Cultural or Social Influence in Lifestyles and Strategy For Balancing Responsibility

Personal, Social and Cultural Influences
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Personal, Social and Cultural Influences
I. Introduction
A. This is about the social, cultural, and personal influences that impact a person’s lifestyle. What a person does in his or her everyday life is formed by the experiences they have.
B. The topic that will be discussed here is how their tasks have affected their schedules and the compromises people need to make.
C. The article is about how people have become enslaved by their schedules and sometimes they fail to manage time just to fit in everything. The balance that needs to be created so that they will have time for work commitments, social life, and others.
D. The argument here is that schedules can get in the way of the kind of lifestyle people have and how the influences have an impact on it as well.
II. 1st Body Paragraph
A. The article is about how people become slaves to their schedules because of all the tasks they need to accomplish.
B. Their lifestyle is based on how their work goes or if they need to be somewhere important at a certain time.
C. Based on this quote: “No way you can miss it. Let’s see, the afternoon is totally booked, but you can probably push back your 10:15 appointment and work through lunch,” some people have to fit in the things they need to do.
D. There are a lot of commitments they have to attend to and that is how their lifestyle is influenced.
E. This is how a person’s daily routine is changed and there are some commitments that needs to be sacrificed.
Paragraph 2:
A. The influences that affect a person’s lifestyle are mostly from the demands they have and how people perceive them.
B. Most of the time, these people wish they had more time for themselves because they have no time for relaxation. For instance, if a person has been out and about all day, going home to a cozy house is what they need at that moment.
C. This quote is an example of that: “Whew! The day has barely begun and already you are counting hours until evening, when you can finally go home and happily, gloriously, triumphantly, do nothing.”
D. Despite the accomplishments they have achieved throughout the day, they will alwa...