Extra Credit-Freedom

One time when I felt free was when I first got my license and I took my car to a quiet road. I was able to go as fast as I wanted and start doing donuts in the lot. I was also blasting my music as loud as I could. I didn’t have to worry about anything at that moment in time because the road hardly ever gets any cars. As I was driving, the thought of cops never came into my mind, my parents weren’t home and they already knew I left the house, and I didn’t have any responsibilities to fill. It was just me, my car, and my music for about an hour of nonstop fun. Well that is, until I needed gas. So I then went to get some gas, and then proceeded to go back to the same spot and do it again for another thirty minutes. It was an incredibly fun day because I didn’t worry about anything. I just had to relax and have fun.

Wonder

Wonder is thinking about all the possibilities that something can do. Your imagination can go wild when wondering about something. In my experience, I would wonder about driving a car when I was young. The reason I would do that is because when I was six, I had a lot of toy cars. I have over one hundred cars and I used to play with them all. So if I had this assignment when I was six, I would go on and on about the fun times I had playing with my cars. I would race them; put them into those "Hot Wheels" courses and many other things. It would just be a medley of fun. However, since I'm older and I can know drive a car, I have lost my edge to play with all my cars. I also know that now that the cars aren’t real, as before when I was six I thought that my cars had somewhat of a mind since I named them all according to how they looked. According to St. Gregory of Nyssa, I do believe concepts create idols. It gives everybody something to believe along their imagination that only wonder can create. I have experienced this with the cars because the concepts of my cars got me interested in cars as general.

This Is Water

I think that every human is a different person. They have a different mind, body, instincts ect. So no matter what appears in front of the person, their minds process of finding an answer is different from any person in the world. Reason is because we all have different minds. So every day in a person life, he will be confronted with a question that he has to answer. Or, he will be giving something where he will have to make a choice. So within every choice a certain person makes, it will make him engage the world differently. So I think David Foster Wallace hits the point dead on.

The way you engage a certain choice is the steps your mind goes through. Your values of certain things also help in this decision making. A person that has different values than another person might choose something different than the other person. Reason is because in both of the men/women lives, they might think that what they are doing is correct. Also, if a person thinks what they are doing is right, it’s extremely hard for them or anybody to get them to change their mind.

The way I engage this choice is I weigh my values. I try to think about what is right and what is wrong. My decision could be right or wrong in different people’s eyes, but in my eyes, my choice is correct. Which is why I think that arguing with another person is irrelevant because it’s really hard to change a person’s mind unless you give direct proof that they can see, hear, and touch.

The way I would like to engage this choice is by making the right choice. However, in my eyes, whatever choice I make, I believe is the right choice. So I am already fulfilling what I hope to achieve. However, that doesn’t mean that the choice that I make, is the correct choice among society. To me, I don’t always want to have the same choice of society though, because if I did and everybody in the world had the same perspective, the whole world would be the same. There would no diversity at all if that would happen. To add that all together, nobody’s earth life would mean anything. The only life that would mean something is the life after death with God.

The people would clap at the wrong moments because they are getting the wrong point of the message. They don’t really know what David is talking about. However, it is hard to understand him without some text in front of you. Reason is David uses an incredible amount of double entendres in the message he is giving.

Caligula

1. During the play, Camus shows Caligula's heart by showing how sad Caligula is about the death of his sister. His sister was also his lover, so that makes the situation even worst. When Caligula was talking to Helicon, he told him that he wanted the moon. With the moon, it meant that he wanted happiness or eternal life. He also says that it may sound crazy, but it isn't impossible. So Camus shows that his heart is big from the death of his sister.

2. While the Patricians were talking to each other about Caligula, they asked if him leaving had anything to do about his dead sister. While they were talking, the old Patrician said "For one girl dead, a dozen living ones". Also, the first Patrician said "I lost my wife last year. I shed many tears, and then I forgot". The Patricians don't think that Caligula should be so sad over a girl since there are more. I don’t think of it that way. As I do believe there are a lot of girls in the world, to have your sister and lover die is terrible. So, I don’t agree with how the Patricians view of Caligula.

 

As simple as a textbook

The textbook has the word Precalculus on the front. It is very smooth and it is in the shape of a square. The book has a left side of a cover, and the right side is covered in pages. I have to open the front of the book to get into the books pages. The pages in the book are very flimsy and easy to tear so I must be careful. I see a lot of numbers and equations in the book so it must be a math book. In the book it has problems for me to do and words for me to read. That is as simple as a textbook is.

