Things Hoped For

ON TODAY’S SOCIETY Technology has a huge part in today’s world and it is both negative and a positive thing. Anywhere you go, you will more than likely use some sort of technology. One of the biggest pieces of technology that is used nearly every day in the United States of America by an average person. The average American looks at their phones repeatedly throughout every day to do various things. Technology has rapidly evolved over the last decade. Now instead of having a basic phone in your…

that he really did not regret many things about college because the experiences that he had were great experiences that taught him a lesson. If he did have to choose something, he would have chosen to have studied with more urgency his first couple of years and put more effort into his core classes for his profession. By the response that he gave me I then asked how he stayed organized in his classes?, his answer was that organization is key to succeeding so the thing that he did was study a bit…

V. S. Naipaul once said, “Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.” In school, at work, everywhere you could think of people are chained up to the rules of society. How to dress, walk, and even how to speak. Each setting is a different rule, but essentially it’s all about living up to others standards and expectations. I too was disillusioned into thinking I’m “expressing my originality” whatever that means. In…

valuable experience. As I stated above I did my shadow with Chuck Robinson, which consisted of driving around the entire county in the police truck. We went as far north as the Minnesota border and as far south as St. Joesph. We had a few calls and things to do but it was a pretty quiet night on Friday. I actually started my evening being with Jack and his mentor, Keith Briggs, who is a deputy at the sheriffs office. I was only with him for a short period of the night because I had to go with…

what we already know by looking at our parents. In reality, identity can be defined as who someone is, the name of a person, the qualities, beliefs, etc, that makes a particular person or group different from others. Identity was never such a huge thing for me since I never thought about it, but I knew it was there. Over the years, my identity always kept changing my name. My father was the one who named me. He always…

In the article, Kozol explains when an eight year old girl told him, “Dear Mr. Kozol, we don’t have the things you have. You have clean things. We don’t have. You have all the thing and we don’t have all the thing. Can you help us?” (pg. 351). We are all equal no matter where we come from nor what we look like and deserve the equal opportunities like those who have money. There is a separation in the cities…

chubby kid ready for my first year in junior high, wondering about the new exciting things waiting for me. But if I knew that the exciting things would change into nightmares, I would have never left my bed. Walking into this enormous castle of a school, I was handed a green sheet of paper with huge bolded words that spelled out my name followed by a long list of my classes. At that moment I realized that things just…

high have won multiple, very few losing season, and are proven winners, often times former high school coaches say it’s very hard to get your pay to being that high, and some say the only way to get a decent pay and stay on this job is to win. Other things about this occupation is that normally when coaches go to programs who have been losing and not winning they are setting themselves up for failure because, the losing has took a toll on the players and fans that they just don’t care, and it’s…

jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” Our society is driven on the concept of proving who we are based on our material possessions, but ironically we just want the same thing as everyone else. We buy materialistic possessions because we want to prove that we are better than the next guy, but then we proceed to buy the same things as everyone else because we think that in order to beat them, we have to be them. “The Semplica-Girl Diaries” provides a message about how easily we feel the need…

themselves rather than something that was just handed to them. My dad, like most men, is the kind of guy that will try to fix it or make it himself before he has to pay somebody to do it. I was curious as to how he comes up with the ideas for the things he makes. He said that he does it just like his dad taught him. He would see a picture or product he would like to try and build, then he would have to picture it in his mind, “I have to see it in my mind first,…