Scrolling through Twitter, you see a friend has posted a mocking photo of a girl from class that is always reading comics and answering all the questions. You share it with Thomas, a boy in your Geometry class. He sends you back laughing emojis and shares it with his friend. Moving on, you see multiple people have retweeted it and some popular girl has posted it on Snapchat with the phrase, "weirdo," attached. The next day in school, everyone is talking and laughing about it, including you when you see the girl running down the hallway towards the bathroom, wiping tears from her eyes. No one follows her to see if she's okay and there’s no way you will; you want to blend in with your friends. The next day, there's an assembly during your first
Have you ever felt like everyone in the class is looking at you? That was me in 8th grade, the new kid, not only to the school but to the country. My family and I had just moved from Germany to Columbus, Georgia, it was a big change in all of our lives. I sat in that class with not an a sliver of an idea of what I was doing, where I was going, or how I was going to survive this year. My shoes were not exactly the most stylish, neither were my clothes, Germany was not exactly the most fashionable country, so why would I be, I had lived there for 12 years of my life, I was 12 at the time. My teacher was Mr. Kahlouch, an old grouchy man that I would learn to not like even more as the year passed, but today he would make me stand up and introduce myself to a class where it seemed every student had already produced their own clique. I told myself that I would be okay, that it wasn’t a problem, and thought of the old cliché, “picture everybody naked.” I was ready, I walked up to the front of the class took a deep breath and went, “Hi my name is…” I woke up about an hour later, I had passed out in front of everyone in my new class at my new school, in this new country.
Let's say you are chatting with your girlfriend/boyfriend (or your pervert friend) about normal casual subjects. Could be anywhere; alone in your room at night, in
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For most of my life growing up, I’ve been concerned about what other people thought of me. Being friendless in elementary made me more worried about my appearance and my social status. Am I too heavy? Am I too quiet? Am I considerate or am I selfish? As these questions repeated in my head like a broken record, I constantly wanted to be accepted by other students. I wanted to feel that sense of joy and acceptance that I didn’t have. But as soon as a new student with a foreign tongue entered my school, I was faced with a choice. Should I bully him like the rest of my peers do when there’s a new student at school or should I be friends with him like the good person I am? Because William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet demonstrates that following the crowd doesn’t guarantee good results, humanity today has also been plagued by it for generations.
Exordium: (On phone taking a selfie). *talking to myself* What filter should I use. Dog filter. And send. Oh, Hello All. I didn’t see you there.
So all in all it is not perfect, but for action sports, especially when used on helmet mounts I would take the Session over the Hero 4 silver any day. If you have used a GoPro before you should have a pretty good idea if a super small GoPro is for you. If you need the decreased size, go for it. This is still a great camera, and the 4K functions (which this model lacks) aren't terribly useful anyways. However if you are new to GoPro, take a moment to decide if you really need a camera this small, because the regular GoPros are small as it is. The GoPro app is free and very functional, but with only a little bit of practice you can use the LCD screen on regular GoPros much, much faster. Consider too that sometimes you will be in wet environments
Before I deliver this speech, let me just check my instagram and snapchat. Oh no there’s a video of someone doing this speech. I’m probably not gonna do as good as that guy but let me find out. I need to put my phone away. Okay.
I love South Western High School! I think that I deserve to represent my school and be a Princess. I am always showing my school pride during spirit weeks, dressing up for everyday. I love going to cheer on other sports teams in the student sections and dressing up to the themes. I am a South West legacy, my parents (including step) and all my aunts and uncles went to South West and I take that to heart showing it in my school pride. Being a part of Key Club is important to me. The community gives so much to my school and they deserve it back. It also makes the community see how good we, students, are. Throughout a week I probably spend 2 hours with Key Club, but all year I have spent more than 50 hours. I am also very dedicated to my sports
Here we are again! By this time you have probably gotten your bearings and things are moving smoothly along. I am sure you've met just about everyone at your school who will be important to you, and you've probably dealt with deans, counselors, and the like. Lesson Five: Find out who at your school can help you, what exactly they do. Be realistic in the help you seek. Lesson Five focuses on the reality of what these people's jobs are, as opposed to the ideal that we hold for them. Unfortunately, most of the power that we believe these people have does not really exist. Counselors: In an ideal world, counselors have time to hold group sessions, and meet consistently with kids to help them through their difficulties, which may involve grief
In April 2017, a children's media expert, Sara DeWhitt, gave an intriguing but short speech that she titled "3 fears about screen time for kids--and why they aren’t true" to compelled the audience to believe that children are highly impacted by screen time. This speech was spoken at an official Ted Talk conference located in Vancouver, Canada. The speech was just shy of twelve minutes, but has the future ability to impact millions of people for millions of years. Throughout her speech, DeWhitt focuses the discussion on the positive impact of screen time and contests the perceived negative one. Her main purpose was to correctly inform the audience of the fears most people commonly believe. This is easily identifiable when she discusses her fears and backs them up with statistics and data, she had previously studied. (Q1) The central message was easy to pick up and clear in her speech because she exaggerated that she had three points and then later went on in the body paragraphs to discuss each fear she had for the future of electronic devices. (Q2) The speech never left me questioning what her purpose was. It was abundantly clear that she wanted the truth of these devices to be released and that's what she accomplished.
