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The moment we are born into the world, we are as innocent and pure as we will ever be. We know little to nothing, and everything is open to be taught to us. The learning curve is very fast though, and we catch on and adapt to our surroundings remarkably quickly. We are taught good from bad from everything we experience. These experiences shape our principal beliefs and mentality towards others and eventually dictate our lifestyles and decisions we make. One does not come into the world believing one’s race, culture, or lifestyle is superior to another, but rather, it is one’s environment and the opinions and views of those close around them that often influence them to develop similar beliefs as these peers as they grow older. But what happens when people are pulled out of these environments? What happens when there are minimal outside influences? How are things different without the pressure from society to conform and act towards specific groups of people in certain ways? When Hu...

I always find myself blindly following my owners' commands and supporting their actions no matter the circumcises. But I am a dog, so this is the normal thing to be doing. However, in The Crucible the young girls also found themselves blindly following someone they looked up to—Abigail. How strange and bizarre it seems that these girls would conform with Abigail's actions to try to fit in with their peers in order to feel accepted. Of course, this is something that is rare and would never happen to myself and humans today. It just sounds crazy. There's no way we would not notice ourselves being swallowed up by society's pressures and transforming how we live in order to find acceptance among our peers and surroundings. I mean we're in high school. This is the "easy" time of our lives before college and actually figuring our lives out—not that we will ever come close to figuring them out. High school is the time to branch out and try new things. A time to ...

As a Portuguese Water Dog that does not serve as a working dog like my ancestors, but strictly as a companion, I could not help but realize how the focus of lives have greatly changed over the course of hundreds of years. Times have changed ever since the separation of church and state, and so have people’s views of religion and commitment to these religions. Upon the Burning of Our House, by Anne Bradstreet, is a Puritan poem that takes a look into the life of a devoted Puritan Christian that places all her faith in God. Although the Puritans valued centering their whole lives around God and believed all things were done through his will, this is something we do not see nearly as often today. The daily values discussed in Bradstreet’s poem were directly linked to God, and the hardships and losses the narrator faced were comforted by her belief  that “It was His own, it was not mine” (line 17). On the contrary to the common modern approach of dealing with loss and destruct...

The other day I was doing a little thinking during one of my naps about  Christopher  Columbus and  Indigenous  People. After straining to stay on task,   the  mis representation  these people face in our holidays and history textbooks became apparent .   It's  disgusting. Native Americans deserve far more representation and respect than they receive now. This is  especially true considering how such a cruel man as Columbus can have a whole day to himself (7 whole days if we're talking in dog years) . If Columbus can have his own special day, how come " the thousands of years of indigenous civilization that existed before European colonization , " are practically ignored in textbooks and do not have their own  holiday  ( Donnella )?   These are the     people that are responsible for first living in North America and were mistreated  by  white   men .  You  see, the truth about...