Put It on a Table

A Whole New Mind—Put It on a Table

For this experiment, I was told to select an item that I liked and place it on a table and do several things to it. For my object, I chose the third place medal I received from my first collegiate conference championship track meet. It makes me think of all of the hard work I put into to get it. I know that running track is a big part of my life while I am college and I was happy to see that I could continue my success from high school. I had never thought about the person that made it, they did a get job with the craftsmanship and with the medal. I realized that the person making the medal put a lot of work into and proably got the same satisfaction out of making it that I got from receiving.

This medal has doesn’t have a major effect on my five senses. It feels like a normal medal. It smells like medal. IT doesn’t really have a sound unless I drop it. It is bronze with red and blue writing on it, with a white ribbon. I have never tasted it so I wouldn’t know what it taste like.

I don’t think the way the medal apperared to my senses changed how I felt about it. I still feel good knowing that I worked hard for something. Although gold would have been better, , I cant be selfish I have to accept what I earned. To get the gold I have to jeep working.

death by facebook

The young girl being killed for using facebook is very sad. I think its crazy that they have to live like that. But at the same time, I cant judge the way that anyone lives because rules are rules. Maybe the dad did go a little far or he definiatly went too far but the girl new she was not supposed to be on facebook, but she did it anyway. Discipling her is one thing but killing her is out of control. I think that in both cases each was wrong. The daughter was wrong for disobeying, and the father was wrong for killing her. Violence never solves anything, and in this case just destroyed a family.

The Argument--Political Blog

I visited the site, Little green footballs. I found a lot of articles what appeared to focus more on what is going on in middle eastern politics. There were a few posts concerning American politians like Ron Paul and Barack Obama. There was eve na Post that read Islam will conquer Europe and the two Americans. Along with it was a video. I would attach the video, but im not a big fan of things like that. I couldn’t really single out what kind of people actually comment on these blogs, there were post like RIP if someone had died, there was comments arguing. So im guessing, anybody that had anything to say about it would say what they felt. There were a few posts about Jimmy Carter as well so this blog was defiantly focused on politics and how people feel about whats going on.

The Argument--Political Identity

I believe that everything I learned about politics I got from my parents. Growing up in my house it was not a big political thing. But they always voted democrat. I feel like they passed that down to me. Or even I just adapted to it. Long before I knew the difference between Democrat and Republican, I felt that Democrat was always right. Even growing up with Bill Clinton as president I knew little about anything going on in the world, so once George Bush got into the white house we suddenly had a lot going on, like September 11th. So my impression quickly became that Democrats are better. But now knowing what I know, I still like democrats better because I feel they offer more for people like me as a African American male. Whether is Obama or Hiliary, it’s a change and that’s what I think America needs right now.

A Vision of Students Today

After watching the Youtube video on the vision of students today I was just amazed. I don’t think there is any other way to put it. Every sign that was held up in the class room I could just see something that I would do. The major sign that stood out to me was the one about reading 8 books in one year, and then followed it up by saying over 1200 facebook profiles. That was just an amazing accurate statement. Another sign that got me was when the girl showed the sign about her neighbor paying thousands of dollars and never coming to class. The girls that talked about how they facebook through class and bring there computers but never do anything school related, also opened my eyes a bit.
The video made it clear that way which we are being taught is boring. This way may have worked for previous generations but the fact is now we are more advanced. I feel like most people learn better through actually doing. Sure there is the occasional person that can read something and understand. But I think most college or even high school and middle students just read because it is assigned and don’t take much from it except what is actually being written. There is more to learning than that, I feel you have to do or experience to actually learn.

Wiki-Rock Star

I wouldnt competely say that I am hungry for knowledge or hungry for knowledge, but I would agree that America is not experiening a dumbing down. I feel like alot of college students love wikipedia. Me personally I love it. I will get on Wikipedia for no reason alot of the time. Most times when im just online doing nothing, Ill go read random facts on wikipedia. Alot of my friends laugh at me and things but it just something I like to do so it doesnt really matter what they think.

I feel that the founder of wikipedia is correct. The only time I feel like Im not excitied about learning new things is when the topic bores me. I feel like if kids where just thought about things that intrest them we really would know alot more.

The Community I Belong to..

One community that I belong to is the UMBC Athletics community. Being a member of the track team , I have to uphold the standards of the University as well as the standards of my team. Those standards, are being respectful, using good sportsmanship and just giving it my all everytime i compete. As a member of this community i think i can say that all of the student athletes honor these rules when we are getting ready to participate in our sport. We all put redicoulous hours into practice and into the weight room. Im sure everytime we dont do as well as we want, all of the standards go out the window. But the way we are coached is never to show that in public.

This is my community because while im at school, this is what I spend most of my time doing. I have to follow the rules and standards if I want to stay here and continue to run. Being in this community will help me for the rest of my college career, as well as when I become more of an adult and it comes time for me have a job, it will just give me the discipline. Track and school are pretty much like my jobs right now. If my coaches and the athletic department did not sanction us for rule infractions than we would do whatever we wanted. As athletes us doing what we want is counter productive. I personally dont think it would be good if we did what we wanted because most of us proably would not practice. This community keeps me in line and im proud to be apart of it.