ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
Topic: friendship

Nobody calls him that, though, because he lived with the rats and has come to look like one. He was the only kid in Behala that I knew of who had no family at all…” P.19 “The kid was sitting up, just in his shorts, gazing at me with frightened eyes and his big broken teeth sticking out of his mouth.” P.22 “I am the best hearer, the best jumper, the best runner-they think I brag, but they know it’s true!” P.
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Trash (2010), a novel by Andy Mulligan, ends with the protagonists Raphael, Gardo and Rat starting their new life together. In the course of the novel, they faced many challenges and their friendships grows. Each character has qualities which helped build this friendship. Raphael shows the qualities of friendliness, kindness, caring and selfless. Gardo shows the qualities of empathy, cleverness and leadership. Rat shows the qualities of trustfulness, sneakiness and thoughtful.
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Raphael’s key qualities are friendliness, selfless and clever. Raphael shows the quality of friendly in the scene where he listen to Rat when nobody knows what he is doing. A quote which gives evidence of this quality is “and I’d listen to his chit chat singing” (Mulligan,2011, p.23). Another important quality that Raphael shows is selfless. He demonstrates this quality in the scene where he wants to give Rat some food for him to eat. A quote which gives evidence of this quality is “I thought, I should have brought him a bit of food” (Mulligan, 2011, pg.22). Finally, Raphael’s quality of clever is shown in the scene where he trying to figure out the code for the words. A quote which gives evidence of this quality is “ go to the map ref where we lay look for the brightest my child.” (Mulligan, 2011 , pg.152). All of these qualities help Raphael to overcome his hardships and be a good friend to Gardo and Raphael….
Topic: friendship

Depending on whom you raise, some may say that technology has taken over our lives. One cannot deny that when they area unit feeling uncomfortable in an exceedingly social scenario, or within the locality of folks they are doing not very grasp, their first instinct is to pull out their phone. Even when around best friends, people still appear to be caught on their phones instead of partaking in real spoken language. Siri is answering queries additional usually than encyclopedias area unit being opened, and somehow likes and comments on social media define a person’s self-worth.
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The burden of carrying a conversation face-to-face is nonexistent. One can’t fumble over their words in an email. Judging by someone’s Instagram feed, they may see like they’re living their best life and have everything along, no matter what quantity they will be suffering behind the screen. Technology is extremely helpful once putt on a fa?ade. The mask created by technology can attract friends, employers, even romantic partners. But it’s simply that: a mask.
Topic: friendship

What about once it comes to world interactions? Like meeting your boss for the primary time, having an interview with your dream faculty, or meeting that new friend in person? Someone World Health Organization heavily depends on technology might not have to be compelled to social skills to reach these real-life encounters. Why is that? Most of the reason that individuals area unit thus incompetent once it involves social encounters and would favor to sit down behind a screen are owing to technology. From a young age, my generation has been texting more than talking. The evolution of social media has only LED to the downfall of our ability to move with the real world. If we grew up talking additional than texting, we wouldn’t be thus back or socially awkward. We would have the talents to begin a spoken language with a unknown and build a replacement friend, instead of hiding behind out phones. Technology has impregnated in U.S.A. the concern of real-life interaction, resulting in social incompetence.
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Slowly but sure as shooting, humanity is becoming additional delinquent as social media continues to grow. If people had enough certainty, they wouldn’t need to faux to be somebody they’re not, because they would attempt to be the simplest version of themselves. Face Tune wouldn’t need to exist as a result of folks would be additional assured in however they appear. Dating apps and sites wouldn’t be thus well-liked as a result of folks would be ready to exit and meet somebody and hold a gentle spoken language. People ought to stop writing their Instagram bios and begin endeavor to be the person they will faux to be on-line.
Topic: friendship

“Why,” Jim whispered to his friends around him, “does she keep on giving us these stupid ‘fun activities’? Is it really so hard for her to take a hint?” Jim Roves, despite being flawed in terms of his impulsive behavior and rash decisions when irritated or disturbed, was generally acknowledged to be a moderate and fair group leader as well as extremely intelligent and talented for his age. Even as a fifth grader, he was well-known and highly respected by students and teachers alike throughout his school, Waller Elementary.
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“It is your duty to educate the kindergarteners and uplift them to your level, and I expect that you do this task thoroughly and surpass the other classes in your original assignment,” droned on Jim’s teacher, Mrs. Brighton. “As a teacher of fifth grade, I have, ahem, persuaded the first, second, third, and fourth-grade classes to remain uninvolved in this arrangement. However, I do not have the same degree of influence over my colleagues teaching the fifth grade, and so you must ensure that this project is treated solely as an effort to civilize the kindergarten class and advance their knowledge.
Topic: friendship

