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Topic: friendship

When George had the chance to gain something that he wanted, he chose to alienate and kill his most loyal friend in the world. Just as I said, friendship and loyalty can be the strongest thing in the world until it gets in the way, and begins to get overwhelming. Although Steinbeck is not trying to say that you can never trust the people that you call your friends, he is saying to be careful of those who call you a friend but only think of themselves while saying it. Even after spending the majority of his life calling Lennie a friend, George still betrayed him for the chance to become who he wanted to be. As George has showed us, the human trait of loyalty can become very weak if put through the test of time, so avoid trying to test it so that you may not end up as Lennie did, being treated no better than an old man’s dog.
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Females gorillas may scream at each other – and perhaps even scratch and bite lightly. At such times glare from the silverback is enough to restore the peace . A stare or nudge from the leader also keeps the males behaving. With infants, even the firmest leader is often easygoing. He allows them to pull his hair , punch him, and crawl all over him . Once when a little gorilla leaned against a huge silverback , the male grabbed a long-stemmed flower and tickled the infant with it. Babies are in fact, popular with the entire group.
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In the 1978 film The Deer Hunter, friendship and loyalty are put to the test as three friends leave their normal routines in small-town Pennsylvania to serve in The Vietnam War. Before, during, and after their terms of service, their relationships strengthen due to the heightened circumstances of their surroundings. This is particularly applicable with the character of Michael (Robert De Niro), who is forced to take drastic measures when it comes to the safety of his friends.
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He says, “I like the trees, you know? I like the way that the trees are on mountains, all the different… the way the trees are.” He quickly punctuates this statement with “I sound like some asshole, right?” It seems like Nick has never told anyone his love for the simple, beautiful things and is worried about how Michael perceives him after he expresses it due to the expectation of sheer masculinity put on him by his other friends.
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However, Michael does not ridicule Nick, but instead confides in him that the two of them have a bond stronger than he has with anyone else. He says “You’re the only guy I go hunting with, you know… I ain’t gonna hunt with no assholes.” Michael tells this to Nick, in a moment made more intimate by director Michael Cimino’s close-up shots, not only in regards to their hunting trip but to ensure a tight bond that will stay with them when they are thrown into the unpredictable, dangerous natures of war.
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While in Vietnam, Michael, Nick and their other friend Steven (John Savage) get captured and the Vietnamese guards force them to play Russian Roulette against each other for their own amusement. Michael takes on a guardian position over his other two friends who begin to panic under the immense pressure. When he faces against Steven, the rapid close-ups cutting back and forth between them elevate the tension in the scene as Michael persuades Steven to lift the gun to his temple to avoid him being thrown into the pit where he could die. However, when Steven misfires and is thrown into the pit anyway, Michael quickly alters his focus to ensure safety of him and Nick. Michael has a very black-and-white view of the world, and when Steven is separated from he and Nick in this bleak situation, Michael thinks that there is no way to save all three of them so he and Nick must leave Steven behind. He takes on a protective status that causes him to make fast, difficult sacrifices to ensure safety. However, Nick is there as the foil to Michael’s stubborn rationality and reminds him that Steven is their friend and he cannot just leave him behind. It shows how highly Michael thinks of Nick’s word when he goes to free Steven and take him with them when they finally get free. Their different personalities complement each other in this scene when the level-headedness Michael’s plan eventually leads to their escape and the passionate Nick’s words reunite the trio.
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Michael and Steven’s relationship is further strengthened when Steven falls from a rescue chopper into a river and Michael immediately jumps in after him to save him. Cimino’s use of an extreme wide shot as they plummet into the water amplifies the vacancy of their surroundings, showing that only Michael is Steven’s last hope. Michael risks his own life to save the life of his friend, in stark contrast to how he acted when they were captured before. This time, Michael does not see Steven as baggage that he and Nick can leave behind when it comes to their own safety. He starts to think more with his heart, like Nick does, and make more impulsive decisions to help the people he is close to.
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Before they left, Nick made a plea to Michael that, should something happen to him in Vietnam, Michael would make sure his body gets back to the United States. He begs, “If anything happens Mike, you don’t – don’t leave me over there. You got, you gotta…Just don’t leave me. You gotta promise me that, Mike.” Nick reveals his vulnerability to Michael more than anyone else; he expresses his insecurities and fears that only deepen their relationship. When Nick dies overseas, Michael remains loyal to him and makes good on his promise. Nick’s body is buried back home in Pennsylvania. Michael and Nick have a bond stronger than war, and they make each other better people. Michael gives a toast after Nick’s funeral, and summarizes their relationship up with a simple “To Nick.”
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Snapchat was launched in 2011 with a bright yellow and happy emoticon. This is an app that anyone can download with no cost at all. On the surface, Snapchat is just another way to contact friends and update friends on what users are doing through posting “stories.” More than 158 million people use Snapchat every day to communicate with friends. Once a photo is sent, the receiver has a time limit set by the sender before the photo “self-desrtucts.” Subscribers can send a 1-second expiration to a no expiration photo.
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These filters make it fun and interactive all of the time. The programming put into this app is amazing. Also, instead of having to manually add friends by hand, Snapchat can be linked up with contact lists and even beyond a users contact list. Snapchat is a great resource for companies in events, music, entertainment, and products, typically targeting younger audiences. That audience is both a pro and a con. As the competition with social platforms like Instagram and Facebook, Snapchat is much more transitory. This app has a page called “Discover” where Snapchat users can view and understand events, celebrity trends, and to compile marketing research for influencers. Popular channels featured on Discover are MTV, BuzzFeed, and Cosmopolitan.
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But, just like every app, there has to be a negative side and Discover can be a negative side to Snapchat. Discover has the potential to being negative because more than half of these channels have sexually oriented content. In California, there was a lawsuit filed against Snapchat that cited offensive content found through Discover. Another downfall of Snapchat would be that it does not save pictures sent. Parents who monitor their children’s smartphone usage, it may raise some concerns that these photos do not get saved. Photos do disappear after they are sent and opened, but users do have the ability to screenshot. Snapchat notifies the sender if the receiver took a screenshot of their photo, so normally the receiver does not screenshot because of the fear of getting in trouble with the sender.
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” because senders have the power of sending anyone, anything of themselves. But as stated previously, a snapchat disappearing is not at all an absolute certainty. Parents should think about having a serious one-on-one with their children before being introduced to Snapchat. Apps like Snapchat needs to remind parents that they need to pay closer attention to their children’s smartphone use and monitor them more heavily, which would prevent sexting, cyberstalking, cyberbullying and other “dark side” problems with teens. Enough of the downside of Snapchat, because this app is more positive than not.
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On this app, if you receive something not appropriate or insulting, users can block other users and give a specific reasoning as to why and Snapchat could reach out to those users and address them. Snapchat is supposed to be a fun and an engaging app when used correctly. This app obviously works very sufficiently when all parties have access to their smartphones all of the time. It is always important to remember that all recipient parties will have the access to respond quickly enough to see their messages. It is also very important to always use Snapchat for its intended purpose. This app is a beautiful way to communicate in different ways, teens and younger adults, should not abuse it. Snapchat is awesome!
Topic: friendship

