My topic for the commonplace is conformity in college. This topic is relevant in many aspects of life and is an important issue to understand. Throughout your college career, you will feel pressure to do well in school and act like “everyone else.” You do not want to be left out and a lot of students feel pressure to be popular. This may mean buying designer clothes or trying to buy the latest technology. Advertisers may use this knowledge to try to take advantage of students and get them to buy things they normally would not. But students also feel pressure from their parents to pursue certain careers and choose a school that their parents like. Until a teenager becomes an adult, they will continue to face pressures from their parents and other adults. But even after they become an adult, they can still feel pressure from their peers or friends. Throughout your life you will continue facing the pressure to conform to society and you will have to make decisions on what to do. At times it may not be bad to conform, but it can also cause you to lose your personality and individuality. It is important to understand the affects of conforming to society and what the results may be. By understanding why people do it, you can determine whether or not it would be beneficial or not to act like everyone else. This makes the topic relevant. It is important to study this idea and made good decisions throughout college.
I feel like EVERYONE has the iphone these days !! I agree though; there is a lot of pressure to be accepted and in many cases that means to be like everyone else and to have all of the thing that they have.
ReplyDeleteI really like your topic about conforming in college. I feel as if it is very difficult not to conform in college because you don't have your support system, such as your family, there to encourage you to be your self. Also I feel that a lot of times our parents push us to conform into their idea of what they feel is right, which makes it difficult.
ReplyDeleteThe connection you made to advertising is a good one, it could even be a whole supporting point in your paper :)
ReplyDeleteI think that way too many people don't make decisions for themselves anymore. So many people conform to things without even thinking if they want to or not, just because other people do it.
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