Mrs. Brighton’s name was infamous with the younger students, who had often heard about her authoritative, stubborn demeanor, short temper, and obsessive competitiveness. Many of them had also witnessed her use of threats against others to achieve her goals, making her extremely unpopular with the majority of the school. In spite of her unpopularity with the school community, she had been given positions of increasingly high power due to the repeated high performance of her classes in standardized testing despite lacking skills in other areas, eventually leading to her acquisition of authority over all teachers instructing lower grade levels.
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The fifth graders were once again mandated to sell chocolate bars as part of an annual school fundraiser, heavily promoted each year by the school administration and faculty. However, the fifth graders had long since been disillusioned about the event and were weary of the teachers’ constant attempts to persuade them to participate in it. The popular sentiment toward the fundraiser was best expressed in Jim’s exclamation, “It’s amazing! Who would’ve expected the school to hold a fundraiser at the exact same time as every year before this, selling the exact same thing as every year before this, in the exact same area as every year before this? It’s almost like they’re trying to take money from us and everyone around us, but we know better than that. It’s obviously an enjoyable, once-in-a-lifetime experience and valuable learning opportunity with great glory and prizes for the victorious class, as we have been generously informed each year before this.”
Topic: friendship

It was during this period that I felt the most pressure and anxiety. And as I was trying to get my head around moving, that day came, my first ever day at the new school. Looking into my class, seeing all the unfamiliar faces and seeing them talking cheerfully as they are caught up with one another made me extremely out of place and awkward. I felt abject despair of making any friend in class as I desperately waited for someone to notice and converse with me, but to no avail.
Topic: friendship

Making friends at my old school has always been an easy task as the school is situated in a gated community where most of the students already met each other before, now that I have to make friends from scratch the task is immensely difficult. Initially, I intended to see through the school year without the need for friends. But as this then continued for a couple of days, I realized it is impossible to do so. That is why I decided to gather up my courage to try to talk to people in my class, and to my surprise, they all turned out much more friendly than I expected. I was glad that some of them even share the same interest in books and movies with me.
Topic: friendship

As it turns out, making new friends was not as hard as I thought it was going to be. Even though it took me quite some time to get informal with each other, I went from not being able to open up to anyone to being able to adapt and make new changes to myself. Changing school turned out to be a great experience and an opportunity for me to be more confident and positive with everything around me. It has given me the certainty to realize that I can make new friends, pursue interests and hobbies regardless of my environment.
Topic: friendship

In the film Remember the Titans directed by Yakin Boaz we embark on the journey of an American Football team who now has to integrate an all white school with an all black school. This was the kick off to an epic journey of surpassing society’s doubts of how interaccial friendships can’t be maintained due to the many differences each race shares. We are shown of how meeting people can impact our lives and change our perspective on how we perceive each other when we were first introduced to Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell.
Topic: friendship

” In this instant Gerry realised that Julius was right and, the following day he made the team realise that no matter what race you belonged to, at the end of the day you all belonged to the same team: ‘The Titans.’ Gerry and Julius made sure the team realised the importance of working together as a team so they can do well and in order to achieve this they needed to overcome their racial differences that was slowly splitting the team apart. Another time we see how meeting different people changes our perspective was when we were first introduced to Coach Boone, the schools first black coach which left many people apathetic.
Topic: friendship

Coach Boone made the effort to unite both teams together, as one, for the first time in Virginia. One of the first times we see this is when Boone purposefully forces the two races to sit together on the bus to camp he says “Listen up, I don’t care if you’re black, green, blue, white, or orange, I want all of my defensive players on this side, all players going out for offense over here.” He then advanced to pair people from opposite races together and advises them “Get comfortable too, because the person that I have you sitting next to is the same one you’ll be rooming with for the duration of this camp.” This was one Boones many efforts to try and unite the two races together as one and make the boys realise that they aren’t so different. He taught the young men that racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society, and he changed the races views on each other and made them realise that the only difference between them was their skin colour, and that neither race was inferior to another. He taught the team that achievement has no colour.
Topic: friendship

In this day and age some people believe that racism is over because there are no longer any slaves, some people believe that there is still racism but that’s alright. I believe that those people would benefit a great deal from seeing this movie. I know that there is still racism, I also understand that it’s not acceptable. Yakin shows us that we must focus on the real issues in our world and fight to overcome these critical problems, such as discrimination, racism and brutality and even something as little as a football team can help influnece massive change in the way that individuals perceive other races.
Topic: friendship

The novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part -Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie also displays the concept of how meeting people can impact our lives and change our perspective on how we perceive each other when we pursue the main character Junior. The book follows a fourteen-year-old boy, Arnold Spirit (Junior), living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation near Wellpinit, Washington for a school year. It is told in episodic diary style, moving from the start of the school year to the beginning of summer. We follow his incredible journey of how he shifted his education from an Indian Reservation school to a rich white school (Reardan). It includes both Junior’s written record of his life and his cartoon drawings, some of them comically commenting on his situation, and others more seriously depicting important people in his life.
Topic: friendship

Before Junior moved to Reardan he only thought so little of himself he thought he was nothing more than “just a poor ass kid living with his poor ass parents on a poor ass Indian Reservation”. Race is a pretty huge deal for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Why? Because it gives Arnold Spirit, Jr. a good deal of trouble in his search for self. Arnold feel like he’s only half an Indian – or as he says a “part-time Indian” – once he transfers to the white school in Reardan. He then gets split into two: Junior on the Indian reservation and Arnold in his white high school. This all suggests that one’s racial or ethnic identity can change depending on place or social setting. Once he transferred to a new school, he met a kid named Gordy. He showed Junior that if we wanted to succeed in life then he needed to work hard like everyone else if he wanted to be successful. “I want to be your friend,” Junior said to Gordy. “Excuse me? I assure you, I am not a homosexual.” “Oh, no,” Junior replied. “I don’t want to be friends that way. I just, I meant regular friends. I mean, you and I, we have a lot in common.” Junior described himself as “I was lonely and sad and isolated and terrified. Just like Gordy.” This is implying that Junior thought of himself as a lonely, sad, isolated and terrified teenager and to overcome this he decided to befriend Gordy. So they form a “tribe” of two outsiders who are both smart, interested in learning and interested in reading books.
Topic: friendship

In the following year, Gordy helps Arnold with learning and he shows him how joyful it can be to learn new things. They became quite acquainted to each other because they were so much alike. Gordy teaches Junior that life doesn’t offer many big things to celebrate, so learn to appreciate the smaller things in life and find happiness in them. Junior also made many many other new friends such as Roger and Penelope. These characters helped shape Juniors perspective of white people. One of the times we see this is when Junior punches Roger in the face because he cracked an extremely racist joke. “Hey, Chief,” Roger said. “You want to hear a joke?” Did you know that Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo?” Junior felt so enraged by this insult that he threw his fist into Rogers face without giving it a second thought. Roger didn’t react or hit him back at all he just walked away. He was being the better person and he respected Junior because he was the first person who stood up to him. Junior thought he was following the rules of a “fight” when he went after Roger and proclaimed: “You meet me after school right here, “Junior said. “Why?” he asked. “Because we’re going to finish this fight” he demanded. “You’re crazy,” Roger said. He got to his feet and walked away without another word leaving Junior standing there dumbstruck. Penelope and Roger changed his view that white people were barbaric beasts who got the easy life, but rather as people who are just the same as him and aren’t as savage as he thought. Junior had this fixed mind-set that white people were nothing but cruel beasts because of the way him and his family were treated in the past due to other white people.
Topic: friendship

Junior eventually realises that all white people are not the same and Roger and Penelope helped alter his perspective. This reveals how meeting new people can help alter your mindset because if Junior had never met Roger, Penelope or Gordy he would’ve never achieved so much at Reardan High School and still would be living in fear of white people and stuck in a mindset where he is going to constantly live in poverty and not be able to achieve more things because he’s just a kid from the rez. We must consider this in our own lives as well we can’t live our lives in fear of something otherwise we may not be able to get on with our lives. The only way to overcome fear is to go through it.
Topic: friendship

The Blind Side is a life lesson more than it is a film. Directed by John Lee Hancock, this film shows us that when new people enter our lives we tend to have a different outlook on various things. Through the movie Leigh Anne discovers Michael’s problems and also changes perspective on people like Michael. She helps unravel Michael and deals with his problems and helps him with his education. Leigh Anne also changes through the movie whilst helping Michael. By the end, Michael is adopted into the family. He goes to college and becomes a 1st grade NFL player. I chose this text because it demonstrates how people can change perspectives no matter what race, religion, economic status or appearance. An example of this is when Leigh Anne was talking to her friends over lunch about the way she had found Micheal and how much he had impacted her life since the day she found him looking so vulnerable on the street. One of her friends said to her, “Honey, you’re changing that boy’s life.” She softly replies with “No, he’s changing mine.” This shows us that Micheal has impacted Leigh Anne’s life and we are shown that Leigh Anne is standing up to her friends who are making a mockery out of him, just because he is a “large black boy” and she defends Michael.
Topic: friendship

