Rejected

     In today's world, people are often rejected because of who they are or what they look like or simply characteristics that are different from others around them. A person might be rejected because of their clothes, color of their skin, or simply their religion. A good example is Muslims because of the 9/11, people began to look at them very different, many times leading to the isolation and targeting of their people. Muslims might feel upset and frustrated that they are being judged by the way they look and what they believe. Which this discrimination also cultivates strong feelings of anger and hatred, sometimes leading to revenge.
    Another situation is if somebody was going to a new school and didn't meet anyone. Especially if it is a girl going into middle school where they have all the cliques. Middle girls tend to be mean and nasty to somebody new in the school, because either the girl is cute or is better then them in something so jelousy tends to come around. In this situation, the new girl would fell very rejected because none of the girl want to be her friend. She would probably feel as if nobody wants her around and she would be very lonely. This could lead to not wanting to go somewhere new and meeting new people like getting a job or going to college.
     A situation a person might feel repeatedly rejected is if he/she is not good at certain sport and is constantly gettting cut down or talked down or made fun of about it. Such as being laughed at or always picked last that could have a person very upset about the situation. This would result in hatred toward those who cut them down. Which later in life they would never try the sport they had a passion for and could have gotten better at because of the fear of being made fun of again. People really need to realize what they say because it could have a lasting effect of the person's life.

Taking Responsiblity

     Responsibility is defined as being held accountable or to blame for someones actions. Personal responsibility is simple anything that a person, and that person alone has done or needs to do. In many situations people don't take full responsibility for things they should, and sometimes do take responsibility for things they had no type of control over. Someone who does not care about other people would most likely not take responsiblility for their actions. But someone who is kind and caring may feel like everything is there fault when really they had nothing to do with the situation.
     If something bad happens when a person is involved in it, then they bear some type of responsibility. For example, when a little kid says a bad word because they repeated it from one of their siblings. This is not fully there fault because they repeated what they heard and was never taught not to say it. Their older sibling is responsible for the behavior of their younger sibling because he/she never told the kid that they are not to repeat it or say it was simply a bad word. Thats a situation when a person can blame their actions on another person because they simply was never taught about it.
     One control his or hers actions, and nobody else is responsible for those actions. For instance, if someone is involved in an scam, he/she would be more responsible for it than if someone was just slightly involved in the scam. The slightly involved person is still slighty responsible for it and therefor should recieve slight consequences. Either way a person should take responsibility for any action they take. Direct actions require responsibility, indirect is beyond one's control and sight so one should not be held responsible for such thing.

Exploring the Unknown

     Some ways in which people throughout the ages have explored the unknown is by sailing on ships or finding out lots of information preparing their selfs for the journey to other places. Others have by exploring foods, music, literture and more. This helps us as Americans out by showing us the unknown and making us smarter. 
    Individuals devote themselves to a life of exploration and discovery because they want to do something somebody has never done. They want to call a discovery there's instead of looking or watching somebody else call it there's.
   Some sacrifices the devotion involve is leaving family back. People who want to journey must leave their wifes or husbands or kids which can be a hard thing. Some people will have to forget about sleep because it can be to dangerous and they need to stay up through the bad things.