Toni Morrison, author of Sula is an American novelist, essayist, and editor that writes books that unravel bigger issues. During this book, she shows the betrayal between families and friends. Toni Morrison’s novel Sula uses the developing duality of sex and death to demonstrate that in patriarchal societies women find it hard to come together and will easily betray each other. First, it is important to understand the different paths women took to fight for their own rights. In society, women have always been seen as inferior to men.
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Through the duality of sex and death, betrayal among women can be tracked. Betrayal in this sense is when one person is disloyal to another. In the book, sexual intercourse has led to many relationships dying such as Sula betraying Nel. Starting off sex has lead to the death of Nel and Sula friendship. Towards the beginning of the book, Nel and Sula became fast friends right after they first met despite their different upbringings and personalities. Nel considers herself more controlled and calm, while Sula the spontaneous and irrational one. The two girls consider themselves to be two sides of one person because they experienced different milestones together. For example, as Nel and Sula reached the riverbank, “Sula lifted her head and joined.
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Nel in the grass”, “Sula threw hers in too”, “carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass”. This situation demonstrates that Nel was in the lead and Sula was following her. This reveals that two young girls figuratively lose their innocence by “making a small neat hole that grew deeper and wider.” This reveals that they were no longer innocent young girls but together they were now entering womanhood together. Toni Morrison’s uses this the duality of sex in this example to connect to the horrible death that happened to Chicken Little as soon as the girls lose their innocence. As the girls enter womanhood together, Nel got married to Jude and Sula left the Bottom to pursue her education. After many years of being getting an education, Sula has returned back to the Bottom and she went to visit Nel.
Topic: friendship

During this visit, Nel walked in on Sula and Jude “down on all fours naked” with nothing touching “except their lips right down there on the floor”. Sula had sexual intercourse with her own best friend’s husband. Morally is it right not to sleep with someone else husband but Sula was only thinking about pleasuring herself at the moment and not the value of friendship her a Sula have. Only focusing on one’s else can cause a person to be disloyal to people that are close to them. Jude is a man that isn’t judged as much as the betrayal between Sula and Nel because men have more power so actions they take doesn’t really affect them. Betrayal leads to the death of friendship because of sexual intercourse.
Topic: friendship