Leigh Anne gets to know Michael throughout the film; learning about his past, his strengths and weaknesses. She understands how he thinks and understands that he is very protective of family. Now that he is apart of the Tuohy family he will protect them no matter what. When Leigh Anne takes Michael shopping for the first time. They go downtown to a very run down part of the town. Leigh Anne is cautious of the dodgy people that are living there, but Michael tells her “I got your back.” Leigh Anne links her arm through Michael’s. This simple gesture shows trust and how it has bloomed into a beautiful bond.
Topic: friendship

The 15th of August is celebrated as India’s Independence day. Since they were five years old, on every Independence Day, Shivani, Riya, and Nirja used to go on a girly picnic. Shivani and Nirja were very close to each other, but nobody knew what was going to happen that day. On 15 August, 2011 Shivani diligently completed her household chores, packed her picnic bag, and went off to collect her friends by the way of her bicycle.
Topic: friendship

There was skidding of tires and dinging sound. Shivani was numb. People were screaming and running towards where the car stopped. Shivani could hear people saying that the man was drunk and lost his senses. Shivani saw Nirja’s mother carrying her. The reality hit Shivani like a thunderbolt and fell down with a thud. When Shivani regained consciousness again, she was in her bed with her mother sitting beside her and crying.
Topic: friendship

The Canadian city of Toronto is another great destination for dogs, especially during the warm months. Dogs are allowed on most of the patios and several cafeterias and eating-joints owners are happy to host your 4-legged friend whole-heartedly. Toronto is also the home to over 60 leash-free dog parks and the Cherry Beach where your pooch can cool down on the hot afternoons. Your pooch will enjoy a trip with Toronto Cruises though it should be leashed and maintain good manners.
Topic: friendship

In Berlin, people treat dogs with respect just as any other human family member. When touring the German city, you can freely explore the numerous historical sites, walking alongside your adorable patron or take a boat to a refreshing voyage trip. Countless hotels, restaurants and cafes warmly welcome pooches with some offering a bowl and a bed for the dog. Moreover, Berlin’s public transport is dog friendly so you can get around the city with your little friend more easily.
Topic: friendship

‘Letting my mind run haphazardly.’ The personification here is for the mind giving the mind human traits. The trait is running haphazardly, which is unplanned, random, or aimlessly. So Simon means that his mind went crazy, or as with the personification, his mind ran randomly aimlessly. Alliteration too, was there in the text. ‘With water glistening’. Anyone who knows what alliteration is would definitely notice this sentence as presented here. Hyperbole is another figurative language which was presented more than once in the text. I will only refer to two only.
Topic: friendship

The first example is ‘I found that I had no strength’. He said that after saying ‘when loose rocks slipped suddenly under my feet, I found that I had no strength’. So what the reader should understand here is that he was so tired that when the rocks under him slipped, and he was too tired to do anything about it. He didn’t mean the literal meaning of having no strength. Another example of hyperbole and that was at the end of the text and that I really liked. ‘There seemed no end’. He meant that he drank a lot since he was so thirsty, he felt that he was drinking forever. I wrote a lot about figurative language but I wanted to talk about most of them. Connotative phrases, it was like most of the ones I talked about was presented twice or more. One example was ‘tantalizing slowness’, ‘I crouched at the rock drinking and waiting, and drinking again’.
Topic: friendship

Throughout the course of the dinner there were many arguments, but also love and compassion. This can been seen where Simic kisses Uncle Boris on top of the head or when they stay up all through the night talking and eating food. I believe that by using the dialog that the Uncle Borris and the brother used it shows how tight nit the family truly was. During the dinner they displayed affection as well as “Guy Talk”. Another reason I believe this family is close is because of how much alcohol they drank with each other. Over the course of the dinner they drank multiple bottles of wine and eventually were very intoxicated. This describes how comfortable they were with each other knowing they were in a venerable state. Uncle Boris even began to stand on the sofa and begin to sign.
Topic: friendship

Most clubs are time consuming students put a lot of time and effort into them, for example, key club. Key club is a “student run” organization dedicated to building character and provide service opportunities. In the article clip “Let Children Motivate Themselves “By KJ Dell ‘Antonia” she shares that “… I’m solidly Team Quitter, and no product manufacturer is ever likely to invite my children to laud me in a commercial (unless it’s for coffee).
Topic: friendship

If they don’t want to play the sport; if they don’t want to practice the instrument; if getting them out of the house to do the activity involves a battle, then as far as I’m concerned, they can stay home.” This shows that not only do kids suffer from the impact of extracurricular activities, but parents do as well, spending money on various sports equipment, musical instruments, or even team t-shirts. An investment that the child may not even be interested in later in the future.
Topic: friendship

