It was an eerie and foggy time of morning when Mr. Foster began to wake up. He looked over at his TV and saw that there was a flash flood last night. The flood devastated most of Kanawha County and the Metro Valley. Because the flood was so sudden, people on the scene knew there would be casualties. Edward knew this would be mighty well for his business which just happens to be one of the only funeral homes in that area of Kanawha County.
This book relates to how does having friends in college impact your college life. Lastly, how making friendship connection or connections in general can be beneficial for you right now in college and even after you leave college. I believe the author’s purpose
Was it that severe? How was my town affected? This was something I was wondering after a really strong storm went through my town. It was I think two or three years ago in Hampton Iowa. It was fascinating and threatening at the same time..
All my life I have lived in the small town of Walkertown, which is only about twenty minutes away from Winston-Salem. Five years ago Walkertown was small and you had to go to the next town over, Kernersville, if you wanted to go shopping for clothes or go out for dinner. Now, Walkertown is a lot more developed and less rural. However, it is nowhere near as developed as Winston-Salem, especially downtown. Winston-Salem is a built up city with a lot of impervious surfaces.
Friendship is strong and can last a lifetime. In John Green's “Freak the Geek “a girl has Has problems in Hoover Prep School with older girls. She uses the power of friendship to get through tough times with her best friend. Lauren makes in through challenges and the struggles of Hoover Prep School with the power of friendship. This friendship leads to her being able to cope with the school and helps her build bravery at the same time.
Hearing the sirens of the ambulance and from police cars growing up made me think about how I will continue to be afraid of an ambulance and police car sirens because Wyandotte County has a high crime rate and sometimes I thought about not evening stepping out of my house. Right at the moment that I step outside my house, I wouldn't know if I would come back. No ones life is guaranteed so throughout my high school years I was very strict on myself in regards to hanging out with people and with which people I can rely upon. From school, I went directly to my house because I thought it wouldn't be safe for me to be out especially in a Wyandotte County. I always had to have that in the back of my head because of the area I live in.
“One of the most beautiful qualities about friendship is to understand and to be understood”. Friendship is one of many building blocks in life. Although some friendships may be lower on the building it doesn’t mean it been there to support oneself as they continue to build their way up. Friendship helps one realize how the absence of a friend helps one broaden its view on how important someone could be to another. Friendship creates one to value the others opinion to guides them towards a positive direction, and finally how friendships allow others to experience situations no one else could give them,which in return creates memories that would forever be held onto.
With technology dominating numerous young adults’ lives, friendships become unnecessary for these target victims because, as Mortimer J. Adler’s statement asserts, friendships are arduous to cultivate. In the minds of these specific people, they conjecture that maintaining friendships in the real world are too difficult to pursue, and, thus, upholding no friends is the best alternative. Unfortunately, this situation substantially afflicts these victims at their schools where they wander about aimlessly and converse with utterly no one. As a result, some individuals, at their breaking points, refuse to attend school due to its desolate atmosphere. With this particular situation fostering at an alarming rate, it utterly exhibits how friendship is a profound sacrifice worth the consequences; upholding at least one friendship widens an individual’s perspective of the endless world and injects that person in the public society.
During my sophomore year of high school, I didn’t have many close friends. Sure, I had other people my age that I hung out with at 4-H meetings and events, and some people I met through my local homeschooling group, but no real group of friends. I also didn’t have many adults that I specifically looked up to as role models, despite having numerous adult leaders in my life. This all changed when I threw caution into the wind and applied to be a member of the Wisconsin 4-H Drama Company.
Whilst the prowess of having more friends can make our life more fulfilling than being alone, making friendships or friendships alone are hardly attainable; We make friends with the ones we might come across with, or we simply make friends with the ones that are connected to our souls. However, in the article of “Friends, Good Friends, and such Good Friends”, by Judith Viorst, she took another approach to redeem “friendships” differently in her life. By categorization, she mentioned that there are eight categories that were used to define the purpose of having a friendship, the depth of a friendship, and the encounter of a friendship. Although many will judge the perception of having friends by putting them into the bracket of categorization, I feel it is justified to make friends based on places, events and most importantly, luck. Truthfully to be said, it is not easy to make friends whom you can
Ever since I began my strenuous career as a student in the St. Joseph School District, friendship has played an important role in the development of my personality and social skills. Since studies show that you are influenced by those around you, friends can dramatically impact your life. The definition of a friend varies person by person. Friends are those people who you hang out with after school, invite to birthday parties, and sit by at lunch. If at school, you spend over 30% of your time with them.
In the duration of my middle school years, I maintained excellent grades, except I had just one issue that held me back from a satisfying life. That issue was the fact that friends came very hard to me in my middle school years. Before my struggles at my middle school, Trafton, I had a very productive social life in the Elementary school I attended, Roberts Elementary. Here, it was very easy to make friends and have a great social life, since no hard work was required as a kid. Middle school, however, was a great challenge for me.
Because humans crave interactions with other humans, friendships are created for people to feel secure and supported but also for pure enjoyment. Being connected with a group of people gives one a sense of identity through finding one’s true identity in the midst of a crowd and being a part of something bigger. Friendships increase a person’s happiness and can even lowers certain health risks (Connection). With all this said, what is a friendship and what characteristics or qualities define one is an important question to ask. Because there is such a wide range of friendships, it is impossible to define it in a single sentence.
According to Felmlee and Muraco (2009), “friendships represent highly salient social bonds in our society” (p.318). Everyone has or had at least one friend with whom they spend time together, share secrets and other information and cheer up the mood. Furthermore, friendship is a state of complete trust, confidence, understanding and support (Felmlee & Muraco, 2009; Caldwell & Peplau, 1982). Nowadays humanity may make friends in different ways. People meet friends at kindergarten, school, work, cinema, parks and even via Internet.
Everybody knows people are social individuals that’s an old saying though, but that’s a very true statement. People need other people to help them with their lives. To support them and their lives. That’s why we need a friend. It does not matter if they are older than you, younger than you, does not matter if they are your parents, your grandmother, your nephew, your boss, it never matters in the end of the day.
