final

In this competitive world many people put others down, feeling as if they are inadequate and do not belong in the process of achieving their goals and securing their future. That is why you must prove to people, that you do to, belong in that process and are the best person to do it for your life. Who is to decide what you have to do with your life as you continue to live it, it seems to me that since you have control over what you do and say you should be the one in control. I know where I want to go so it will take a lot to stray me. I know I have tools to help people in the world and contribute something to my country. I understand that only I can determine if i truly belong somewhere.

I may not have it all figured out, but I do have an idea of what I want to do with my life and goals I’ve set forth. Since I have that plan I will to stay on that path, because if I do not I will be proving to those that I don’t belong and creating a norm for my fellow generation to follow. What I mean by that is I’d slip into the stereotype of a minority youth who strayed from the path she was provided. Setting the tone for others to be judged for what I may have done which doesn’t seem fair , but since it doesn’t seem fair I now have to prove those non believers and the misinformed wrong ,by being that one who continues on the path she was helped on and is continuing to build herself.

I will continue to build myself as a person and continue on my path keeping in mind I want to do big things and help others in the process. I may not be and inspirational speaker, a doctor or activist but that does not mean I cannot affect someone’s or many people’s life. Someone everyday affects you, that bagger who rang up your groceries, the women or man who cleaned the building you work in so you could come into work. It doesn’t always have to be as extreme as saving your life for someone to affect it. yet it also can just be you just belonging because everyone has a place in this world and a purpose rather its good or not.

I've always believed everyone was apart of something in this world and could determine that for ones self. Who is to say you don't belong in a certain place, area, career,relationship, ect. No one can really decide what is best for you and your life , which is why I can say, I know that only I should decide where I belong based on my comfort, aspirations in life, and personal preference. If I believe that I am contributing to my surroundings, and am comfortable with where I stand in that environment, can feel like I can move forward in a positive way, then I belong there no matter what anyone says.

Although you may have to show those couple of doubters that you belong to what ever you are involved in. You know who you are what you want to be and know you get the final say in where or to what you belong. The question of "do I belong" is a hard one, because to me only you as an individual can figure that out. Yet many have trouble knowing who the are or where they belong. which is how they fall into listening to others for guidance. which in some cases people can be strayed off their intended path, or make room for negative people to bring ideas that they can only belong to certain things and never to others. This negativity is why should quickly be replaced by you knowing you belong to your self and therefore choose where and with whom you choose to share yourself with.

Dear Madison Wisconsin, I am a citizen of your great state and city. I have written this letter to explain the many factors that contribute to me being a functioning member and belonging to our great state. In my constant quest to be a productive member of this state, I’ve been involved in a precollege program preparing me for what is to come and giving me and opportunity for help and aid when I get there. I’ve been involved in this program since the 6th grade and have gathered a lot of skills and or experiences I might never have had without it. With this tool, I’ve been given the chance to use it as an influence in my life and coming future. Not only because it takes up a large portion of my time but because the potential that can come out of it can only help me further me life, but also contribute to the state and community I belong to. Over the years I’ve also been influenced greatly by my mother, who is a single parent who wakes up and works a job and supports her family without complaints. The example of perseverance has been prevalent all my life; because of my mother, and how she has continued to find a way to take care of our family no matter what hardships come her way. This attitude of determination that has been passed down has given me an extra push to not give up as easily as the rest. With this I will know I have a certain leg up on experience and will know things will work out if I keep trying. This is the attitude I will use in my higher education and my future career and that is I will belong to your state using my experiences, and opportunities given.

bloogin

MY everyday influences in my life help me feel as though I belong to my future in this world. It seems that I need that support system and influence to insure me that I am going to do my best and succeed. Without these examples and help I would not know what resources I had available and how to use them. I also would not know why it is so important to want to succeed or what opportunities can come with succeeding and what harsh things can come from not doing so well. We’ve all seen the documentaries about the kids gone wrong, or the stereotypical movie on the minorities stuck in the crappy school system that doesn’t care about them. Yet what you also see in those same movies, is once those minorities are given the right tools they succeed beyond anyone’s belief. They prove to their school, community and society that they belong there and can contribute things no one even thought of. For that very reason I think it is silly to believe you don’t belong anywhere or cannot make a difference, in my opinion if you can affect or change something or contribute you belong there because it needs you. My everyday influence has taught me this, like the people and things that surround me. My teachers who belong in the classroom because they teach me, my friends and family to belong because the bring me comfort and support and me because I have a place in this world to do big things.

