We live in a country that values "The American Dream," a belief that claims success and happiness can be achieved thorough hard work. Yet, the gap continues to widen between "the haves" and the 'have-nots". In your opinion, how can this trend be reversed? What must change so "The American Dream" is more than an illusion?
In my opinion, there are many ways this trend can be reversed. People can start believing that doing their best is enough. People can start believing that working their hardest is being successful in life. People can start believing that not all things that you do have the end results of success, so they need to be content with the result that they get. "The American Dream" can be more than an illusion by people actually believing in themselves and not just letting other people believe in them.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Warm Up: Quick Blog #8
I have had two olympic dreams for a long time now. I have always wanted to be a star gymnast and a star figure skater. My mother was a gymnast when she was on a traveling gymnastic team when she was little so I feel like I have her flexibility and gymnast skills. I took gymnastics a couple times in the summer but never stuck with it. I took ice skating lessons for one year because I wanted to see if I could excel at it. If I would have stuck with gymnastic and/or ice skating lessons and had more commitment with it, I think I could have been a star athletic and dominated at it.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Warm Up: Quick Blog #7
Originality or Plagiarism?
-Mark Twain maintained that "all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources."
-Steve Jobs famously proclaims that "creativity is just connecting things."
I agree with these two statements. There is always going to be someone out there who has had the idea before you. The ideas that people think of have already been thought of by someone else, in the past. Most of the ideas have been thought but now put into action. Creative geniuses are simply compiling and remixing second hand ideas and borrowed art.
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