Monkey See, Monkey Do: Human Nature In Social Media

Pathos in “Do seek their meat from God” To have a good story, the audience must feel for the characters. Sir Charles G.D. Roberts does a great job at creating pathos in “Do seek their meat from God”. Roberts amplifies the pathos that the reader feels by incorporating descriptive details, one-sided

Since the invention of the Internet, people have become indulged with its copious functions, from making advanced programs to learning how to do new projects to social media. Social media has evolved over the years, from Friendster to Myspace to Facebook, since the late 1990s, and people have incorporated it into their lives. It is the modern way for people to connect and communicate with anyone and everyone across the globe. Plus, social media is everywhere; people utilize it when they are on the bus, at the checkout line, and even when they are using the restroom. In Peggy Orenstein’s “The Way We Live Now: I Tweet, Therefore I Am,” she propounds that social media has altered society. Social media has changed society’s priorities, characteristics, and mentality.

Have you ever gotten into a quarrel with your parents? Have you ever fought relentlessly until you get your own way? Many times when children get into fights with their parents, they do not have the same views as the other person. They both angrily proclaim what they believe is correct, and why the other’s point is not valid. Parents and children typically argue back and forth with each other, and in the worst cases, the tension lingers for days. The narrator’s views in both Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes differ from the parent’s perspective and the child’s perspective. In many cases that I have encountered, I get mad at my parents for saying something that I do not agree with and that is irrelevant. Although

In Jack London’s “The Apostate” he demonstrates the use of conflict to convey the idea that subjugating children to a large amount of responsibility can have detrimental effects on their mental and physical state. The protagonist of the short story, Johnny, is a teenager that struggles with simultaneously being the “perfect” factory worker and the main provider of his family. Whenever he tries to communicate his feelings to his mother “…to express the sense of unfairness that he feels, his mouth closes with a snap” (9). Johnny knows that his mother will never truly understand him because she does not see from his perspective as a full-time factory laborer and caretaker, therefore his plea is futile. His state of being and mind deteriorates

Conflicts between Society “Most people don't listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply” (Covey). In other words, there are many conflicts in the world that drives people and things to respond with physical and mental actions. Few actions can be harmful towards anyone and could potentially increase the difficulty of resolving the conflict. However, with many types of conflicts in real-world problems and literature, many become a prime example of what the human or thing is capable of and soon becomes resolved. In the novel, The Lord of The Flies, written by William Golding; man vs. man, man vs. society, and man vs. self, are the conflicts between children that simulate the battles in mankind.

I Boynton’s “Birth of an Idea” that truly hit’s the nail on the matter of family conflicts and my reaction; he explains how “Conflicts between parents and children also interact with birth order and increase the likelihood that a child will reject authority.” In particular, “This is especially true in the case of firstborns who have bad relationships with their parents...” As giving as I was in some aspects of family affairs, and obedient, I was also rebellious in other aspects. I would not go as far as to say I had a bad relationship with my parent, but there were definitely serious conflicts. I choose to move away from my family and not accept this fatherly/man‐of‐the‐house position that seemed to have been requested of me unspoken and indirectly. In spite of these conflicts between my mother and me, relationships to my siblings always remained in good standing. This situation ties directly to another topic in Boynton’s work which is “Each child wants to monopolize more of his parents' resources (in order to increase his chances of survival) than they are willing to give, for the parents' genetic interests are better served by spreading their resources among several offspring.” At several points in the relationship with my family, I felt that I was giving more than I was receiving, and so, in order to receive more (by giving less) I needed to separate myself from my family. On the other hand, from my mother’s perspective, she was

The conflict is dramatized by the clash between Ralph and Jack, who respectively represent savagery and also civilization. The boys have to start having savagery and fear when they need to find food to eat. Some of the boys have to experience being cruel to animals so they can have a meal for the morning, afternoon, and night. In this book, Jack tends to show a lot of savagery. For example, he has to kill the pig, appears less time while he attempts to hunt/kill pigs, him and other boys leave and attempt to kill the beast, and so on. At night as they are scared and alone in a new environment, they conjure up an image of a beast. That’s when the boys also showed fear when it came to the

The writing in both of the articles I chose are effective to the discourse community. While being slightly different, they both offer insight in how to assist children during times of conflict. Both articles begin to explain ways of resolution through modeling a good example, ways of conversation from

The true nature of man is something that has been debated constantly throughout both literary and philosophical history. Many exceptional individuals have argued both man’s innate innocence and his savagery. In the award-winning novel, Lord of the Flies, author William Golding expertly establishes that man’s nature is to behave malevolently when afraid through his effective use of symbolism, archetype, and allegory.

Wallace Stevens once said, “Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.” In other words, water conforms to the shape of its container in the same manner human nature conforms to society. However, when human nature is released from society, it can cause people to tend toward savagery. This concept of human nature is shown in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In the novel, civilization and sensibility are lost when a group of schoolboys find themselves on a desolate island and fall to their own brutality. Through their self-interest, fearfulness, and dominance, the boys portray that when human nature is emancipated from the constraints of society, it can draw people away from reason and toward savagery.

Initially, the narrator raises an example of a child who beheld how his mother got mistreated by his man. When the folk brawled he used to shut his ears and attempted to eschew caring. Instead, the boy listened to loud music and the parents became cursed at him. With the aid of the article the lecturer elucidates that children are not bystanders in such occasions, on the contrary, they

     Throughout the story the Protagonist demonstrates a very unbalanced relationship with her family members. She feels intimidated by the world around her and turns her lack of knowledge into knowledge by controlling and influencing her younger brother Laird. She does so by telling him stories and exposing him to experiences she claims to be familiar with. In her later years her relationship with her brother becomes strong as they both realize they can benefit from each other’s experiences and differences. As a child the Protagonist viewed her father as God-like because he had control and organization over the lives and deaths of the foxes. In essence he became her hero as she admired his control over the animals. In her future relationship with her father she came to see that he was simply a business man and she made a great attempt to form a deeper relationship with her father. As she began to understand he was simply human and was no longer fearful of him. Her relationship with

Social Media and its Impact on Social Behavior Social Media and its Impact on Social Behavior Introduction Social media has drastically changed how people communicate. How many people remember how it feels to hear the phone ring in the house or receive a letter in the mail? Today’s youth know nothing other than text messages, tweets, and Facebook. Social media and the social entertaining websites of today have affected social behavior in many ways. While there are many advantages to this technological advancement, these advancements can also result in many changes in social behaviors. Some of the few prominent changes in social behavior, due to social media, are lack of communication skills, changes in self-esteem and cyber

Final Essay: Social Media Influences Thoughts and Morality In today’s society you can keep up to date with current information, due to social media. While also keeping in touch with family and friends around the world. Going through their updates, and generating likes. These likes could be the individual’s post about their life events, vacation, or simply just their opinions. It’s these post that are structuring the way we think, as we read their post, and press that like button. Even if we do not agree with their post, we could feel obligated to press like, and then we are influenced. In this paper, I will argue that our thoughts, and morality are highly influenced by social media from adults to even kids.

Social Media and Interpersonal Relationships Samarise Jackson PHI 103: Informal Logic Prof. Larry Baker May 29, 2017 In the world we live in today, people have the opportunity to interact with one another due to the advancement in technology. For many years people relied on the traditional ways of communications, for example pay phones,