How do you answer a question regarding a new outlook that has nothing to do with even your own gender? Question? What problems do boys experience in today's society? We always hear about the girl's problems and the drama they experience and create, so what do boys go through that we do or do not go through? How are we to answer the questions that even your own gender can not explain abojut itself? No one individual is created the same.
I have about or are aquatinces with about six sets of twins and one set of triplets. Hardly any similar tastes in style or personalities. One of the six sets are boy/girl. So with being born within the matter of minutes of each other, it still shows that you can never have a scientific duplicate of yourself. Every thought and action is that of your own free will.
So if you can hardly say what your twin is thinking or doing how can you expect to answer a question on a generalization of what a boy in our society experiences or thinks, there is a reason why men and women will never understand each other, mainly because you can't even understand your own gender have the time.
To make matters worse within the realm of the same gender you have various characteristics that group the gender together and within that you have similarities' of different groups that the person you're grouped with first doesn't share with the others that you are now grouped with and vice versa.
People sometimes experience the bond between an individual and it seems that you were born to find each other, you were born to separate families and yet it feels as if you have been with them since the dawn of time, how do you explain the phenomenon that transpires? Sad truth is that with this intense bond you still can't explain the one person's thoughts and experiences and the feelings that went through them at the most intense moments in their life.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Girls, Girls, Girls. What has Society Done to us?
The question to answer is not, "What's Wrong With Girls?", but "What Does Society Do to Girls?" Posts that have been written list what society does or how society views girls in generlizations.
Conversations struck up when people made generlizations about boys; so how is writing about girls or what we add to our writing as a whole any different? Gender aside, it is proven that who you surround yourself with, their actions tend to rub off on you. Many people don't want to claim that their impressionable; to say so would be a weakness in their eyes. I myself agree, I don't want to say that those around me leave an impression, an impression so great that my actions mirror theirs. I want to be "Myself". (That in itself is a humerous thought. When you think about it, when if ever do you really know who you are.)
Society in the United States, is about the "Perfect Image", from coner stores to huge malls, there are images of the idealilistic people, couples, and families. The one obsticle of the perfect anything is the sentence that our parents always said, " You Can Be Anything You Want To Be." That sentence is the curse of the perfect image.
You would think that it would be the fuel to the fire for the perfect image. Sadly if you don't bend to the guidelines set before our time, you are pushed aside and forgotten all because you strive to be yourself. This goes for male or female. How many times have you heard of a son taking over the family business? How many times have you heard of a daughter going into a field that suits more to societies liking then to her own? All because she didn't want to be labled as "Different". These examples go for anybody.
For generations men were considered the breadwinners, women were the homebodies. Not only were the roles set in stone for the adults, but even the children from kindergarden to highschool, had personal obligations to their families to be seen as the "normal, ideal household," My grandmother remembers going to school in dresses and skirts, making sure that skirts covered her ankles. Whereas today, indiviuals dress to the bare minimum.
Slur words to describe "unruly" girl behavior where whispered under breaths and said behind closed doors. Truthfully the girls behavior is nothing that is standards for today. To even be associated with these girls brought the harsh rumors on you. You may laugh, but just look down the school halls, the actions being displayed is beyond the imagination of the past generations, let alone the words that we throw at each other every day.
To critizie any gender for behaviors is unethical, when really you can't call anyone "Normal". When you peel back the layers to the bare esstineals, the norm for society is different for every indiviual.
Conversations struck up when people made generlizations about boys; so how is writing about girls or what we add to our writing as a whole any different? Gender aside, it is proven that who you surround yourself with, their actions tend to rub off on you. Many people don't want to claim that their impressionable; to say so would be a weakness in their eyes. I myself agree, I don't want to say that those around me leave an impression, an impression so great that my actions mirror theirs. I want to be "Myself". (That in itself is a humerous thought. When you think about it, when if ever do you really know who you are.)
Society in the United States, is about the "Perfect Image", from coner stores to huge malls, there are images of the idealilistic people, couples, and families. The one obsticle of the perfect anything is the sentence that our parents always said, " You Can Be Anything You Want To Be." That sentence is the curse of the perfect image.