In the article “Let Children Motivate Themselves” By KJ Dell ‘Antonia it says “I should say that my children are joiners, not quitters, so I may come at this from a different angle. I spend more time saying no no gymnastics if you also play hockey, no musical instrument if you struggle every night with getting your homework done than I do trying to push my children into things. It’s also easy to let your kids quit activities when you’re neither emotionally nor financially invested ”
Topic: friendship

There is a saying that paper is more patient than man; it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days, while I sat chin in hand, feeling too bored and limp even to make up my mind whether to go out or stay at home. Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don’t intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of diary, to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares.
Topic: friendship

Hence, this diary. In order to enhance in my mind’s eye the picture of the friend for whom I have waited so long, I don’t want to set down a series of bald facts in a diary like most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty. No one will grasp what I’m talking about if I begin my letters to Kitty just out of the blue, so, albeit unwillingly, I will start by sketching in brief the story of my life.
Topic: friendship

My father was thirty-six when he married my mother, who was then twenty-five. My sister Margot was born in 1926 in Frankfort-on-Main, I followed on June 12, 1929, and, as we are Jewish, we emigrated to Holland in 1933, where my father was appointed Managing Director of Travies N.V. This firm is in close relationship with the firm of Kolen & Co. in the same building, of which my father is a partner.
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The rest of our family, however, felt the full impact of Hitler’s anti-Jewish laws, so life was filled with anxiety. In 1938 after the pogroms, my two uncles (my mother’s brothers) escaped to the U.S.A. My old grandmother came to us, she was then seventy-three. After May 1940 good times rapidly fled: first the war, then the capitulation, followed by the arrival of the Germans, which is when the sufferings of us Jews really began. Anti-Jewish decrees followed each other in quick succession. Jews must wear a yellow star, Jews must hand in their bicycles, Jews are banned from trains and are forbidden to drive.
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Jews are only allowed to do their shopping between three and five o’clock and then only in shops which bear the placard Jewish shop. Jews must be indoors by eight o’clock and cannot even sit in their own gardens after that hour. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and other places of entertainment. Jews may not take part in public sports. Swimming baths, tennis courts, hockey fields, and other sports grounds are all prohibited to them. Jews may not visit Christians. Jews must go to Jewish schools, and many more restrictions of a similar kind.
Topic: friendship

The first day that Dussel was here, he immediately asked me all sorts of questions: When does the charwoman come? When can one use the bathroom? When is one allowed to use the lavatory? You may laugh, but these things are not so simple in a hiding place. During the day we mustn’t make any noise that might be heard downstairs; and if there is some stranger such as the charwoman for example then we have to be extra careful. I explained all this carefully to Dussel. But one thing amazed me: he is very slow on the uptake. He asks everything twice over and still doesn’t seem to remember. Perhaps that will wear off in time, and it’s only that he’s thoroughly upset by the sudden change.
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Apart from that, all goes well. Dussel has told us a lot about the outside world, which we have missed for so long now. He had very sad news. Countless friends and acquaintances have gone to a terrible fate. Evening after evening the green and gray army lorries trundle past. The Germans ring at every front door to inquire if there are any Jews living in the house. If there are, then the whole family has to go at once. If they don’t find any, they go on to the next house. No one has a chance of evading them unless one goes into hiding. Often they go around with lists, and only ring when they know they can get a good haul. Sometimes they let them off for cash so much per head. It seems like the slave hunts of olden times. But it’s certainly no joke; it’s much too tragic for that. In the evenings when it’s dark, I often see rows of good, innocent people accompanied by crying children, walking on and on, in charge of a couple of these chaps, bullied and knocked about until they almost drop. No one is spared old people, babies, expectant mothers, the sick each and all join in the march of death.
Topic: friendship

Ko Byung-Soo was my mentor and my best friend. The first place I met him was the Korean Army. He taught me many things and helped me in many ways when I couldn’t adapt to a new place. He was one of the squad members I belonged to. When I first saw him, he looked kind. He was about 5.5 feet tall and chubby, and his face was oval, and his eyes were big and round. However, he was tough and hot-tempered, unlike the way he looked.
Topic: friendship

Our unit’s mission was to target the North’s main contingent with howitzer cannons. Therefore, I needed to know more about the cannon, so Byung-Soo took me to the spot where the cannon was and taught me about cannon. Somebody screamed when I was looking at the cannon. Byung-Soo hung a squad member on the cannon’s barrel. The oiled cannon looked very slippery. The squad member’s hands and feet were trembling as he held onto the oiled barrel.
Topic: friendship

He shouted for help, but the barrel continued to rise. Byung-Soo laughed scornfully to see if it was funny. He turned the lever at high speed, and the barrel shook violently up and down. He turned the lever at high speed, and the barrel shook violently up and down. However, the squad member did not fall off like a leech. Every time he screamed, Byung-Soo turned the lever faster. The lever screeched to a halt as soon as the barrel rose to its highest point.
Topic: friendship

