Tobias Wolff Rap

My name is Tobe Wolff and I aint fake
There aint anything that i cant take
I like to hang with dwight and rosemary
Im only thirteen and i hope i grow harry
My friends are snookibby and j biebs
If i cant answer your question then just ask jieves
My rapper name is young piff
Give me a flower and ill give a sniff
Im sensitive and cool
representen them fools
I like my bicycle that my mom wouldnt buy
And i like to punch arthur and make him cry
and i shot a squirrel and made him die
and i smoked inside the bathroom i got so high
I like cripples
I like babies
I have a winchester
Shot my dogg cause he had rabbies
Dont hate on young piff
im so kool im so hip

Do You Assume a Pose

When I am with people that I am not friends with, I act a lot differently. I do not talk as much or act like my true self when i'm around different people. I am pretty much quiet most of the time when i'm not with my friends and kind of stand back. I probably do this because if i do not like the people i'm with I won't talk to them. When I meet new people however I am never quiet. I always step right in and introduce myself. Once I become farmiliar with the person my personality changes back to the real me. I show my true self to my friends and talk a lot. I act like I normaly do out of school and don't act like a person that i'm not. I show my true self to my friends because they act the same as me. Unlike when i'm with people I do not like, I am always like a leader with my friends. I think it's easier to be yourself with friends because they will never judge you. I can also show my true self to my parents because I have nothing to hide. It's important to be yourself because if you can't your just a poser. If you can't be yourself then there is no point in living.

Am I Fake, Hell no

Do I assume a different pose depending on who I am hanging out with? No, absolutely not. I act the same with every one I am with. I point blank do my routine. If I am at church, I act like myself. If I am at school, I act like myself. I hate fake people because they are just annoying to me and you cannot trust them. I also hate men who act sweet and romantic with their girl friend and when they are with their friends that are guys, they boast about how they tapped that. No, you treat your girl friend good and then you talk good about her. You also do not let your girl friend get talked down to in your conversation as the girl you got with. I am a very big supporter of acting like yourself. I act like myself when I am talking to a teacher, student, my mother, father, girl friend, and pastor. They all see the same side of me. I am who I am and if people do not like that they can find another friend cause I am not interested. Fake people always make new friends because they are constantly loosing friends. To end this blog on a good note, I have a good circle of friends and I don't really need anyone else besides my girl friend Megan.

Taylor Gang or do the first Blog.

In the beginning of This Boy's Life, Tobias wolff included two quotations. One of the quotes stated "The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second is, no one has yet discovered." I "assume a pose" in my day-to-day life. When I am with any of my friends I do not put on a different facade, or even assume a different personality. No matter what the group or setting is I do not change like most of the Woodstock Academy females within the school do. I do not want to be called "fake" like many people. I think it is a low blow to call others names and talk crap on your "bestfriend" behind their back.

If I had to pick a group of people and an environment that I would say I show one hundred percent of my "true" self is at home with my family and my closest friends. When I am at home I can get hyper and enjoy myself alot more than I am at school. When I am doing work for school, such as reading books for Mrs. Rouleau or doing an important task I can get very serious. I don't want to be fooling around when I am in my serious mode. I do not like changing and being someone else, I like to be myself around everyone I can. My friends and family would not like a fake person in their life. I always try to be real as possible 24/7 with everyone I love.


Love, T-Rex123 <3 :)

People have many poses depending on who they are with. I am pretty sure that it is safe to say that people have different personalities depending on the enviornment they are in. Some people may be quiet, loud, crazy, outgoing, and many more. I am one of those people who act differently depending on who they are with. For example, if I was with someone that was quiet, I'm obviously not going to be loud when I am around them.

The people that I can be my "true" self with would deffinately have to be with my cousin and my family that I live with. This is because I am comfortable with them, and the fact that I have known them my whole life. I can also be myself with my friends because we are so alike in so many ways. Being comfortable in my settings is deffinately a factor of being myself. If I felt uncomfortable, I'm obviously not going to show my "true" self. People may say that I am a quite person, but that is just because I have not known them enough to be myself.

first post yaya :)

My name is milkmandude12. I am a pretty nice person for the most part. I like long walks on the beach, picking flowers in the meadow, and drinking lots of milk! Usually I dont try to be a different person when im around certain people but it just happens sometimes. I dont like to do that because I dont like to be a poser. When I am not myself it is usually because am not in my right mind per se.

