The Pros And Cons Of Being An Outsider

People or peers who act ‘weird’ can confirm even when people are too nervous to join a group. Conformity will not always lead to happiness because it can make you feel alone or unaccepted. You may feel dark, unaccompanied, even solitary. In Stargirl, many sporty, smart, silent students can feel the same way. They will confirm when they are in a group or even by themselves. Leo is a shy teen who is in control of ‘Hot Seat’ with his friend Kevin. He gets nervous when he is talked about or even when he is talking. In the novel, Stargirl, author Jerry Spinelli suggests that conformity is an act when a person is not confident about themselves in groups of peers.

Everyone has a natural desire to fit in. Everyone has a natural desire to be accepted by others. These desires are strong enough to cause individuals to give up there uniqueness. We are all told at a young age that everyone is different and that is wonderful. However, societal norms contradict this idea. In order to fit in, you must conform to what society considers normal. When Micheal Ignatieff, Professor of the Practice of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, made the observation that, “To belong is to understand the tacit codes of the people you live with”, Ignatieff was simply putting into words the natural obligation everyone feels when it comes to fitting in and following the rules society places on people without discussion. This

“Family are people that you can count on”. The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. Ponyboy is the youngest one in a gang called The Greasers. They live in east side of town but in the west is their enemy gang called Socs. Socs are a lot wealthier than the Greasers. The Greasers have each other so that is all they need. Throughout the story the theme is be with the ones you love because they wont be their all the time.

Between the years of 2010 to 2014 I attended a high school in southern California called Helix Charter High School. Within my school there were many cliques that majority of the students were grouped in. Differential association theory is “based upon the idea that criminals commit crimes based upon their association with other people” and this theory can be found throughout my old high school (Schubert, n.d.). For example, in my high school there were a group of students that were called “potheads” and they all hung out together often. They were not focused in their studies and usually came to class high. And I had a friend that used to be an excellent student until he became friends with a “pothead” and began to smoke and sell marijuana. According to the textbook called Criminology: Theories, Patterns,

The irony in Room 101 lies in the fact that the Party wants everyone to conform to society. They want everyone to worship Big Brother, hate Emmanuel Goldstein, believe in doublethink, and eventually they want everyone to only speak in Newspeak. Newspeak limits the ideas you can express and therefore limits the thoughts you can have. This essentially gives the Party mind control and perfect submissive citizens with no individuality. But, in Room 101 it uses your own individual fears against you. They use what makes you different to make you conform to their society.

Is the experience being an outsider universal? This question often is thought of by people of all ages. An outsider can be anyone including someone who looks, acts, speaks, or presents themselves differently than what is normal. Everybody feels like an outsider at one point of their life, which is why the experience of being an outsider is universal. The experience of being an outsider is present in the story "By Any Other Name" by Santha Ramma Rau, as well as "The Dolls House" by Katherine Mansfield and "Sonnet, With Bird" by Sherman Alexie.

Humans are social beings and, typically, we prefer to surround ourselves with similar types of people. Often times, this means excluding others and even outcasting them from society. Nearly everybody has experienced being an outsider. whether it was not knowing anyone at a new school to not having the “must have” item that everyone else seemingly had. The experience of being an outsider is not universal because the feelings associated with being outcast are circumstantial, people react differently, and people have varying degrees of introversion.With these conditions, it is impossible to have the same experience as everyone else.

Most if not all people have felt some sort of exclusion at some point in their lives. These experiences can either lead us to be more of an extrovert or more of an introvert. I know from my own experience that I do not like to be excluded from things that interest me or comfort me. I cannot imagine how detrimental living in such a way for so long could be to a human being. When I first moved to this town, I felt like an outsider, I

Life is full of choices, choices here and choice there. some are small like what you’ll have for breakfast and others are big like whether you’ll finish high school. But are they really your choices? Are people really in charge of their life like they claim to be ? A statistic shows that 40% of children in America are raised without a father and 50% of children have experienced divorce by the age of 18. Studies also show that children who have gone through divorce are more likely to get lower grades and are considered less pleasant to be around by their peers and teens who live in a single parent or blended home are three times more likely to need psychological help within a year. These choices are already made for the children and they have

An outsider is a person who does not belong in a certain party or a group. An outsider is left out from parties, groups, and even sometimes they are not allowed near a place or person. Outsiders are not cool and people do not like them or are not drawn to them. Synonyms such as the odd one out, stranger, and refugee say it all. All of these words are example of what outsiders feel like or what outsiders are.

Have you ever felt alone or isolated from the world? Well from being in middle school, I’ve learned that some people feel as if the world revolved around them. They do things they never would’ve done. Yet, they still do it just to try to fit in the crowd. From many experiences, I have learned that it’s ok to not be with the crowd since the crowd isn’t always the best option. Although, many times I feel isolated and as if no one will catch me if I fall. This relates to some people in the book Al Capone Does My Shirts written by Gennifer Choldenko.

The term “fitting in” holds different meanings to different people. To some people, to “fit in” means to feel comfortable in a particular group of friends. To some people, to “fit in” means to feel that you belong, or to be like others. To some people, “fitting in” may even mean nothing.

All of a sudden, I found myself thinking sociologically when I was watching the movie “Mean Girls,” because it reminded me of the cliques and peer groups that were in my old high school. The movie is about a teenage girl who ends up becoming a part of this clique full of mean girls and after an incident she sets out to try and ruin the leader of the clique’s life. It was the cliques and peer groups that made me start thinking sociologically, because it made me look back and see how much I have changed since I came to the University of Kentucky, and left my old clique or peer group behind.

The title of the document Welcoming the Stranger among Us: Unity in Diversity, word by word, tells us four elements: the action, the subject, the reality, and the purpose (goal) in order to approach the issue of receiving immigrants in the Church. The document defines, “Unity in diversity is the vision that we bishops, as pastors of the Church in the United States, offer to our people as they welcome the new immigrants and refugees who come to our shores”. The document contextualizes the call to “conversion, communion, and solidarity” in Ecclesia in America as the way to pursue the vision of “unity in diversity” with a “new evangelization.” The spiritual reason for the unitary call is to imitate the trinitarian

Cady Heron grew up homeschooled in Africa, but when her family decides to move to Illinois, she is presented with the opportunity to experience a mainstream high school: “a jungle in itself”. On the first day, she becomes friends with two “out crowd” students, Damian and Janis, but soon later meets the Plastics, the schools most popular group. Damian and Janis convince Cady to accept the invite when she is asked to join the Plastics. They introduce Cady to the burn book, the group’s most prestigious notebook filled with rumors and secrets. Soon enough however, Cady reveals her crush on Aaron Samuels, Regina’s ex-boyfriend. When Regina catches wind of this, she seeks revenge. In defense, Cady unites with Damian and Janis destroy