“Our lives begin to end the moment we stay silent about things that matter” -Martin Luther King Jr. In history, many people have taken a stand for race, religion, gender, or human rights in general. It is common to walk around downtown Chicago and see a blown up rat or a group of protesters outside of a business or store. Although sometimes they get fired or in trouble, these people have the courage to stand up for their rights as a worker. However, it doesn’t always lead to what they want. If you have ever taken a stand in your life, you’d know, sometimes arguing is not the answer. Recently, I stood up for what I believed in. It all started with my friend Colette, a girl I have known since we were little toddlers; she is a bit full of herself, …show more content…
Regardless of what Colette says, she is always backed up. As you can probably infer, Colette and I argue a lot; our natural habit to be the leader gets us in fights. In our friend group, however, she is always supported. From day one, our ballet clique has consisted of four people: Colette, Maya (my sister), Elly, and the youngest, yours truly. Maya is a complete follower, she and Colette have been best friends forever, so Maya always does whatever Colette does, and vise versa. Elly is a total angel; she doesn’t want to get in an argument with anyone, so she always stays neutral, no matter the controversy. In other words, my side of the argument is always lacking. One day at ballet, we were sitting in the dressing room tuning out Colette and Maya’s extensive conversations, when I decided to listen. They were talking about religion, how they are Atheists. They said they didn’t think it makes sense to believe in Jesus and that religion is not accurate. Elly is very Christian, her dad is a pastor; they go to church every Sunday. Regardless, she wouldn’t say anything, so I stepped up to the plate. I was tired of Colette thinking she was always right and tired of Maya always agreeing. They didn’t acknowledge that there are other people around them, other people whose religion they may not want to be dissing. I told them that they needed to respect other people’s beliefs and that if they wanted to talk about what they believe in, they …show more content…
She went for the common one, that I always overreact about things that don’t even matter that much. I counteracted by saying that religion does matter and that she has to know that people may not always agree with her, a common argument for me too. “Seriously Sonya, you need to stop being so worried about everything, it’s not that big of a deal” she said, to that I said “You don’t need to get all riled up because no one ever disagrees with you”; the whole thing just ended with an extensive fight, and us not talking to each other for the rest of the
Sexuality is a major ordeal in today's reality. With online networking and the advancement of individuals nearing around and acting naturally. When I say acting naturally I imply that you are alright with individuals tolerating you for whom you are. You're not stressed over the kickback you may get from being distinctive. It is alright to act naturally and not need to stress over what individuals think like numerous years back. The changing of genders of Bruce Jenner has everybody feeling great with whom they are. We are all not the same everybody. Furthermore, individuals are additionally ready to not pass judgment on you. Everybody has somebody in his or her family that is distinctive so individuals are more satisfactory to things in 2015
From the moment I was able to tie my shoes and button my jacket, I knew I wanted to be a doctor. While all my classmates at the La Petite Academy made macaroni trees and smiley faces, I drew myself with a stethoscope curing a poor man with the cold. Every year in elementary school, we had career day. Never straying from my love to helping others I wanted to be a surgeon one year, to a dentist the next, and even an obstetrician, I changed my mind quickly once I found out what they did. Looking back on my childhood, I always had a connection with animals and always loved being around them. Early mornings I would open our nearly frozen-shut windows listening to the birds calling. Beside from the squawking of the crows, I heard a soft, pleasant yet curious bird call. It stuck out to me
Everybody in the church loved this one family, four girls. Long fixed hair and makeup. What they thought a young lady should be! I was invited to a lunch at the preachers house, him and his wife invited me and the four princesses. They started talking about them playing tennis and doing track. I can't do sports, so I do art! I tried to join the conversation by saying "I'm taking art classes". I was completely ignored. They just waved me off. I was heartbroken and very angry. They invited me, to ignore me. But guess what! It gets even better. When the oldest of the four princesses started doing art, the whole church started caring about her art. I started a year before her and nobody cared, they'd stop talking to me to talk to them about
Throughout the past year I went through a great deal of undertakings that caused me to become more experienced with my skills and how to overcome various challenges. These really built up my character and the way I am today. In all aspects, this past year consisted of going to Killington, Vermont, my brother going into the Air Force, meeting him in Texas for his graduation of basic training, completing a double backflip on a trampoline, landing a front flip on flat ground, accomplishment of a 2 ½ front flip on a diving board, getting 2nd at leagues, and competing in districts. All of these activities have advanced me in a skill or challenged me to an extent.
