Stereotyped beliefs or Foreshadow defeat - the amherst college supplement

i want to write on either one of these essays but i have no ideas on what to write and how to write it,any ideas would be very helpful.

Stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior."
Elizabeth Aries, Professor of Psychology, Amherst College
From her book Men and Women in Interaction, Reconsidering the Differences

5."Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted."
Attributed to William Hastie, Amherst Class of 1925, first African-American to serve as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals

It depends. For the first prompt, do you think stereotypes exist? If you do, how do you think they'll affect the person? Have you ever been stereotyped? How did it feel? How does one overcome a stereotype? For the second prompt, most people have faced something difficult. What did you face and how did you overcome it? There's also the argument of of hard work vs. having it handed to you. Does it feel better to work hard at something or just get because...? Good luck!

This one is fascinating. How can an unfair generalization about a group of people cause individuals to start acting in accordance with those generalizations? I have some ideas about this, but I bet you can come up with some on your own.

First respond to the statement. How does it become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Use an example. What if people believe all people of a certain care were believed to be violent, for example? How could such a generalization cause them to fulfill the "prophecy" by becoming violent?

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topic:Stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior."
Elizabeth Aries, Professor of Psychology, Amherst College
From her book Men and Women in Interaction, Reconsidering the Difference

In my opinion stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior. People sometimes think minorities of people with bad records are less trustworthy, so they turn down their applications for jobs, and then these dejected members of minority cultures sometimes turn to crime as a result. This is what I see that causes so much unemployment in the country because when these people come out of the darkness of despair and are ready to start life over again we are the ones that put them down. After they apply for job and they are turned down they start to look for how they are going to provide for their family. This puts more pressure on the person and life is made harder for them. This people are supposed to be helped in order to get their life together even the ones that are not bad but situation put them in the position they are in being rejected. And then we say we have been good to people but what of these kids who are living on the street who have done nothing wrong but because they live on the street they are not considered smart or capable to handle a job made for a college graduate. well maybe if all just think twice about this people and try to believe in them, that they can be better people and that's when we can all stop stereotyping people and being judgmental. Regardless of their race, records, tradition we should al try to give people a second chance because everyone deserve one.