Understanding Life As We Know It

Many of us are leaving a fake life on the daily bases. Some do it in order to fit with other people, other because they are afraid that people will see them as some kind of freaks. In the Novel, we

In An Argument for Being a Poser, Liz Armstrong describes the crucial dilemma every young person faces about their identity, and to which subgenre do they belong to. Armstrong argues that such question can be both totally ridiculous, and actually very important; which leads to beginning of the process of discovering “who you are.” Furthermore, she describes the fictional subculture that you chose for your escape; within your chosen subgenre you don’t have to pretend to be different, and people understand you. In other words, your chosen subgenre is your place of escape, it is the place where acceptance and freedom is present. Besides, the fact of looking for a hidey-hole, she informs us with a life changing situation at the age of 16 years old. She describes the experience as being life changing, the kids she came across were simultaneously were role-playing and professing as being someone which they weren’t part of. Consequently, Armstrong used that moment to adapt to new change, which she describes as “not dressing up or being normal again.” She describes herself looking like a punk one day with a spiked collar, a crushed-velvet mini skirt the another day. Thus, for that reason she couldn’t fit in with honor students, nor the art kids. She couldn’t fit in with the honor student because for them she was too weird, but for the art kids she couldn’t draw. For this reason, she went from being a straight-A student to a what she describes a poser. Furthermore, Armstrong argues

Throughout generations in literature, “to live deliberately” has been the goal and purpose of life. As Alexander Supertramp (aka Chris McCandless) said, “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun” (57).

‘How to live?’ I’m sure many of us are trying to figure it out. We learn about the meaning of life every second. Many people get lost and most of them think that they know what their hearts beat for and they are successful. Yet, they are just chasing fortune and fame, so as the author, when he was graduated from college. He buried himself

There is no correct way to live life. There cannot be one approach to life, because there are multitudes of contrasting varieties of people walking the Earth. Although, a technique that can be applied individually to anyone’s life is balance. Like my dad says, too much of anything isn’t a good thing, everything is good in moderation. Everyone needs to find harmony in their lives between family, friends, love, hate, work, play, healthy food, junk food. Anytime that there is contrasting ways to live life, there needs to be balance. I do not know of anyone who has ever enacted a perfect balance of everything in life for longer than a day. Day to day, life changes and we cannot be so focused on one goal, whether the goal be complete fun all the time or working day in and day out, because we will miss the beauty of life. I believe to be successful, we need to find a balance that works for our life, and a person whose balance is compatible with ours. Having tunnel vision gets us nowhere. We need to see all aspects of life, the good, the bad, the fun, the unpleasant, the work and the pastime and work them together into a suitable

In class we read the book, Life As We Knew It, by Susan B. Pfeffer. It is about a girl named Miranda who lives in New York with her mom, and brother Matt who is coming home from college. They see on the news that an asteroid is going to collide with the moon, so Miranda, Laura and Johnny throw a party. When the asteroid hits the moon, the moon becomes a lot closer to the Earth. Many world catastrophes start to occur around the world like massive tsunamis, tornadoes and lightning storms. What I will be talking about is my favorite scenes from the story.

"Life as We Knew It," is a book by Beth Pfeffer, which is known to be science fiction. The story involves environmental changes, which involves science but can be fictional as well because it is not likely to happen in reality. So this story was written by Beth Pfeffer and she had decided to write this book after watching a show about a meteor. She asked herself, what it would be like to be a teenager living in a catastrophe. Beth later came up with the story, writing it as a 16 year old girl's diary. The story first main point starts out with everyone getting ready to watch a meteor pass and ends up hitting the moon.

In life, there are many ways you can live, however, the manner in which you live is your choice. In most peoples’ lives, they want to leave this world and say that they were happy and enjoyed every single moment of it. People feel like if they lived a happy life, then that is all that matters. But what if life has more to do than just being happy, what if it was meant for you to change the world or the lives of others? If you changed the life of another person and made them happy, you made a difference. A happy life is a good one, but a meaningful life is fruitful.

In the quote above, William Shakespeare, describes that a person needs to place who they are and being confident above everything else. Nothing is worse than regretting a situation in life because someone wasn’t being their true self. No one should ever let success, a relationship, or what people think of them get in the way of being who they are. They may be putting on a mask and acting like a different person to try and impress the popular group in school or someone that they really like. In the long run, they may miss out on a great friend or relationship where they are not judged . The 90’s film, “Clueless”, is a perfect example of this quote. The protagonist, Cher Horowitz, tries changing who she is to find a boyfriend. She wants to

The poem, ‘Warren Pryor’ by Alden Nowlan, introduces a boy, freed from the hard-labor on a farm because of the sacrifices made by his parents. However, it evokes a sense of him feeling trapped, not freed. In the poem, ‘Barbie Doll’, by Marge Piercy, a girl modifies her appearance because she is compelled to do so; in the end, it costs her, her life. Perceived as ‘successful’, isn’t the same as being successful. Both these poems educe change made for someone else's advantage, suggest an important message to their audience, and contain characters in which appear successful to others, not to themselves.

being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live” (120).

When people try too hard to be accepted they will never be happy, and they also will never find their true personality. Jeanne tried so hard to fit in with the American culture that she never was her regular self. “From that day forward I lived with this double impulse: the

A quote by the author that highlights this idea of not being able to be who you are is, “I wanted to be a princess and a prince; but I would never have said so, then”. This emphasizes the underlying fear many have of being judged by the outside world. It is very unfortunate that so many are still unable to say the things they wish to say and dress the way they want to dress because society perceives it to be unacceptable or wrong.

Humans are an interesting species because of the strong need humans have to fully understand what it truly means to be human. Many fields such as history, psychology, and sociology all offer a perspective in the study of humanity, but there are distinguishable from anthropology. Anthropology differs from other humanities fields due to its holistic nature, comparative research methods, and the strong emphasis on fieldwork and participant interaction. Anthropology is the study of people throughout the world, their evolutionary history, how they behave, adapt to different environments, communicate and socialize with one another. In order for anthropologists to examine the full scope of human life, they employ the four field approach that embodies the holistic nature of the field.

As living beings, we tend to wonder about the answer to our existence. What is my purpose? Who am I? Why am I here? These questions that appear in our thoughts are probably due to encounters with experiences of struggle. In every human being that has ever lived, struggle is part of life. It is an obstacle that is faced every day. There are some who struggle more than others. It is a hardship they endure and try to breakaway to be free from it. In many cases, struggling varies from one another. Such as, the struggle to be free and the struggle to live. In United States of America, the nation is known by many, and perhaps worldwide for its American Dream and being the Land of the Free, but also for its shameful historical past of slavery.