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Main idea: How friends influence us and how my classmates made me a more positive person by their passion and considerations.


Topic sentence 1:
Almost everyone knows that their friends can affect their life in a way or another but what most people don't know is that this effect is far more powerful than they can imagine.

supporting sentences:

a.Your friends don't just influence your decisions but they can alter your view of the world, change your perception and turn you into a different person!
   *Looking back, your mom definitely had a good point. For better or worse, our friends have the ability to impact our decisions. And oftentimes, we don’t even realize it’s happening. From the clothes we wear, to the food we eat and even the career moves we make
  
b.The ways your friends affect your life:
   *They change your beliefs about things: Your beliefs can be changed. Beliefs can be changed if they were constantly challenged and if new beliefs were constantly repeated. The old me had a pessimistic view before I even had the chance to interact with it. This pessimistic view came from the continues programming I received from the people around me in the form of suggestions that are repeated over and over such as "its extremely hard to do ..."
   *They affect your self confidence. Friends alter the perception of each other, if the majority of a group thinks that a person is arrogant or snobbish then this belief will be transferred to the whole group. Since believing that someone is treating you in a bad way might be interpreted as a sign that shows that you are not that worthy then such a belief might affect your self confidence badly.
   *Your friends affect your behavior. An experiment has shown that a monkey that never feared snakes started to fear them when it saw the anxious response of another monkey that feared them!! This means that watching someone who is feeling afraid, anxious or helpless could teach you how to be like him!!
   *Your friends can infect you with bad emotions.Your sad friend might make you feel sad and your depressed friend can let you become depressed on the long term. The same example is like when  we're watching a movie.Simply because the facial expressions of actors transfers to you their emotional states and the same happens with our friends.
 Question: Should I add a paragraph about how to not be influenced by our friends easily here?


Topic sentence 2 :I don't think I will ever have the chance to run into anyone that can influence me more than the other 29 girls in my class.

Question: Teacher Hazel suggested that I put my own experience in the last paragraph, so I put this part in the third part last time to coordinate with the little drama I'm going to play about this part. So should I put this part in the middle and talk about the conclusion theory in the last part? My thought before: I can talk about what I found out from my research and talk about my experience that is magically the same as the theories.

supporting sentences:

a.I learned how to express my feelings and found the real me due to their help.
* I wouldn't say someone doesn't look good in a hair style or in a kind of clothes before, I considered it rude. Since everyone now feels free to express what they really think and say it out loud I started to do the same thing. Surprisingly, girls consider this a sincere piece of advise. By doing this can also shorten the distance between me and my friends.

*Whenever they find me different from usual, they come to me and ask what happened. If I refused to answer they never give up and makes me feel that someone is really there for me and it might be okay for me to say what's on my mind out loud because the people who you're talking to really do care about how you feel.


b.They taught me friendship isn't just a kind of  sentiment, but also the greatest power to change a person.
*A funny example is- they make me talk more. I don't talk much when my friends were around before. 

c.the real experience I had to support my theory of the first and second paragraph.



Topic sentence 3:
Make your friends a good influence on you.

supporting sentences:
a.surround yourself with positive people .
b.Friendships can benefit you in lifting your self-esteem.
c.Your friends should lift you up and help you to be the best person you can be.