But to my surprise, he was also a very sincere person. He sometimes played dangerous pranks on us, but he never pawns his work off on us. He took the lead in what the Sergeants asked us to do. He did all the works in the unit, carrying stones, painting the barracks, utility works. Also, he took good care of his squad. When the squad member was in trouble with the other squad members, he always rushed in like a wild dog with red eyes and took our side. Once when I was working under orders from another squad, he came and fought over why he made me work for them.
Topic: friendship

Two months after I was transferred to the unit, I had my first live-fire training. I loaded a lot of equipment into the truck, for example, pickaxe, shovel, hammer, log, and large iron bars to hold the cannon. We sat right next to the equipment. Whenever we passed the winding rough road, we and the equipment bounced up. A little while later, when there was a person who slept on the truck, Byung-Soo woke the person up with a loud voice. After passing the long rough road, we arrived muddy training ground. As soon as we arrived, we dug a hole. We dug holes to hold the cannon. However, digging holes in the ground was not easy because of mud and stones. Every time a shovel and pickaxe hit a stone, sparks splashed. We dug a hole for an hour. Finally, we buried the back of the cannon in a hole and fixed the cannon with big iron bars. When a big iron bar was not stuck under the ground, Byung-Soo grabbed it with both hands and another squad member began hammering it down. At that moment, I heard his scream. He was shivering and holding his thumbs. His thumb was completely crushed by a hammer. A white fibrous thing came out through his skin. It was white, but it wasn’t bone. Because it looked soft and intertwined, like a spider’s web. His fingernails were broken into so many pieces that it was hard to recognize. He could not scream, and his body was shaking because of his pain. His face became red more and more, and tears flowed from his eyes. It was as if it was hard to breathe because of the pain. He was surrounded by many people, but there was no first aid, just watching. A few minutes later, an ambulance came and took him. Even if one person was seriously injured, the training was not ceased. We were panicked because Byung-Soo was the most experienced and excellent soldier of all. Especially, the soldier who crushed Byung-Soo’s thumb with a hammer could do nothing with guilt. Fortunately, reinforcements from other units came and finished the training. On the way back to the unit, I only heard a rattling sound. No one shouted, no sleep.
Topic: friendship

A few weeks later, he showed up with a big bandage on his thumb. He pranked me with a smile on his face. His thumb was seriously injured, but he was glad he did not have to work. After this accident, everybody called him ‘Bang Bang Bang’ because it was like the sound of his thumb exploding. After that, we went to the same training ground many times for live-fire training. Whenever we found animal bones there, we used to tease him “we found your lost thumb.”
Topic: friendship

When asked to describe her friendships, Ashley’s descriptions could be summarized and described as integrated relationships. The integrated relationship is one of four types of relationships; the four types of relationships include friendly, intimate, integrated and uninvolved (Peers, 2019). Friendly relationship places attention on the activities individuals share with one another, such as playing on the same basketball team. The intimate relationship focuses on emotional attachment and warmth individuals share; for example, Ashley established that her close friendships were partly based on intimate conversations. The integrated relationship involves both aspects from the friendly and intimate relationships, and the uninvolved relationship would display the lack of friendly and intimate relationship characteristics (Peers, 2019). Ashley described her friendships as being built on shared activities like basketball, as well as intimate conservations; therefore, her friendships would be labeled as integrated relationships.
Topic: friendship

When asked how her friends provide support for her, Ashley described the characteristics of informational support. There are four types of support that are provided between friends, those of which include informational, instrumental, companionship, and esteem (Peers, 2019). Informational support is when friends provide advice and guidance to one another in regards to personal issues. Instrumental support entails assisting friends with actual assignments, which can include but is not limited to, schoolwork in the case of adolescence. Companionships support encompasses the displaying of dependability on a friend to be there for you at social activities; and lastly esteem support involves individuals supporting each other in times of failure and celebrating together in times of success. Ashley described her friend’s support as informational, and this was evident in how she described her interactions with friends. She specifically explained that when she was going through a break up, her friends were there to provide advice and be there for her. This demonstrated informational support. Talking with her friends about decisions and sharing advice amongst themselves appeared to be a commonality amongst Ashley’s friends.
Topic: friendship