Most of the time I tell good friends everything. but there are those certain people tht I dont tell anything to for example: my mother, or Dawn as you might call her, because everytime I tell her something I get in trouble. So that was my blog, have a good day, and stay away from drugs

Love: Milkyy<3

Do You Assume a Pose?

As many others, I do assume a pose in my daily life. Often I will alter my pose to try to fit in, but sometimes changine your stance won't always be successful. Much of the time, if you are successful in connecting with another when changing your role, you can feel a sense of accomplishment, but other times you can put at risk a friendship with another or lose respect in yourself. Connecting with another can definately be enjoyable at times, but as many people taught you since early childhood, be yourself. If you change your stance too often, the opinions of others may notice that you are simply putting on different masks just to connect and their respect for you may wither.

For example, one day you may say that people who eat meat are disgusting to one person, then enthusiastically talk about a great steak dinner you had the other day with someone else. This may result in accusations from others that you are a hypocrite. In this situation you would find it difficult to escape the such an accusation. If you kept to what you really believed then you would not be given such a tag. Changing for what another wants you to be is completely ridiculous, but many people who want to fit in will make that adjustment.

How I Am

When I'm around people I dont't really know I'm really shy and I don't talk to much. I don't really like being in groups of people beacause I'm always paired up with somebody I don't really know. When I meet new people I'm very shy and different then when I'm with my friends. When every time a new person tries to talk to me I won't talk a lot and soon they just end up ignoring me. I don't really make new friends so easily.

When I'm around friends and people I know really well I'm a lot different. When I'm with friends I'm really loud and get hyper. When I'm with my family I'm basically the same way and I'll start talking a lot and they will basically tell me to stop talking because I'll get really annoying. Also when I'm around my friends and family, I usually make fun of them jokingly when I would never do that to somebody I don't know.

Assume a Pose? Yight.

Hmmm, In response to the Question "Do you Assume a Pose?" meaning, do you put on a different front or act differently around friends or family, I would have to say no, not really. Sometimes I might put on a different personality, but very very rarely.

I always act the same around everyone, my friends and family.

Sometimes at school or at work, I'll act more serious than I usually do everyday but I never change my personality significantly around my friends. My "true" self is how I normally act around my friends and family. So therefore, I never act different or change my personality unless the situation calls for it.

Do You Assume A Pose?

The only place I act like a different person is at Woodstock. In middle school I was off the walls with ADHD and never went on class trips because I was suspended at one point during the year. But when I graduated and went to Woodstock, I knew it was a different game. I knew that very few upperclassmen tolerated freshman, and with my luck I was placed in the classes just chalk-full of sophomores and juniors. Adapting to my enviroment, I quickly learned to keep my mouth shut as not to anger everyone around me. However, I still managed to somehow call one of the school's cheerleaders fat in the first two weeks of school. This left a great impression on all of the upperclassmen, including her boyfriend. A poor decision, I'll admit.

With all of my luck, I was continuously placed in classes with no friends from Canterbury but plenty of juniors and seniors, few of which I befriended. My fake-quiet personality gradually turned into a habit, which makes me look like a coke-addict who sits in the back of class looking like a creeper. As soon as I get home, however, there's no shutting me up. I am an abrasive monster who can't get enough of making fun of people any where, at any time. Making fun of people comes easily and I often lean on it in converstaion.

Asume A Pose? I don't think soooo!!

I do not assume a different personality or pose or anything like that. I think it is a little dumb of people who make them selves up to impress other people. A person should not have to make up a new life for then selves, they should be proud of the one they have. You should be who you are regardles of what other people think or say about you. It is better to be who you are and not someone else. People should stay true to who they are. People should like you for who you are and if they don't then they don't have to be in your life.

