To others quiet, normal, almost never talks. To people who are close see loud, weird, and never stops talking.  

The story to my piece is people can act different depending on who they are with. The image shows how I am around people I'm not as close with as my family. They lend power to each other by showing how I kind of am around others

      Some say identities are formed by your personality. The control people have in shaping our own identities have different sides to what people think. One opinion is people don't choose it, that they are born that way. Another opinion is that we don't have one until we start to experience things. People say that the influence to our choices are our identities. 

     Walter Mischel is a man who says you can change. All the studies that he did, showed he wasn't finding a consistency. An anonyms person once said personality is how they express things. Deliah said there must be an evil that is embedded in him.

    I say that the situation and people your around make your personality. Because of the things I went through when I was little I am still scared to this day of people yelling when they're mad. But, I also say the way your attitude is to the situation is a part of it. 

Friends

Flash Fiction

You will run away to a new place but in time you will learn that it’s okay.

Rational

Becoming happy again was a big problem for me, but, senior year I have it all, two people have changed my life. Elton and Cassie these two amazing people, I’d never had real friends until I met them, I wish I’d met them sooner but I’m spending the time I have with them. When I went to my old school I never really had friends, just people I spoke to sometimes. I met Elton last year during creative writing, he came from Vinton, and I met Cassie this year from lunch. We have all these great memories, like haunted houses, Cassie knocked over a toy display at walmart, going to pet stores and movie nights. All three of us have things in common we’ve all been through the same things.

Anytime we each have a problem or need to get something off our chests we can talk to each other. They won’t judge but they will help. I’ve never met a person that I can be open with but having two people I can be open with is even better. Ever since I met them I have been so happy, I don’t get sad as often and don’t doubt myself. Meeting these two amazing people has honestly been the best thing to ever happen to me and I will never regret that. These are life long friends and I’ve never had that feeling before.

They Say, I say
People think that they don't have biases, that they aren't a real thing. The public puts those biases into peoples minds to get the to think of things in different ways. A biases can be little or big going from ' My friend is black, I can't be racist' all the way to ' He's gay, but that's okay cause so is my sister I guess'. We all judge one another without even seeing it. It's an ongoing epidemic between what people feel V.S what people actually think about biases.
Meyers states in his ted talk 'How to overcome bias?' she states "Stop trying to be good people and be real." What she means by that if for people to stop being fake and be them honest selves. People want to impress people that the human way, we try to impress others with our biases. Another thing said was from 'Growing up Trans' "I was causing that pain, and that was too much for me" some people have this over whelming pain in themselves that Isn't always easy to overcome and overcome. People have pain, people cause pain, it is natural.
In my opinion pain is something that is within all of us, even me. More people have pain than others, but that's okay. We are the way we are and that is what makes up beautiful. My pain is depression but that's fine, I've accepted it after 5 years and can openly talk about it. I've had depression since 2011 because I watched my great uncle die right before my eyes and in my arms. It messed me up and I always thought it should've been me that was gone not him. He was the best man in my life besides my own father. Biases are real and so is pain but that is okay.

Success

My plans on being Successful



                                           I got 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 G's in my Bank Account!

                                                                              

                                              Rationale                                                       

The reason of choosing this photo of me holding bank, it shows how money makes me happy and love having it around. Money helps me with everything I need and want, without it I would be poor and suffering. I earn my money with hard work and motivation. I don't really like to brag about the money I got, but if necessary then I can. So my life has been amazing! There has been 0 problems pulling me down and not making make the money I make. The money that I earn isn't all for me, My family comes first so I give What they need. I've been taught that from my parents that giving is a kind thing to do. So I give what they need and make me feel happy knowing they don't have to worry about much. Without money I wouldn't be able to have the thing I have. I feel really proud of my self earning and working for everything I got. I feel that I have  accomplished a lot. With the motivation I have, I  plan on going far in life into success and this is just the beginning.

