Yes! When i first read "future" above and how they associated it with positive attributes, it made me raise an eyebrow. I know for sure I am not filled with only positive emotions when i think about the future. However, i do share some of the qualities, i also experience a bunch of anxiety and social isolation in feels that I am not good enough or do not belong in a certain profession. Which is terrifying in its self. We see this a lot in other college students. One of my favorite shows, The Gilmore Girls, resemble the same feelings in one of the lead actresses, Rory's life. She is about to be a graduate from Yale and has fear of the future in Journalism and does not know what to do exactly. Just like many of my peers now. But even though we fear a lot of the future- i know that I am very future oriented and focus a lot on what is to come.

Yes! This is so true. I feel like college, especially Lander, you are able to meet such a variety of foreign people and are able to be introduced to a variety of cultures. This has been such an amazing experience over the last four years as some of my bestest friends come from different countries. I have been able to pick up on different languages, different habits and rituals that we wouldn't necessarily experience as an American.

At an early age we learn from our social environment a set of beliefs, values, and customs that make up our culture. Many of us follow behind our parents and our peers and what they believe and do. I think that this is so important that people understand this for when we look at how other people react and treat others that most people from the same culture will treat others the same way.

We see this all the time in any kind of sports teams or events. Most teams just dislike each other because they are on separate teams but not exactly for the players on it. I have dealt with this all my life and have had to stop myself from disliking other players on different teams because i dont know them at all.

I know that fo a fact dads treat their daughters with more sweetness. They are more likely to sing to them, to respond to them if they cried out, and to talk with them about sad feelings and about the body but dads with sons are more likely to do rough and-tumble play and to talk about achievements and expectations. So this is cool to be able to read about this too!

This interests me. As a nanny of two 8 and 9 year old boys I see this 100%. My boys are definitely more aggressive with one another after they have played Call of Duty or WWE with one another. They argue more, they "play fight" more, and they tend to be more aggressive with the non-animate objects they come across.Which in turn for me- can be super discouraging. I have actually done more research about this in the past to help better understand how to fix this issue. Here is one article i have read before! https://www.businessinsider.com/video-games-and-violence-2018-3#the-release-of-games-like-grand-theft-auto-didnt-seem-to-increase-crime-rates-and-may-do-the-opposite-4

We see this all the time in so many different ways! The most prevalent situation i can think of is helping someone who is stopped on the side of the road. I personally wont ever stop, just because i am a small woman and have always been warned not to. However, when i am with a guy friend, my boyfriend, or even a male family member, i feel inclined to stop and help someone with their problems. But I kow many guys who wouldnt even glance their way.

This is interesting. I did not know that there was an actual name for this type of scenario. I recently watched a documentary about teenage killers and whether they should be trialed as adults. And this dilemma came up with three friends. One who was the murder, one who witnessed it all, and another who helped later on. The first two, the murder and the witness were both sentenced a life time in prison but the third accomplice got off scot free for blaming the other two teenagers. When the witness really did not commit the crime. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/whenkidsgetlife/

I have always found this interesting. When i was in high school i baby sat for my parents small group. There was a family in that group who had just adopted a newborn who was soon to be diagnosed with ASD but in the moment it always surprised me that the other babies in the group (some even younger than she was) would recognize me from our bi-weekly meetings but she would not. And we learned soon that she was on the spectrum and had a hard time with groups of people and this did not help with her behavior. She was not able to recognize the people who were around her so often that she was never able to really adjust and play like the other kids.

For this reason alone, I am so thankful that Lander puts us in EXPO groups before our freshman semester starts. Being put in group for a few days with people who are all in the same nerve-wracking position helped alleviate some of the fear of being independent from our families. We were able to form friendships or some kind affiliation with other people that became long lasting friendships in the end. This was a big deal to me! During Expo, i found some of my closest friends and i never thought that it would be! I ended up rooming with someone in my group for 2/4 years, I gained great memories of Swedish Fish food fight, and getting lost around this BIG town of Greenwood! I don't think i would have been as comfortable coming here if we weren't put in these random groups with random people who were afraid too!

This is seen a lot these days causing kids to pretty much raise themselves. Single mothers and fathers both have to worry about feeding their kids and making sure the electricity stays o that they work all day and night just to come home to be too tired to play and bond with their children. I have witnessed this on a show called Greys Anatomy. It is shown that Meredith Grey's mother, Ellis Grey, was a hard working (some-what single) mother and surgeon who dived into her own work more than she cared for Meredith. Causing Meredith to have some developmental issues as an adult. She wasn’t involved in Meredith’s life, leaving her to feel a lot of resentment towards her mother.