At one point in our lives or another, we have all been to school, we have all been into the lunchroom, and we have all seen those few children that sit by themselves and don’t say anything, don’t look around, and don’t seem even the least bit interested. The greater parts of society looks at these odd children and then brushes them off and say to themselves “Oh they are just weird, I wouldn’t want to be their friend either.” But have you ever stopped and thought maybe its something deeper? Maybe these kids have a mental disorder that causes them to be that way. Maybe, just maybe, its not even their own choice but its forced upon them by abusive and neglectful parents that obliterate their children’s trust so far that they cant even
When I came back home to California from my last trip to Vietnam, I felt different. In the sense that I was more confident about who I was being that my eczema was beginning to clear up. However, I was still having a hard time making friends and here is when the warning sign of insecurity prevailed. As I entered into junior high, I started to notice that many girls at this age tend to be very concerned with other people’s looks and their actions. With that in mind, I made the worst mistake trying to fit in. Instead of expressing my individuality, I copied what others were doing. In other words, I faked it until I made it. Towards the end of eighth grade, I figured that I should not worry so much about fitting in with specific groups in middle school, but more so in a bigger place like high school. When freshman year finally came around, I was determined that everything was going to be much better. Instead of being negative and worrying about what other people did not like about me, I decided to embrace my flaws. Little did I know, this was the secret antidote I have been searching for all along. By learning to embrace my flaws and be proud of who I was, I was able to attract people who liked me for who I was. The first two years of high school ended up going by much better than I imagined. But within a blink of an eye, everything started had gotten worse unplanned. About two months into my junior year, many cliques started to form. Suddenly everyone who I knew was placed
Describes and analyzes interpersonal relationships. April was as two other schools before coming to Poe Middle School. At this point she was feeling distressed, emotional, and a sense of abandonment. She had to start all over again on meeting new friends, feeling safe at school, building relationships with teachers and getting used to a new environment. The first few weeks April attended Poe Middle School, she would constantly cry in some of her classes. I was a difficult adjustment that April had to get used to because she wanted did not want to leave her other school. After working with April for a few weeks, I was able to convinced her that it would take some time to adjust to her new environment and if she could give it a try. After a few weeks, April was able to make some friends and was not crying as often. During one of my counseling sessions with April, she was having a difficult time with dealing with peers who have social media. In April’s case, she does not own a cell phone nor have social media. Several weeks into school a group of girls were taking Snapchat pictures of her and other targeted groups of girls and posting them on social media. Whenever April would have that group of girls, they would laugh and giggle but April never knew why. This
Phones. They’re the light of our lives. They make the world go round. We walk around taking pictures of everything from sights to food. We post our every move from our phones. We stay connected and socialize through our phones--which is both a blessing and a curse, but that’s neither here nor there. But what happens when you lose your phone for a year? Does the world continue spinning? Does it stop? Do you still have a life? Well, in case you were wondering...or even if you weren’t, I’m here to give you a little insight.
Do you see her? She’s all alone. She must be poor. She’s always wearing those same busted shoes, with those dirty old blue jeans, and that god awful green frog shirt. Let's take a picture of her. #poor girl #junky #disgusting. That picture got over 1,000 likes, 50 repost, 25 memes, and over 500 disturbing comments. “she will never be anything.” “she is a piece of trash.” “she probably smells exactly how she looks.” Those are some of the comments that were left under that one picture. Not once did anyone think the picture was hurtful towards the girl. Now that you liked that picture of her you started to see the girl around school now. You also see the girl putting her lunch in her book bag. So, you decided to follow the girl home, well the home you thought she had, because you come to realize that her mom and she live out their car. She brings her lunch home from school so she can share with her mom. Did it ever dawn on you that the picture of her you liked, retweeted, re snapped, and even laughed at was hurtful? Well did you also know cyberbullying is a crime and that it is taken serious in middle and high schools? Making a person feel down is the worst feeling ever. You make them feel overwhelmed, powerless, exposed, humiliated, and dissatisfied with themselves.