Physical Differences: Causes and Effects

That’s why everyone wants to be like them. While reading the book Uglies by Scott Westerfield, the uglies view the pretties as their role model, and want to be just like them when they turn 16. “There was something magic in their large and perfect eyes,something that made you want to pay attention to whatever they said,to protect them from any danger,to make them happy.they were so…..pretty.”(pg7) Pupils might also be treated differently, because of how popular they or how many people know them. One example in the book that talks about this is that the pretties are treated differently than the uglies by them having more advantages than the uglies are given just because they’re pretty. Such as they are allowed to stay up as long as they want and they get more freedom and dependency than the uglies. Children might also have the tendency of pushing others away who might be labeled as tenuous , or have been constantly being picked on by others.For example, if there is a group project and the students are allowed to pick their partners, students might not pick the people who are being picked on in school in order for them not to be picked on themselves and so they don't look bad towards their other

As kids you always learn that some words are just bad to say publicly, but I’ve always embraced being a four-eyed pridester! Though pridester isn’t exactly a real word, it encompasses all the joy that having an extra set of eyes brings to me daily. However, this journey hasn’t always been easy and glasses can get in the way of daily life. Let’s start with not having glasses equipped with wiper blades. Do you know the angst that I feel every time my glasses become covered with a smoky smog during the winter, summer and rainy days. I go from utilizing four eyes to being visually impaired. And let’s not talk about how many times someone wants to try on your glasses. Like hello? I do need these things so that I won’t run into a wall. Also, let’s not get me started on the cleaning process. Every two seconds I’m breathing onto my lenses with a strong dragon-like breath to wipe them with my t-shirt, blouse, or even my grandma’s hanky. Can you say exhausting? And grandma

Social scientist find it attractive to accept biological explanation concerning differences because, first biological explanations have the ring of “true” science to them: Because their theories are based on “objective scientific facts,” the arguments of natural scientists are extraordinary persuasive (Kimmel 20). The second biological explanations seem to accord with our own observations: Women and men seem too different to us most of the time (Kimmel 20). For example, women are more emotional therefore they seem to love chick flicks because of the meanings and actions of love, meanwhile men are more aggressive so they prefer to watch action movies. Lastly the third biological explanation would be that there’s also a certain conceptual tininess to biological explanations, because the social arrangements between women and men seem to stem directly and inevitably from the differences between us (Kimmel 20).

Do you wonder what it is like for people who are different? How their life is affected by others opinions and thoughts? “Society looks down upon freakish and extraordinary individuals alike and views them with suspicion… they especially fear loners, those mysterious creatures who pursue their own values…?” (par.4). This quote from, “The Sociology of Leopard Man,” can be true to some people because society does do this to people who are different. Many people can agree with this statement about society looking down on individuals with different thoughts. These individuals change their appearance to get attention and no matter what they do society will not like these individuals beliefs. These are reasons why society looks at them in a bad way.

People are judged for their appearance all over the world, every day. People with brown, ragged clothes are assumed to be less intelligent, or homeless. People with long hair are assumed to be female. There are many stereotypes that limit the social actions of many people, and it is not just in real life. Rodman Philbrick shows that these stereotypes are not always true in the book “Freak The Mighty” in the form of Maxwell Cane, Kevin, Loretta, and Iggy Lee. All of those characters are misjudged by others, and in some cases, even by themselves. The message that your appearance does not determine who you are is very important, and applies to everyone everywhere.

People should not just assume others based on looks or size of another person. For example I saw this big and tall person at my school. He also had this dirty type of clothing that you would see in the dirty laundry bin. At first I was scared that he could judge me for being small or pick on me because he is way bigger than others. I actually went to talk to him while on the field because my two friends were talking to him. Since i first talked to him two years ago, we have still been great friends. In the novel Freak the Mighty, author Rodman Philbrick demonstrates the theme being don’t judge a book by its cover.

