My experience with reading and writing began at a very young age. When I was four years old I started learning how to read. I loved it. I read everything that I could get my hands on. That started for me, a life of joy, and a desire to learn.
I started high school when I was twelve due to a paperwork fluke. I took an English class and began learning to formally write. I quickly began to write short stories and papers. The problem that I found was the fact that it was very difficult for me to keep working on a project. I would easily grow bored and want to quit. Because of this, I have a huge stack of papers that are left uncompleted.
Needless to say, this didn't prevent me from continuing to write. I wrote papers for my classes and I quickly found on what topics I could write a lot on, and which ones I had limited interest and could only write a small amount.
This quickly became a problem because I would have to write papers on topics that I greatly disliked or just found generally disinteresting. This is something I still struggle with.
I enjoy writing. I really do. But for as long as I can remember I've always struggled with topics that I dislike. That is something that I would like to fix in this class.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
The maturing adult
As human beings age we mature physically as we move from childhood to adulthood. This is a well known fact in our society. Along with this physical maturation, we expect a certain amount of mental and emotional maturity. Because of an experience I recently had I started thinking about the maturity levels in adults.
I had just picked up some groceries for my family from the local grocery store and I had just reached my car when a little ways away in the parking lot I saw something. A father and his two young sons had just arrived at the grocery store and were preparing to go shopping. The younger son had a small bag of candy with him. The dad saw that he was going to carry the bag into the store and instead of calmly explaining to his son that that was a bad idea because it would appear as if they were shop lifting, he flew off the handle and started chewing his son out.
The mistake was tiny, and the father lost the opportunity to teach his son a small lesson. Instead of receiving that lesson and bonding with his father, the dad made it a negative experience that the son will only hate his dad for.
But other than the lost lesson, it made me question adult maturity. How can a man who has seen many decades of life be so childish with his own son? Maybe that question is the answer. Maybe the decades have made him tired, maybe he just had a rough day and was losing patience with a potentially difficult child. These are all valid points. But there are no excuses in parenting, just because you feel bad one day does not give you the right to mistreat your child. That is just my personal opinion, and it makes you wonder if people are growing up in a fashion that makes us a better society, or if it is a self destructive habit.
I had just picked up some groceries for my family from the local grocery store and I had just reached my car when a little ways away in the parking lot I saw something. A father and his two young sons had just arrived at the grocery store and were preparing to go shopping. The younger son had a small bag of candy with him. The dad saw that he was going to carry the bag into the store and instead of calmly explaining to his son that that was a bad idea because it would appear as if they were shop lifting, he flew off the handle and started chewing his son out.
The mistake was tiny, and the father lost the opportunity to teach his son a small lesson. Instead of receiving that lesson and bonding with his father, the dad made it a negative experience that the son will only hate his dad for.
But other than the lost lesson, it made me question adult maturity. How can a man who has seen many decades of life be so childish with his own son? Maybe that question is the answer. Maybe the decades have made him tired, maybe he just had a rough day and was losing patience with a potentially difficult child. These are all valid points. But there are no excuses in parenting, just because you feel bad one day does not give you the right to mistreat your child. That is just my personal opinion, and it makes you wonder if people are growing up in a fashion that makes us a better society, or if it is a self destructive habit.
Friday, August 29, 2014
The First World: Blessing or Curse?
By: Gilbert Burns
I walk down the street and I see people going about their daily business. They go to work, to school, they buy food and make friends. For most of my life this all seemed good and normal but within the past year or so my perspective has changed.
This change was brought on with a realization that America is one of the few countries that have a level of comfort that The United States enjoys. In most of the world people live much differently.
The United States of America have enjoyed relative wealth and comfort for the past century. Most citizens don't usually have to worry about where their next meal is coming from, or where they will sleep that night. Plumbing in America is well maintained and cuts down on the disease and stench that is usually so prevalent in other countries.This was a great boon and blessing to our country for many years, but within the past two decades this has caused complacency in our country and has caused our people to become soft.
Every civilization is made by it's people, and these people start as children. How a society develops is dependent upon how it's children are raised. This current generation of people, mid teens and younger have been raised in a society where they've never experienced real discomfort because of the fact that real work is not something that is required from them in their young life. They have not experienced real confusion because they always have the internet and cell phones at their disposal.
The first world brings many advantages with it. It brings an opportunity to spend more time on things that are not necessary, such as arts and sciences.It also helps keep a population much healthier, thus improving the overall growth of the society. But it also carries with it it's own downsides. The population becomes lazy, and complacent. apathetic even. They feel as if things that don't happen in their immediate vicinity don't concern them at all. And that is a dangerous habit, one that can potentially lead to the corruption, and eventual downfall of an entire civilization.
I walk down the street and I see people going about their daily business. They go to work, to school, they buy food and make friends. For most of my life this all seemed good and normal but within the past year or so my perspective has changed.
This change was brought on with a realization that America is one of the few countries that have a level of comfort that The United States enjoys. In most of the world people live much differently.
The United States of America have enjoyed relative wealth and comfort for the past century. Most citizens don't usually have to worry about where their next meal is coming from, or where they will sleep that night. Plumbing in America is well maintained and cuts down on the disease and stench that is usually so prevalent in other countries.This was a great boon and blessing to our country for many years, but within the past two decades this has caused complacency in our country and has caused our people to become soft.
Every civilization is made by it's people, and these people start as children. How a society develops is dependent upon how it's children are raised. This current generation of people, mid teens and younger have been raised in a society where they've never experienced real discomfort because of the fact that real work is not something that is required from them in their young life. They have not experienced real confusion because they always have the internet and cell phones at their disposal.
The first world brings many advantages with it. It brings an opportunity to spend more time on things that are not necessary, such as arts and sciences.It also helps keep a population much healthier, thus improving the overall growth of the society. But it also carries with it it's own downsides. The population becomes lazy, and complacent. apathetic even. They feel as if things that don't happen in their immediate vicinity don't concern them at all. And that is a dangerous habit, one that can potentially lead to the corruption, and eventual downfall of an entire civilization.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)