False Assumptions Analysis

I was a very shy kid. Making friends wasn’t my cup of tea when I was younger. Based on this you can imagine how nervous I was when we moved. Joseph Campbell wrote in The Hero With a Thousand Faces, “It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.” I was preparing to start school again in August when I decided it would be smart to begin associating with kids my age in the area; so, I began spending time with my cousin Lief. After spending some time with Lief, he introduced me to some of his friends and taught me to how to appreciate

Going into middle school for me, was terrifying. I didn’t know anyone, and making friends was on the top

During my four years at Beddingfield High School, I have made and lost a lot of friends, met people that will forever remain close to me and went through a couple of things that I probably thought would ever happen to me. My freshman year at Beddingfield, I had just moved from Atlanta, Georgia, so I really did not know anyone. My first day at Beddingfield High School I met a girl name Brionna and at the time I didn’t know anyone, so I was surprised that she even had spoken to me. I was shy the first couple of weeks, but getting to know I everyone I started to come out of my shell except for when it was time to do a presentation or talk in front of the class. I still have this fear today. As months went by I felt as if I knew everyone, but that thought changed when people started to spread rumors about me. I really didn’t say anything because I knew it was a lie. When that happened I started to distance myself from people because I started to figure out who my real friends were. The same few people I was friends with my freshman are the same people I hang with today because they showed me that everybody is

I got bullied a lot so that kind of stopped people from wanting to talk to me in the first place. When they did they saw a weird anti-social kid that wasn’t fun to be around or maybe that’s how I see myself reflecting on everything. Can’t say much about that has changed though. When I did get friends I had a problem where I’d get overly attached to them; as a result you could’ve insulted me every day and I’d still call you my friend. I think it was my want for one with the fact I was really, really dense;consequently most of the people I met weren’t great people to be around and a lot had some sort of bad habits, I still always had a book with me as once again an escape from my at least how I saw it sad and boring life in

Earlier this Semester, I participated in "The Power Of Assumptions Activity" which took place during a training I was helping facilitate. I was asked a series of questions and then I had to stand by a sign in the room that answered the questions being asked. The signs had different pieces of a person 's identity listed on them. A few examples included: Socioeconomic status, Family, Education, and Race. As the activity progressed, I realized that I don 't think about how the Racial piece of my identity affects my life as much as some other pieces. "The Power Of Assumptions Activity" allowed me to experience the uncertainty of not knowing how I would answer one of the questions on the contrary experience the opposite by answering many questions right away and which sign to stand under. "The Power Of Assumptions Activity" surprised me as I saw myself standing alone and also with other people depending on the questions that was asked and how each person decided to answer the questions for themselves. I chose this example to illustrate to introduce my paper about my Racial identity and also the challenge of writing this paper and reflecting on my Racial identity.

An eyewitness can change the course of an investigation. However, how reliable that can be? People believe that we remember an event as exactly as it was, such as replaying the facts. Elizabeth Loftus is one of the leading researchers in the area of memory, and she found that memories are not accurately re-created. Reconstructing facts from our lives cannot be harmful, but it can be critical when deciding a criminal event. Loftus studies demonstrated that a simple wording question might change the eyewitness answer.

Hamilton’s economic policies, although created to help the country as a whole, are directed to benefit the rich and mainly northern states, and not the poorer more southern states. Separating the rich from the poor will only divide the country more, and create more economic problems for the poorer parts of the new country. Hamilton’s assumption plan and establishment of the Central Bank will only divide the country into rich and poor parts and create economic and social tension.

I wish I had had a friend while growing up, but I did that myself by not wanting any friends. I could have saved myself a lot of suffering simply by trying to fit in at school. I had always told myself, “They don’t know any better. It’s okay.” I didn’t realize how mature my thinking was at the time. From being bullied, I learned how to strengthen myself and repress my feelings. I do not resent any of my classmates from elementary school since I have changed from my childish ways. My childhood taught me how mean children could be. I look forward to raising my own children and showing them the love I had never received in my

Being in a small neighborhood is rather helpful for making friends, as you are almost forced to talk with those around you until school starts. Living in New Palestine was not all that great, however. The people were not the nicest, and it seemed that everyone was too focused on playing the game of faces, always trying to seem cool and outdo each other. From the start, I never really fit in. I did not care about playing the game with everyone else, I would rather be completely frank with everyone. I have always felt that honesty is the best policy, even when it comes to trying to be cool in front of everyone. I had trouble making friends because of this, but those friends that I had made at that time have stuck with me to this day. I guess that dealing with all the falsehood during that time has made me slightly cynical. One of the best things that has happened in my life was the move from Indiana to Sunnyvale, Texas. Sunnyvale is a nice, somewhat small town where everyone knows everyone. The community in Sunnyvale is much more close-knit than New Palestine was, for better or worse. Coming into the school in the eighth grade was the perfect time for me. Nobody knew me, I knew

had a couple of scares that I wouldn 't pass to the next grade. Despite these problems I was still able to make many friendships. I was a

As an elementary school student, I did not have many friends. I had not been with my classmates since preschool, so I was an outsider from the start. Being so young and ignorant, I did not really see that I was bullied, disliked, and unwanted, however, as I became more mature I realized that these people I would spend 8 years of my life with looked for anything to nitpick, from my rupunzelesque hair to my love for drawing. Come middle school, I finally and completely understood the animosity, and still sat alone at lunch, worked alone in class, replied with silence to their words, and when I was even assaulted I did nothing more but shrug it off and try to ignore it. However, when I would come home in the evenings I would retreat to my bedroom where it would all hit me at once. The anguish led to rivers of tears, insomnia, low grades, a refusal to leave my home, and eventually even suicidal tendencies. My drawings became graphic, about suicide, loneliness, and the anger I felt. The school believed I had ADHD, my parents believed it was just a phase, but they were blinded by their own problems at the workplace.

My assumptions regarding this subpopulation are that they are low-income and often undereducated. Beede’s (1980) evaluation of a collection of studies found the public was at a fault and a few acknowledge that the medical community shares some of this blame due to gaps in patient education from health care workers (HCW). Depending on who you ask, some sources allege laziness, lack of motivation, poor education, and other more radical claims. I think very few of these claims have any basis in fact, as there is no research to back them up.

When I was younger I went through a very hard time making friends. My mother had signed me up for sports thinking that it was just because I didn't have a lot of time around kids my age just in schoola and there it was all just school work, or so she thought. I always knew that being around alot of kids at once made me nervous, I did not know what. Maybe i was just different?, Why was everyone so happy all the time in reccess and I wasnt?. It was very scary.

“Making assumptions, without all of the facts, leads you to draw conclusions, create stories about the person 's background, judge his or her motives, and focus on what you think is truer rather than what is really the truth” Wiley & Sons, 2013).

Assumptions are automatic opinion that come to mind. Many times we us our assumptions to make a decision on something or someone. When making assumption we sometimes overlook the facts and make an assumption based on what we think about that situation or person. We make assumption at times based on our experiences in life. Our assumptions also help to shape us into the individual we are today. Harris (2011) found that many individuals make daily decision based on assumptions. We operate in assumptions in many ways