Betrayal didn’t only kill friendships but it caused family relationships to also die. When talking to her friends about children Hannah says to them “Sure you do. You love her, I like love, Sula. I just don’t like her. That’s the difference”, Sula hearing those words from her own mother made her “fly up the stairs.” Hannah completely betrays Sula in this instance. A mother is supposed to be a role model for their children but instead, Hannah just talks about her own flesh and blood. At a young age, hearing such a thing from your own mother can make a person feel devastated and grow up with stored anger because of the rejection when they when they were younger. Talking behind Sula back and saying hurtful demonstrates the betrayal between mother and daughter.
Topic: friendship

The betrayal between families didn’t just stop there. Hannah also betrayed her own mother Eva by asking “ Mamma, did you ever love us?” This question shows disrespect towards the sacrifice a mother makes towards making sure her children have everything they need to survive. In this context, the sacrifices Eva made to make sure all four of her children didn’t die without any help from the children dad, BoyBoy. Both these situations happened while Hannah no longer had her husband in her life and without the help of BoyBoy, Eva had to take care of the children on her own. The betrayal among women in the context happens when men are absent. Another mother and daughter betrayal was between Nel and Helene. While Helene and Nel were on their way to visit her mother, Helene had a incident with the train conductor. Nel “wanted to make certain that no man ever looked at her that way”.  This reveals that Nel didn’t want to be anything like her mother.
Topic: friendship

It is a set norm in society that children should look up to their parents but this situation shows the opposite. This demonstrates betrayal because Nel is embarrassed by the actions of her mother and wants to be nothing like her. Not having that role model makes it harder for younger children to do what’s right or wrong when they get older because there was never really anyone to teach them. Betrayal has lead to the death of man relationships throughout Sula. In most of these broken relationships that ended up dying, men played a factor towards them. Men made it tough women to be close together. Women fail to realize that men having most of the power causes them to disregard each other rather than them working together to make society equal.
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Characters that influence or contributed to the good and the bad interactions in the book was Eva, who killed her son plum by burning him up in a fire, leaving her kids, and being unable to save her daughter, Hannah from a fire. Also, another important character in the book is Sula, who is the daughter of Hannah and the granddaughter of Eva. Sula contributing to the death of Chicken Little, watching her mom die, sleeping with people’s husband and threatening her grandma conveys the bad image that she has in the book.
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Knew that they despised her and believed that they framed their hatred as disgust for the easy way she lay with men. Which was true. She went to bed with men as frequently as she could.”. This piece of Evidence shows that sula not settling down to find a husband and have kids, revels the stereotypical boundaries of a women that sula doesn’t have and doesn’t believe in. Sula would rather sleep with many men than finding a guy that’s right for her because she grew up not understanding the importance of having a family since her own is dysfunctional. Morris intended to connote the good intentions of Sula to convey how Sula’s action influenced the good of the town and her future self. “ Tell me about it. The big city. Big is all it is. A big Medallion. No. I mean the life. The nightclubs, and parties… I was in college, Nellis. No nightclubs on campus.”.
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This piece of Evidence shows that Sula coming back after leaving and getting her education for 10 years shows what Sula really values, and that is being her own person. As a black women, she isn’t expected to do so since, women during this time are known only to take care of their kids and husband. “ Then she realized, or rather she sensed, that there was not going to be any pain. She was not breathing because she didn’t have to. Her body did not need oxygen. She was dead. Sula felt her face smiling. Well, I’ll be damned, She thought, it didn’t hurt. Wait’ll I tell Nell.”. This piece of Evidence shows the feelings and thoughts that Sula had in her head when she was dying. The fact that Sula thought about Nel and how she realizes that death isn’t painful shows the childhood memories that she had with Nel, her best friend and the deaths that she witnessed in the past.
Topic: friendship

The duality of good and bad conveys the message of death and life. “ Their conviction of Sula’s evil changed them in accountable yet mysterious ways. Once the source of their personal misfortune was identified, they had leave to protect and love one another.”  This piece of Evidence shows that the town having that same opinion and hatred for Sula shows the bond that the town has created. This has made the town better by communicating with one another and loving their families, which is the complete opposite of Sula. “ The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”  This piece of Evidence shows the journey that Sula had throughout the book. Sula is known for doing evil spirited actions and not having any type of emotion or feelings about it but, at the end of the day, Sula is a hardworking women that deserves credit with how far she has come to be committed to what she wanted to do and that was to get her education.
Topic: friendship

