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The Silent Treatment Analysis
“The Silent Treatment”

The silent treatment is a method that some people use in order to make others feel powerless, invisible, intimidated, insignificant, “dissed”, looked down on, disapproved of, guilty, frustrated, and even angry.

When I was in high school in the Dominican Republic, I used to go everyday to my Spanish class. Angelina Torres was my Spanish professor. She always said that she was 99 percent perfect, which means that she never was able to make a mistake, but that was what she thought. Every day that I went to my Spanish class, I tried to participate as much as I could because Spanish is my first language, and it was the most interesting subject for me.It also was the easiest one. However, everytime that I raised my hands,
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On third grade, a man with a tie, went to the classroom and told the students that according to his assessment the students have to take a special tests to determine if they were gifted, which means if they had natural abilities , their own talent. Then the professor told the students to get off of their seats and leave the classroom. On his fourth grade after a boy told him that the principal demanded him to deliver his parents a letter that explained them that he was suspended from school for agitating violence ,which is the state of agitation or turbulent change or development. On his fifth grade, a lady told him that the CAT and DOG could run, but he asked himself if he was writing cat and dog on the board. Then the lady said that he did not have to be worry if he spelled wrong he just had to do the best that he could. On sixth grade a lady turn his chair to face the wall, but the other students chair face the teacher and the boy was in this position for the rest of the year they never call him anything, they never said a word, but the problem was that the boy never said anything

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