                                              Reflection

There have been many occasions where at my work, they have said that I'm a hardworker. My family have also said the same thing. they expect to work hard and get somewhere. They enjoy having me around to help out and get things done. They pay me really good, so it just encourages me to work even more. Many of my friends tend to question me same as adults, they ask how I have what I have at a pretty young age. That just shows how there is a goal that wants to be accomplished. There are friends that are also hard workers and like to show their success in life so far. There are many that have gotten to their point in of success. The things they've done, just gives many others a motivation. That's why hard work pays off.

"People aren't good or bad, they are a mix of both", say there is this rich person and is nice to everyone, then everyone starts taking advantage of him. He finds out how they are treating him, so then he starts to change and turn into a bad person and pushes everyone away. That a act of revenge in a way for treating him bad and him being nice. This just comes to show that being nice isn't always a good thing. That happens all the time with people and that are nice and everything and then are taken advantage of.

I can say that I've done a lot so far and have accomplished many things that I could and wanted to do at the age I'm at right now. I still have many obsticales ahead of me and I get to encounter many new things through out this journey. I have learned that If I want something really bad then I have to work for it and earn in it. Everyone has a different way of doing things and working situations out depending on where they are at in life. So far I've done what I can do to have what I have. One thing that really gets me doing things that I want is Motivation. When I see people that don't do anything with their life, it just give me a motive to work hard and not be like them and be someone in life. I wouldn't like to live a life where I'm not happy. Life is to short to not do anything, so as long as I live, I will always be a hard worker and look forward in life for the best. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$  People say money cant buy happiness and In my case, it does. I love my family more then anything and would do anything to gather as much money as possible for them and me. My Goals are pretty big and will happen and that's a fact. Might take years before its happens, but will happen for sure.

Self Portrait

Austin Burkhart

 

Go ahead; look closer; see the real me

When you look at him or see him you may not realize he grew up without knowing his real father. You may not realize that he grew up living with his grandparents. If you see him or hear things about him you may think he’s not smart, nice or that he doesn’t have feelings. But if you look closer and try and get to know him you may see the real man he is. You may see the little boy who has had to help out his family with money ever since I was 9. You may see a young boy who didn’t look at his mom as his real mom because she was working from 10 am to 2am the next morning. He has made mistakes and people decide to judge him off of that and that may scare people away from him. But if you try to understand the real story your perspective may change on the way you think of him. I chose glasses to create the feel that you need to look harder to see who I am. I’m smiling to show that I do have feelings but you can only see them through the glasses. Black and white to create the feeling of loneliness.

Average people say that there personal feelings affect or determine the way we see someone or something. If someone has done something wrong that a person doesn’t believe in they often think poorly of the person. People believe that if you are born badly that you will stay bad and that if you are good you will stay good. They do not believe in the change of people over time.

In the invisibilia podcast the speaker says that not all people who do horrible things are horrible people. This means that if you do something wrong that you should not be described by just the one thing you did wrong. You may be a good person on the inside but made a mistake in your life. He also claims that people judge people on their own prior events with that situation or person.

I believe that people judge people not really by who they are but by what they have heard about them. I also believe that not everyone should be judged by there past behaviors. I think that people can change over time and that people should judge a person when they really get to know them. If you don't know them then don't judge them.

One Day You Wont be an Athlete Anymore..

Self Portrait

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/4169090/59b047b4da5beb0b64c8590e,

Flash Fiction

One day you won’t be an athlete anymore. You won’t have those long bus rides home after a game you lost or won. You won’t have those hyped up moments of catching people while going or hurdles on the blue oval. You won’t have those hyped up moments of you intercepting the ball and running it back for a touchdown. You won’t wake up early on Saturdays for film. You won’t get to post pictures on the Gram or Twitter. You won’t be sore from the track meet or football game and have all the cuts and bruises. You won’t do your pregame rituals anymore. You won’t talk to you bros or team mates anymore or have those laughs like you use to everyday. Eventually everything you looked forward to at the end of the week will fade away. That thing you’d relieve your stress with will end. All the memories and laughs will fade away. Capture it while you can and make the MOST of every moment. Make it as far as you can for as long as you can l, because one day you won’t be an athlete anymore.