“ In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood.”. This piece of Evidence shows that the town from the start had good and bad intentions and things. The “ nightshade” symbolises poison which connects back to evil and, “blackberry” symbolises a fruit the is sweet, so it refers back to the good things about the city of medallion. This part was important because Morrison intended to put this piece of evidence as the first line of the book to connote the mixture of good and bad that comes out from Medallion. In Conclusion, Toni Morrison’s novel, Sula uses the duality of good and bad to connote the importance of stereotypes and, when it is not fulfilled , society considers you as an outsider and a disgrace.
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The world is constantly changing and becoming more advance. With technology evolving and becoming a part of everyday life it has the biggest impact on mental health. Social media is a new phenomenon to use social networking through websites and applications on your phone or tablet. We use social media for news, for tips with life, fashion and current issues in the world. Sharing opinions, events and photos on social media is becoming an everyday life routine. On average, people spend nine hours a day on social media.
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Since being on social media is a common thing, we tend to compare our self to other people live. Spending multiple hours scrolling up and down timelines can make a person feel self-conscious and unhappy. People can portray that their lives are normal and great with the many selections of filters that create an allusion. This illusion can alter someone’s self-esteem because they make it look so perfect. Once you keep seeing other people’s fabulous life you’ll start to think that your life isn’t up to part.
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Studies have found that if they neglect these certain applications, their lives get better.  According to Dr. Tim Bono “When we derive a sense of worth based on how we are doing relative to others, we place our happiness in a variable that is completely beyond our control”. With that being said, your emotions and behavior can lead to several mental health issues. Although social media for adolescent is a way to interact, create and learn; it affects them the most. According to Psycom, the downside of social media use by teens are focusing on likes, cyberbullying, making comparisons, less face time and having fake friends. When teens focus on how many likes they have they start altering the way they look, doing things to fit in and doing things to make them look cooler for society.
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Cyberbullying causes a lot of teens to become depressed, increase anxiety and have frequent suicidal thoughts. When teens are on social media they tend to show the highpoint of their lives. When one sees that highpoint, one can start comparing oneself to another. Comparing yourself to another person can make you feel depress and may lead to suicide because you feel like you’re not good enough. On social media, you can make new friends just by a click away but having too much friends on social media can invade your privacy. The more friends you have the more people can screenshot information on you and spread rumors.
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Its problematic when teens can’t form empathy and compassion because they spend too much time on the internet engaging rather than in person. People skills aren’t being created because the world is becoming digital. Another issue affecting mental health issues is trauma in the world. Life is filled with ups and downs and have many detours to get to that happy place you want to be. When something tragic happens to us people tend to cope with it differently. Trauma is a distraught experience that happens to an individual that harms them or put them in serious risk of death.
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Traumatic events from road accidents, natural disaster, serious illness, and violence or prolonged abuse. Traumatic events can put a toll on your physically body as well. Your body releases chemicals when it’s under stress. Normally these Chemicals gives your body symptoms of raising blood pressure, increased heart rate, sweating and stomach activity (mental health foundation). Some people might experience shock and denial which can lead to Post traumatic stress disorder(ptsd). Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental and emotional stress that occurs when you experience psychological shock. The symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder can be nightmares or flashbacks of the traumatic event, panic attacks sleep disturbance and poor concentration (mental health foundation)
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Is to Avoid Being Fickle-Minded. But first what is Fickle-Minded? It is a person who is prone to casual change or a person who is inconstant. People must avoid being fickle-minded to obtain effective communication. Why so? By the reason of, confusing the receiver of the message and the said message won’t be clear. The message may also be misunderstood or misinterpreted due to confusion. Additionally, dealing with fickle-minded may affect the schedule, ruin the said plans and receive a bad response from the people involved.
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Afterward, she received a message around 1 am that the plan is unsure and her uncle will update her. At around 3 am her uncle texted Angela telling that the plan will be pushed through. The sun has risen, Angela was prepared to leave and was already waiting for them when suddenly, her uncle called telling her that the plans were changed. The family will leave the next day at around 2 am to avoid traffic and arrive there early. Angela was so confused and got pissed off. This is why it is important to be fixed and clear about the information the sender will transmit to the receiver.
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According to Psychology Today (2018), Empathy is the experience of understanding another person’s thoughts, feelings, and condition from their point of view, rather than from your own. Empathy is putting your feet into the shoes of another person. In connection to effective communication, a person can understand or connect more what the other person is trying to tell if he or she empathizes to the person he or she is talking to. In view of the fact that all of the people have their different perspectives and point of views in life and have different levels of coping up with things still, respect is a must. To give an example, here is a personal story of Angela Soriano regarding on the NOT EMPATHIZING to the person talking to. There were a lot of issues during Junior High school year. Specifically, during grade 9 days. The issues were caused by people whom Angela thought to be her real friends. Those issues caused Angela to breakdown, her grades were affected, and she doesn’t like to go to school.
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On the positive side, because of these issues Angela learned how to be strong and how to stand on her own feet. She learned how to be independent. It was a great Sunday morning; the gospel by the pastor is all about forgiveness. Later that day, Angela messaged those fake friends of her and said sorry for all the things that she’d done from the past and that she’s forgiving them. One of her fake friends who is full of pride, replied “busy ka kasi laslasin sarili mo, kaya ka naming sinukuan at iniwan”. How rude it is to say that to a person, where in fact that rude person doesn’t have any idea how tough and difficult it was to deal with all those problems. How sad because that rude person, did not put herself into the situation of Angela. It is okay to explain the side of the other
Topic: friendship