I stay true to who I am. I don't make people think I am cool or anything like that. I dont make up stories to make my life seem interesting. I stay true to all my friends. I dont lie, cheat, steal or talk poorly on another friend when they are around, that is just not me. People can think what they want love me or hate me, I don't really care. I go through life and i take whatever it throws at me. I think my life is oretty good and I love pretty much everything about it. I would not change it for the world. I love my family and my friends, I would not make up some stories that would risk loosing them all.

"It is better to be hatted for who you are, rather than for who your not."
~Unknown~

Dear Mrs. Rouleau,

In my day to day life, I do not put on a facade or assume a different personality. There are just many sides to my personality. I can be harsh at times, and I can be extremely nice at times. It all depends on the day.

I like to joke with people, and be harsh to people like D.T. Take one look at him, you can't help but to mean to be at him. I don't really have good reasoning for being mean to him all the time, that's just how it is. I'm not like this all the time though, just to a certain few. But, that's just how we get along.<3.

There are people like D.G. whom I love very much though and am super nice to. I am nice to him because he is my boy. We have shopping adventures that are muy divierto. I enjoy spending time with him after school<3. I am nice to dylan because he is nice to me.

Sincerely,
T- Rex

Assume a Pose? nahh

Hey, Special_K here.
In my day to day life, I'm myself with my close family and friends. I'm pretty nice, and I like to joke and mess around. But when I can show a new side when I'm with my other relatives and enemies, I can be really polite, and sometimes harsh, even cruel. When my close family and friends are involved, I like to be funny, even slightly mischievous. :) But all in good fun, just who I am.

I like to be generous and polite to my distant relatives, such as my grandparents, aunts and uncles. I open doors, I help with dinner, and I try to keep to myself, I can even be shy at times. But when I'm around the people I can't stand, such as obnoxious people; can be one of the meanest people you ever meet. I point out flaws, I try to crush hopes. It's a completely different Special_K.

A new perspective

I believe when they say "assume a pose" I think about how are you going to be for the day. Do I act differntly?I sometimes do. I would sometimes act very differently, like sometimes I would act when I'm with a different group of people that I don't even know. My fater knows that I act very differntly in front of people.


The only time I show my "true" self, is when I'm alone talking to myself or if I'm around my family. When I'm with my family I'm more talkative. When I'm with my freinds I'm a littlebit funny and shy and sometimes quiet. When I'm with a group that I don't even know im very very shy, but when I start getting comfortable I start talking to them getting to know them more.

Ummm............

I do not act differently around other people. I am what I am. Everyone sees the same person. whether it be my mom or my grandmother, or friends or girlfriend. Well.....actually I am alot nicer to my girlfriend and people that matter, more than I am other people.





My teachers also see the same person as my friends, and family do. I don't know whether they like me or not but yeah. I like brown people so I'm nice to them. That's it.

Do You Assume a Pose?

Everyone pretty much assumes a pose. It just means that you’re not acting like you really are or would if you weren’t afraid of being judged, and everyone is afraid of being judged, so everyone puts on a fake persona. I put on a fake face every day, multiple actually. I have one for when I go to school, one for home, one for when I’m in public and one for when I’m at work. Each on works for a different situation, but all of them pretty much just try to make the best of bad situations which happen every day. I’m not going to lie some of them are just to seem cool because who doesn’t want to have as many friends as possible, but a lot of my different attitudes are just so that I don’t stand out and make a scene. I haven’t really shown my “true” self to anyone since about 8th grade which is when I figured that people thought I was seriously weird and that something was wrong with me. Then I started to not talk to people and pull it back a little bit, not being who I really was and just pretending to be who people wanted me to. If you think about it it doesn’t really make any sense. If everyone is acting how other’s expect you to is there anyone out there that actually WANTS to act like this? All cocky and smug. It makes you feel kinda weird if you don’t get some time to yourself and act like you really feel; you lose touch with yourself and actually become that image you put on for other people.