You would think that it would be the fuel to the fire for the perfect image. Sadly if you don't bend to the guidelines set before our time, you are pushed aside and forgotten all because you strive to be yourself. This goes for male or female. How many times have you heard of a son taking over the family business? How many times have you heard of a daughter going into a field that suits more to societies liking then to her own? All because she didn't want to be labled as "Different". These examples go for anybody.
For generations men were considered the breadwinners, women were the homebodies. Not only were the roles set in stone for the adults, but even the children from kindergarden to highschool, had personal obligations to their families to be seen as the "normal, ideal household," My grandmother remembers going to school in dresses and skirts, making sure that skirts covered her ankles. Whereas today, indiviuals dress to the bare minimum.
Slur words to describe "unruly" girl behavior where whispered under breaths and said behind closed doors. Truthfully the girls behavior is nothing that is standards for today. To even be associated with these girls brought the harsh rumors on you. You may laugh, but just look down the school halls, the actions being displayed is beyond the imagination of the past generations, let alone the words that we throw at each other every day.
To critizie any gender for behaviors is unethical, when really you can't call anyone "Normal". When you peel back the layers to the bare esstineals, the norm for society is different for every indiviual.
My Future Passion
I am a junior in high school, I have no idea what I'm going to wear tomorrow, let alone what I really what to accomplish in my life. Sure I have hopes, dreams, and wishes, every teenager does.
With a whole decade under my belt, and only four more years till my next, I still have no idea what that "Great Big World" is like. I was blessed with a miracle for a sister. She may not be able to communicate with word of mouth, or play intense sports, or even walk straight at all times. She is the main drive behind my goals and what I want my future to be involved with.
The field of education that I hope to reach to the highest degree is called FMD (Function Mental Disability), this field involves helping and teaching children with mental and physical disabilities. These disabilities are too serious to allow the students in everyday classes. My sister is one of these children. Since she was diagnosed with severe epileptic seizures with a small case of cerebral palsy on her left side. She has been put in a classroom off to the side with other incredible individuals that are her closest friends and peers.
It hard to put in words exactly what my life is like. I don't know how to describe certain circumstances that seem unreal to others my age, when that is all I know. Parents want to be able to share their attention to every one of their children my brother and me wouldn't know what to do if we got it anyway, don't get me wrong, me and my brother would both give up anything our parents give to us just to see Melodee smile. I didn't always believe that a smile would make the darkest moments the brightest but witnessing hers is exactly what it does. Just being in her presence, brightens anyone's day.
The only thing that I truly dislike in the system is that these children are left in the corner room off to the side, forgotten. They aren't literally forgotten, but it still seems like this program is still in the early 1900s, where the not so perfect individual is kept secret and out of "normal society". I know this isn't what happens now, because these actions are for the protection of the students with disabilities.
When Melodee walks the hallways in her school, she doesn't get to experience the crowds and the laughter and conversations that take place in the lapse of five minutes. Granted she would probably be trampled, but to her I imagine school is a small room that's it, she never gets to see past peers that attend everyday classes.
My one goal behind my passion in FMD, is to educate not only the students I may have, but also to educate the students throughout the entire school. I want to be able to provide experiences with special individuals that are born into unwanted circumstances and how they never complain about the petty obstacles that we moan and groan about on a daily occurrence. I want to share the amazing gift I was given when I was blessed with my sister.
With a whole decade under my belt, and only four more years till my next, I still have no idea what that "Great Big World" is like. I was blessed with a miracle for a sister. She may not be able to communicate with word of mouth, or play intense sports, or even walk straight at all times. She is the main drive behind my goals and what I want my future to be involved with.
The field of education that I hope to reach to the highest degree is called FMD (Function Mental Disability), this field involves helping and teaching children with mental and physical disabilities. These disabilities are too serious to allow the students in everyday classes. My sister is one of these children. Since she was diagnosed with severe epileptic seizures with a small case of cerebral palsy on her left side. She has been put in a classroom off to the side with other incredible individuals that are her closest friends and peers.
It hard to put in words exactly what my life is like. I don't know how to describe certain circumstances that seem unreal to others my age, when that is all I know. Parents want to be able to share their attention to every one of their children my brother and me wouldn't know what to do if we got it anyway, don't get me wrong, me and my brother would both give up anything our parents give to us just to see Melodee smile. I didn't always believe that a smile would make the darkest moments the brightest but witnessing hers is exactly what it does. Just being in her presence, brightens anyone's day.