The world is constantly changing with the technological advances and societal issues, in which conflicts arise and unfurl . Many people stand for their ideas and beliefs; but, many people tend to forget the meaning and importance of standing up for what one believes in.
For many, their formative years have a large influence on who they become as adults. This can happen in many different ways including new experiences, discovering a new sport or hobby, and uncovering what they are passionate about. For me, this was falling in love with a new language from a very young age and becoming very interested in the culture that was associated with it.
Failure is truly negative if we choose to not learn from it. When we face setbacks and difficulties, we are given golden opportunities to grow as people. Learning from our shortcomings makes us wiser, stronger, and unveils a chance to turn an undesirable outcome into a building block of character. My hockey career has been a sinusoidal trail of highs and lows, but I always learned from the downturns.
Although, I enjoyed steady employment my desire to finish school lingered with me. I needed a guided path of straight forward thinking with no distraction also with no life worries of daily living and survival.
When i was born, i had a breathing problem, and paralyzed from head to toe. The doctor had to straped tubes to me, so I can breath properly. They have to perform operations on me, but It was unsuccessful. The doctor said, that i will die in a couple of hours. My mom and dad were shocked that was still alive in the morning. I was recovered so fast it was a miracle. A year later, i was out the hospital. 10 year laters, my parent was watching nba on tv ,while i was sleeping in my bed. Then the power went off suddenly. BOOM!! Glass broke.! I woke up and got curious where the sound came from, so i got out of bed, grab my baseball bat and went to investigative.i tiptoe into the hall wall trying not to make a sound. Then i heard a gun shots and
The fourth chapter is almost a continuation of chapter three. I this chapter it looks at the 50:50 nation more as a whole rather than the individuals and there almost equal views. IT first talks about sorting and how this has brought the views of polarization into new light. A few decades ago many people were of different parties, such as a democrat with some conservative views and visa versa. In years since there has been two ways to take the information from here. The first is sorting, which is a real think, it is when people are starting to identify purely as there party without many adjectives. All this does is nicely sort everyone into the respective categories. When looking through a biased polarized lenses people are not seeing the settling
"Please fastened your seatbelt" I felt my heart raced against my chest as I inspect my uncle lips translating loudly to my parents. As I gazed out the window, it frightens me that I am across the world where I was originally from. The spring breeze from mid April at night gave me the chill down my spine, it was extremely cold for us. As we were in line to get our papers done I held my parents hands, deep inside I shed a tear because my soul is whimpering as it try to overcome my body from the fear of the inexperienced lifestyle.
I have learned throughout the years that I am a person who gets nervous easily. Whether it is a speech, difficult test, or sports game I can count on the fact that I will be nervous, no matter the context. For me there are two things that I constantly worry about in these situations; the many possible bad outcomes, and the hype that comes before any of these situations. For example, when I was younger and had to go get a shot I would always stress about it leading all the way up to the shot. My mom would always say that the build-up is worse than the actual event. But, by over exaggerating the pain I thought I would feel, I validated my claim that shots are stressful. She was right, the shot and the accompanying pain were gone in ten minutes.
My summer wasn’t the best but I had fun. First off I came back from a vacation in Custer. I came home on June 2, 2015. When I returned home, I decided I go get a job for the summer so I won’t be too bored and start to think negatively. I went to city park a lot during the summer because some of my friends and I were playing basketball. I also didn’t like that I had to deal with my mom being in the hospital. She was in a very bad condition until finally she got to come home and now I’m just putting stress on her.
At the end of a long road was a cul-de-sac, and settled along the end was an apartment complex. Every day a silver coupe would keep a regular transit schedule; it would leave at 6:30 A.M., arrive for lunch break, take off to finish the work day, and at 4:00 P.M. it would take me back home at the apartment complex at the end of a strangely long cu-de-sac. After a ten minute shower I hopped back into the coupe and drove to my second job; I was usually on top of things and could manage my time well. 8:30 rolled by and I knew I was only thirty minutes from clocking out.
“I’m the one that’s got to die when I have to die so let me live life the way that I want to.” (Jimi Hendrix). This quote inspired me to do everything that I do to the fullest because life is short. This quote is a great quote because it sums my entire life up in under 25 words. I am writing this letter so that I will be able to help you get to know me as a student and as a friend better. I can’t wait to start this school year off so that I can learn how to do so many different things and help me in areas that I need help on.