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During this course “Writing,” I have stumble across challenging essays.   In the begging of class my essays were not explainable and was not strong enough to meet college essay material.  Reading my essays shows how much I improved. The first essay that I wrote was very weak, it did not had enough details. I wrote three short paragraphs and thought that it was a passing essay. During this course I learned my mistakes and weakness on writing essays. My major weakness was not giving enough detail for example, not writing personal and outside experience. Reading and understanding the passages were not an issue it more writing my thoughts on paper. Trying to elaborate on how I agreed or disagreed with the passage.

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In different scenarios people tend to act different when they are by themselves or in a group. In this passage “Individualism in Groups” by Carol Tavris there are several behaviors someone would act in a group or by themselves in a situation. Someone alone in a dangerous situation would think differently from someone in a group. For example, one individual is there to witness someone’s life in danger they would most likely help the person. However, in a group they would heisted to report it because the person would assumed that someone already helped, that is called “Diffusion of Responsibility.”

             I don't agree with this idea because it depends on the situation a group or an individual is in. For example, it is late at night outside of a bar theirs a homeless man lying on the floor. Someone by themselves walking would witness it and most likely do nothing. The person would assume it is just a drunken poor homeless man in the street and would walk by. This evidence that I showed proves that the author is wrong about a single person being by themselves would help or report someone being in trouble.

In my personal experience I have been in a car accident with my sister, cousin, and my mother who was driving. Soon as the car crash into a parked car people who witness it offer to help us. No one heisted to call the ambulance and some even offer for their help. In conclusion the author’s analogy I do not agreed with it because, my experience proves the author being wrong about “Diffusion of Responsibility.” Again it depends on the situation people are in. In conclusion people just have different mind frame than others.   

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                In this passage “How Your Birth Order Influences Your Life Adjustment,” by Lucille Forer there are several reason why a child feels a certain way being in his or her family. The child would know his or position in the family for example being, only child, oldest, middle, or the youngest in his family. The oldest child would feel that he or she have more responsibilities than the younger siblings. The middle child may assumed of being better than other people because the middle child is older than the younger and has its older sibling and parents for help. The youngest child would have a lower self-esteem because he or she feels that they can’t accomplish than his siblings. Finally the only child would assume of being independent for himself.   

                Being the oldest in my family I agreed with this idea. As being the oldest I feel that I have a lot of responsibility of being the role model for my younger brothers. In my experience I have to face my parents as being the leader of my brothers. My parents expect me to do the right thing so my brothers would look up to me. I also need to take care of my brother’s problem and set a good example of being the oldest.  

                I have two younger brothers named Jose and Albert. Jose is 18 teen years old and he is the middle. I do feel that he thinks he is the best because he always mocks Albert. Jose likes to argue a lot of being the best and most of the time fights with Albert. He usually ask me for help and if I can’t help him he would ask my parents.

                My youngest brother Albert is 16 teen he most of the time wines a lot of not doing his homework right. I do feel that he needs a lot of attention because he feels very self-esteem moist of the time. My parents tend to spoiled him and order me to help him for his problems. I feel Albert is lucky to be the youngest because he has a lot of people to watch out for him. Sometime when I have a lot of problems or being stress out I sometimes wish of being the youngest.

                I do appreciate of having brothers I feel bad for an only child because when their parents are gone they are by themselves in this world.

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Someone would believe that a good and noble person would save a person’s life if they were in danger. What makes a person a hero or what is a hero? I believe a hero is a person that had saved someone’s life before. I think a person is a hero after they had saved someone’s life not if they a firefighter or a police officer that haven’t gain experience from any moment of saving a life. I think today the word “Hero” is being misused and understood. For example, today children look up to Justin Bieber and consider him as a hero or a role model instead of looking up to a soldier that has put his life on the line for his country.

People would suspect for a hero to be a good citizen that goes to church every Sunday, that helps for the good, and don’t ask for anything in exchanged. However, they are wrong anyone can become a hero there are no background checks before becoming one. Anyone in this world could become a hero even a dog or a fugitive that had just escape from prison and has a bad criminal record. People would assume if they were caught in a burning building that a firefighter would come to rescue them. However, they don’t know that the firefighter would save his life before saving theirs because that how a firefighter are trained. They are not trained to be a hero, they are trained to be professionals at what they do and that is a firefighter.

I do considered that there are good and bad heroes. For example, a good hero would fall in the category of being noble that would rescue someone’s life and does not ask for anything in exchanged. For example, Jack Bauer from the Television series “24.”Jack Bauer has saved dozens of lives and in return has gotten him torture to death or even sent to federal prison. This man has never ask or gotten a Medal of Honor or a reward for his heroic acts. In the end of saving people’s lives or even the whole country Jack Bauer had to disappear and hide from the world that he had helped saved.

