Five Paragraph Essay By: Emily Smith The character I’m going to describe is Massie Block from The Clique Series by Lisi Harrison. One of the traits you will learn about Massie is her being very wealthy. Another trait of hers is loving to shop. The last and probably the most obvious trait is her popularity. My opinion of Massie Block is that she has a lot of money and is very commonly known. One of Massie’s traits is her being rich. One example of this would be the first time Clair walks into
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be any characteristic that makes them unique. Some may label their selves differently from what the average person would on first glance. This creates conflict and segregation in society. Cliques and labels can sometimes be a positive thing‚ but more often than not they cause conflict. The reason behind cliques and labels is for people to find somewhere they fit in. Small social groups are just a bunch of people with common interests with a likeability factor that makes an individual feel comfortable
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SonnyJ. Valentine Faye Goodspeed Writing 100 Hanging out with the wrong crowd can pull a person down like a brick in a lake and leave them feeling cold as ice. It seems like it has some good effects like being popular and having your name known. It can also lead to all sorts of issues like negative attention‚ self-esteem problems‚ and even depression. This problem is relevant to almost everyone in one way or another. The feeling of wanting to be accepted can drive a person to make some foolish
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motivated by a sense of power and control they feel when picking on people” (“Cliques”). People enjoy feeling like they have control over someone or something. This is especially true in bullies and a reason one may continually pick on another person. Another thing that makes this problem worse is “when the bullies are the school’s elite students‚ teachers and administrators often turn a blind eye to such issues” (“Cliques”). This makes it harder for students to make the bullying stop. Teachers
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Face in the Crowd In the mall you sit in the middle of the courtyard. There is a big crowd of people just hanging out‚ or conversing with each other‚ or waiting for transportation. In this courtyard there are some small potted trees and bushes; these plants are beginning to turn brown since the winter is drawing near. As you sit on that stone bench you notice the different cliques of people. There are the high schoolers‚ the “cool kids”‚ the parents and their children‚ and the young couples.
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the bullies think their target maybe homosexual. Some bullies attack their targets physically‚ while others use psychological control or verbal insults to put themselves in charge. For example‚ people who are considered popular‚ or are a part of a clique‚ often bully people they categorize as different by excluding them or gossiping about them. Bullies may also taunt or tease their targets‚ which accounts as verbal bullying. One of the many pains that are caused by bullying is that it is never ending
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How might we best explain crowd behaviour? (2013 Exam Question) People are likely to act in bizarre ways in a crowd compared to as an individual. A crowd can be defined as a set of individuals who share a common social identification of themselves in terms of that crowd. Crowd members should also share common goals and act in a coherent member (Reicher‚ 2008). There have been extensive amounts of research into crowd psychology‚ investigating the apparent causes and reasons for such behaviour to
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The Smartest People May Not be as Smart as a Crowd‚ but Who can Find a Smart Crowd? In The Wisdom of Crowds‚ author James Surowiecki contends that the “smartest people” are often not as smart as a group of individuals formed under the right circumstances (XIII). Surowiecki backs up his claim by giving numerous real life examples of crowds that meet the criteria of having diversity of opinion‚ independence‚ decentralization and aggregation‚ and have proven to be smarter than almost any one individual
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CROWDS AND VIOLENCE Deindividuation: [“Individuation” coined by Jung: a process of individuation for development of personality] Historical Research: Le Bon (1890s) When individuals “descend” in a crowd‚ they become creatures of instinct‚ barbarians (Contagion theory‚ anonymity) Festinger (1952) Individuals who sat in dim light more likely to use bad language when discussing erotic material than individuals who were not. Zimbardo (1969) Stanford Prison Experiments: Individuals dressed
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The epigraph at the beginning of “The Man in the Crowd” brings up the interesting question of what it really means to be alone. While the actual definition of alone is “quite by oneself‚ unaccompanied‚ solitary‚” (“Alone”) the story‚ through the narrator’s thoughts and the observations of the nameless man in the crowd‚ can serve as a different perspective on being alone if applied beyond the situation in the tale. The epigraph says how terrible it is to never be alone‚ and the story serves as a metaphor
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