Dear Sweet Students of the University of Turkish
Aeronautical Association,
This week, our topic is “Highs and Lows in Self-Esteem.”
What do you think about this text and how can you associate this text with your
life?
What have you learned from this text?
Do you agree with the statements in the text?
I’m waiting for your creative journal entries J
All the bestJ
PS: Homework from TOEFL preparation book: Skill 5 - Exercise
5 + Review Exercise (Skills 1 - 5)- page.181-188
Inst: Seda Öztürk
Due date: 12.03.2012-Midnight
The topic of this week is self-esteem. Before reading the text, I haven’t heard anything about self-esteem. Actually, I found the text a little difficult, but I guess I can say something. The text reminded me of self-fulfilling prophecy. Our psychology can be influenced, and self-esteem is related with our psychology. That’s way we have to face low and high levels of self-esteem during our lives. Although the text emphasizes that the certain times of high and low levels, I believe that the times can change up to our personalities. As a result, I have learned results of self-esteem and its importance from the text.
YanıtlaSilBu yorum yazar tarafından silindi.
YanıtlaSilWe have talked about highs and lows in self-esteem last week.According to survey in the passage, our self-esteem changes during our lifespan.Our self-esteem is affected by a lot of things like our surroundings,our fears and incident in our life.I understood from the text that our self-esteem especially depends on our age.I realized that I did not use to care too much about old age that is I did not use to think of my old age.I usually hope and try to be optimistic because I am young and full of joy.After we had read text,I faced with truths.I strongly believe that when I was in the old age,I will not have sufficient competence,health,and acquaintances.I guess this awareness will help me in my senility.I will be able to pass hard period.I am in between of adolescence and adulthood at that time and it is too hard to think of my senility.In addition,I am always excited in the first day of school,even University of TAA is my nineth school.If I had a chance,I would change this.We are going to participate business life in the future so we have to control ourselves and increase self-esteem.To me,our self-esteem falls down to the lowest point when we are refused by a girl or a boy.It is an embarrassing situation.We read in the text that self-esteem has an upswing in childhood.For instance,I image that childrens usually say each other ‘My father beats your father.’They oppose to their parents,older sisters,and older brothers. :)
YanıtlaSilThe topic of last week was self-esteem. I haven’t known many things about it before. I learned that self-esteem depended on ages of people. It reaches highest level in childhood, also lowest level in old ages becasue it changes depending on the ages. In addition to this, self-esteem varies depending on personality because everybody has different characteristic features, so they have different levels of self-esteem regardless of age. To sum up, the level of self-esteem is totally dependent on people.
YanıtlaSilThis topic is very complex.Most people do not believe themselves.They have low self-esteem.I think we need to be more narcissist and selfish because that is the only way to survive.If we do not have high self-esteem, this planet would destroy us.When I say planet, I mean people in the world.Some people are very cruel, especially children.When people were children they did very mean things to the low sef-esteem children.If people do not want to be that children, they should trust themselves.I will never be that person.I always think that I am the best and everybody ought to do this.
YanıtlaSil“Highs and Lows in Self-Esteem.” was a passage which is about highest and lowest levels of self-esteem in people's life. I have learned that self-esteem changes,especially,depend on our age. For example, people have the highest self-esteem when they are children. In adolescence times, boys and girls have different changes. Girls' self-esteem become lower than boys'.In adulthood times they may have higher self-esteem than they were teenager and in old ages, self-esteem become lower again. These changes are about the things that people experienced.People don't have any serious responsibilities,problems,things..and also their parents always back up them when they were children,so they are full of self-esteem.With teenagers, they are very delicate,so one negative event can make them fell bad. In adulthood, they gain their self-esteem and when they get older they base on their self-esteem on achievements.To sum up, there are many increases and decreases on people's self-esteem during their lives. This changes are the result of the things that they experienced.
YanıtlaSilWe read a text about self-esteem this week in reading class. When we were reading this passage, I hadn’t understood at first because I hadn’t known a lot of vocabulary, but I learned most of their meanings such as buoyant’ meanings which is happy and confident, intrigue’s meaning which is to interest someone a lot , especially by being strange or my sterious etc.According to this passage, a study of about 350,000 people likens a person’s self-esteem across the human lifespan to a roller coaster ride, starting with an inflated sense of self-approval in late childhoodthat plunges in adolescence. I agree this idea because there are lots of proofs which say this is true. Again according to the this passage, Aly,17, dsagrees with a lot of the study, believing instead that each individual has an intrinsic sense of self-esteem that remains relatively constant. This is her idea which is true for her. As a result I liked this passage a little bit, because I was absent while my friends were telling what this passage tells.
YanıtlaSilGood night,everyone!Today's subject is interesting and scientific:Self-esteem.We learned from this passage that self esteem changes in some specific periods in people's lives.For example,it rises in childhood and adulthood,but it falls down in old ages and adolescence.These time periods are created by hormones and other chemicals in people's body.We know this information because some scientists conducted the survey about self-esteem.In my opinion,people always have self-esteem.Otherwise,they can't stand their lives because they don't like anything.To me,people have high self-esteem in their childhood because they don't care anything.In contrast,they have low self-esteem in their adolescence because their bodies fraught with the usual perils of self-doubt and hormonal warfare:)When I think my childhood,I realize that I have full of high-esteem.I faced with some problems in my adolescence,but I sorted out these problems.Now,I'm happy with my self-esteem:)
YanıtlaSilFirst of all, I learned several information about self-esteem. The setting of the story is highs and lows in self-esteem. This reading text has shown that a person’s age and stage of life have a big impact on self-esteem. Also, it indicates that self-esteem is a changeable concept. For this reason, people liken a person's self-esteem across the human lifespan to a roller coaster ride. Secondly, if I have to be a honest, The author couldn't manage to keep me interested in the text because he didn’t use understandable vocabularies for me, so I had great difficulty in this text. Additionally, topic isn’t interesting. It is a well-known fact that you don’t need to have a perfect knowledge about self-esteem. For example, in adulthood, most people have higher self-esteem than when they were teenager.