A true friend is someone that is always there for you, that you can count on no matter the situation you find yourself in. He has your back through the thick and thin he supports you through the good and bad phase of your life when you are up they are up with you, when you are down they are down with you. And when you get bullied or insulted they stand up for you, regardless of the consequence they face and when you get in trouble they look for a way to help you out, and they do these because they care for you and not because they expect anything in return.
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Tthey are happy when you are happy and when you are sad they just want to see that smile that is missing, so a true friend is some one who has your back through the rough and smoth phase of your life. When you share your fears and securities with them they dont laugh at you instead support you to face your fears and let go of those How to know a true friend who is a true friend and who is not, was something i didnt know until i was in ss3 i was the dinning prefect which is quite a popular post because of the food accompanying it.
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Everybody wanted to be my friend,me being ignorant just became friends with people who moved closer to me, unaware of their intentions for being my friendsI. I flowed along with them so i thought i had friends. It was the day i entered the hostel and overheard this same set of freinds talking about me when i heard what they have to say about me, i wondered if they were my friends or enemies, i didnt allow them to see me i left the hostel immediately i asked myself if they were my friends i made an attempt to know the meaning of freinds, and i found out that these were not true friends because what they said hurts and friends dont hurt each other instead protect each other. Friends that backbite are they true friends? Friend that when you offend them they keep it in and dont tell you, are they your friends? no they are not they dont show attribute of true friendship.
Topic: friendship

From that day i decided not to associate myself with fake freinds, if its not a true friend then i wont associate with them. so i stayed away from them they didnt even bother to ask me what the problem was, they only ask me about food when its time for food. There was these set of guys i always see in the library whenever i go there to read in the library. But there was a particular guy seye, we always greet each other casually when i went to the library on this faithful day, he asked me what was wrong i said nothing, he smiled and told me you dont walk with your freinds anymore, you dont stay in the hostel like ypu use to, you are always in library or class you dont look happy at all. I was surprised none of the freinds i walked with noticed this, but he did he was like I just like you because you are a fair prefect and nice to your juniors so thats how we started walking, reading together walikng he introduced me to his other friends i started walking with them, and they never asked me to use my position for anything.
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when i do something wrong they call me sit me down and correct me and when i was going towards the wrong path they corrected me and when ever i was sad they always found a way to make me happy, especially seye so i considered them my true friends. So this proves what i studied about true friends, they have my back even when my fake friends spread a rumour about me, they confronted them about the rumours and told them to stop spreading it. Many other cases they fought for me even when i was not there especially seye he made sure he was always there for me whenever i needed a friend. He taught me things i didn’t know, he challenged me to be a better person and am so thankful i had and currently have him in my life. Although true friendship has a lot of attribute i base the attribute on three characteristics this is based on my owntrue experience HLL ( honesty love loyalty) these is what makes a relationship stand
Topic: friendship