I feel like this is seen a lot in the high school/ college life. It is seen with alcohol, drugs, ectra-curricular activities and many more things. Many different programs and friend groups can paint a picture to make you believe something is one way than it actually is. and later on, once you see the way these things can interfere with your happiness it can cause you to be sorry.

I once heard that fear is to the known; anxiety is to the unknown. And this really resonated with me because as a young adult who has struggled with anxiety for almost 10 years now it really shows how much we over think into the future. Even if it is just five minutes away. As a generalized term, we often start to overlook anxiety as not that big of a deal but really it should be looked at and handled with more care than we have lately as a society.

Children are introduced to competitive behavior at such a young age through games like these. It is known for adults to bribe a child with timing games and punishments to get them to perform a certain act. I know with my siblings we will tell them to "see how long it takes to clean their room", "who can get in the car and buckled first", or even things like "you have 5 seconds to do what you are supposed to do before you are punished". it is used in a way to manipulate someone to get things done the when you want them to. Because of this children will grow up to be competitive and very sensitive to losing or not performing an act correctly.

This is very true due to the belief that our moods effect memories that we obtain. its like the whole idea of repressing bad memories because they are something we do not want to remember. For example, in Greys anatomy, season 4 episode 15 "Losing My Mind" Meredith Grey remembers that her mother tried to kill herself after losing the love of her life. but she forgot about this until she was prompted by her therapist so that brought these memories up. This has even happened in real life with me and other situations.

Even though the text does discuss the different ways that people refer to their gender, i find it interesting. I find it interesting in people who refer themselves in a different gender. I am a female, i refer to myself as a female, with the female pronouns but i have never had to struggle with thinking anything otherwise. I wonder what it is like for people who feel like they are a different gender than the sex they were born to be. Degrassi: The Next Generation shines a light on this with a character named Adam Torres, who struggled with his identity. He was a female-to-male transgender. Because of this, even though he physically had female parts, he acted like he was a male because that is how he felt to be. no one knew that he was born a female and would not have known unless they asked.

It is so important to make sure you have positive relationships in your life. How you feel is affected by the relationships you have in your life (unfortunately). There was a time where i surrounded myself with toxic relationships and it created a toxic phase of my life that i wish i never experienced. I learned to be disrespectful to my elders, never did anything for anyone else, and i got in so much trouble to where i was almost expelled from school. But once i realized that my actions were based off of my relationships with my "friends" around me, i was able to make a change and find people to form positive relationships. Which helped me grow into a better woman all around.

The fact that this says love may create its own reality speaks true on so many levels. Its like the saying "Love makes you blind." Lately ive been rewatching the show Greys Anatomy and this time i have caught more feelings from the show than before. I watched an episode yesterday that spoke on love. Season 2, episode 8 "Let it Be" Meredith Grey speaks about Romeo and Juliette and how they were fated to be together, but just for a while, and then their time passed. And how if they could've known that beforehand, maybe it would've all been OK. She told her teacher Mrs. Synder that she would never let a man drag her down just like juliette did with Romeo. But she had learned that Love is all about your own choices, and about putting down the poison and the dagger and making your own happy ending but even after all of it is over with, sometimes despite all your best choices and all your best intentions, fate wins anyways, and you become blinded by the love. You will have to deal with the aftermath and pain of it all end the end.

Technology has been used to help single people find each other. Especially with in the college scene. Not too long ago an app called Tinder was created for young college people near each other to help find one another for "hookups" in the area. This app has been shown to work all around the world both positively and negatively. Like in the TV show Catfish that we watched in class last week, people use technology to build relationships but it makes it easier for those single people to lie about who they are and make things seem like something they are not.

You see it on every single Disney Channel movie on how important it is to have a best friend. The first one to come to mind would be the original Cheetah Girls movie which is based off of four high school girls in a pop-girl group. They all have their own personal family issues but they lean on one another to keep them strong. One cheetah Girl in particular, Dorinda, struggles with her self-worth due to being in foster care. There is a point in the movie where she finally breaks down and cries out to her friends that she feels lesser than everyone else due to the fact that she is in foster care and is not able to provide the same financial outlook as everyone else. However, the girls, were there to protect Dorindas self-worth.