Bullying??

My experience with bullying was with someone I called a friend. A normal eye wouldn't have spotted any bullying in this relationship... It turns out one of my oldest friend  named Ajay enjoyed playing rough with me. Ajay likes to push and shove me around to make me feel little. As soon as I found out it was more like a warlike friendship I tried to avoid him, but he kept coming to look for me.

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Pushing and shoving in a rough like manner was one of the ways we started a game, or it was either a war type game that always had me isolated in a corner by myself. An example of one of the games we enjoyed was this specific type of war where you have your own territory, you either protect your territory or turn to offence and attack another territory. But my feelings weren't much of a meaning to him and the game would go on until someone would bleed or get bruised. Changing my feelings about Ajay was very hard, for I had injured him in the head when I was little and he had to go to doctor to get stitches. This made me feel pity for him because I was the one who caused the accident. This lasted for at least from third grade to fourth grade. Even though it sounds as if it was one of the worst relationships I had chosen  I would not let it go because he also was a good friend. Sometimes he would stand up for me or he would comment on what I've changed about myself in a positive way. We also enjoyed doing things together like watching a movie and trying to find subjects in a movie we agree with.

 

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If I had a chance to restart this friendship, I would have studied how Ajay reacts to other people, as a bully or not, how nice he is. Later on if I would be his friend I would have tried to stop the accident from happening, but this would be going against the quote "what happens, happens for a reason". His reason might have been wanting to be the best and most popular kid. He believed that to have more strength is the bridge towards popularity and he wanted to be the winner in every game (like Chuck Norris). If I would meet these certain type of people in the future I wouldn't lay the same cards as I did with Ajay, and I would not play such games where we could hurt each other intentionally or un-intentionally.

Two goals for this trimester would be (1) Keeping the friends I have with me, and try to communicate with them when we do something that might hurt each other to avoid breaking up our relationship. (2) To be a good friend and to understand my friends better.

A tournament I will never forget

My opinion of courage is when you conquer your inner- fears, showing that you are brave and that you have inner- strength. No physical strength is involved in the meaning but many people around the world believe that strength is the only way to overcome your fears. I believe that I showed the most courage when my karate teacher convinced me to join a tournament. I remember thinking that I would come home with a broken arm or a broken leg and that my dad would make me quit karate after that. I thought that the fight would be very painful. On the day of the tournament I was thinking I would lose the fight and be humiliated in front of everyone but a lesson I learned on that day was there are some who win and some who lose, it doesn't matter if you are either one of them. It turned out to be a long wait and I got more and more scared watching each fight, I recall seeing 7 year old's throwing each other down! 9 year old's kicking faces! Everything was just too scary... When I was called up I recall the fear of losing . It mostly was an unfair fight since my opponent probably have had joined many more tournaments before, but the score was 2-1 and was good enough for me. I overcame my fear by trying it and my friends who cheered me on also helped me.I actually ended up enjoying the tournament. Now looking back I think that I was scared and I overcame that by facing it.

What do artifacts tell us about the lives of early hominids?

Artifacts tell us how early hominids lived. If an archeologist found some new type of bones that could mean 1.) That there was another older species of hominids 2.) That there is more artifacts around that area. Hominids held a special place in history. The only way to understand their culture or how they lived millions of years ago was by their preserved tools or their extra ordinarily large bones. The tribe homo habilis was only the second oldest hominid tribe founded, with a small amount of brain they came up with ideas that we still use today in 2011. The bones coming from Neanderthals are still the largest in history, the only tribe who survived the ice age... then came Cro- magnons (in other words us), who finally took over the land prohibited by Neanderthals. Artifacts by Neanderthals could have been a sign that he/she belonged to a certain clan or it might be the meaning of his/her name. How scientist really got information was by early hominids bones, showing how strong, what sicknesses he/she might have had while he/she was still alive, if he/she was a male or female and how he/she might have died. Another way the scientists might have gotten information is from the teeth because you could tell what they've eaten, how healthy and strong he/she was and if he/she used his/her teeth for creating tools. So what do artifacts tell us about the lives of early hominids? Artifacts held a special place in history the same as early hominids.