Colorful - The meaning of art to a teenager For an adolescent who didn't stand out physically, nor intelectually, nor socially, Makoto had been through bullying in inferior school years. His attitude against aggressions was remaining quiet "until the storm had died down". He broke free from this and his other frustrations in his only peace sanctuary: the Art class. His painting skills were amazing and as a child his talent was recognised by his family and his classmates. However, once he started secondary school things were not easy for him anymore and he stopped creating interest on his colleagues. Taking into account there was nothing to highlight about him but his art abilities, i give explanation to his loneliness as a teenager through the standarts the adolescent world presents. Elements like appearance, popularity and others' opinion become important and they are encouraged to be extroverted. Makoto wasn't asocial, he was just an introvert, unlike the majority of the rest. Nevertheless, the bullying he suffered made him develop shyness as a consequence. The way Makoto's personality had been changing is a subject that is developped in the book by Shoko, who admired him. Makoto's tenacity to bear harassment and use his art as an escape was an example to Shoko, who was in a similar situation. She admired the fact he had such a big inner world she didn't. Makoto's paintings had dark colours, which represented his suffering. Once he decided to overcome everything, colours started to be slightly more vital. He was determined to get out of that hole but that forcd of will vanished the day he discovered his mother's infidelity, his father's selfishness and that her friend Hiroka had sex with older men in exchange of money. His attempt to commit suicide wouldn't be succesfull and an angel would give him a second oportunity to be brave enough to fight his demons.

L'anniversaire de ma soeur Demain c'est l'anniversaire de ma soeur. C'est pour ça que le dernier week-end je suis allé au centre commercial pour acheter les cadeaux. Cette année j'ai acheté des produits de beauté et une serviette de Disney pour l'été. Elle a 25 ans mais elle aime les films de Disney. Maintentant je suis en train de penser qu'est-ce que je peux l'écrire comme dédicace. C'est curieux que pour quelques uns c'est difficile d'exprimer leurs sentiments dans occasions comme celui-ci.

He/She don't Hi everybody, I've been seeing these type of sentences on a lot of songs lately. Sentences where don't is used instead of doesn't for the third person singular. For example: "She don't care" Is this correct? Why is that so? Thank you very much :)

Measuring intelligence I believe it's impossible to measure a person's intelligence accurately because the conception of intelligence is already inaccurate and there is a wide range of abilities that are completely different from one another. In my opinion, we shouldn't measure intelligence because it would rather be illustrative than representing someone. It would cause internal conflicts from creating "better" and "worse" categories that are not real at all What type of a thinker I am? I'm rather linguistic, existential, intrapersonal and interpersonal. I'm not by any chance spatial, nor mathematical, nor kinaesthetic. It'd be cool not to be a dummy when it comes to spatial issues such as understanding a map or getting the right indications from people about directions or objects' locations. However i'm okay with it because i know most people don't understand human behaviour as well as i can, neither they speak four languages. We must be proud of our skills and don't feel bad over our weeknesses.

Why people drop rubbish anywhere? It's nothing new that the world has been changing for centuries ever since the human race established their dominance on the globe. Oceans and continents were shaped by seismic forces called orogenies and the structure of the Earth changed throughout the years, from the one and only existence of Pangea I to six different continents. This happened way before the humans appeared. The way we interacted with the enviroment was also damaging at first, but not in a wide range, thus giving it the time to regenerate itself. However, after the industrial revolutions, our impact has increased frighteningly. Over-exploitaition is known by everyone and it won't take so much time for us to run out of resources. The enviroment is desperately calling for regeneration, but we are on the verge of cutting its roots. This is a major issue, to the extent that a huge island made of plastic was born in the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, i always wonder why people keep dropping rubbish on the floor when it's not that difficult to throw it into the right place. It drives me nuts. Furthermore, recycling is something that helps a lot slow natural deterioration and it's not too much of an effort. In a moral way, i hope people learn to respect others for who they are and nations help citizens achieve decent life conditions. However, we can't grow up as a society if we don't take care of our planet. In conclusion, before getting involved in a compromise, if you don't drop litter and you are respectful with your surroundings, you are already contributing

Self-image and mirrored image There's a moment when we realize life is not only you, but you and society. That's the principal concept we need to take into account when talking about our image. There is a huge difference between ourselves and the self of us that we project to the rest of people. Including many variables such as self-esteem and the knowledge we have about each enviroment, everyone, even the most secure person in the world, modifies several details about their personality in order to be more appealing, because we all look for social acceptance. Changes also happen to physical appearance, being in most of the cases an act moved towards the approval of society rather than your own. "Will they judge me if I wear this?", "If they think my glasses are stupid, maybe they're right and I should stop wearing them", "I think I'm great but people never pay attention to me, should I lose weight?" are sample thoughts about image running through people in everyday life. We see this kind of behaviours aimed towards social acceptance a lot on teenagers, most of them care about superficial things and brag or compare to others in an attempt to seem cooler. An opressor-opressed structure can be seen in high school as teens usually get power by being mean to quieter or more insecure people. Perhaps this is the reason why there are cheerleaders, sports players, nerds... Or something similar in countries that are not the States. Knowing this sort of discrimination exists, many adolescents pick up roles, performed behaviours and try to pretend to be someone in a lot of cases they aren't. Autenticity is beautiful, but I think it can't ever be shown entirely since socialising involves considering others. However, the key about autenticity is to shorten the gap between your image and the image you mirror to society. In conclusion, the shorter the gap is, the better we'll feel about ourselves

"To drop names", meaning? Hi everyone, i have seen this expression but i'm not sure about the meaning, i hope you can clarify it Thank you so much :)

My experience in high school Back when i was in elementary school, everything was just like a dream... i could surround myself with the ones who were my friends and everything would be ok. I have always been really shy so when we started high school, everyone started opening themselves and they belonged to a bigger group but i didn't, it didn't appealt to me though. I guess wanting to remain in my confort zone made me go through a bad secondary period. I would go skating, walking, to the cinema or to the bowling with my friends but they didn't see eye-to-eye with me anymore. My conception is they felt accepted in that group and they didn't want to go with Jorge, the nerd, so their popularity wouldn't decrease... How superfitial teenagers life can be, right? To be honest, i have never forgiven them for doing so. They wouldn't hang out with me but they wanted me to listen to them everytime they were into trouble. Because i had been bullied before i just stayed quiet everytime and try to avoid eye contact with another human as much as possible so i wouldn't get hurt The only reason i wasn't crying in the bathroom every single playground was i had my muslim friend Aisha, however, nowadays we are not friends any longer because islam forbids friendship between men and women so... Probably when you have low self-esteem people do what they want with you and it can be a tough time. When 3rd grade arrived i was a ruin out of a person. The student who was repeating course was behind me and she seemed scary and dangerous. When she got closer to ask me if we could eat together because she didnt want to go with neither of the preppies or thugs, i was amazed by how kind she actually was. Nowadays i can't believe how i was scared by my best friend at that time. Meeting her is one of the best things that have ever happened to me, she demonstrated me what true friendship is and has never let me down since the first shared laughter. Teenagers can sometimes be cruel but we have to stand up for ourselves because with attitude, we can change whatever.