Outside Influences

In “What are friends for?” by Marion Winik, She explains the type of friends that you may encounter throughout your lifetime. Winik explains the benefits of each friend and the impact that they have on your life. There are eight types of friends which are your Buddies, Relative friends, Work friends, Faraway friends, Former friends, Friends you love to hate, Hero friends, and New friend. They all play a role in your life. They make your life exciting. They are the reason why you don’t go totally insane. Friends are there to help you out.

In high schools all around the world there are students that might have a lot of friends or just a few, and it is the same with friendships too. Those friends and friendships could turn out to be negative or positive, depending on their impact on a student growing up. Like how a student could get peer pressured by his friends into doing drugs or underage drinking and then grow up being an alcoholic or a drug addict. A good situation could start out with a student that is challenged by his friends to do better in school and grows up to be a successful pro sports player or a successful business man who is very wealthy. Friends do have a great impact on who you turn out to be.

It is important to choose the right friends, good friends can take you wherever you want to go in life, and the wrong friends can be a disastrous decision. A quote from The Pact sums this up nicely, “Friendship can lift you up, strengthen and empower you, or break you down, weaken and defeat you.” (32) This is why it is so important to surround yourself with positive people, and

Friendship is something that everyone needs at any time. Friendship keeps us closely interacted with our friends, it keeps you popular, keeps you away from loneliness.

Friends can help people in multiple ways, but the main way is it gives people life skills.

Similarity, friends can have a huge impact on one’s identity. Friends can help you get through things. If a dog dies or parents get divorced you will have friends by your side. Friends can be bad because

Friendship is an integral part of the life of any human being. Most people feel the need to have a person who they can communicate with and talk about their challenges at any given time. Friendship is essential in

The principle outside influences in Southeast Asia were the British, Dutch, French, Spanish and Americans. The British colonized Singapore. The Dutch colonized Indonesia. The French colonized Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Spain colonized the Philippines before the country was turnover to the United States. Although Southeast Asian countries had their own identity even before the colonizers came, they were not as organized. Most SE Asian countries then did not have a central governing system. This was probably one of the reasons why SE Asian countries were attractive as potential colonies. Outside influences affected history more than SE Asian indigenous leaders at that time simply because these outside influences were countries that had the resources

Every day we make decisions that are influenced by those around us. The value sets that we begin to form at birth influence what we buy, what we wear, and how we act are always at risk based on the behavior of those around us. The people around us serve as either support to stick to, or an excuse to stray from what we believe. Outside influences such as the media, teachers, parents, and political leaders help young people to define our beliefs by exposing them to a wide variety of values; however, they can have a negative impact as well. If teenagers feel pressure from outside influences to take a certain side, they will not stay true to themselves and their values.

A quote from Jean Vanier I picked is "friendship can become helping each other to open up" what Vanier mean is you get to know who your friends are. what he means by helping each other open up is breaking the wall down and talking to your friends about yourself to share your thought and feeling that normally wouldn't be shared as well to be honest with yourself and your peers, it also emphasises Having deep conversations with your friends to get the most advice to help from them. I agree with Vanier because he is really focusing on the needs of friends in our life as well friends are important to have because they are easy people to communicate with and share your problems with, they are sort of compared to a family relationship because

Influences on people are everywhere in life. Things like culture, family, friends, locations, school, and activities are all examples of things that can influence a person’s life. Whether the influences are positive or negative depends on the person and situation. If someone likes something it might influence them positively. If someone dislikes something it may influence them negatively. Sometimes an influence can be neutral too, such as what you think of when you hear a word. Influences in general can be physical or mental.

Friends come in all shapes, sizes, and personalities. Everyone has a variety of different friends in life. A unusual sense of humor, great advice, and honesty are all things that come to mind when you think about a friend. Friends are important to have because they are a backbone when things get tough in life and are always there to love and support. However, anyone who has spent time with friends will notice that each one has a special personality with respect to their honesty, loyalty, and care. Basically, friend types can be fallen into three groups; acquaintances, activity friends, and best friends. Friends come in all shapes, sizes, and personalities. Everyone has a variety of different friends in life. Becoming aware of some of the different types of friends will allow you to understand them, and in the end it can strengthen your relationships with each other. In smaller schools a lot of these following types of friends will overlap, and that is perfectly fine. Having friends in multiple groups can lead to better friendships all throughout your life.

According to Aristotle there are three major forms of friendship; pleasure, utility, and character. A character friendship is a friendship that is held between two people who are both virtuous, or good, and wish to bring out the good in the other person. The friendship is based on wanting the other person to be good, not to receive a benefit from them becoming better, but because they want to see their friend become better for the sake of their friend. Aristotle describes this type of friendship as the highest form of friendship because both people in the friendship are morally good people who wish to make each other even morally better. While pleasure and utility friendships are easy and can dissolve quickly if something were to cause conflict,

When children are put into educational facilities, they get a chance to connect and surround themselves with others of the same age group. Schools can also have significant influence on a person’s individuality as well as peer groups, which influence a student’s academic integrity greatly. A student will not perform well no matter what the case is, if there is negative influence from his peers and their school environment. They affect a person’s attitude, personality in a positive or negative manner.

Everyone defines friendship differently. Some traits are more important than others to some individuals. The main traits that I personally believe make a friendship stronger is trust, loyalty, empathy, honest, a good listener, and supportive. Trustworthiness is an extensive trait for me because I want to be able to trust my friends and not question their loyalty. Trust has been identified as the “most vital in the realm of friendships” (Degges-White). I want to be able to say that I trust my friends with my life and big decisions. Friendship also needs loyalty in order to stay strong. People want to be able to tell their friends a secret and trust they won’t disclose the information to someone else. This is especially important in high school where one small rumor can make or break people’s reputation. Often time rumors aren’t true but if it’s juicy enough, people don’t care. So loyalty is very crucial. Empathy is necessary as well. Some day’s people just need someone to listen to them and show some empathy. Which means a friend who can respond accordingly to the situation. Whether that means just listening to their problems