Feelings of disgust fill me when I observe the identity of an individual being crushed by the widespread need to fit in with society and be like everyone else. Differences in character, appearance and emotion are created by unique pasts, and form the foundation for personal beliefs. When these differences are erased by society's attempt to create analogous creatures, individualism, a value that I hold in high esteem, is lost. I acquired these values from …showed first 75 words of 343 total…

…showed last 75 words of 343 total…is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." A poster on the wall of my bedroom illustrates a beatnik walking in the opposite direction of a crowd of suited businessmen contains a quote: "The dissenter is every human being at whose moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself." These are words that I live by.