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In my family, when people hear my name they think of the smart, well put together hardworking child also that I'm the first to go to college and the first to "make something of themselves" as my parents say. My parents have helped me shape my morals when it comes to parenting, this was mostly because at a young age a dream of mine was shut down by them. From that point on I made myself a pact that no matter what my children do, no matter how much it pained me, I would never shut down their dreams and I would help them along the way. That is what adolescences is, dreaming about what will come in the future and how you fit together in that puzzle. So I will not be the one to ruin that for them, and to make them feel as if what they want is silly or unpractical.
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Reality. The author we used to look at this theme was Robert Nozick and he wrote The Experience Machine. Nozick's stance on Fantasy vs. Reality is that there is a difference between having experiences and actually doing something. He feels like just having experiences doesn't do anything for the world where as doing them does. Fantasy is running away from problems and avoiding them with distractions, while in reality you deal with them and come away with something.
In my opinion, I agree that this does help me with my own values. This is because I have to look at everything as it just doesn't involve me, other people need to have experiences and I help a long the way with that. This to me sounds a lot like Sir Issac Newton's 3rd law of motion that states "every action has an equal and opposite reaction", so in terms of this theme you need to experience things in order to get an outcome. It makes me look at things in a different way because I have to "man up" and do the things I don't want to do because it will benefit me in the
In my family, when people hear my name they think of the smart, well put together hardworking child also that I'm the first to go to college and the first to "make something of themselves" as my parents say. My parents have helped me shape my morals when it comes to parenting, this was mostly because at a young age a dream of mine was shut down by them. From that point on I made myself a pact that no matter what my children do, no matter how much it pained me, I would never shut down their dreams and I would help them along the way. That is what adolescences is, dreaming about what will come in the future and how you fit together in that puzzle. So I will not be the one to ruin that for them, and to make them feel as if what they want is silly or unpractical.
Other morals that I have gained throughout my 18 years would include …show more content…
Reality. The author we used to look at this theme was Robert Nozick and he wrote The Experience Machine. Nozick's stance on Fantasy vs. Reality is that there is a difference between having experiences and actually doing something. He feels like just having experiences doesn't do anything for the world where as doing them does. Fantasy is running away from problems and avoiding them with distractions, while in reality you deal with them and come away with something.
In my opinion, I agree that this does help me with my own values. This is because I have to look at everything as it just doesn't involve me, other people need to have experiences and I help a long the way with that. This to me sounds a lot like Sir Issac Newton's 3rd law of motion that states "every action has an equal and opposite reaction", so in terms of this theme you need to experience things in order to get an outcome. It makes me look at things in a different way because I have to "man up" and do the things I don't want to do because it will benefit me in the