Personality

I pretty much act the same around everyone, besides when I am around like my close friends. When I am around my close friends I feel like I can act like myself. When I am around people I know but I am not good friends with at school I act much diffrent. Not to many people have ever seen me when I act like myself, only my actual friends. Usually I dont act like myself until the weekend when I can actually act myself and do what I like to do. On the weekend I do what ever I want and I do it when I want to which means that I act diffrent. In school we have a schedule we have to go by but on the weekend I am free.

I would have to say I show my true self to my uncle though. I am just like my uncle in a lot of diffrent of ways. He is still in collage therefore he is still in school just like me. On the weekend he can do whatever he wants when ever he wants to do it. So therefore I think we have alot in common and I can show my true self to him, and I think he shows his true self to me. Alot of the times on the weekend my uncle and I hang out just because we are both alike.

Listen, Do You Smell Something?

In my day-to-day life I never "assume a pose" with anyone, I'm myself 110% of the time. why? Because I have nothing to hide, I'm not some kid who tries to fit in with certain "clicks" or follow trends. I can be myself around anyone, no matter who it is. Whether it's some lady-friends, or my friends, or my family, or my cats. I'm just saying there's no reason to be someone else around other people, no matter who the are.
I honestly mdon't care what other people think, these people are poison. All there little fads and trends, they'll do anything to fit in. Do drugs, drink, and live by other peoples opinions...that's not a life to live. Be who you want to be, do what you want to do, besides school you can do whatever you want. It's your life, no reason to live any other way.

In anyones life they are a different person in certain situations. As like anyone I do the same, sometimes. Theres times where you want to be someone different to show that you are like the people around you. But not everyone does that. People always want to be like others and some people like the way they are.

I try to be the same around anyone I hang around with but sometimes you just can't help it. You just want to fit in and be accepted. But that isn't always the case. When I go out into public, such as the mall I am a little different from what I am around my friends. You start to realize that you can just be yourself and have a good time. Don't be someone your not because it doesn always help you later in life.

ChisDrews new view

I believe that many people asssume diffrent poses around diffrent people. I also am part of this crowd I can deffently see a change in my act when I am around my parent compared to being with my friends. I think the reason for this is respect towards my parents I try to refrain from using profound words around them, where as with my friends I am less careless because they are used to the real me and do not get affended by swearing or joking around. Another reason why people act diffrent around some people is to impresse or act cool for the opposite gender which is part of being a person. This is often unavoidable in most people because its not that your trying to be a diffrent person it is just a comfort level you have around diffrent kinds of people. I think that depending on how long I have known or how comfortable they are around me it is easier for me to be myself around them. Some people are more uncomfortable around people or socaily awekard if they have been home schooled or something of that sort it is hard for them to make friends easily like most people. Average people like most the people in this class do not have that problem which is lucky for us to have. For myself it is very easy to socailize with people and I concider myself one of these lucky people who does not have a problem with this. Without friends or anyone close this would be a very hard life to live I am thankful not to be like that. -NeverShoutNever Love is Our weapon <3

Assume The Pose

In a sense I assume a different personality at school then at home. I treat my friends different than my family and vice versa. I don't swear at home yet I do with my friends. I'm basically the same though. I'm always the same so it's not like anyone doesn't see the real me. Not everyone sees the real me but no one sees a fake me.

When I go out such as to the mall or store I may act different. It depends on who I'm with friends or family. Obviously with friends people act differently with friends. They can be more free and outgoing. Where with family you have to control yourself and try not to embarrass themselves.

Don't forget to have lots of green.

I assume a pose

Do you "assume a pose" in your day-to-day life? I do. When I'm at home I never shut up, however, when I'm in school I am very quiet and don't talk much. Even when I'm with my friends outside of school, we still act different then when we are in school. Some things, however, my friends and I do both in school and out. We are always laughing and cracking jokes no matter where we are.

I have one very close friend were in different settings we act different toward each other. But, she knows who I really am and my real personality. When we are outside of school we have more serious conversations. We aren't afraid to give our opionions whether it's bad or good. We both can say what's on our mind, knowing that what we are saying means no harm to each other and we are just trying to look out for one another. We can tell each other anything and know that what's said between us stays between us. We still joke around when we aren't in school and have lots of fun, it's not all about seriousness. When we are in school we don't really have those serious conversations. In school we joke around more and have fun. I do not act like this around my other friends, I don't show my true personality to every one of my friends.

