April 22-28

In some cultures dogs are part of the daily cuisine. In some cows are worshiped. What would other cultures look at as strange or unacceptable in our culture, food or otherwise? Well considering that most people think the things that they don't know are strange, and I live in Utah fry sauce could be considered strange, p.s. fry sauce is a mix of mayo and ketchup. Another thing that might be considered strange is dipping your fries in a frosty but here in America alot people eat their food that way. Something that might be considered unacceptable is tattoos or piercings, but in today society it seems to be perfectly acceptable. People often consider things unacceptable, when they do not understand the meaning or the reasoning behind the course of action. Another thing that might be consider unacceptable is that America has such a large amount of obese people but here we see that people are the same inside, even when there outside looks different, don't judge a book by its cover. When we talk about things that are unacceptable, the only reason they are unacceptable is because they have never had to make the choices that we have. The thing that I wish people realized is that, even though you don't understand it at the time, you should not always consider it to be a bad thing.

April 15-21

In what situations is it wise for a friend to give advice and what should they just listen? Well if your friend is complaining you should always listen never talk unless they ask you to, they only need to vent, get things of their chest so they can move on. If you want to know when it is wise for a friend to give advice to another friend, I would say that it is only appropriate when they are both struggling and confuse. Because only then are the looking for answers and if they are upset chances are that anything you say would only upset them more. When you give them advice only give them advice that helps the situation, don't tell them to go beat up their bully at school that would only make the situation worse. Advice should only be given to those that will use it, because if they don't use it then the advice becomes useless and thus pointless to give. When you decide it is time to give you friend advice be assertive, then sit back and wait for a response at that point you will know where to go with the conversation. Always let them control the conversation, you don't want to hit a soft spot when they are not expecting it, if you did that it would only hurt them more and make them more irrational.

April 8-14

You have been struggling financially your whole life. You just won a million dollar lottery. Do you give any to charity? I say yes but not the kind of charity you are thinking about, I would give some to my parents that are abvouisley living in poverty, because we all know that children owe their parents some kind of graditude. But most of the money would be mine because I was the person that it was given to, yes given to, I don't consider the lottery something that you earned. I would probably also allow my parents to stay at my mansion or if they were old enough help them get into a retirement home. Plus the way I look at it is that if you have no friends or family that some of the money is going to or would have gone to, then you are just giving to charity for they attention. If that was the case than why would you even do it, giving money for publicity defeats the purpose of charity. When you look at it also if the thought never crossed your mind previous to winning the lottery, then you usually won't give it to charity. These days people are more selfish and without a reason they will not give to anyone, without a purpose that has them in the big picture they will not put forth the time or the money.

april 2-7

If someone you loved was seriously injured or killed while someone was texting and driving would you still text and drive. Probably, but it would take a while before I decided that it didn't matter. Yes, I am very insensitive and I really don't value the opinion of others, I'm just my own man, and I do not get pressured into changing for other people. Although I would be sad about my friend dying, I would realize that I didn't do it and I might change some of the ways I did it, only texting at the stop signs, but I would still do it. Plus if someone did die it changes nothing there are still millions dying from it and everyone that drives knows that there are. The fact is if someone I loved died I would be grieving more than anything, and if they were injured they would probably still text and drive, they would just be more careful. People are selfish and only a select few will ever care about the reason why and would want to stop texting and driving. When you talk about such a topic as this people start to ignore it, because it is so repeated throughout high school that it becomes normal to do something like that, no one thinks about the consequences.  

essay project

Casey Clark

Mr.Gowans

12 LA

4/8/13

Research paper

Earnest as defined by  merriam-webster.com dictionary is, “ a serious and intent mental state”, having said that, seriousness and earnestness are almost the same. Oxforddictionaries.com defines seriousness as, “the quality or state of being serious”. So if you think about it the only difference is that when you are being earnest you also are being intent, were as being serious can have its consequences. Earnestness can be a form of ignorance, were you think that you’re always right and nobody can sway that opinion. Serious can also mean that while you are thoughtful and thus you can see someone else’s point of view and will allow yourself to really and truly analyze the situation. Earnestness can also be looked at as a good thing, to say that you are strong willed and you are comfortable with yourself. To say that you are earnest you can also say that you are a person that is happy with the way things are and you are very intent with the way things are. But being intent can also be ignorant you put off everything and everyone that you don’t like, simply because they are different. When you are allowing yourself to be too intent you are allowing yourself to become judgment also, saying do they deserve my attention, are they worth my time. Thus comes the ignorance that follows being earnest, you end up being someone that hurts others so in turn you can feel happy with yourself, you can go to sleep at night knowing that you stood your ground. For an example out of the book, “How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.” (Oscar Wilde Pg 78) In this case jack clearly points out that being earnest can be a horrible thing, when you do become to earnest you start to skip over things that matter. You skip over those things because in some past time or some prior experience you just didn’t give a crap about it. Seriousness is just fine because when you are being serious you can also analyze a situation every time one comes up, and you can act accordingly so that you are not rude or over bearing. Earnestness gives you no leeway to act in the way that you should so that you can handle a situation properly, cover every aspect of the argument or problem as to rid yourself of the difficulties. Fact of the matter is that you need to be more considerate than anything if you don’t first stop to find things out, you can never properly handle a situation, instead you will just fail to make progress into the problem at hand. But as long as you consider the other persons point of view earnestness can be an admirable trait, because you can be happy and you can be yourself without any complications.

blog post Mar. 11 - 17

One quarter of a year remains before I graduate high school, what rights and responsibilities come with high school graduation? I have a right to nothing, it's still school and you still get told. Responsibilities, there isn't a whole lot  because I'm in high school. plus you guessed it, I'm in high school. Plus who cares I am awesome and I will do whatever I want anyways. Some of the things that happen after graduation thought, that is the real stuff. Like after school I have to get a job, find a way to move out of my parents house, eventually get married and I have to make a living for myself; possibly even go to college. Plus all the rights that come after it's intense, right to vote, right to go to jail, even though that's not really a right. We still have to make a ton of decisions too, like were to work, if we are going to work or go to college, were we are going to go to college, are we going to a trade school, should we serve a religous mission, pretty much every thing we are going to do with our lives gets decided all in one moment. Yep life sucks like that.

Jan. 21-27

If I was given the opportunity to take a vacation to the Stonehenge or Great Wall of China. For sure I would go to china. Why you ask? Because Stonehenge is in the middle of nowhere, boring, plain, and useless. Now the wall on the other hand use... protection, plain not so much, boring yeah maybe and it is in china. Stonehenge is ancient for a reason it has no mystery everyone knows about it, they know that it is just some rocks made to look a certain way by ancient people. But the Great Wall of China is not as commonly known most people could not tell you why it is there, when it was put there, and what it's made of. People seem to like when there is a little mystery involved, something that they can learn that they did not necessarily know before. The mystery makes it more appealing to the people that do go. In conclusion I guess you could say that no matter what the subject or the place, the less someone knows about it, the more they want to know more on the matter. People get bored of hearing the same things, doing the same things and focusing on the same old things. That is why they say that something gets old, you are familiar with it.