives. It is hard to say, but some of those mistakes rise not because we intentionally want it to happen, but because of our sex, “physical or physiological differences between males and females”, and gender, “behaviors, personality traits, and social positions that society attributes to being a female or male” (Sociology, 253). Not all mistakes are life threatening, but factors especially gender division is what really push people to their limits. Gender division is a huge subject for me because I do not see the reason why women would be considered to have less power than men (Major, Gender and Age). I remember when I was working at this company where a majority of the workers were males with the exception of me and two other females. I was ecstatic when I was hired, but the environment was not what I expected. There was definitely sexism in the work area because our boss would always compliment and acknowledge the men and sometimes even gave them bonuses, but I and the two female workers were completely invisible to him. I did not want to make a big deal out of the situation because I thought maybe one day the boss would see the hard work I put into the job and be able to see me the same as the men. One of the two females was not happy because she felt it was really unfair to even acknowledge the lazy male workers when she worked even harder. Then, throughout the

incidence of oppression, then I would be naive to the fact that in our society we favor men over women. My perspective on women in the work force has changed completely. From this I have gained a new found respect for women who hold high power, and positions of authority because I know that they must have struggled to get where they are. I also respect them more because I know that men do not always work well when a women is their supioure, and therefore they can make the women’s job even more difficult. I work hard as a student, so that when I graduate college I can confidently go into the work force with the understanding that as long as I am a valuable worker, I will fight for my right to, at least be offered, the same opportunities as my male coworkers; furthermore I will also fight to make sure that I am always getting the equal treatment as everyone else in the work place. I refuse to be given unfair treatment because I am a women, our society is changing and therefore this masculine stigma that has been created around higher positions needs to be broken if we want to be able to move forward in society.

Throughout my life, I have been through many difficult times in my life. At only eighteen, I never thought that I would fall in love with an addict, who opened my eyes and changed my life. I now firmly believe that facing difficult challenges in life brings you closer to those you love while learning about who you are as a person.

The project aim at teenagers, therefore sample group is between 13 to 19. I will set the sample sizes in 50 participants since it is easy to identity and more precision. If a sample sizes increase, it is very hard to estimate and become not accurate. Also, I’m worry about the extremes data can’t make a balance out, so the project prefers small sample sizes. It can take less effort to gain and maintain people, it is easy to produce significant results and comfortable to find a group of people. I will obtain samples from friends or friends’ sister and brother.