honesty – Friends have to be honest with each other, tell the truth he might get angry with you, it might hurt him, but the truth still matters, without honesty in a true friendship it is bound to fail and let him know how you are feeling a true friend knows you best. So tell him everything are u hurt, sad ,lonely, happy or miserable he is someone with whom you are not scared to let your guards down around. A true friend will not take advantage of these, instead will help to feel better and respect you as well as your vulnerability. After i told seye what happened with my fake friends he didnt laugh at me, he told me he knew because he has also heard it before but he couldn’t tell me, because i blindly trusted them and was sincere with them. He said he was sorry because if he had told me i would have avoided thisH. He called his other friends who made me feel welcomed and loved and also made me laugh.
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They didnt consider me a mumu like the fake friends did, they only saw the loving and caring part in me. They didnt look at my mistakes or flaws but looked at other things in me. They were completely honest with me from the start thats what builds a true friendship. Love dont say it in words, show it in actions.  Love is the act of caring for other people putting them and their needs above our own, including their happiness a true friend put your needs and happiness them before his own he cares for you,share in your pain and happiness he fights and argues with you because he loves you stand for you against the world he does all this for the love of his friends.
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I remebered when a junior student spoke to me rudely, i just let him go unknowing to me, they reported him to the dining master who punished him. it was later that the student came to apologize. I was shocked when i found out what they did, not just that when all the prefect were being punished, we were asked to cut a portion of land under the sun, they left their class and came to help me we finished my portion that day where other prefect were still working on their own. Whereas my fake friends laughed at me saying, is it by force to be a prefect go and resign there are other people available for the post. Loyalty_It is a feeling of support or allegiance you give to people to show them they can always rely on you no matter the situation.
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A true friend is loyal to the very end, they show you support, cheer you on when every body is bringing you down and when you want something you know you can always count on them anyday at anytime. They make themselves available to you and when you have a problem you cant seem to get a way out, they will just find the solution for you. So at times when you get into trouble you smile because you know you have people you can rely on and they love you too much to see you serve punishment,so they will definitely find a way out for you so you feel so relaxed. I remembered when i was sick and went home for treatment my friends and seye were in school so my fakefriends went to meet them and told them all sort of lies, like i steal, lie, i copy in exams and am just using them for my personal gains, that they should stop walking with me.
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Am a bad influence on them especially seye and they all lauged and told them they know and they thank them seye replied saying they  dont have to worry because they don’t mind me using them because he is a true friend and when you have a true friend you dont mind whatever happens with them and they left disappointed and when they told me. I Cried they were even worried incase they hurt my feelings but i told them no that it was the fact that i didnt notice the true friends around me earlier but moved wiťh the fake ones who didnt care at all about me and they brightened my mood i smiled remembering one of the merits of having a true friend is they won’t allow you to be sad for as long as they are with you there are other characteristics of a true freind but i think this three describes them all. I just know from experience a person that has a true friend has the world although he might not realise it but it is the truth.
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“Three Day Road” is a book that follows two young Native American boys, Elijah and Xavier, who experience firsthand the horrors of war. “Three Day Road” follows the fundamental plot archetype and uses archetypal characters to emphasize how these horrors and terror can affect people differently. Elijah and Xavier are inseparable childhood friends who experience the same war but cope and internalize what they witness and experience in different ways; on in a positive manner and the other in a negative fashion.
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The quote from when Elijah and Xavier’s squadron was under fire from their own allies depicts one difference in their personalities: “Elijah walks beside me. He’s laughing at all this. I don’t find it funny” (Boyden 12). It is apparent from this quote that Xavier is the more serious of the two friends. At this point in the book, one could start to see some archetypes. Xavier is narrating for the most part and seems to have a firm grasp of what is right versus what is wrong, and the reader finds out that he survives the war and returns home to his aunt Niska; therefore he best exemplifies the hero archetype of the story.
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Niska has an ability to understand things without being explicitly told them: “My body hums with Nephew’s pain and with the realization that he has come home only to die” (Boyden 9). Niska infers that under Xavier’s condition, the only reason he came home was to die in peace. At first, nothing is for sure for it cannot be certain until the plot further develops, but there are plenty of hints. The beginning is also where the first two parts of the fundamental plot archetype can be seen. Xavier, the story’s hero, begins his journey as an innocent young boy at home and then we learn he is sent off to fight for his country during World War One. Keep in mind Xavier and Elijah were still inseparable at this point, yet to see the real terror that is war. In the middle of “Three Day Road”, more and more information regarding Xavier, Elijah, and Niska, as well as the archetypes each of them embody is brought to light. Xavier and Elijah begin snipers Canada has to offer.
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, and Niska tells stories of her childhood and shares her wisdom to Xavier, again traits of the great mother archetype. The whole middle portion of the book, along the fundamental archetype plot line, would fit under Xavier, the hero, battling monsters in the underworld, or in Xavier’s case, the Fritz. Xavier is also slowly gaining experience as the story develops; we can see him start to gain confidence from winning the sniping competition, he gains a nickname from his peers as “X”. The gradual separation of Xavier and Elijah has started. Elijah begins lying to Xavier and joining the others in ridiculing him at times. After previously assuring Xavier that he had never tried morphine, Elijah finally admits “Did you know that I tried the medicine, the morphine, on the ship to England?” (Boyden 123). As morphine is an extremely addictive drug, this goes to show Elijah’s poor decision-making skills and his betrayal to the promises he made Xavier. Their differences in personality get put under the microscope; Xavier keeps quiet about his accomplishments as Elijah boasts about all the people he has killed. Elijah gives in to morphine as Xavier does not, and perhaps the most important one, Elijah slowly develops a bloodlust while Xavier feels sympathetic for anyone he has had to kill.
Topic: friendship