Discourse

College is a new enviorment for everyone, and everyone has to adapt to that enviorment. Since they are coming from a previous decided discourse, the community they join will have to be applied to their previous discourse or they'll make changes to their discourse so it fits in with the new enviorment. because you may go into college beliveing and soing one thing but your new habitat could change your belifes that you previously had. yet you should be aware of how those changes are affecting you are they affecting you negatively because you changed your sensable values that worked for you into those of your new friends who are up to no good and continuously drag you down. Or positively because maybe you struggled with a certain thing or action in your life but you found a support system that has helped you further yourself and your knowledge. Thats how your secondary discourse whould come in. by you being in your new enviorment you are constantly picking up new habits either good or bad and your applying to your life.
Discourse : ways of being in the world, forms of life which integreate words, acts, values,etc. Power:ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something, or great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force. They both have some common words, yet I belive you need one to get to the other. You need your definite discourse to gain power, you need to know who you are and how you want to represent your actoions to the world, especially if you want to have power over others and make them follow as you do. once you have a definite discourse you already have displayed your since of power because you choose your own path. that takes some leadership in its own, to not follow the crowd and not let your previous discourse or the right one you founded for you be swayed by others then you showed you have power over your own life and that to me is the steps to having power. knowing what you belive is right for your life and your discourse will give you definite power over your life and others.

who has the right to decide

The blog I read was "Does Pro-choice" include the right -to -die? The author was appetite for equal rights http://appetiteforequalrights.blogspot.com/2009/05/does-pro-choice-include-right-to-die.html. I took the main idea of this blog to be, expressing that thier might be some similarities in the idea of woman being able to choose whether or not to give birth and the choice to end your life. The author touched on how there are many groups that who target this issue but are not taken seriously because it is such a taboo to even think about suporting something associated with suicide. She also comes from a feminist stance and says if woman fight for such rights to be able to decide what goes on with their bodies than why shouldnt everyone else. In the post you can tell she doenst neccesarily agree or dissagree with it she just has sort of a thought about it because she feel she fights so hard for femenist rights how can she not agree with those fighting for those rights. My opinion is similar to hers it feels like such a wierd thing to be okay with to be okay with someone killing them selfs because our country takes the freedom of life so seriously it makes it seem not mormal to want to end it. yet it goes hand in hand with people having natural born rights to decide what they want to do with their own lives. So I cant exactly say whether or not I have a definite opinion on the issue, because the issue is so equal on both sides.

Giving Love to The unintended Audience

I would never be the one to down play the discrimination an overweight person may experience. Still I believe there is a double standard for what’s an acceptable way to address a skinnier person rather that a person that is overweight. My whole life I’ve had a really small frame, and my whole life I’ve gotten shocking comments about it. I’ve gotten disgusted looks, people poking and tugging at like I’m an unknown object they just discovered, and off the wall comments people pretend I can’t hear.
Now what I experience, an overweight person or a person bigger than me, might experience ten times worse, but that’s not to say I’m not affected all the same. I watch television shows all the time on overweight teens or adults who are ostracized for their imperfections and people who are judging them are made to look like monsters (which they should be). Yet what I rarely see is, a show about a skinny teen who is told she is too small or assumed to be anorexic when she feels she look healthy. These body empowerment movements are sometimes so one-sided, they assume since a thinner frame has the closer body to the quote on quote acceptable body type for society that I would need no encouragement to love me for me. The anger that has built up in certain people who are not the typical image society portrays as okay, has turned into them now slamming those who do fit into the stereotype or has been the one to make them feel lesser, so now they feel it is ok to do what was done to them.
Many times I had associates or people I’ve met make comments about how much I need to eat or how I’m just skin and bones or just ridiculing my body in a way that is disrespectful. The thing that makes it is so bad, is I know that they would never go up to an overweight person and say you are so fat you need to stop eating or something of that manner. While they might, they believe it’s not as cruel if they say it to me. Now I know my friends or associates are not saying it to be hurtful or vicious, but why they would think it would be alright to say that to me but not another person. Their common simple-minded excuse is its good that I’m and skinny and that I shouldn’t take their joke so seriously skinny I should be happy. well it’s a little hard to feel that way when someone is putting you down for being yourself that is a touchy subject for anyone,who enjoys being themself and wouldnt want to be put dowm for it.
Although this seems to be a continuous effort for me to ignore little stares and side comments. Over the years I’ve learned that wasting my time on trying to convince someone that I’m not unhealthy or defend how I was skin I was born in, is just a waste of time. I should just accept some people’s ignorance but know that as long as I know who I am and what I’m doing is okay, who cares what others establish as acceptable or normal.