What is your definition of success?
How will you know if you have achieved it? How did your definition of it come to be what it is?
Has it changed over the years?
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
If You Could Change the World...
Mohandas Ghandi once said: "Be the change you wish to see in the world."
I've tried it--it's hard, but I keep trying.
Change is hard. We already know this, and some of you will find out in a few months, change happens fast and comes at you when you least expect it. But, for as scary as it can be, it also provides opportunities and opportunities are good.
So, let's think BIG PICTURE for a moment and step outside your daily life here in sunny ML or Mullica or AC or wherever you live.
Out of these three world-wide epidemics, problems or concerns, which one would you change and WHY.
1. WAR
2. RACISM
3. POVERTY
How would you change the once you choose?
Think carefully--this blog counts as a test grade.
350-400 words
I've tried it--it's hard, but I keep trying.
Change is hard. We already know this, and some of you will find out in a few months, change happens fast and comes at you when you least expect it. But, for as scary as it can be, it also provides opportunities and opportunities are good.
So, let's think BIG PICTURE for a moment and step outside your daily life here in sunny ML or Mullica or AC or wherever you live.
Out of these three world-wide epidemics, problems or concerns, which one would you change and WHY.
1. WAR
2. RACISM
3. POVERTY
How would you change the once you choose?
Think carefully--this blog counts as a test grade.
350-400 words
Monday, March 14, 2011
Loneliness
In the book 1984, one of the main themes is how isolation can affect a person and a person's ideas and well-being. Winston is a lonely, isolated individual in the story.
Tell me why. Be precise and be specific. (If you have slept in class this will be difficult, but that's what you get for disrespectfully sleeping in class. So mehhh!!)
Next, talk about a time you have ever felt lonely or isolated in the way Winston does. Examples of this could include being around a bunch of people who believed something you didn't or who engaged in activities that you thought were a bad idea, or just about anything that set you apart from other people and made you think you were the only one in the world who felt the way you did.
(400 words/50 pts)
Tell me why. Be precise and be specific. (If you have slept in class this will be difficult, but that's what you get for disrespectfully sleeping in class. So mehhh!!)
Next, talk about a time you have ever felt lonely or isolated in the way Winston does. Examples of this could include being around a bunch of people who believed something you didn't or who engaged in activities that you thought were a bad idea, or just about anything that set you apart from other people and made you think you were the only one in the world who felt the way you did.
(400 words/50 pts)
Sunday, March 6, 2011
The Plan
For the most part, kids are notoriously bad at planning for the future. It's one of the things that keeps a kid, well, kid-like I guess.
Now, this is a generalization and I don't mean to insult you Type-A folks who plan out your lives to the second because that feels better. I'm talking about kids as a rule--the norms not the exceptions.
As seniors, you are getting ready to leave the halls of Oak and go and make your way in the world and that can be a very scary concept. It becomes less scary however, if you prepare for some idea of what the future may bring.
So, my question for you this week is--do you have a plan? If so, what is it? If not, how come?
Now, this is a generalization and I don't mean to insult you Type-A folks who plan out your lives to the second because that feels better. I'm talking about kids as a rule--the norms not the exceptions.
As seniors, you are getting ready to leave the halls of Oak and go and make your way in the world and that can be a very scary concept. It becomes less scary however, if you prepare for some idea of what the future may bring.
So, my question for you this week is--do you have a plan? If so, what is it? If not, how come?
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