When asked about her relationships within her family, Ashley provided a great deal of information about her relationships with her parents and sibling. This had proven to be insightful when determining what attachment style would best describe Ashley. When attempting to understand relationships within a family it has been shown to be useful to examine the relationships through the family systems approach. The family systems approach entails the recognition that each subsystem in the family influences other subsystems in the family. A subsystem can be described as relationships between individuals in the family, such as the relationship between a mother and an adolescent daughter. Also, a change in any family member or family subsystem results in a period of disequilibrium until the family system adjusts to the change. Disequilibrium can be defined as an unbalance in the family, for example; if a sibling moves out of the house, or a divorce takes place. This will take time for all family members to adjust. Once adjustment has taken place equilibrium can be restored. Equilibrium can be described as balance in the family, when there is a rhythm to how the family functions. Ashley was asked if there had ever been a big change in her family, and how did it get resolved; she described the time her grandmother passed away. Her grandmother was very involved in her family, and after her passing it seemed that her parents struggled with day-to-day tasks; this would be considered the family being in disequilibrium. She explained that her family has since adjusted to not having her grandmother around; this would be considered the return to equilibrium.
Topic: friendship

There are four parenting styles, which include authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and disengaged. Parenting styles are evaluated through the means of demandingness and responsiveness. The demandingness aspect is comprised of how parents produce expectations and guidelines for their children. The responsiveness involves the compassion and warmth parents express towards their children’s needs and their children in general. Authoritative parents are both high in demandingness and high in responsiveness; meaning that these parents have high prospects for their children but also engage in discussion with their children to explain why things may be the way they are. Authoritarian parenting style is high in demandingness but low in responsiveness; this means that the parents have great expectations for their children, and do not display much warmth toward them. Permissive parenting style is low in demandingness and high in responsiveness; this means that the parent has limited expectations of their children and express great warmth toward their children. The disengaged parenting style displays low in both demandingness and responsiveness. Unfortunately, the parents that use this approach are commonly uninvolved with their children’s lives.
Topic: friendship

When asked about her relationship with her parents Ashley’s description was of the authoritative parenting style. Ashley’s relationship with her parents is built on open communication and high expectations. She talked about how her parents have placed great emphasis on open communication, but also have great expectations of her to remain committed to her job, do well in school and contribute at home by doing her chores. The authoritative parenting style is the most ideal and provides the best outcomes in Western culture (Family Relationships, 2019). A few of the outcomes for adolescents that are favourable include but are not limited to independence and good social skills. Ashley demonstrated these favourable outcomes in her daily life based on her commitment to her employment and clarity in the way she spoke about her relationships. She demonstrated independence at her job; she talked about how she had been given a new responsibility for closing the restaurant some nights. She confirmed that she had developed good social skills through her discussion of her life and the amount of healthy active relationships she had in her life. The healthy relationships were between her and her friends, her peers, and her family. She expressed that she has no difficulties in approaching individuals in her life to discuss issues. She particularly spoke about an incident where her friend was being too flirty with her boyfriend and she discussed the matter with her friend and they maturely worked things out.
Topic: friendship

It appeared that Ashley would fit the definition of having a secure attachment style, which is also attributed to having been brought up with authoritative parents. John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth both critically studied attachment and produced critical data that is used to frequently analyze attachment to this day. Bowlby went on to describe types of attachment, which include secure and insecure; with insecure having subtypes of avoidant, resistant, and disorganized (Family Relationships, 2019). Secure attachment is demonstrated in infants who use their mothers as a source of security; they explore their environment but pursue comfort from their mother or primary caregiver if they become threatened. Insecure Infants are cautious of discovering their environments and have been found to display avoidant behaviour when their mothers or primary caregiver puts efforts toward soothing them. Positive outcomes that come from secure attachment include but are not limited to higher self-esteem, better psychological physical health, and self-reliant (Family Relationships, 2019). Ainsworth’s work involved the execution of the strange situation experiment, which observed attachment styles. She designed the strange situation experiment to study emotional attachment between a primary caregiver and their child. Children with secure attachments executed the use of their mother as a safe base to explore their environment and welcomed the caregiver when they attempted to comfort them. The children that had insecure attachment displayed cautious behaviors regarding exploration of their environment and avoidant behaviour when the primary caregiver attempts to comfort them. Ainsworth’s work was beneficial in providing a great observatory for the execution of the various attachment styles.
Topic: friendship

In relevance to Ashley, based on her current relationships with her parents, peers and friends it appears that she would have displayed a secure attachment style when she was a child. Erikson’s explanation of development, which will further be addressed in the Identity Development section of this paper, described individuals as going through crises at various stages in their development. According to Erikson’s theory, if Ashley had a secure attachment in her childhood, this would have provided her with the platform to help her move forward into her adolescence and be on the right path toward identity achievement. Which would explain why she has demonstrated the many positive outcomes that she has thus far in her life.
Topic: friendship