Rationale

I feel like these two relate really well to each other and not just because they're both about sports. They relate so well to each other because they both have deeper meaning. Both have meaning of brotherhood and family. I wouldn’t have gotten to take those pictures without my brother’s parents taking them. I wouldn’t have made all of those plays without my team and coaches being there for me and bonding together. Some of us have been together now for 11 years playing that sport and putting our time and effort into making it the best we could. It was so hard accepting that it was actually over after all of that time. Our coach talks about not having regrets but its hard not to when you don’t get what you’ve been working towards basically you’re whole life. Even after it all were still together as a family and one unit. I guess you could say there’s somewhat of an unconditional love for what we do and you can see that if you went to any of our games. How much passion there is in every player on that field. When it finally set in my head that high school football was over it felt like the world stopped and I tried to make my image portray that by choosing a picture that I wasn’t looking into the camera. I also picked one where I was kind of tired and sweaty so you could see it’s not easy. My image is all about focus and bringing you in on myself. As is my video. In my video I tried to have it go with the music so if you did get bored of watching halfway through it’d bring you right back and capture your focus again. If you haven’t figured it out by now, to us football players football is way more than just a game like a lot of people love to say. Football contributes to so many things outside of just football.

I Say, They Say

Identities are formed through personalities. Personalities come formed by life experiences a person has. My own identity was formed through how I grew up and then later in my life actually chose how I was gonna go about things. I feel that when you’re younger you don’t really have your full identity because you don’t get to choose what you want to do. Some bias’s I have or at least the test online said that I “Prefer white people over black people.” Which I guess in my life is true because I’ve grown up around mainly white people. Yes there were a few other black people here and there. My best friend is black and we relate to each other more than anyone. People call us twins all the time and at first it was hard to tell what they meant by that, but now it makes total sense. When you’re around a certain person for a period of time you begin to act like them, talk like them, laugh like them, etc. That why people say you start to use your significant others language and jokes and other things like that. I’ve even heard that you start to look like each other I certain ways. After saying that I have to ask myself can personality change? In my opinion, yes. We as humans do like to believe that we are stable and are capable of living that way or “The right way.” Now in order to change yourself you have to first want to change because if you don’t truly want to change than you won’t. Second you must change the situation you are in. For example, if you’re trying to quit smoking you have to stop being in situations where people can offer you smoke or situations where you’re tempted to smoke. Basically saying that “by changing the way you live or your situation you can, in fact possibly change yourself. It may take time but eventually you will change if you want to” (The Personality Myth). The last reason I feel so strongly about the change of one’s personality is because I’m changing constantly throughout my life. Whether that being physically or mentally, I’m always changing. From constantly changing and personality being defined by traits, which are not permanent to an individual, then your personality can in fact change throughout your life. Which is why “personality is at the center of a lot of stories and is often how you find yourself explaining things” (The Personality Myth).

“Why is it that people have this automatic assumption?” Is it because of the way we’ve been taught history in school, or how people have shown or made black people to be through films? It’s interesting that 60% of black people who took the test preferred white people over black people. Another thing that’s interesting is that you do see a lot of these police brutality things on the news but you don’t hear about all of them and if you think about it all of the same things happen in all of our lives. Whether it’s big or small they still happen. Yeah sure, maybe someone doesn’t end up dead on the news but like they say in the “TED Talk” “Same stories, different people” (How to overcome bias).

Everything works out

He doesn’t live with his dad, but he still has his loving mom. His family doesn’t have the most money in the world, but he gets everything he needs. He’s lost a few close friends, but now he has even better friends. He’s made some dumb choices, but they all taught him a lesson. He didn’t always get good grades, but he’s doing better now. He lost his job but he still has a little weekly income. He used to not feel comfortable with himself, now he’s more confident about himself than ever. In middle school not many people knew him, and now more people know him than he knows others. He may not be the best at sports, but he’s good at other things. He doesn’t have the newest and nicest car, but he has one that works for him. He might not have all of the things he wants, but everything always works out for him, and he’s happy.

