- What sustains us?
- Can you buy your way to happiness?
- Does age matter?
- Is fame worth it?
- Who defines us?
- What is our social responsibility?
- Are men and women equal?
Monday, August 17, 2009
Guiding Quiestions
As one of your first contributions to class this year, please write about one of the guiding questions listed below. Your comments will help the class choose one or two ideas to focus our reading, writing, and discussion this semester. In a well-worded paragraph, explain which question interests you the most and why you think it would be a good focus for the class. If you are unable to post your paragraph here, email it to Mr. Sale or, as a last resort, print it out and bring it to class. Post your response by midnight, Thursday, August 20, 2009.
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Is fame worth it?
ReplyDeleteLook in the tabloids and you see famous teens all over the place, whether they are partying on the strip or just shopping they are always being watched. Is fame really worth it? In childhood is when people’s personalities are developed. When you are constantly being photographed and only hanging out with people with money and social status how will this affect your character. They may have all the fame and the life many only dream of but they miss out on many life experiences that “regular” people have. Such as high school experience, friends, and the joy of having children who get to have a normal life. In fame, you never get a chance to go to high school they miss out on all the football games, clubs, and the great experience to grow. They never get to join the wild warrior women or be a senior. They have to go right into work. They also miss out on the chance to make normal friends. They always have to wonder if they just have friends because they are famous. They never get to sleep out on a trampoline or go decorate JV’s houses. Even after they are adults and trying to settle down, their kids still have to live with the camera in their faces. So is the price of fame to high? It is asking you to give up a normal childhood, friendships, and your children’s life.
Does age matter?
ReplyDeleteEveryday you see old people or young people or even middle aged people. It starts to become a normal to humans around the world to apoint where you wonder, "Does age really matter?" Age matters to the one expressing it. As a 15 year old boy I notice that I can recover quickly if I excercise a lot and overcome many obstacles including, pains, aches, owies, and boo boos. To me I am a young athletic man who endures a lot of physical endeavors, but to the rest of the world I am just a youngen. Everyone grows older and wiser and possibly even bigger (unless your Benjamin Button) but we all at one point in our lives feel these same pains and emotions at certain ages. Age is really just a big game. The more you play the wiser you get but the longer you play the more fatigued you become. You can either play the game, going through the motions or you can play the game at an attitude of always winning and percervierving through thick and thin, but most importantly having the time of your life. To me old people are like books. They might be old and withered but underneath that dusty exterior is pages and pages, and years and years of knowledge and wisdom that has been sitting their for years, waiting for that right person to read them. Age matters indefinately in this role because without their long life they would not know all this knowledge or wisdom.I believe that age does matter because without it we would all just be unedited, unpublished books waiting for some knowledge to be given to us, but over time comes this knowledge and wisdom and over time comes the old book with many pages just waiting for it to be opened.
Does age matter?
ReplyDeleteWhen you go just about anywhere nowadays, you see people nearly of all ages from 2-60+. It's a good question when you think about it once in a while. As a 15 year old I have noticed that it's harder for me to get more fatigued than older people in my family. Age affects your personality overtime, and it also effects your behavior as well. Children want to play around, and can go for several hours if they opportunity is given to them, but as they age, they get fatigued faster and faster. While the young are still learning things, the old are wise with tons of information just waiting to be shared. So to conclude, age does matter. Because every year of life has it's pros and it's cons. Which some people will enjoy in their lifetime, and some that they will have to learn to live with no matter how much they despise it. People learn several things when they are young, and if life wasn't as long as it is, that information would be like an unreleased book. Something that no one would ever be able to learn about.
Can you buy your way to happiness?
ReplyDeleteI guess it depends on who you are. When i see magazines whit movie stars and singers, it makes me wonder if they are really happy with what they have. Some of them have familes and some don't. It makes me wonder if if they want their whole family being exposed to the world how they are and evetrybody pikcing them apart and only really showing the negative side of them. WHen they are on the Red Carpet or all dressed up it seerm like they are on top of the world. They have all the money they need to support their families and buy anything they want. If it were me the only thing that would make me haappy would be my family and success. So, I guess it depends on what you want more, family and friends orfame and fortune.
Can you buy your way to happieness?
ReplyDeleteNo every day people across the world who are not as frotunate have fun and are happy. We constantly say that we will have a big house when we grow up. And that we will give our children the perfect life, or we will travel the world, be a professional athlete. Others of us have learned that we may not get that dream life, and that we can have fun with friends and be happy without a lot of money.
I really can't decide between two of the choices. Who defines us, and what is our social responsibility are ones that really interest me. I would like to venture a guess that we are really the only ones that define ourselves, although we live by how others define us. Our social responsibility would be another good topic because we, as a group of people, need to understand what is expected of ourselves, and what would be socially acceptable.
ReplyDeleteCan you buy your way to happiness?
ReplyDeleteI think that that you can buy your way to happiness to a certain degree. I guess it interests me because you see all these people with so much money who look like they are happy but you don't really know if they are or not. You can buy things to make you physically happy but money can't buy mental happiness. Everyone always says well if i had money i would be happy. Well i dont think thats always the case. You can't truely be happy with just material things. I think this question would be good to focus on because then we would realize that it doesnt matter what material possessions people have and that just because they don't have really expensive things doesn't mean they aren't happy.
Can you buy your way to happiness?
ReplyDeleteI think that it depeends upon personal factors that deciede whether a person can buy theri way to happiness or not. Some people are happy with just the simple pleasures of life and need no money to be happy, for example in the Call of the Wild, Chris McCandless lives in the wilderness for nearly a year and is very happy with no money or anything at all. On the other hand some people need a big house on the beach to be happy or a really nice new car. It is some people's own personal choice whether they need money to make them happy.
Are men and women equal?
ReplyDeleteI think the question being asked does not imply whether men and women are equal in terms of capacity, but whether men and women are equal in regards to interests and assimilation of surroundings and information. So, in my opinion, the question of equality does not mean which of the two is capable of more. The question resides under the stipulations of individuality, which is the aspect most fascinating to myself.
No, i dont think you can buy your way into happyness! Yes you can buy things that make you happy but in the end it wont make you happy for the rest of your life! Money cant buy true happyness but it can buy a smile on your face but it wont last!
ReplyDeleteCan you buy your way to happiness?
ReplyDeleteNo, i dont believe you can buy your way to happiness because materials only last for a little while. And in the end money or materials wont matter to anyone.