Penelope is Junior’s girlfriend that he meets at Reardan. They first meet on his first day of school and she makes fun of him. He then develops a crush on her and admirers her from afar. There second meeting was when he finds her coming out of the bathroom after she vomits. They then from a boyfriend/ girlfriend relationship after the incident, initially he believes that she is only dating him to spite her father (Alexie 2007).
Topic: friendship

Junior is an outsider in both his community and at school. No one seems to notice or pay attention to him except a select few. His relationship with these individuals influences how he sees the world around him. He comes from a family of low social-economic status. His father is an alcoholic, his mother is an ex-drunk, his grandmother was killed by and drunk driver, and his sister was killed in a fire while being drunk (Alexie 2007). He is often bully by the people on the reservation and is rejected by them.
Topic: friendship

Early in the book, he chooses not to confront issues, such as him being bullied, and this leads him to become even more picked on. His communication skills are abysmal, the same with his best friend Rowdy. They both lack interpersonal skills, and this is something they both share. Later in the book, Junior makes progress in communicating with others. Him having friends at school boosts his self-esteem into help develops his interpersonal skills (Zitek 2012).
Topic: friendship

Junior develops a sense of who he is by the end of the book. He understands who he is to the Native American community and who he is at school. In the reservation, he is just a punching bag to them and a traitor for leaving the it. At school he is the Native American kid who transferred in and is dating Penelope and hangs out with Gordy. Junior understands what it is to be poor and Native American. He knows that most of the people living in the reservation are alcoholics. Most importantly, he understands that he will not become like them and know that he must leave the reservation for him to achieve his dream.
Topic: friendship

Living in the reservation with his family, he understands that they are living in poverty. He understands the concept of being poor at a fairly young age (Potter 2018). For him though, he does have a family that cares about him even and supports his decisions. Being from an area and family of low social economic status, Junior self-esteem was likely affected by this (Zitek 2012). He is embarrassed that he couldn’t afford to have the pictures taken at prom and that he didn’t have any money to pay for his and Penelope’s meal at the diner. He also never corrects his classmates when they think that he has money from the Indian casino because he is ashamed that he has no money.
Topic: friendship

His relationship with Penelope is a bit of a mismatch. She is the prettiest girl in school and he is the most unpopular boy at school. Despite this mismatch, they both dream of getting out of where they are from. He dreams of leaving the reservation for good and she dreams of leaving Reardan and traveling the world. Her father disapproves of their relationship because he is not white, and Junior can understand this, but he doesn’t care because even though the relationship may just be a sham, as least he has a someone to call his girlfriend (Alexie 2007).
Topic: friendship

Both Junior and Gordy are sort of the loners at Reardan, in that Junior is ignored because he is a Native American and that Gordy chooses not to associate with any of the other students. Gordy is the smartest student and teaches Junior that learning is something to take joy in. Their relationships start as Junior misunderstands Gordy’s intentions. Junior thinks that Gordy is defending him for what he said in class, but Gordy was just doing it for the sake of science. They form a relationship and connection that stems from both wanting to learn (Gordon 2012).
Topic: friendship

Peers play a large role in developing an adolescent’s idea of identity. Relationships with others contribute in this development, whether they are healthy or not (Berger 2014). A form of an unhealthy relationship is bullying. Junior faces bullying his whole life. He faces physical, verbal, and social aggression throughout the book. The impacts of bullying can lead to depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and academic loss (Berger 2014).
Topic: friendship

Junior faces bullying on and off the reservation. He is relentlessly bullied by everyone on the reservation, physically and socially. On Reardan, he is bullied verbally and socially. What makes this different is how Junior reacts to the bullying. He uses a combination of ignoring, retaliating, and avoiding when he is bullied (Berger 2014). He ignores and avoids most of what people say about him and he also retaliates to Roger’s insult about the Native Americans.
Topic: friendship

