Question

40 POINTS Think of a time in your life when you judged someone based on appearances and were wrong. What were your first impressions? What was your judgment of this person? How did that first impression change and why?

Your response should be about 150 words.

Answer 1

The first time I met Savannah, she was with one of my friends. My friend introduced us to each other. She had clean, neat, and very girly clothes on. I thought by the way she was dressed that she was one of those girls that never messed up and got straight A’s on her report card. She was also very short so I guessed that everyone thought she was cute and sweet. Just looking at her, you would have thought that she would like either Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw from Harry Potter. After getting to know her, I found out that she liked Slytherin which her appearance did not give away. I also found out that she was not the girl with the Straight A’s but she did her best anyway. She was also a very funny person. She would tell us jokes all the time. She became a great friend and someone I could trust.

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Answer 2

A time I judged someone by their appearance was when I was at the hospital for a checkup. A guy, who was in a wheel chair, came in yelling and screaming very loudly and being very rude to the people around him. Everyone, even the staff members judged this guy by how he came in and acted all crazy. I assumed that he was on drugs or something else, but in reality I shouldn't have judged him, as well as the staff members that were working that day. A physician who has taken care of this guy for a while came and talked to him in a calm and gentle voice to this guy, and he just bursted into tears. The guy told the physician that he had enough with all the treatments and appointments he had to go through to get better. I shouldn't have judged him by the way he acted and the way he appeared in-front of everyone because in the end I didn't know his story and I should have considered being in his place and feeling what he had to go through.