The only thing that I truly dislike in the system is that these children are left in the corner room off to the side, forgotten. They aren't literally forgotten, but it still seems like this program is still in the early 1900s, where the not so perfect individual is kept secret and out of "normal society". I know this isn't what happens now, because these actions are for the protection of the students with disabilities.
When Melodee walks the hallways in her school, she doesn't get to experience the crowds and the laughter and conversations that take place in the lapse of five minutes. Granted she would probably be trampled, but to her I imagine school is a small room that's it, she never gets to see past peers that attend everyday classes.
My one goal behind my passion in FMD, is to educate not only the students I may have, but also to educate the students throughout the entire school. I want to be able to provide experiences with special individuals that are born into unwanted circumstances and how they never complain about the petty obstacles that we moan and groan about on a daily occurrence. I want to share the amazing gift I was given when I was blessed with my sister.
Paid to Donate? Really?
Charity? Is anything given freely anymore? Of couse not, it's almost laughably to think that someone would give something for nothing. Where did morals go wrong? Students don't give supplies to teachers or turn in work ahead of time for nothing, so why would they be expected to do any different as an adult?
I beileve that students are given an option to recieve points and passes to improve their grades. Everybody does it. Morals have changed, not to drastic, but just enough that it's noticable. People donate to make themsleves feel better, not to make the cause better. Chariable contrubutions that are tax decduable is one example.
I don't really care that people do this, because when you have a cause that you are passionate about you do anything to help that cause strive. Maybe it is against your morals. Maybe you also had a good charity drive that week. It all depends on your personal morals, and how you want to accomplish your goal. Fewer and fewer people are becoming leaders, if you want to go against the grain and accomplish something great, then don't let the responsibity slide and fall on someone else's shoulders. Stand and Deliver.
I beileve that students are given an option to recieve points and passes to improve their grades. Everybody does it. Morals have changed, not to drastic, but just enough that it's noticable. People donate to make themsleves feel better, not to make the cause better. Chariable contrubutions that are tax decduable is one example.
I don't really care that people do this, because when you have a cause that you are passionate about you do anything to help that cause strive. Maybe it is against your morals. Maybe you also had a good charity drive that week. It all depends on your personal morals, and how you want to accomplish your goal. Fewer and fewer people are becoming leaders, if you want to go against the grain and accomplish something great, then don't let the responsibity slide and fall on someone else's shoulders. Stand and Deliver.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Technology, What is it Doing Really Doing For Us?
What has the ever growing and expanding world we live in come to? Every technological company that is based solely on a gadgets is competitively rushing to create the best new and improved edition of the first. So is technology bettering our lives or is it creating impermeable barriers? How do you decide which side of the question you believe in?
Being a sixteen year old, and growing up with the ever increasing technology right along with me, it has left my life as little bit of delusion . I remember watching movies in my childhood and seeing teenagers actually having conversations in the cafeteria. There wasn't cellphones or a computer for every classroom let alone three or four. By the time I had entered fifth grade, I remember my peers writing to their parents for a cellphone, and the thing that blows my mind is that they were doing this writing project for a school assignment, granted it was a persuasive letter, but how do they learn to write a letter period when, they probably didn't understand the full impact a cell phone would have. With my parents I had a discussion with them, and really it was not a discussion on whether or not I could have one, it was clear statements like this, ''this is what it is'' and ''how it is going to be'', no if, ands, or buts. They made it clear that I would not have a cellphone and probably wouldn't in the near future.
When I was younger I was disappointed greatly, looking back though, I'm thankful. To some this would seem a bit backwards, but how do I compare to others when I can actually have a decent conversation with any age group and not feel the social anxiety that others may feel when talking with another person.
I don't talk unless I need to, my friends have learned this, when I need to answer I do, but I'm not going to go through the useless chatter that others have. I'm not shy at all, when I feel passionate about a topic I will express every detail until I'm through. People of today have come to realize they don't want to talk or none of their friends are around they immediately pull a device out. With this sentence I relate completely because let's face it when your bored, your bored and having anything to do helps pass the time. Sitting in the cafeteria in the morning I watch the social groups around me and notice that once a person has joined a group, the individuals there exchange pleasantries' and small talk for a minimum of two to three minutes and go right back to the enamored relationship of them and their device.