My whole family knows how I really act. My family knows that when I'm not with a bunch of people I don't know, or even one person I don't know, that I am really shy and don't talk that much. They also know that when I am with people or someone I do know that I am far from shy. I'm loud and talk a lot. My mom knows that I act different when I'm at school, when I'm with my sports team and when I'm at home or with friends. Every where I go I am a different person, and show a different personality!

bloggin it up hardoce

I dont act any different around different people. I think everyone should just be themselves all the time. When I am with my friends I act the same as when I am with my parents, or with people I dont really know well. People that act differently with different people are annoying and should. Be straight with everyone and more people will probly like you and have more respect for you.

I think, that you think, that he thinks, that she thinks, that everyone should be themselves. Being yourself will get you further in life than being different around differnt people. Matt is very cute and he always acts the same around everyone.


Bieber Fever

Assume A Pose

I think that I do "assume a pose" in my day-to-day life. I have a different personality around certain people, groups, and settings. It all depends on how well I know the people and how comfortable I am with them. Obviously if I'm with my parents I would be more appropriate than I would be with my friends. If I'm with my siblings I'm more open to them than my parents but I still act different with them becuase they are protective and I can't tell them a lot. When I meet somebody new, I act differently around them too because I don't know anything about them and they don't know anything about me so it's kind of an uncomfortable feeling. But it is a lot easier to meet somebody new if I'm with one of my friends; it's less awkward that way. Also if I'm in a setting where I don't know anyone, I'm really out of my comfort zone and don't really talk to people.

There are a few people that I show my "true" self to. I show my true self to my close friends. I'm like that with my close friends because we have been friends for so long. They know me better than anyone, I trust them, they're not judgemental so I'm comfortable enough to be myself with them. I've been friends with a few of them since middle school. There's not really anybody in my family that I'm that close to. However, I'm very close to a few of my cousins; they are more like friends than family.

Withdrawn

I "assume a pose" everyday. The personality I assume varies wildly depending on who or where I'm around or at, at the time. I'm obviously very open with my parents, however this can sometimes lead to letting my anger take over. Away from friends, I often appear shy and drawn back from regular conversation. With friends, I act in a similar way as I would with my parents, however the difference is I rarely, if ever, get visibly angry with my friends. It can also vary from person to person and the level of communication that I have with said person.

I'm more open with my friends and family because I'm most comfortable around them. My parents are a source of general support and by talking to them I can often vent my frustration that I've acquired throughout the day. As for my friends, we have similar interests and ideas. I show my "true" self to them because they accept and like that personality. All in all, I've only got 2 distinct personalities that alternate depending on whether or not I'm with friends or family.

I assume a pose in front of most people. I act different in front of my parents, friends, and other family members. In front of my parents I act nice and like a good son should be. In front of my friends I act completely different because I don't need to look like a good kid, I joke around and just have a good time and I can't act that way in front of my parents. My mom said to me straight out that I'm changing and I'm changing at all, it's just that I'm acting the same around her like I do my friends. I always act my best in front of family members because I want to look like the good kid and that my parents raised me well, plus if I act good my parents will be nicer to me.
I don't show my true self to anyone because myself won't be accepted by my friends now. I only show myself who I really am. I do that because I'm the only one who needs to know who I really am. The only people that would know about who I really am would probably be my best friend but they don't even know all about me because I would act different around them because they would be in the friends category.

A new semester begins

A new semester brings a new crop of bloggers! Tomorrow in class students will be responding to the following prompt:

In the beginning of This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff includes two quotations. One of them reads:

"The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second is, no one has yet discovered."
- Oscar Wilde

Do you "assume a pose" in your day-to-day life? Do you put on a different facade or assume a different personality around different groups of people or in different settings? Explain. Who, if anyone, do you show your "true" self to? Why?