Some, a person’s physical appearance. Some though, affect more than just the individual. During freshman year, I got sick and tired of the stigma being built up in the very halls of my school. I had never talked back to a teacher or a faculty member in my life, and I still have yet to do so. But when an informed, caring individual like myself is not given the facts, there is bound to be a push-back. I was infuriated at what I believed to be the oppression of rights at my school, during my time off, during my lunch. I am talking about being asked if I was dealing, or selling, or doing drugs every time I hung out with my friends in the parking lot. I have never in my life touched recreational drugs, so this came as a complete outrage. I felt that the reasoning behind the decision did not justify the prejudice I was enduring as a teenager. That was my biggest issue with these events, I felt that the school was building a demagoguery, playing to our emotional side, instead of explaining the issue rationally. I was outraged that I was being treated like a criminal, so I would moan, and complain, and become irate every day at this oppression. It angered me so much that I considered scheduling a meeting with our principal to discuss the change of treatment for students. Before I could send a hostile, and angrily worded letter, I gave myself some time to breathe. As angry as I was(and still am) at the blanket of guilt being cast over every teen, I realized that it really did not matter that much. I reminded, and still remind myself every day that it is not worth throwing a fit over yet. Some things just have to be let go, because they are more trouble than they are

There is a phrase,” Don’t judge a book by its cover”, that has been taught over and over. It conveys that individuals should not pass judgment on others based on their looks but rather to look past their external appearance. The sad truth is that everyone does judge books by their covers; it is the first thing a person does. To put it another way, appearances influence how one is perceived and there are countless ways to prove this. One example would be in the book Lord of The Flies by William Golding. The author uses Piggy’s character and symbolism to demonstrate how his appearance impacts how his intelligence is perceived.

Which is not fair at all because people are people we are born different, made differently, so what makes people have the right to look down on someone due to something so small as apperance.

Some people have certain characteristics that make them stick out. In my case, it was my glasses. I was lucky that my peers didn't discriminate me for it or taunt me. However, that is not always the case. Some people like Ponyboy in S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders , are discriminated against due to their differences. In his situation, the rich kids made fun of him because he was poor. Differences can make a person unique or special. It all matters on how you look at

I have had glasses for all my life, I don't think my eyes were ever perfect. My mom and I have the worst eyesight ever. I have astigmatism in both eyes and I have both near and far sighted in my eyes. Everyone in my family wears glasses so I guess it was inevitable for me

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley describes how people exclude others due to the way they look. When Victor finished with his experiment and his creature was born, he was unable to accept his creation and “rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep” (Shelley, 105-106). Victor fled the room, unable to say anything. The creature was left to learn how to do everything on his own, because everyone was afraid of him. “I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept,” said the abandoned creature.

it is in our DNA to judge based on appearance. Stereotyping has affected my life at a very young

Sex and gender play a big part in american society today and are often misconstrued. These two topics have become progressive as people are starting to express their gender and sexuality in ways other than what is and has been considered the norm. Many people believe that sexuality and gender are synonymous with one another. Gender is socially constructed while sex is biologically determined. In society’s past, Americans often strayed away from discussing controversial topics, but with the rise of different ways of addressing people, it is deemed more important to understand. Along with the blurred lines of gender and sex comes sexuality, who someone is attracted to sexually. When people stray from society’s heteronormative mindset, they are often faced with many more challenges than the average hetero man or woman. People often have the preconceived notion that if something does not concern them, then they should not be involved in it. A person who could be your neighbor, co worker, or even child, may have to deal with the troubles of people confusing their gender identity with their sex. While also facing challenges that deal with the sex of the person they choose to love. Learning the difference between gender and sexuality will open the eyes of many people and see how the two are different but relate to one another very much.

The effects of marijuana have been examined in several studies that focused on long-term structural differences, cognitive impairments, prenatal risks and neural functioning deficits. Long-term structural abnormalities include reductions in the volume of the hippocampus, amygdala and nucleus accumbens, where these structures also exhibited changes in density and shape. Participants in several studies showed impairment in memory, learning, concentration, coordination, as well as decreased motivation. Marijuana has addictive properties and has dramatically increased in potency over the last decade, which has led to an increase in marijuana-related fatal car accidents and to an increase in emergency room visits. On the contrary, the non-psychoactive