How has society as a whole become the most socially inactive generation to be known? Henry David Thoreau, writes, ''We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.'' This metaphor is so common today that it's almost irony. Through American history alone, we have covered the map with our success as a nation. What once took four to five years to build, now only takes six months to a year to complete. This example is a wonderful use of technology as a country. Getting back to a more personal level, the wide expansion of technology, I believe it is only weakening our feeble attempts to connect to people. The reason being is that with the wide varieties of communication it has eliminated the face to face interactions by a great deal.
When a person is given a way out they will take it, very few are willing to go the bumpy road instead they take the smooth path. On an earlier post, someone wrote, "Teens only interact with this glass barrier in front of their faces'' I completely agree because when a person is able to avoid the uncomfortable they search for a more comfortable situation. The situation being a unfeeling and man-made device that has no connection to the realities of our world. Since when has a cold piece of plastic become our comfort zone? I would much rather have a thoughtful and caring conversation with a living breathing person face-to-face then the user account they created over the web. This generation will become the most technologically advanced but the most socially awkward of humans since the dawn of time.
Where is the line drawn for addiction? For alcohol it's the complete want of a substance beyond control. For gambling it's the constant pull for the chance of a life time, the thrill of being lucky. ''Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not'' excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
With these examples I would think it's quite clear that with any device it's easy to become addicted to the thrill of being able to know something before someone else, the thrill of beating a level, or waiting on a text. This addiction has wove itself into our life's and become tighter and stronger each day. We become so involved with a screen that is 5 by 7 that we often miss what is right in front of us. A recent example is with the crisis in Washington, an entire fleet of secret agents had a shootout with a woman inside of a vehicle, this crisis was right on the front lawn of our nation's capitol. The sad part of my story is that on the walkway of the white house a man was photographed. He was so distracted by the device in his hand, he walked right behind an agent on guard, completely missing the activity happening right in front of him. To make my point more clear he didn't even glance and wonder what the guard next to him was doing. Here is a link to the story.
http://news.yahoo.com/story-behind-viral-photo-from-capitol-car-chase-174858002.html
''The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it, as for them, is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.'' http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden02.html This excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau, is a prime example of the reckless use of tehnology that is most common known in our culture.
To finish up, I don't completely disagree with the uses of technology. I have a twelve year old sister, she has multi disabilities and is unable to speak, she depends on the use of sign language. The school she attended last year, Westridge, was able to get an iPad for her to use as a quicker and better understanding communicator. This device stays with her at school and moves with her through out her school life, it is now with her at Bondurant. At home we use sign language and have created a system of understanding with signs she has yet to learn. This iPad helps her to speak with individuals that are not common to sign language. The device stays at school, so when we are out and she signs something we have to translate. My sister and I are very close and with only a few words we are able to understand and have an entire conversation. In just a few movements and nods.
For my family technology has improved our lives, but when it's just us, we still rely on the basic face-to-face. I personal wouldn't want it any other way.
*Mikka*
Being a sixteen year old, and growing up with the ever increasing technology right along with me, it has left my life as little bit of delusion . I remember watching movies in my childhood and seeing teenagers actually having conversations in the cafeteria. There wasn't cellphones or a computer for every classroom let alone three or four. By the time I had entered fifth grade, I remember my peers writing to their parents for a cellphone, and the thing that blows my mind is that they were doing this writing project for a school assignment, granted it was a persuasive letter, but how do they learn to write a letter period when, they probably didn't understand the full impact a cell phone would have. With my parents I had a discussion with them, and really it was not a discussion on whether or not I could have one, it was clear statements like this, ''this is what it is'' and ''how it is going to be'', no if, ands, or buts. They made it clear that I would not have a cellphone and probably wouldn't in the near future.
When I was younger I was disappointed greatly, looking back though, I'm thankful. To some this would seem a bit backwards, but how do I compare to others when I can actually have a decent conversation with any age group and not feel the social anxiety that others may feel when talking with another person.
