Tuesday, January 11, 2011

RESPONSE QUESTION- SECTION 1- pages 1-53

What is “positive peer pressure?” Give some examples of peer pressure that George, Sam, and Rameck face. Then, give example, positive or negative, of peer pressure in your own life.

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  1. I think positive peer pressure is when people persuade you to stay above the influence. It is when your friends talk you out of doing something. .....

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  2. I think positive peer pressure is when some one try to influence you do good. In Sam, Rameck, and George life they have many different form of peer pressure such as outside their house and all around them there are drug dealer and and other negative influence. George, Sam, and Rameck on positive influence in the book was a women name Carla. One example of positive peer pressure was when a person I use to care about believe in me. ^,^ That all i can say. Hope ya have positive influence.

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  3. I think positive peer pressure is when people influence you to do the right thing and that you are doing the right thing all the time. Some peer pressure that the three of them go through is trying to steal and sell drugs.In my life i always had positive peer pressure about doing the right thing all the time.

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  4. Peer Pressure is a positive or negative influence that someone gives to you and its tempting you to do it. Sam, Rameck, and George had very big different peer pressure. They grown up in a small town full of things that they faced. Such as drugs, crimes, bullies, and other bad stuff.

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  5. A positive peer pressure is when people influence you either in a positive or negative ways.For example, in the story, George faced with many peer pressures all the time, but he were blessed to have people around him who told him positive things and believed them. The decision that George make in his early life is something that i can relate to with because, i too have choose to believe the people who told me to do positive peer pressure instead of a negative peer pressure. Parents, friends, and school are some of the example for people around you who can influence you in so many ways.

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  6. I think Positive peer pressure is one of your friends or family members encourage you to do something good in your life, and also take the right path to success. George, Sam and Rameck are around negative influence like drug dealers, shooting and gangs. A woman named Carla gave George, Sam and Rameck positive influence.

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  7. I think Peer Pressure is persuading all ages to do things that are either good or bad. I also think it's a heavy burden put upon people who try to do the right thing but can't make up their minds. It's an influence, that makes people go against their right minds. Most people try to live above the influence. They were faced with peer pressure because they all grew up in rough neighborhoods. One of them even went to jail.

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  8. positive peer pressure is when you or your friends do something good that beneficent someone else. the environment the boys grew up in faced them with several ways of peer pressure, an example would be drugs.

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  9. I think positive peer pressure is doing the right thing. An example of positive peer pressure is when your friends encourage you to do your homework. For instance, Rameek's mother is constantly encouraging him to do well in school.

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  10. I think positive peer pressure is when friends and family help to encourage you to do better and greater things. For George he lived in a neighborhood where killing, stealing and drug dealing is something you see everyday but when he went to the dentist he was excited to see how the dentist works and wanted to become a dentist and got good grades to accomplish his dream.

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  11. Eventhough Rameck, George, and Sam are surrounded in negative peer pressure they manage to stat positive with a lot of role models and positive works of others. They encourage themselves to do better than what people expect them to be. Each one of them has a role model that helps them to be who they are now. And how successful they are.

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  12. i have to say that they are hard working people who are really dedicated to being doctors when they grow up and i feel as if their mom give them positive peer pressure to help them gain their goals

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  13. I think positive peer pressure is when people around you encourage you to do the right thing and encourage you to succeed. Like when you tell a friend you want to be a doctor and he/she encourages to do so or when friends encourage you to not do drugs or drink. The boys had many positive and negative peer pressure in their lives. They were raised around drugs, gun and many of their friends going to jail. But the boys also had some people who were positive like Rameek's mother who always encouraged him to do his homework.

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  14. Positive Peer Pressure is when someone influences or pushes you into the right direction. Such as doing the right thing. George positively peer pressured his friend to stop hanging out with the kids that were doing drugs. Sam was pressured by his sister to get into after school programs to avoid the drug life. My brother pressured me to stop hanging out with the kids who were doing a lot of bad things.

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  15. I think positive peer pressure is when someone a friend or a family member persuading you to do good.For example if your sister or brother encourage you to do your homework instead of watching Tv or study for a test.A example in the book is when George's mom kept telling him to go to school.

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  16. Positive peer pressure is about doing something that you made on your own. You have no one telling you what to do and every decision you make is yours. In the pact, George positive peer pressure was to stop hanging put with the cool kids who did drugs. Sam peer pressure was to not hang around his family after school and he would go to an after school program.

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  17. i think positive peer pressure will help them acheive their goals

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  18. I think positive peer pressure is when your friends, family or other people influence you to do good things. Like George, Rameck, and Sam, they live in such a bad neighborhood where there is a drug dealer at the corner of the street and people getting shot. But, they're still above the influence because of what other people encourage them to do.