His relationship with Rowdy is an odd one. They are both best friends and arch-nemesis. Rowdy would be labeled as a bully victim. He, like Junior, also comes from a low social economic status family. He is often abused by his alcoholic father and this causes him to bully others. For bullying-victims, they sometimes have close friends, in this case Junior (Berger 2014). Rowdy is not rejected from others as in general most bully-victims are not. Rowdy is the star basketball player at the reservation school and his self esteem was likely boosted when he elbowed Junior during the match.
Topic: friendship

Social acceptance is the ability for people to accept or tolerate each other’s differences and diversity (Berger 2014). Junior and Roger didn’t see eye to eyes when they first met but Roger makes a kind gesture to Junior that changes his view on him. Roger becomes a close friend of Junior and his understanding that Junior comes from a poor family he does what he can to help him. It is not pity he gives Junior, it is acceptance (Gordon 2012). He understands that Junior is different from him and he accepts him for who he is. This also gives Junior a different view of Roger. Roger wasn’t a racist bigot, but rather a kind individual who helps others.
Topic: friendship

Though there are similarities in each of Junior’s peers, they are all different. Their backgrounds are all different from Junior and the way they react to their situation are different (Gordon 2012). Penelope’s relationship with her dad and the environment around her into an anorexic. Rowdy takes his father’s abuse and projects it to others. These are common in adolescents who grow up in negative environments and parents who react negatively to being in a low social-economic status (Gordon 2012).
Topic: friendship

Even with little similarities between peers, it can go a long way in adolescent development (West 2014). The perceived similarities between peers can be most beneficial in strengthening bonds and help build a sense of where an individual stand. Self-other comparison is determined by adolescents when their own personal and social worth base on how they fare against another peer. Adolescents compare themselves as a way of self-improvement and motivation (West 2014). This helps contribute in developing their self-image and this is a lifelong occurrence.
Topic: friendship

It is noted that while most individual benefits from healthy comparison to others, some will individuals will experience negative feedback from the self-other comparison (Berger 2014). If they are constantly comparing themselves to others and falling short, they become dissatisfied with their self-image. This can lead to a sense of guilt, remorse and can lead to negative behaviors (West 2014). This is seen in Penelope as she is deeply dissatisfied with her life and in so engaging in destructive behavior such as becoming anorexic and begins dating Junior as a way of rebelling.
Topic: friendship

Empathy was also given to Junior by Roger. He helps give money to Junior because he knows that he didn’t have any to pay for him and Penelope’s meal at the diner. Roger and Penelope also confront him when he says his father is going to pick him up. Feeling shame about being poor, Junior tries to lie at first but after they bombard him for the truth (Alexie 2007). He gives in and admits his father isn’t going to pick him up and that he was going to walk home. Roger drives him back home and continues to drop him off some days after school (Alexie 2007).
Topic: friendship

Nostalgia can play a role in helping adolescents promote relationships between them (Abeyta 2015). Nostalgia is a positive emotional memory that can be revisited. If there is a conflict that occurs in the relationship, if the parties look back at the positive memories they had together, it can help build a stronger bond (Potter 2018). The goals that are trying to be achieved by looking back at the nostalgia is to satisfy the belongingness needs. Looking back at nostalgic memories, they can help build a sense of belongingness (Abeyta 2015).
Topic: friendship

As mentioned already, Junior’s relationship with Rowdy is a difficult one. It is a one-sided relationship for a while after Junior left to Reardan. Junior would always reflect on the nostalgic memories he had with Rowdy whenever he felt down. Whenever he felt away from home, it was always the memories he has with Rowdy that brought his spirit up. After Junior and Rowdy reconcile their differences, they reveal that they have always thought about each other. They overcome this conflict in their relationship and move forward.
Topic: friendship

Overall, Junior’s choices in life were heavily influenced by his surroundings and circumstances (Zitek 2012). What influenced most were his peers as they all played a part in who he becomes. His relationship with Roger, Penelope, Gordy, and Rowdy all helped him in his journey of understanding who he is. Just like in adolescent development, Junior’s development throughout his middle childhood was influenced by his peers. He faced rejection and bullying and experiencing that, he found out where he stood socially. His concrete operational thought helps him figure out who he is to himself and others. He understands that he is a Native American in an all-white school, that he is poor, and that he needs to get out of the reservation or else he will end up like all the other Natives in the reservation.
Topic: friendship

Junior’s resilience to all the negatives around him helps propel him into making decisions that are best for him even though they may not be the most popular. His reaction to his low social economic only helps his concept of self-identity faster. Instead of feeling inferior to others he strives to be better. He sees that his family may not be the best, but they are better than most children at Reardans. Adolescents need social relationship to develop their emotions, identities, independence, and self-esteem.