There were four different types of sibling relationships caregiver, buddy, critical, rival and casual. The caregiver sibling relationship was described as a relationship in which one sibling provides care for the other in such a way that a parent typically would. Buddy sibling relationships would describe as a relationship in which the siblings treat each other as friends. A critical sibling relationship involves elevated levels of conflict between siblings. Rival relationship between siblings involves competitive behaviour between the siblings, including the siblings comparing their success against each other. A casual relationship between siblings has been described as not being emotionally intense; the siblings may not be involved in each other lives. Ashley is the eldest sibling; she has one younger brother who is fourteen years old. When asked about her relationship with him she described a casual relationship. She mentioned that they only see each other in passing at home and rarely spend time in the same room if they are home at the same time. Her brother is involved in many sports and spends a lot of his time with friends and peers in recreational activities. She described her family as very busy and they do not usually have time to sit down as a family for dinner.
Topic: friendship

No matter the reason, keeping that strong connection with our siblings could help us live a longer, happier, and healthier life. In Beijing, China in 1979, the law declaring the one-child policy was introduced. Scientists compared children born before the law and after, it was shown that the children born into the new law were not only less trusting, less trustworthy, more pessimistic, less competitive, less conscientious and more risk-averse.
Topic: friendship

While in Dr. Smith’s waiting room I perused a copy of Psychology Today which referenced an essay by William Brennan called “Your Dog Feels No Shame: The Myth of Canine Guilt.” Mr. Brennan offered a short corrective to the general view that dogs don’t feel guilt. Mr. Brennan cites the work of Dr. Alexandra Horowitz. He writes, “… according to Alexandra Horowitz, a dog-cognition expert at Barnard College, what we perceive as a dog’s guilty look is no sign of guilt at all.” However, it may or may not be.
Topic: friendship

I asked Dr. Smith about this contrast in opinion. He said “Scientists believe dogs can experience ¬jealousy when their owners give attention to other dogs. But if they eat every biscuit in the house, they may look ashamed but don’t expect them to feel guilty as they don’t experience these emotions. Researchers found those puppy dog eyes are not a sign of guilt. In fact they are just the way we interpret a dog’s reaction to being scolded. I think they know how to placate us with this sad puppy-dog look that makes us think they’re ashamed of what they’ve done.”
Topic: friendship

Ignorance is a poison that kills love, friendship, and all the good feelings. This adage holds true to students because they should find out knowledge for them to succeed for if not, they might go the wrong path just like what happens if you don’t know the most preferred school for your chosen strand in senior high school. That is why the researchers came up with this research to give the Junior High school students a guide in choosing a school for Senior High especially to those students who want to pursue STEM strand which is in demand in the Philippines and is believed to be a key in achieving progress of a country.
Topic: friendship

According to Merriam Webster dictionary, the word satisfaction is the act of providing what is needed or desired; it is the act of satisfying a need or desire, or a result that deals with the problem or complaint in an acceptable way. In short, satisfaction is satisfying in something that you desired, and the researchers ask the K-12 students about their satisfaction to their chosen school to know what is the preferred school in Lipa to Tanauan area.
Topic: friendship

The K-12 or Kinder to Grade 12 Program was signed by President Benigno Aquino III into law. It is also known as Republic Act 10533 and signed in the law on May 15, 2013, in the Philippines. The K-12 covers kindergarten and 12 years of basic education such as 6 years of primary education, 4 years of junior high school and 2 years of senior high school to provide sufficient time for mastery of concept and skills, develop long-life learners and prepare the graduate for tertiary education.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, born on September 24th in St. Paul, Minnesota, was an American novelist and short-story writer famous for his illustration of the Jazz Age after World War I. He died on December 21st in Hollywood, however, he left behind many remarkable and memorable works such as The Side of Paradise, Tales of the Jazz Age and one of his most brilliant novels being The Great Gatsby. Those guaranteed that his talent will always be remembered and his brilliant writing, honoured as he deserved to be recalled as The Great American Dreamer.
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As far as we consider the sphere of literature, New York can be defined as the lucky city since every few decades it produces a writer who depicts its stories, triumphs, tragedies and romance, and F.Scott Fitzgerald, who perfectly described America in the 1920s, represents one of those. (3 – Karin Ek) There are certain factors which influenced the American novelist writing, most of which pledged in his younger and more vulnerable years – his childhood and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald are amongst the most vital ones that had the greatest impact on his creativity later on.
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(6 – A brief Life of Fitzgerald)Scott grew up embarrassed by his mother and it was not until one of his sisters, Louise Scott Fitzgerald to whom he was named after, died that he claimed – Well, three months before I was born my mother lost her other child.I think I started then to be a writer (4 – F. Scott Fitzgerald). It goes without saying that after the death of her two daughters, Mollie Fitzgerald became the perfect example of an overprotective mother (7 – F.