EPT Essay on Mead

     The quality we celebrate  or admire in people of is the people with the highest grades, most attractive, or most likely to succeed. We never tend to admire others for the things they do such as having talent with singing, dancing, drawing, or the person that works hard the most. Margaret Mead said “we tend to regard the success of people close at hand, within our own small group, as a threat”. This statement means that people who have talent in our own groups (classmates for example) we feel threatened or jealous of their talent.

   My question is what do you think about this argument? Do you think we tend to admire people that are celebrities or sport stars or singers as long as they are famous, or not in our group? I think it is true that we do admire people that are celebrities or sports stars, now why do we do this? Why do we admire them but not in our group? Perhaps because we think they have more talent compared to our own group, and most likely we admire them more because we think they have more talent compared to our own group and most likely we admire them more because they are famous! If somebody in our school was a pro at basketball and had a basketball game, people would love to come see the guy the play, but if it was Angelina Julie people would rather see her than the professional basketball player at our school. This happens because she’s famous, she’s attractive, and maybe because they she has a good heart, on the other hand they don’t know that the basketball player has a good heart, and maybe the basketball player isn't attractive. We can make a change to how we should admire people that are not famous.

    People who have talent in our own groups such as classmates or athletes feel threatened/jealous of their own classmate or the other athletes. We question ourselves why do you feel like this, why are we jealous of others. I wouldn't say I feel threatened by them unless they are trying to compete then yes I would feel threatened by them because you can work so hard in basketball and all that hard work that you did is thrown away because there is another player that is better than you and he doesn't work hard enough he still gets recognized and the other person doesn't, but I do agree that we get jealous of other peoples talent because you tend to work so hard and you feel like you have low standard because you put all your thinking into it, but the people who have talent they just do it, and us students feel jealous because of that.

   

     In addition to this we shouldn't feel jealous or threatened by other groups that have talent, we should believe in ourselves and know that we might not have the talent they have but we always have a way of finding our own.

what is an american?

An American is a person that is a united citizen to America, But that’s what every person thinks just because we were born in the US doesn’t make us Americans and just because our parents were born in America doesn’t make us white American people. I believe there is a difference between being in America and being an American. There is more to just being an American, there are all kind of history.

Being in America is one thing, to be in America you have to respect the laws, but you get freedom. The reason why we have laws is because some people in America take advantage of it and tend to do dense things. For example selling drugs, shootings, rape, kidnapping, etc… I feel that these people don’t deserve to be in America, there are people out there that have suffered with slavery, or immigrants that cropped our farms and don’t get the freedom. I say this because they sacrifice their selves for us, and we don’t thank them or appreciate them, even the African Americans that suffered through slavery.

Being an American is someone who demands what they want. Sometimes I think the four fathers were the people who beat fair people; America was built on blood, slavery and lies. The blood was built on a land where it was originally Native American. This was the blood that was part of Americas upcoming. 

Also the slavery was when the African Americans were taken away from Africa to “free them” to work for them and become slaves and get an amount of money a day, or most of the wages that was nowhere after taking a family. This situation is compared to the immigrants that came to the United States to be freed and make money by farming but to those immigrants it felt like slavery they were only getting paid a certain amount of money.
 

Everyone has suffered throughout life but there are certain people that have been through hell. My point is that I find it unfair that they treat African Americans, immigrants or Hispanics, and Muslim people, they always have to be so stereotypical with a certain race, and they have to pay the most consequences. We all are Americans! And we should all be treated equally the same, even if you are a Jew, Russian, Italian, Korean, etc… You are American.

Autobiography
We wonder how people’s life is like as their childhood to their teenage years went by. My friends and family say I have an interesting life because I went through so much when I was young and even now. I was born in California but raised in Kingston, New York, I lived with my mom, grandma, and my uncle’s girlfriend that is Puerto Rican. I have two brothers one is thirteen years and the other one is turning 19, I am the only girl. At times it sucks being the only girl because I am the one being depended on mostly. But I knew it was only for the best of me. When I was nine years old my mom had passed away on October 6, 2006, she was murdered by her ex-boyfriend  it was the worst thing that had ever happened to me in life, I felt like It wouldn’t be the same without her, I had to leave to California to live with my dad. In my head I knew it would be different because I am being raised by a single father, but that’s not the only thing that had changed, I had to take therapy classes because they didn’t want us to be depressed through our whole life and they wanted to check up on how we feel since my mom passed away, but I felt that it didn’t make me feel better. As the years passed by through middle school to high school I knew I had to focus on graduating high school and go to college and get a major in Psychology, psychology is one of the subjects that interest’s me and motivate me to get a career and a bright future ahead of me. Psychology may be one of the things that I like but I have a passion for volleyball, even though I just started last year, playing volleyball is a hobby for me I got other hobbies like running, shopping, and I guess you can consider reading as a hobby. The type of books I like reading are drama type, crime scenes, or basically a book that leads you to read more and a book that isn’t boring. My favorite subjects are math and English and my worst subjects are science and history. My dream college is Pepperdine University or New York University, I always wanted to go to one of these schools and hopefully I do. As I get older I have to go to Sacramento and talk to these specific people about my mom’s murder and when I get there I want to know the real story of mom’s murder case, my family don’t want to tell me the full story because they think I am too young to know or I wouldn’t understand. My goals are to graduate high school, graduate college and get a major in Psychology and take care of my family and show them that I am a strong young lady that fights for what she wants.