What are the most important influences on your values? This is the question on the board for us to answer, for publications class. Influences can be the 'things' most important to us. Some examples can be friends, family, music, movies, tamanwit(unwritten indian laws). All of these are things that are important influences on the things which I value, and then some.

First of all, something that inspires me, or influences me would be my friends. My friends are the people who I can talk to, who go through experiences with me, and who I go through the good and bad times with. Through all friends go through, we all have something we want. When we share these, it as used as an 'influence' or inspiration to reach our own. Because of all these things, is why I would say having good friends to stand by your side, would be the top of my list.

Second, would go right along with friends, family. A quote I once read was, "God gives you your family, thank god you get to choose your friends." Eventhough we get to choose our friends, our family was given to us for a reason. They are there for us to love and cherish forever. Family should as well be an inspiration to us as our friends are, because you go through the exact same things, but a closer relationship.

Some other things that are influential can be music and movies. Why? When you can relate deeply to something you see or hear, it helps you, through what you're going through. The type of music that influences me would have to be rap. This would be because through all the 'inappropriateness', there is a message, and they are expressing what is on their mind, what they're going through.

There are plenty more things that inspire and influence people as well as myself. These are things such as honesty, love, generosity, foresight, religion, and of course, Tamanwit. Tamanwit is the Indian law, things we know are right, and wrong. That is what can influence people, is knowing what is recognizing what is right, and what is wrong.