However, a bad hero would ask for something in return or maybe demand it. For example, Bernie Laplante from the film “Hero.” In this movie Bernie is looked as a con artist, a credit card fraud, and a thief. In the movie Bernie had saved all passengers from a plane crash the main person he saved was a reporter Gale Gayley which in the process of saving her Bernie stole her purse. In confusion, someone becomes a hero after saving someone’s life it doesn’t matter is the person has done good karma in the world or terrorizes it.

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There is research on music that it helps someone’s heath. In this passage “Is Music a Good Tool for Health,” by Elizabeth Scott there are several ways that music can help people with their health issues. First of all, music can help cancer patients and children with attention problems. For instance, music can help with brainwaves, concentration, and alert thinking. Second, research has demonstrated that music helps breathing and heart rate, someone would feel relax by listen to music. Also music can help lowers depression anxiety.

                I agreed with this idea that “Music is good for the health.” In an outside experience that everyone faces is going in an elevator. I notice that some elevator have smooth relaxing music. This helps someone by relaxing them and by being patient to get to their destination floor. For example, in a crowded elevator some people feel Closter phobic. They panic and don’t have the patient to wait with the people in the elevator with them. As researchers demonstrated music helps with concentration that why most elevator have music in them to relax people in them.

                From my personal experience music has help me prevent my sleeping anxiety. Late at night I sometimes have problems sleeping. Sometimes I would put on my head phones and play soft music whenever I can’t sleep. For example, my neighborhood late at nights I can hear very loud noise from the streets. This has distracted me from going to sleep at nights and prevented me from sleeping. I would put on my favorites songs to relax my mind and finally I can fall asleep.

                Today everyone have the benefits from music. Music has help people to relax, motivation, and enjoying it by dancing. Around the world music has many different cultures. Music is a useful tool that everyone should enjoy and benefit from. 

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    In different scenarios people tend to act different when they are by themselves or in a group. In this passage “Individualism in Groups” by Carol Tavris there are several behaviors someone would act in a group or by themselves in a situation. Someone alone in a dangerous situation would think differently from someone in a group. For example, one individual is their to witness someone life in danger they most likely they will help the person. However, in a group they would heisted to report it because the person would assumed someone already helped, that is called “Diffusion of Responsibility.” 
   
    I don't agreed with this idea because it depends on the situation a group or an individual is in. For example, late at night  out side of a bar theirs a homeless man lying on the floor. Someone by themselves walking would witness it and most likely do nothing. The person would assumed it is just a drunken poor homeless man in the street and would walk by. Also if a a group of friends walking by the bar witness the homeless men. They would most likely ignore the homeless man or expect to see a homeless person in the street thinking that is normal to see late at night.
    In my personal experience I have been in a car accident with my sister, cousin, and my mother who was driving. Soon as the car crash into a parked car people who witness it offer to help us. No one heisted to call the ambulance and some even offer for their help. Also, another experience was when I was by my self walking up the stairs to my apartment. I witness someone laying down on the floor unconscious, soon as I saw the person I called for help. In conclusion this analogy I do not agreed with it because, again it depend on the situation people are in. In conclusion people just have different mind frame than others.   

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    It is Saturday night and I’m in the night club with my cousin. We are drinking, having fun, and having the finest women around us.  Every weekend we would go to the best night clubs in New York City, week days we would both go workout in the gym. It would be the same routine week after week Jose would bring home the prettiest girl from the club. My cousin had good choice of words to say to a woman and most of the time he would bring her home.

                On a Friday night I would call Jose to ask if we going out clubbing. It was the usual respond “Hell Yeah” however it was different. I thought to myself that he might be sick, I asked him but he didn’t explain that he has plans with someone else. Everything has change I would call his house and his mother would answer saying to me he is not here. It been about three weeks that I don’t hear from Jose and not going to the clubs as usual Saturday nights.

                I was on my way to work one day and I received a text from Jose. We met up in my house and my mother left us alone to talk.It seem odd to me that my mother left us alone, so I knew it was something serious. I was happy to see him, asking where have you been. He had a worried face and he took a deep breath. He explain to me that we are family, and confessed to me his deep secret, that he is a homosexual. Before was hard for me to accept truth because I would never imagine that about my cousin being gay.

                Crying in tears my cousin begged for my forgiveness. As time passed I learn how to accept the truth about my cousin. Our family and friends accept the truth but they act different around him and I need to choice my words carefully on how I talk around him so I wont offend him. My family is shocked to know the truth about Jose not just my self. We don't hangout or barely see  each other. My guess is that he has change not only his interest in girls.