My Peaceful Place

A place where I go that makes me feel peace is the beach. With its calm waves and serene atmosphere there's no doubt that whenever I go there it makes me feel like I'm free. I just need a getaway from everything that I've been going through, once in a while, and the beach is somewhere I go to do that. In the summer, it's usually better to go there because they have volleyball tournaments and when I play there I feel like I can accomplish anything. Then I can actually go in the water, as opposed to the winter where it's really cold and deserted. Without a beach I don't know how I could function my stress-filled life. 

My weakness is...

1. Vulnerability refers to the susceptibility of a person, group, society, sex or system to physical or emotional injury or attack. The term can also refer to a person who lets their guard down, leaving themselves open to censure or criticism. Vulnerability refers to a person's state of being liable to succumb to manipulation,persuasion, temptation etc. What word signifies vulnerability to you? There are many words that come to mind when I think of me being vulnerable and having a weakness. Words like stupid and black come to the surface of my thoughts, but one word that stands out the most is fat. I've always been a little bigger or immensely bigger than all my peers and other people around me. I feel as though people judge me a lot based on my size when they first meet me, which is the case most of the time. I just want that to be gone and for them to see me as I actually am, a wonderful person.

2. The teacher says, “If you want to be a superstar, you gotta’ be vulnerable to the world” what does he mean by this? Do you agree? Can “celebrities” have private lives? He means you have to be ready for the love and hate that people will show you, but mostly the hate. There are many people out in the world who are going try the best they can to tear you down You have to fight back and if you show a little emotion then they have won. I agree totally because all these celebrities you see today try their hardest to be bricks and they can take anything, but then you see the ones that becomes messes from all the pressure of being famous and having hatred thrown at them. It's kind of hard to have a private life when you're a celebrity because people want to know everything about you and they'll figure out a way for that to happen.

3. What is so difficult about speaking openly like these teens trying out for GLEE are asked to? Some people are scared of what others might say and they don't want to open up to people. They rather be a locked box, not willing to share their thoughts. These teens trying out for glee have enough confidence to talk to the people around them because they have become close with them over the course of the show and are ready to open their boxes. 

Moral Dilemma

After my dad died, my grandma became a whole other person. She started becoming upset more and more, and she wanted to be alone for most of her time. As time went on she realized that family was the only thing that was going to make her happy, so she invited my family and I to come to see a play that was being presented at her church. IT was called Harriet: A One Woman Show. Of course I did not want to see it, for goodness sakes it's a ONE WOMAN SHOW, which in my opinion is one of the most boring types of plays, and I LOVE PLAYS. I begged and begged my mom not to go, but she said, "I don't want to go either Jasmine, but the only reason she wants to do this is because your father passed away and she wants to feel closer to her family. Do it for daddy." 
So I did. Unwillingly and with a little bit of whining, I did it. I never wanted to go see the play one bit, but I did it because it was the right thing to do. It wouldn't be fair to my dad, for him to be watching down on me, and not doing what was right. It's not just me who lost someone they love, it's everyone else that knew him because he was a great man. An amazing person that never failed to make anyone smile. 
By the way, the play was absolutely terrible and when I asked my mom how she liked it she said, "That play sucked."

My regrets...

When I was a young, naive child, I was really girly and always wore pink. The typical little girl that you see nowadays. I didn't do any sports, I just danced and watched power rangers. Every single day. My mother always told me I was an amazing dancer and really had something in me that could eventually bloom into something greater. But then I got bored after five months and quit. Then I started to wear different color clothing that wasn't pink and started to become more boyish. I owned every movie Saban, the power ranger producers, ever made, threw out all my barbie dolls, and started playing with the big boys in every sport imaginable. I regret this, a lot because now I wish I could have done dance and stuck with it. When I dance in my house or at birthday parties people ask me if I take dance lessons and I say no I stopped. If I had kept doing it, who knows where I'd be now and what accomplishments I've made.

Social Parish

Like Gatsby, I too felt like I wasn't good enough for someone because I didn't have the hip, cool, new clothing that everyone was wearing. To be accepted into the upper-class Gatsby had to get the money, and dress & act the part. But still no one accepted him. In my middle school years, preferably 6th grade, fashion was big in school. If al the so-called-"popular" girls were wearing it you had to buy it and try to fit in. When uggs were really in style you just had to have them. So my parents were cheap and bought me the fake uggs because regular uggs are expensive. Everyone would make fun of me saying that fake uggs meant I was a fake person. I wasn't cool, just a wannabe. Then the next year my parents bought me some real ones for Christmas and I was ecstatic. Finally Jasmine Stith was in style with her rockin' new uggs and wouldn't be made fun of. Everyone, I guess you could say, finally accepted me because I had "real" ones. 


After a little while though, the hype of my new, real uggs seemed to die down to a point where I thought it was boring to wear them all the time. I realized then that it didn't matter if I had uggs, the only reason people started to like and talk to me was because I had them. So I didn't wear them for a month and things went back to the way it used to be. Me watching everyone else trying to fit in with the new style. When I discovered that goucho pants were the new thing I was glad I stopped all this nonsense. Those pants were hideous. I want someone to like me for me, not for what I wear. Now I don't judge someone based on their appearance, only by the content of their character.

Perception

If I, Jasmine Stith, were in The Great Gatsby Nick would definitely point out a lot of good traits, but also bad. Good things could be I'm outgoing, but a little shy at first; because when you get to know me I am loud and fun. I'm not afraid to tell it like it is and give my opinion. I am also very athletic and kind, but I do have some bad traits about me. I'm a bit strange as some people might say, but not always in the bad way. During the 1920's you would definitely classify me as a rebel because I control myself and will do whatever I want. I'm not someone's doll to be played with...I am me. 
A character that is most like me could be Daisy in one way because she's smart and knows what's good and bad. Meaning that as a woman of her time she is very aware of her husbands secret relations with other women and doesn't want to be controlled just wants to be loved. But I am also like Jordan as well. A very outgoing and athletic woman.