Basically the story is of a boy who doesn’t have everything in life that he wants but everything still works out for him. Even without all those things he’s still happy with what he has. The relationship between the picture and the text isn’t directly connected but the image symbolizes the story. The bandages represent the pain and obstacles I’ve encountered and the smile (obviously) represents my happiness.

Many people think they cannot change, but they can. Your personality isn’t set when you’re born, it changes and grows as you get older. The bad people who say they can’t change or can’t help it, can. If someone truly wants to change then they’ll be able to. “People marry people because they believe they’ll always be the same person”. Which is true but not everyone thinks about others changing over time.  

In “The Personality Myth” podcast by Invisibilia, the lady brings up how the prisoners “hatred” tattoo didn’t match his personality. Our assumptions about others aren’t always right so you can’t judge people by their looks or past. “Your beliefs and assumptions direct your mind”. In other words, your beliefs and assumptions can create biases which you may not even be aware of. Whether you believe it or not, you have some sort of bias in you. In the TED Talk ‘How to overcome bias?’ the speaker says “I learned on a bias that I didn’t even know I had”. People get some of their biases at a young age but as you go through life you’ll gain more.

Not everyone thinks that someone’s personality or biases can change but I believe they can. I don’t like it when people say something like “once a thief, always a thief” because it just isn’t true. I have seen one of the most trouble making people I know turn into a kind, hardworking, and determined person. I believe that your personality and bias are connected in the way that your bias affects your personality by shaping the way you feel or act around certain things or people. “At the center of everyone’s story is their personality”. I agree with this statement a lot because personally, I see and know why I am the way I am, based off my past. But you have to remember that your decisions don’t define you. Good people can make bad decisions.

This paper is going to be about having a bias about something. A lot of people in America tend to think that they don’t have a bias at all, or they just don’t think they do but overall they have a bias about something that they don’t even know. There is something called a ted talk that a lady named Verna Myers explains this. She explains in this ted talk and she says “I learned on a bias that I didn’t even know I had”. She explains that we all have a bias that we don’t even know about. Ways that we find out that we have a bias over something is when we are put in a certain situation, or we start having an argument about something then your true feelings come out about that. You could have never known you felt that way but when it gets brought up then you realize you have a certain feeling or bias about it.

I totally agree with her on her perspective on bias. I feel like you go through things in your life that changes the way you feel about certain things. Sometimes you don’t even know you had that feeling for that certain subject or crowd of people but it just comes out because you get put in a situation that makes you express that feeling. Some people have a feeling about black males to be specific. A lot of people say they aren’t racist or they don’t feel any other way around black males then they do white, but when they get put in the position of being around them they freeze up because they are scared. Sometime a secret bias might just sneak up on you in the moment.

Overall, I feel like biases kind of grow on people in away. The people you hang out with can also change the way you feel about other people, or certain subjects in general. Say you hang out with a bunch of white people all the time, when you come around a group of black people you might feel uncomfortable. This isn’t something you should feel bad about, because it’s just the way you mind and body react to something new. You find out that you feel a certain way about someone or something when the event happens.

Rational

There are plenty of reasons I chose this picture and this fictional writing to make my project. My fictional writing is something that fits me perfect. “So many feelings. One person”. That is something that fits me perfect because it’s literally how I feel. I have so many different feeling but I have a main four that really can control my day and how everything is going to go that day. When I am feeling one of these it overrides everything else I am feeling. When I am mad the whole day will be bad. 

          There really isn’t a lot of things that can make me this way but the few that can really get to me. I have a problem of which if I am feeling a certain way I won’t stop feeling that way throughout the whole day. If I’m happy[y when I wake up nothing really can make me change that mood unless it’s something dramatic. If I’m mad when I wake up, there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to make it better. I will not change that mood and everything I do will be based of that mood. That the reason I will literally stay in my room a whole day just because I woke up mad. It might not have nothing to do with anyone else but I will still bring that anger out on them which is pretty bad. So these overall, are the reason I chose this picture and the fictional writing “so many feelings. One person” to be the thing I write my rational over.