Happiness

My happiness consists of everything I do. To put that into more detail is that everything that I do, I always want it to end up in a position in where I am happy. Why do I turn my alarm clock off in the morning? Because I want to get rid of the noise, and getting rid of the noise will ultimately make me happy. Why do I do my homework even though I don't want to? Because if I do my homework, I get a good grade in my class, and that will always make me happy. Why do I go to school even though some days I don't want to? Because if I go to school and get into college, then end up getting a good job, I’m going to end up happy. So with everything that I do, Its going to end up with me being happy in the end.

Nothing makes me happier when I have the opportunity to just sit and do nothing even though most of the time that is during the summer. During the school year, I usually never get to have that luxury since every day I have to do some type of homework or a project that is always weighing over my mind. I can never just sit and relax without thinking to myself "When am I going to get this done or that done". So by time summer hits, I can do that. That is until I figure out what I have to do for my summer work, then those questions begin to revolve around my head again. To have something weighing on your mind while you’re trying to sit and do nothing is a very unpleasant feeling. So, what I do to counter that is I end up doing the work and during the summer; I do work every day so I won’t have to deal with the work always popping up in my brain.

Like every person in the world, you always want to be as happy as possible. When you’re happy, you have a better mind state than if you were in any other type of mood. So I try to surround myself among happy situations. That could be around other people that are happy, getting something done so that I can relax is a happy mind state, or doing an activity that makes me happy. The funnest activity I love to do is to play my Xbox. It is stress relieving, and fun to just play with your friends over the internet. I also love to play basketball and football with other people. Going out and playing a sport is always a thing that helps me get away from everyday life and just makes me happy because of something I like to do. So basically, anything that I like to do will make m happy. So this is what my happiness consist of, and it is what I like to do to make me feel better as a person.

Who Am I?

They have asked me this question about five times in a span of three days. Yet, I don't have a dignified answer towards this question. Well that is until now. Your name and your age is not a definition of who you are. People across the world have the same name you do; also many people in the world are the same age as you. The most common male name in the U.S is James, and more than four million people have that same name. So when you are asked, "Who are you", what is the answer. Well, I will give you my answer to that question.

I am an individual with a mindset that cannot be predicted. Usually you can tell what somebody is going to just by the way they act. However, in my case, that doesn't always happen. I look at different perspectives and can change my mind or view about anything in an instant, as long as it makes sense. So, you can also say that I'm not bias towards anything. To prove that, I always think that my work is never good enough. Many people say "Wow this is great and I did a great job". I never say that. I'm "OCD" towards my work so I never think its good enough. That is the reason why whenever I get a compliment from anything, I usually shrug it off because I don't ever think that it is true. So, in my mind, that is who I think that I am.

The thing that is most valuable to me in my life is my relationship with God (I didn't know if you meant objective feature or anything). I've went as far asking God to save me twice just in case he didn't hear me the first time. You can put that towards my "OCD" nature. Just like every human, I sometimes forget to pray every night, or I don't do enough to strengthen my relationship with him, but I try my hardest to make it strong with Him day in and day out.

I have different religious beliefs usually from the next person. I don't ever say that I am a Catholic, or Baptist, Protestant, Muslim, or any of the religions out there. What I say is that I am a firm believer in God and Jesus. I also believe what the Bible says and I usually don't try to interpret it unless there is an obvious interpretation. An example is forgiving your neighbor 70 x 7. So, I just say I believe in Christ and want to go to heaven.

I am a proud African-American and my whole family is the same. To realize what my ancestors had to go through to have the world as it is today is amazing. In my lifetime I will never be able to thank them enough because of the life I live today. I'm free to go to school, sit anywhere I want, eat anywhere I want with no penalty. So my cultural background is very important to me.

My hope in life is that I either want to do something I love, as my dream job is to work for EA Sports. Or, I want to be meaningful in life. What I mean by meaningful is that I want to inspire other people’s lives. I have yet to figure out how I am going to do this, but I don't want to leave this earth feeling like I didn't do anything to help the world grow. When I die, I want to leave the earth knowing that I did something that benefited the world as a whole.