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I remember the beginning of sixth grade, just like it was yesterday. Walking through the doors I had my backpack and lunchbox in hand excited to pass all classes with no problem.Unfortanately that thought was just a thought. Over the course of the year I failed tremendously by receiving my very first unsatisfactory grade. Before I have never received anything lower than a “B”, so to see a “C” it was heartbreaking for me. I know most students would love to see a “C” on their report card, satisfied with the feeling of not failing. Every report card I kept getting that same feeling of disappointment of seeing that “C” on my report card.

What was very intriguing was the follow up study provided by Nagel, Blignaut and Cronje (2007), in which student rated others’ participation. This study showed that peers could indicate which students were successful just by their participation. This indicates that online participation is essential to creating a healthy online community (Collison, et al., 2000).

Many people are blind-sighted and tricked into being sucked into the world of celebrities and reality tv. This occurrence is known as celebrity worship syndrome and it can have many detrimental effects. Research has found that celebrity worship syndrome and an addiction to celebrities “has likewise been conceptualized as a search for a solid identity and social role ... and compulsive and obsessional elements are noted at advanced stages of addiction ... Thus, while absorption can partially account for the vividness of delusions related to dissociative experience ... the progression along our hierarchy of celebrity worship might reflect increases in the thresholds of the need and capacity of psychological absorption” (Rockwell). The absorption-addiction model that Rockwell references describes the parasocial relationship of a celebrity and a fan. Typically, due to deficits in a person’s life, a fan will become absorbed into a celebrity's following in order to escape their current life and they eventually become addicted. If an obsession with a celebrity is left unchecked it has the possibility to spiral into thoughts or behaviors that can be harmful to the fan and

For one of the few times in my life, I let myself down. At my interview for Phillips Exeter, the admissions director asked me how I would face disappointment, given that it would surely occur over the next four years. I thought I knew, but as it turns out, I overestimated my abilities to face it head on. During those first two years, disappointment hurt me. By concentrating on that period of time, you would perceive me incorrectly. But please know this: I am stronger than ever, more aware of my ability to overcome something that hit me

Therefore, I assumed that almost everyone has suffered from disappointment at any level. At first glance, I imagined of having a person entering a room and realizing that a butter cookie box was waiting for him on top of a table. Soon after he would walking towards it and his disappointment

There are millions of different types of communities to be involved in throughout the area you live in. Being a part of a particular community in your region is a crucial aspect of being associated with others with similar interests as you. Whether you are part of a virtual/online, large, small, or established community; finding people with the same hobbies is important. For me, being apart of a sorority, Chi Omega, is where I feel at home. The immense amount of positivity, love, and support I receive from my sisterhood is overwhelming which makes me strive to be a better person.

These have begun to break down previous barriers such as distance and language but even cultural barriers may become a thing of the past. In Mim Udovich's "A Secret Society of the Starving," the author describes a community that meets online to share feelings about their eating disorders. In Shari Caudron's "Befriending Barbie," the author writes of her experience at a Barbie convention. Not only are online communities functioning in almost every way as a cohesive group, but they have the potential to transcend distance, language and

feelings of being overwhelmed with the importance of grades in something that just isn’t working,

“Summer school,” now I've only attended summer school once and it was awful. So, me going back was upsetting because it was all my geometry teacher's fault. Sophomore year I had to take geometry now I am not good at math so I knew right away that geometry was going to be hard for me. My teacher was terrible he was bad and explaining the work never gave us notes so any tests or quizzes because I feel because I did not have anything study. And we did go over this I miss you go too fast and not fully explain it. Overall he was just a horrible teacher. So, eventually there wasn't any point in going to the class anymore so I would So, eventually there wasn't any point in going to the class anymore so I would ditch his class I wasn't learning anything.

I agree with Harlan Coben because the internet could be a dangerous place to go on. A lot can happen like someone can get hurt, they could be hurting someone with words, or they could be talking to someone they don't even know. So

In this recent article, “Celebrity Culture Is Natural and Can Be Beneficial”, David Cox (2015) argues about the obsession that many people, mainly Americans, have to achieve fame or to know more about other famous people. He also talks about some interesting social benefits, such “bonding people together and leading to great social engagement”. In addition, he explains about the dangers of fandom, ways people may leave loneliness towards fame, and a comparison or similarity between celebrity and religion.

Communities are all about groups of individuals who share something in common. This makes going on the internet seem like an odd way to find more communities, form new ones, or strengthen pre-existing ones. The internet however is full of communities. Communities can be based upon religion, location, ethnicity, an interest, or a personal matter. The internet itself is “a global distributed data communications network” (Kirmayer, Raikhel, & Rahimi, 2013, p. 166). This is what makes the internet so full of communities because communication is the key to putting multiple individuals with commonalities into communication, which is the basis of any community. Online communities differ from communities that exists off the web in a couple of

You stumble across the finish line with a time that deeply disappoints you. You beat yourself up mentally, regretting the sleep you missed out on the previous night. The next day you get a grade back from a challenging exam a week before. You’re disappointed. Worry, anxiety and frustration arise while thinking about making it through college in the near future. You're failing grade at the moment seems to be the priority and is deeming complete control over all your emotions. The world sets an almost impossible standard for your looks, performance, and the way one another reflects their personality. But at the midst of all setbacks and disappointments, you have to take a step back and wonder…what truly matters?

The second concept I want to talk about is virtual communities. Virtual communities are social groups whose interactions are mediated through information technologies, particularly the internet. Like modernism, virtual communities are very dependent on technology and the internet. Since science and technology has advanced in the past decade, people don’t need to go to different places to meet different people and can meet others over different social media platforms or even video games. Sometimes, those people met over the internet can become very close friends. For example, I play a lot of video games and I have acquainted myself virtually with many people playing those games. Some of them I even ended up meeting in real life and are still friends with today. Virtual communities have become such a social norm, that soon, people will have friends all over the internet. I think the aspect of virtual communities is good for society, because it allows people to have a greater awareness of other cultures all over the world. With more insight of how other societies and cultures operate, there is a greater chance to expand one's own social

Even though I met my goals this past year, I also faced some challenges. Such as, trying to not stress out from the amount of homework, tests, and quizzes, trying to not worry about my future and what is going to happen and balancing my friendships. I felt like crying so