I don't talk unless I need to, my friends have learned this, when I need to answer I do, but I'm not going to go through the useless chatter that others have. I'm not shy at all, when I feel passionate about a topic I will express every detail until I'm through. People of today have come to realize they don't want to talk or none of their friends are around they immediately pull a device out. With this sentence I relate completely because let's face it when your bored, your bored and having anything to do helps pass the time. Sitting in the cafeteria in the morning I watch the social groups around me and notice that once a person has joined a group, the individuals there exchange pleasantries' and small talk for a minimum of two to three minutes and go right back to the enamored relationship of them and their device.
How has society as a whole become the most socially inactive generation to be known? Henry David Thoreau, writes, ''We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.'' This metaphor is so common today that it's almost irony. Through American history alone, we have covered the map with our success as a nation. What once took four to five years to build, now only takes six months to a year to complete. This example is a wonderful use of technology as a country. Getting back to a more personal level, the wide expansion of technology, I believe it is only weakening our feeble attempts to connect to people. The reason being is that with the wide varieties of communication it has eliminated the face to face interactions by a great deal.
When a person is given a way out they will take it, very few are willing to go the bumpy road instead they take the smooth path. On an earlier post, someone wrote, "Teens only interact with this glass barrier in front of their faces'' I completely agree because when a person is able to avoid the uncomfortable they search for a more comfortable situation. The situation being a unfeeling and man-made device that has no connection to the realities of our world. Since when has a cold piece of plastic become our comfort zone? I would much rather have a thoughtful and caring conversation with a living breathing person face-to-face then the user account they created over the web. This generation will become the most technologically advanced but the most socially awkward of humans since the dawn of time.
Where is the line drawn for addiction? For alcohol it's the complete want of a substance beyond control. For gambling it's the constant pull for the chance of a life time, the thrill of being lucky. ''Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not'' excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
With these examples I would think it's quite clear that with any device it's easy to become addicted to the thrill of being able to know something before someone else, the thrill of beating a level, or waiting on a text. This addiction has wove itself into our life's and become tighter and stronger each day. We become so involved with a screen that is 5 by 7 that we often miss what is right in front of us. A recent example is with the crisis in Washington, an entire fleet of secret agents had a shootout with a woman inside of a vehicle, this crisis was right on the front lawn of our nation's capitol. The sad part of my story is that on the walkway of the white house a man was photographed. He was so distracted by the device in his hand, he walked right behind an agent on guard, completely missing the activity happening right in front of him. To make my point more clear he didn't even glance and wonder what the guard next to him was doing. Here is a link to the story.
http://news.yahoo.com/story-behind-viral-photo-from-capitol-car-chase-174858002.html
''The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it, as for them, is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.'' http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden02.html This excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau, is a prime example of the reckless use of tehnology that is most common known in our culture.
To finish up, I don't completely disagree with the uses of technology. I have a twelve year old sister, she has multi disabilities and is unable to speak, she depends on the use of sign language. The school she attended last year, Westridge, was able to get an iPad for her to use as a quicker and better understanding communicator. This device stays with her at school and moves with her through out her school life, it is now with her at Bondurant. At home we use sign language and have created a system of understanding with signs she has yet to learn. This iPad helps her to speak with individuals that are not common to sign language. The device stays at school, so when we are out and she signs something we have to translate. My sister and I are very close and with only a few words we are able to understand and have an entire conversation. In just a few movements and nods.
For my family technology has improved our lives, but when it's just us, we still rely on the basic face-to-face. I personal wouldn't want it any other way.
*Mikka*
Monday, September 30, 2013
Post, Post, Post
To all that see and read, Please comment as much as possible, to anyone that has a topic you want debated post, I want as much conversation as possible, I want to see what's out there, I want to hear your thoughts, I want to live through what you what to say, any topic (within reason) is wanted, so live, write and above all experience what you really want the world to know. Show that you have a passion that you want heard. Age is just a word so, don't hold back, you have to have a thought to write and every second that goes by a different one appears. You can be anonymous or proudly announce who you are, I want to know, that's the simple truth, If you see my profile just know its the God's honest truth.
Be willing to write what others are afraid to say, be fearless,''Just Live The Life You Want and Love The Life You Live'' Anonymous
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*Mikka*
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