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I spent time in supermarket parking lots reluctantly passing out leaflets and urging shoppers not
So finally, I said, “fine.” I said, “I'm only going in for $30.” My friends Barry and John were happy I was going in but yet they were mad that they both had to give me $15 each. Barry said have fun and giggled. When I went in the wood cracked when I stepped I felt like i was going to fall through the floor.
This trip to the store was different. I almost got into a car accident! On top of that, I started cursing out the person that almost hit me. I was starting to feel road rage. That’s when I said to myself, “If this next store don’t have them, then you need to take yo ass home because, you’re burning all this gas and you’re about to get your truck tore, up over some damn Twinkies!”
I felt pretty bad about myself after they told me i couldn't buy the shirt. I just left the store and
Recently I completed this homework assignment by wearing a sports jacket and kaki pants to a business professional event where the preferred dress is to wear a suit. I know that this may not be one of the most daring social norms to break such as being loud in the library or walking through the drive through but that is the social norm that I chose to break. As I broke this social norm of wearing business casual at a business professional event I could see other people staring at me like I was out of place or did not belong at the event.
I went to go check the cars engine, it was busted really bad. I went to tell them that they had to wait at least one
I went into Kroger, one Monday and bought a few groceries for my family. Once it got time to check out, I chose the busiest line possible. Within twenty-five seconds of being in line, there was someone behind me. They had fewer groceries than
My norm violation was facing the people while standing in an elevator. My partner, Ali and I decided to go to Jackson hospital to perform the norm, unfortunately we decided to change setting because the hospital was empty, and the experiment wouldn’t work. We decided then to go an apartment located at North Miami. When we first got there I thought it would be a perfect place because there’s so many different people of different ethnicity living in North Miami, but most of the people coming in and out of the elevator were Hispanics. The people in the elevator were mostly middle age, and a little bit older.
Since it was late since I work in the evenings, there wasn’t that many people around, but a few people did make jokes asking if I wanted to pay
On November 6th, I encountered a cultural disconnect with a friend. My friend is a white, female, and the same age as me. This disconnect happened on the Berkeley campus when we were walking to our next class. We were both walking and talking about what we have been up to that past week. I told her that I was swamped with midterms and projects coming up so I was “studying and dying all week.”
I found an older lady, in the food isles and grabbed a bag of chocolate chips. She looked up at me and said "excuse me, that's mine" I apologized, handed it back, and walked off- quickly. I was so embarrassed. This was not my normal behavior, and I did not like having to commit these violations. Likely because my mother taught me to respect others, and that is deeply engrained into my being.
Over the last fifteen years, I have grown mentally and socially. I credit my growth to my ability to analyze and understand the world for what it is. Social imagination is the use of information to understand the world and ourselves for who we are. Possessing the quality of mind that can develop reason and the capacity to shift perspectives are the basis of social imagination (Mills 2000). As I mentioned in reflection one, I came to realize that my way of thinking is what helped me overcome living a poor lifestyle.
First, let me explain the setting; it was a hot summer evening around 5pm in Bismarck North Dakota near the Kirkwood Mall. I was with my mom Marcy and one of my friends Mia Friesz. We were shopping all day just to get out of the house. We didn’t really find anything though, but it was a very fun day with my mom and friend! After a day of shopping we decided it was time to head home, such bad timing!!
I pack up my dad’s car and a trailer and also my boyfriend’s car, then we leave my house and we are on our way to my home for the next four years, as everyone calls it, I disagree and tell them that this is just my temporary home. Once we pull into the parking deck all of these people start to swarm my car with shopping carts, and I was really overwhelmed, but I was also really thankful that they did all of the work for us and we barely had to lift a
It looked like a small, but perfect revenge for me at that moment. However, I changed my mind after I did my shopping and went out of the store. I saw the woman in front of the parking lot, she cried and tried to clean other products off eggs’ remnants. I felt ashamed, I thought about a possible life of this woman. Maybe, her crack-down on me and other younger and more successful people were the only “light” in her miserable life.