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I agree with Jessie’s blog 100%! 🙂

Question:

Should the husband have done that?

Answer:

I personally believe there’s no real answer to this question. I’m not quite sure how I would feel or even do feel about this situation. I honestly can’t answer this question to any type of ability because I’m right in the middle of this and believe he was neither right nor wrong.

Response:

Okay, so even though my answer shouldn’t be what my answer is, I will still keep it as it is. I don’t believe that based off of some people’s answers, all others of that same sex will respond the same way. Men and women both mature at a certain rate and that’s all there is to it. Women’s maturity is not more opaque as life goes on. I believe this dearly and therefore don’t agree at all with what the chapters were talking about.

Should second graders blog?

Blogging is suppose to be open to everyone and anyone but there is a time and a place for everything. Second graders can write in their classrooms and I think that would be just fine but for them to start having access to the internet at such a young age is just too much. I may only be 18 but I went to a school where having computer time meant playing The Oregan Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? I didn’t have a Facebook until I was sixteen and didn’t have an email account until I was 11 so I could email my grandparents. Blogging is online and the Internet for younger children is dangerous. I think blogging should be done in classes where the students are older.

Blogging would have to be one of the easiest ways, I think, to get your feelings out there to people without actually worrying about what you’re saying. I like blogging for my classes because in Honors that the only writing I do. I feel its a way that I can put whatever I’m feeling on a document and save it for everyone to see. If I don’t like it later I can delete it. Simple as that. I believe blogging really hits a different point of view for some people unlike writing essays or short writings for class.

Blogging also gives a great benefit for people who would like immediate feedback. When I write an essay, there’s a lot of time that goes into it and I have to spend time trying to find people who will read it. With blogging I just need to write, post, and leave it alone. I’ll find out what they say later and can go on about my day not worrying about the blog.

When it comes to public blogging, however, I don’t think just anyone should be allowed on just any site. If someone wants to blog about something they can use the ‘Notes’ in their Facebook account. Blog sites should have availability to who the site founders want. I don’t want to belong to a blog site about music and read others’ blogs about politics. That wouldn’t be the purpose. “There’s a time and place for everything.” That’s how the Internet and blogging should be as well.

Bloggers should know how to blog, where to blog, and should be able to write about whatever they want, but in a place that actually works. Political sights are for politics not Great-Grandma’s dog. A music sight is for music, not for an every day posting on how a women’s pregnant belly is growing. Blogs are a great way to get one’s feelings out there without really trying but being appropriate should really be the key.

I’ve personally lived in Iowa all of my life and a lot of the things in the article I can completely relate to. I don’t really have much to say about it. And the title sums up Iowa in a nutshell. I agree that Iowa is a big deal in the elections and just overall. There are facts about Iowa that most people don’t know if and if they did they’d understand how much Iowa really is great and is greatly needed.

This is the sort of thing that really gets me wondering why more people don’t know about this. This is all over the country and yet it’s not at the same time. The Occupy movement is completely harmless and a great way to get the peoples opinions and facts out there so that maybe, just maybe government will get their heads out of their butts and pay attention. Perhaps, college students like us should start this movement right here in Sioux City. Perhaps not. It’s all a matter of time I think.

This reading begins by saying that schools who have the arts within their buildings are a stronger school. I’m don’t quite believe this due to the fact that my high school has one of the strongest Fine Arts programs in the country, yet the school itself is quite a weak school.
I believe a strong arts program will only be a strong school if the arts program is what the school is centered around. Arts are only strong and good for the school if the kids going to the school are getting everything out of it that they can. Fine arts are a great idea for anyone, because they offer opportunity that other classes in the school cannot.
The Fine Arts are the way to go to create a strong school if the school allows.

In the past few weeks I’ve read “Liking What You See”, “Cicero De Inventione Book 1”, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, “What’s Manly, What’s Not For Athletes”, “The Televised Sports Manhood Formula”, and two of Vonnegut’s speeches. Along with all this reading I also watched the hour long video on fractals, and another on the “Top Ten Creative Hockey Goals”. I’ve racked my brain comparing all these to beauty and finding beauty in all of them in some way.

They were all about beauty whether it be physical, eloquently, manly/womanly, in nature, and even having beauty in optimism or pessimism. As I read the previously stated writings and watched the previously stated videos, I clearly saw all this beauty, but did I see something more? Was there something else that all of these had in common? Something intriguing? Or maybe it was just something simple? Perhaps there’s nothing at all and only beauty can be seen.

Well, I’m here to say that there is something more. Something, in my opinion, intriguing and completely worth while.

All these pieces have something that shows they want to change the world in some way. All these pieces, writers, videos, everything are looking to change the world in one way or another. They want to change the world in society’s views and just in general as well. I believe that all of them could and did change the world or a part of the world in some way.

The first reading of Vonnegut’s speeches is an address to a graduating class. As I was reading this and came across a quote from his favorite Shakespearean work, everything he said before and after was then put into perspective for me.  “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” I believe this quote 100%. When in grief, weeping and mourning definitely lessens the depth of the grief.

I saw this quote and even though it may seem like an optimistic quote, Vonnegut somehow sees it in a different perspective. He once was an optimist, but then wars began and as he talks about gas chambers, he then says his view turned to pessimism. Even though he criticizes the military he was part of the military and proud of his rank, as said in the second reading.

Vonnegut changed his perspective based on life experiences and how optimism and pessimism can not only work against each other but with as well. There’s beauty in that.

So now there’s a topic of discussion that I know a thing or two about and absolutely love! 🙂

Fractals. They’re EVERYWHERE! Everyday we go through life using fractals and just math in general. It’s an amazing thing that is literally used in every job, in every day life, and by everyone. Fractals, just happen to be a really cool part of everyday life that most people wouldn’t see unless they were told to.

Some people may look at fractals, or even math in general and think that it’s stupid or not needed. They may think that the subject is boring or complicated/confusing. I’m looking at fractals and the general subject of math as a way to communicate in many different ways. I see beauty in fractals because I see everyday life in fractals.

Fractals weren’t around right away, and when they first came to be, just like any other new idea, they were frowned upon and laughed at. The beauty in self-similarity in fractals, is like the beauty of self-similarity in families and snow flakes. Every family member is different, but yet you can tell what person belongs to what family based on similarities. The same goes for snow flakes. No two snow flakes are alike, but yet they all are similar because they all come together and form snow. This same concept goes for fractals. Fractals are those snow flakes. Fractals are plants and fabric and anything you can come up with. They really are everywhere and they really are beautiful.