YanıtlaSilFirst of all, this text made me realize the importance of the sense of self-esteem. I was surprise while I was reading the passage because I hadn't known the periods of the increases and plunges in a person's self-esteem, so I learned this interesting knowledge from the text. I also agree with author because a person who is in the late childhood has inflamed self-esteem because of his/her family's supports. Also some times hormonal systems can affect the self-esteem. Also, I loved the way of the author. His passage is very fluent. While I was reading the text, I thought my childhood and adolescence. Like writer said, I had some increases and some drops in my life so the topic of the text was really good chosen. The reading passage left me with a question I'd like to ask the author - Has he ever been in this kinds of situations? When he was writing the passage, did he think about his life and his memories? Finally, if I had a chance, I would recommend this passage all my friends and my parents because it is a wonderful text.
YanıtlaSilBu yorum yazar tarafından silindi.
YanıtlaSilSelf-esteem is one of my favorite things for being happy in my life. I'm a high self-esteem person because I always want to be happy in my life. Also self-esteem encourages me all the time before I start doing something. These are my opinions. One of them isn't correct, but I hadn't known it before I read the reading text. I said that I'm a high self-esteem person. It's not totally correct. The self-esteem almost always changes. Especially while we are growing, it changes a lot. I want to give you some examples from the reading text. According to the reading text, people have the highest self-esteem when they are children. Then it changes a lot during adolescence. It sometimes increases, but sometimes decreases. Boys and girls have different changes. Girls' self-esteem drops about twice as much as boys. Then people's self-esteem increases beginning of their adult years. Finally seniors do tend to experience a drop in self-esteem when they get into their 70s, but not always. Now, I want to say you my correct opinion. It's that I'm almost always a high self-esteem person.
YanıtlaSilWe talked about highs and lows in self-esteem last week.This article says that people have a low points and high points in their lifespan.Article assimilated to this like roller coaster ride.Because of hormonal warfare,it reaches the highest point in ages of adolescence.And that can be plunge immediately.Of course,also that can be affected by events of environment.If person faces with really important situation,that can change person’s life completely. Furthermore,this is more related with personality.It is about ability of firmness against from bad situation.In addition,girls and boys have different feeling about that.Also they have different view of point.According to researchers,women do not fare as well as men in self-esteem.So,we should keep ourself in control as far as possible even who we are.
YanıtlaSilThis week our text was 'Higs and Lows in Self-Esteem'.I found this topic interesting and beneficial.While I was reading the text,I could learn the parts of self-esteem with the Gould family members.The text shows us their different experiences.From the text,we can learn a lot of information.Before the text,I didn't know a person's self-esteem is high during the childhood.I used to think it was in adulthood, because people generally achieve many things during the adulthood.I think success makes people have more self-esteem.Also,I agree our self-esteem is affected by several factors.I think my self-esteem is most delicate when I was teenager.I agree that many people experience their lowest self-esteem during old age.I think this is because of their lack of ability of doing many things.In conclusion,this text made me realize the importance of self-esteem in many people 's lives.
YanıtlaSilMy opinion about this text is very positive because writer really made me realize abut self-esteem. I have just realized that i don't know anything this topic, such as self esteem may increase or decrease in certain ages, but these situations also depends on people who live in the earth. Besides all the things, i wanna an example related with this topic. For example, when I am a teenager, I don't have self-esteem exactly, but day by day my self -esteem has been increasing quickly because of my age's increase. Also, some people think that my fate was going to happen in this way, I am not worthy of this events, but all of them happened. Unfortunately, we can never protect ourselves something which have to happen. Even though all of the happen, we could just protect ourselves by studying hard in any field, and gaining self-esteem. İt is so important to survive. I love one of the most beautiful girl nowadays, she will never ever lave me back. Nevertheless, I wanna find new girls to share something which is make me happy The world is changing day by day, and we cannot do anything to stop it. Would it be possible to do anything? Certainly, yes. Only try it.
YanıtlaSilOur last topic was self-esteem and I learned some facts about this topic.For example increasing and decreaseing time at our self-esteem,and cause of this change.I judged my self-esteem with this text.In fact I think I have low self-esteem,but according to our text,it was a normal conclusion.Because I am only 19 years old,and I have just completed my adolescence.In adolescence self-esteem is low.When people have lots of information about a topic,their self-esteem increases,so when people are adults,their self-esteem begins to inrease.I think it is very logical result because knowledge makes power.I hope my self-esteem will increase in future.
YanıtlaSilThis week’s topic was self-esteem. First of all, this week I learned a lot of vocabulary from the text. Anyway, this text was including some people’s stories. So we saw that people’s self-esteem was high during their childhood. Their self-esteem changed during adolescence, and all people experienced their highest self-esteem during old age. Certainly, a person’s self-esteem is affected by several factors, and the changes in a person’s self-esteem over a lifetime are very likely to a roller-coaster ride. It begins high, then it gets lower and higher throughout a person’s life. I really agree this idea. Because many people experienced such an experience during their lifetime, their self-esteem increases and decreases for much time. I really liked this passage. I hope all of our self-esteem increases during our lifetime:).
YanıtlaSil