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  19. Positive peer pressure is when your friends or family around you keep you on the right path and stay out of trouble by the things they are telling you. Some examples for George, Sam, and Rameck face is them around drugs, guns, bullets, and gangs. For me one time this girl i was walking with was smokeing and she wanted me to do it with her but i didn't and she wouldn't talk to me anymore because i wasn't a smoker like her.

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  20. I think positive peer pressure is when somebody tries to influence you to do something good in your life. For example, if someone is persuading you to go to college. In the book, all the boys grew up around negative peer pressure because of the neighborhood they grew up in and all the crimes that were in the neighborhood

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  21. Positive peer pressure is when someone in your group or circle persuades you to do something that will benefit you in the long run. one thing that is positive influence is when someone tells you not to fight or not to do drugs. i really do think that peer pressure really do influence you life. like in the pact the boys influence each other how if one was doing good it motivated.

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  22. Positive peer pressure is when a person helps you live above the influence and also helps you reach your goals. They provided positive peer pressure with each other and they all made sure that they stay on track and finished what they started. In my own life I have faced a lot negative and positive peer pressure.

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  23. I think that positive peer pressure is when family, friends, and even people around you encourage you to make the right decisions in life. For example, George's older brother was always hanging around with the wrong crowd and George wanted to be around him, but his brother didn't want him around so he always told him to go home. My sister I would say pressured to stay away from the wrong crowds so I wouldn't end up like her.

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  24. The people around George encourage him to become a dentist like his friends who made a promise with him to become a dentist and also his mother encourages him by motivating him to bring home good grades so he can do good in school, and his old teacher who made learning fun.

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  25. Positive peer pressure is basically the good influence that your peers display to you. Its the goodness of how far they want your friendship to go because they are willing to pick you up whenever you fall. Positive peer pressure of Rameck is his grandmother because she was the one who helped him have tough love towards his mom because of her drug addiction. In Sam's case his six-grade teacher positively influenced him because she wanted him to succeed and not be a statistic. Also in George's case his positive influence was his third grade teacher who nurtured him like a mother and also told inspired him to go to college.

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  26. I think positive peer pressure is doing the right thing. For example, in the story, George faced with many peer pressures all the time, but he were blessed to have people around him who told him positive things and believed them. Another example is when Rameck's grandmother influence Rameck about the importance of family. An example is many times Rameck saw his grandmother give her last dollar to make sure her children and grandchildren had what they needed.

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  27. I agree with jimmy because positive peer pressure is when someone who cares about you influences you to do good things in your life. A great example of positive peer in Sam and George life is their teacher and mothers. Their teachers saw good things in them, Sam teacher Ms.Sandi recommended him to take an examination to enter one of the smartest programs at university high school. Sam didn't want to go but his teacher talk to his mother and she pushes him to take the test. Like Sam mother my mom didn't finish high school but she can read a little bit. Me my brother and my dad help her out and she getting better at reading and writing out her bills. She always tell us to go to school and learn so we can live our "American Dream" and have better life for our children. She is the one who motivates us to come to school every day.

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  28. Positive peer pressure is when anyone in your life encourage you to do the right things and make the right decisions in your life. An example of positive peer pressure that Rameck, George, and Sam had were their role models. My mother encourages me to become a nurse after I finish college.

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  29. I think peer pressure is showing what good or bad things that you need help with. For example, Rameek's mother wants him to focus on school and do well and not focusing what others do. George admit that he wasn't any smarter or special than other boys. And George was blessed because people told him the positive things and he also believed them. According to Sam's life, he acted like he wasn't smart in school but he was and his mother didn't know how to read when she was in school and his father was also an army. And he also have alot of siblings.

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  30. Positive peer pressure is a good influence that others give to each other. The positive peer pressure that Sam, George and Rameck get id from each other and a woman named Carla. she especially gives the most influence to them and encourages them to keep going towards their drams and not give up. They each have a specific person who influenced them as well. For Sam it was his elementary school teacher, she wanted him to do well in life. As for Rameck, it was his grandmother who influenced him to do well because his mom was on drugs. Finally George, it was also his elementary school teacher, who treated him as her own son.

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  31. i think that possitive peer pressure is when a friend,family,or some one you trust in courage you todo the right thing instead of the wrong thing.Sam,Rameck and george is constantly around negative peer pressure like brugs,shooting,ganges and so on.in my life i had both negative and positive mt family would alway in courage me to do the right thimg in school,

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  32. Positive peer pressure is pushing and influencing your peers to do the right thing. In the book the positive peer pressure George, Sam and Rameck face is trying to persuade each other to go to college and help each other out to fulfill their dreams of becoming doctors. The positive peer pressure that I face in my own life, is teachers helping me to get good grades and continue to have the influence to go to college.

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