Misanthropy Project

I wish I could place the blame on having unfavorable English teachers like I’ve frequently heard others have the misfortune of facing, although this was never the case. There is no one person or situation that I can claim is responsible for my constant, creeping feelings of inadequacy and I have no knowledge of why I started placing such extreme amounts of pressure on myself. All I know is that it soon seeped into other areas of my life. It was no longer just English in which I strived for perfection, but every subject, every task- inside and outside of school. Almost like everything in my life would be graded and the only grade I would accept is that A, always an A. This obsession, ironically, more often leads to my failure.

In my lifetime I haven’t really had big obstacles that I have had to deal with, but encountered few minor problems that I’ve tried to fix. For example, I have had trouble with my grades this year and was terrified that I wasn’t going to pass any of my classes. I had barely slid by with the grades that I had gotten first semester. I did not realize that final exams were put to your semester grade and was worried that would have major effect on my grades. On top of that I was stressed that my first two quarters were combined.

Teachers in my other subject started to notice my improvement. Even with my glaring weakness in grammar I was receiving mostly B's on paper just because my thoughts were written out in a concise and well thought out manner.

My first failure discouraged me to the point where, I felt like I would never reach an advanced math level again. The lack of self-confidence that resulted from my sub-par math scores soon began to negatively affect some of my other classes. I quickly realized that the trend had to stop. I worked diligently to achieve what, at the time, seemed unattainable. My change in the outlook of my repeated failures helped me to finally succeed. Throughout the course of the last two years, I have grown more self-aware in my study habits. I push myself even harder when I think I have done the best I can.

In addition of the different points of view professor Chew’s was giving I feel guilty of doing the same mistake over and over again. Because I never realize the mistake I was doing and because of that there were hard times and now it’s time to change the problem. In my opinion it wouldn’t be different if teachers would have given betters feedback to improve. Several times what happened to me was that the teachers only says you need to improved but they weren’t specific

The disorder I choose was Susto, Susto is a disorder of being frighten and chronic somatic suffering stemming from emotional trauma. The trauma can come from either witnessing or traumatic experiences lived by others. Susto indigenous from Central Americans and Texas, however this illness is very common in the Central America. Apparently Susto is conceptualized as a series of spirit attacks. A symptom that occurs during this illness includes loss of appetite, loss of interest in personal appearance, depression and many more symptoms that applies to Susto.

Antisocial personality disorder is a condition as to where the person that has the disorder tends to be manipulative, deceitful, reckless or malicious.

Through out the majority of my life I have had issues with being antisocial but not in the most obvious way. In they way where I can talk t people be friends and all is well. But I was antisocial when it came to friendship being in groups of friends I always strayed away and to this day I still do I just don’t know why. I guess you could say I have problems with feeling included? This is mostly due to my anxiety my mind always racing a mile a minute wondering things like what do I say? Should I say anything? Should I just leave? I was overly self-conscious and that was just the root to all of these issues. I guess it got out of control because it was effecting me deeply and my mother took me to a doctor who then recommended me to a sort life coach, you could call her a therapist but that not quite what she is. In the darkness of that phase of my life she managed to get me to turn on my own light. She helped me see that every day had light every day began with a new light that was brighter than the day before and there is good

When faced with a problem, I tackle it and move on. But with this disorder there is no moving on. When I wake up, it’s there. When I walk through the halls at school, it’s there. When I am making up excuses as to why I can’t hang out with friends, it’s there. I’ve always been an upbeat person, I’ve always wanted to go shopping or see movies with friends. But this puts a damper on my spontaneity.

Journaling helped me see that I don’t actually study as much as I need to and that I also make many excuses. At first I thought it was because I spend too much time at my sister in laws house on the weekend but then I realized that it’s because I’m just lazy and I watch too much television. Once I went home after school, I was too tired to study or do homework. All I wanted to do was eat, watch televisions and relax. I wanted to achieve my end goal but I couldn’t build up the effort to work at achieving it. I don’t know how to self-regulate my actions; I tend to let myself slide by in my work. I know I can try harder but I have a low self-efficacy. When recording I would try to remember what I’ve done for the past couple of days on pure memory.

Life what is it and is it worth living? Well in my sense l think it's not that great. You have hundreds of people judge you from the moment you're born all the way up until the moment you die. Constantly competing for the highest stance, the alpha of the group. Anything less than perfect is unacceptable. You are defined be numbers your entire existence your GPA, IQ, weight, height, basically everything. Everyday life is a competition, survival of the fittest. So your whole life you are striving to be perfect and what happens when you get there you die just keel over and disappear from everything you know. But you think is the cycle truly over? Can you finally relax in your grave and say you worked your whole life? Or do you have to prove yourself once again? Well many believe that when

In the handout there is a article where it is been making clear, that teens who leaves school before 18 could face criminal action, and I agree, but there is also standing that young people from poor families is considered to help stay in full time education without dropping out, and this is here I see the problem. Cause in the United States, you have to pay to start on an education, and what about those families how cant afford it? Should the parents just watch their kids walk out in the criminal zone, or what should they do?

The nature versus nurture debate is an ongoing debate among social scientists relating to whether ones personality/personal characteristics are the result of his/her inherited genetic traits or the result of environmental factors such as upbringing, social status, financial stability, and more. One of the topics that are discussed among psychologists is the study of violent behavior among people as a whole, and in particular, individuals. Social scientists try to explain why people commit acts of violence through explanation of either side of the nature or nurture schools of thought. However, the overwhelming amount of research done into the relation of violent behavior and the nature versus nurture debate indicated that nurture is the primary explanation to explaining violent behavior because violent traits are learned from adults, someone’s social upbringing is a major factor to why some people are more violent than others, and finally influences from news media, movies, and video games enhance the chance for someone to exhibit violent behavior. In conclusion, violent behavior is a complex issue without a clear explanation that is overwhelmingly supported by the nurture side of the debate.

Ever since I started fifth grade, things start to become more serious and have more challenging learning obstacles to prepare for the future. Each year I have always done the same mistakes or dealt with problems without really looking back and thinking of how I can change it. I always struggled in math. I didn’t learn as fast as the others or get it right the first try. I tend to ask help and make mistakes which doesn’t

Imagine waking up in the morning, believing that one has the right to do what he wants and take what he can, from whomever and wherever. The day will be filled with callous, deceitful, violent, reckless and endangering acts to which one is immune to the pain others may suffer (Antisocial personality part 1, 2000). This is how a person with anti-social personality disorder behaves daily. In this paper, the topic of Anti-social personality disorder, its definitions, causes, symptoms, and treatments will be discussed.