Classification Essay, "Friends"

 

 

 

Dear, friend... In this big, crazy world, I"m glad I"ve got a friend like you. Your smile, my friend, reflects your heart; and in that mirror I can see the ways in which you"ve graced my life: the peace and joy you"ve given me.

 

 

 

 

Classification among Friends

 

 

          When we were little, we are all looked the same. While growing up, we went through many different faiths that developed our characters. When we reached a certain age, we formed our personalities to find jobs that fit well. As the jobs modified our personalities, or vice versa, our characters influenced or changed our jobs.

 

          Observing three friends among my elementary alumni, I found that body types have nothing to do with categorizing personalities. They are all tall, average weight, and wear classes, but their characters are totally different. I can identify their characters through their writing in our alumni site. Their characters depend on their jobs, not their appearance. Here are several examples.

 

          Friend A, the CEO of an IT business, is a self-motivated person. He believes that personal development is the key to survival in a technologically competitive world, so he sets up a team that develops new ideas, as his company’s priority issue. Also, he is a very organized leader. When he puts his comments on other friends’ writings, he praises their ideas first. Then he shows his perspective, so other friends can see different ways, just as he leads his people in his company. Moreover, among friends, he is a problem solver, just as he is in finding solutions for his company.

 

          Friend B is also the CEO of an IT business, but he is a very impulsive person. Since he is in the maintenance business for other companies’ main computer systems, his life is totally engaged in fixing other companies’ disasters. Even though he controls other companies’ main systems, he can’t control his own life because of his company’s contracts. This appears in his writings, too. His comments are direct and very short. He doesn’t have room to consider other friends’ situations deeply, because he has to be ready for emergency calls all the time.

 

          Friend C, a Ph. D. in international politics, specializing in Chinese politics, has an open mind for the political world, but he cannot look out for his own life. He puts his personal things on the side; his priority is for world problems. He hardly responds to friends’ individual comments that normally appeal to other friends. He only attends our alumni meeting once in a while, along with in our cyber writing site. He seems to be interested in international issues only, not in domestic matters of his own. He is single and is a free spirit for the world.

 

          In conclusion, a person’s character leads him/her to get a job that fits well with his/her personality, yet the job modifies a character or changes an entire life style. Characters can be classified by different jobs, or jobs can influence a person’s character. Appearance is not a significant factor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Spring Break, 2004

S. Rhee

Classification Essay

[English A-X 6680]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Definition Of A Friend   From day to day, nothing so surely defines the quality of our lives as the unwavering affirmation in the eyes, in the voices, in the presence of our friends.    It is through them that we truly begin to know ourselves; and it is their affection that assures our dignity and worth.   - Robert Sexton