The prompt in question is replying to a quote said by David Markson. That is "If forced to choose Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt." I personally agree with him. Even if I was a huge art fanatic, I would still save the cat. I value life a lot more than I value possessions. I feel that this is the right decision morally. Everyone should seek to preserve and protect all life as best as they can.
If someone chooses the cat, they might be considered as crazy, or someone who is opposed to loss of life. If someone chooses the painting, then they have a great love of material possessions that would outweigh their instincts to save a beating heart. I chose to save the cat instead of the painting, and I believe that my choice is the right one.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A Very Good Essay and the Meaning of a "Deep Answer"
Yesterday, my ROGATE class read the essay, Joyas Voladoras, by Brian Doyle. For me, it really accents how people live their lives, and how their decisions can affect the lives of others as well. It also shows how different animals (maybe symbolizing people) have different lifestyles, and how their lives are changed. The hummingbird, the main animal in the article, has an eccentric and very fast paced life, but has the life span of 2 years. The animal in comparison is a tortoise. They have a slow lifestyle and never really move fast. They have a lifespan of 200 years. Humans are in the middle, and appropriately live anywhere from 70 to 100 years. This essay takes on a depressing tone, but it makes me feel hopeful and optimistic to learn that I can mold my life into what I want it to be. My favorite sentence in the essay is only 9 words long. "So much held in a heart in a lifetime." Hows that for deep?
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Quotes
I am putting a sampling of different kinds of quotes on my blog and will react to them. I will try to do the best that I can.
Funny Quote:
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
-Mitch Hedburg
My reaction to this quote is... I can't possibly write anything deep and meaningful about this.. All I can say is that having fake plants would keep me from doing a lot of chores.
Serious Quote:
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubts.
-Mark Twain
This quote makes so much sense but it reacts to the arrogance in people. If you believe that you know everything, you will always encounter someone smarter than you. Your arrogance can be embarrasing if you are proved to be wrong.
These are just two quotes that I found interesting.
Funny Quote:
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
-Mitch Hedburg
My reaction to this quote is... I can't possibly write anything deep and meaningful about this.. All I can say is that having fake plants would keep me from doing a lot of chores.
Serious Quote:
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubts.
-Mark Twain
This quote makes so much sense but it reacts to the arrogance in people. If you believe that you know everything, you will always encounter someone smarter than you. Your arrogance can be embarrasing if you are proved to be wrong.
These are just two quotes that I found interesting.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
"Everyone's Free to Wear Sunscreen"
This is a name of a popular song by Baz Luhrmann giving advice to children. There are certain lines in the song that I believe are really important to pay attention to. He says, "Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders."
In a way, this could be interpreted as saying that life is more enjoyable and altogether better when people are younger. I want to take a different perspective on this quote. I believe that this means that all children should try their best to appreciate life as they possess it, and to not squander it. It is easy for children not to appreciate their childhood, but when they can compare it to their future, they will wish for their childhood back again.
My advice to everyone reading this is to cherish all of their prized possessions and never take anything for granted. I'm not telling everyone to be greedy, but usually, people don't realize the worth of their possessions or their families until they are taken away. I never would have realized how precious my cousins are and how much they mean to me if one of my cousins hadn't died. She was around my age, but she died very young. I didn't know any better at the time, but there is something about death that finds a way into any situation in life, always reminding you of what life could have been, but will never be now. Death is often just a sad experience that happens to everyone, but can be looked at from any point of view. I try to view it as an opportunity for a family to grow closer together instead of each person wallowing in their own world of self pity. Life is a simple yet intricate experience that can sometimes be wild, or it can be soothing. It's like being a passenger in a car that is on a race track, but you have never seen the race track before in your life. You are being hurled around unexpected corners and all you can do is sit and watch.
Everything seems better after you go through it. This can be true in many different aspects of people's lives. Individuals might look back into their past and finally realize why their parents made certain decisions, or why they weren't allowed to do certain activities. Memories often deteriorate over time, and we remember enjoyable events as being better than they actually were. Negative experiences frequently diminish over the years. It is our job to remember our childhood just as it was and when we grow up it is important that we realize that both the past and the present have positive and negative elements. It is the combination of these events and perspectives that make us who we are.
In a way, this could be interpreted as saying that life is more enjoyable and altogether better when people are younger. I want to take a different perspective on this quote. I believe that this means that all children should try their best to appreciate life as they possess it, and to not squander it. It is easy for children not to appreciate their childhood, but when they can compare it to their future, they will wish for their childhood back again.
My advice to everyone reading this is to cherish all of their prized possessions and never take anything for granted. I'm not telling everyone to be greedy, but usually, people don't realize the worth of their possessions or their families until they are taken away. I never would have realized how precious my cousins are and how much they mean to me if one of my cousins hadn't died. She was around my age, but she died very young. I didn't know any better at the time, but there is something about death that finds a way into any situation in life, always reminding you of what life could have been, but will never be now. Death is often just a sad experience that happens to everyone, but can be looked at from any point of view. I try to view it as an opportunity for a family to grow closer together instead of each person wallowing in their own world of self pity. Life is a simple yet intricate experience that can sometimes be wild, or it can be soothing. It's like being a passenger in a car that is on a race track, but you have never seen the race track before in your life. You are being hurled around unexpected corners and all you can do is sit and watch.
Everything seems better after you go through it. This can be true in many different aspects of people's lives. Individuals might look back into their past and finally realize why their parents made certain decisions, or why they weren't allowed to do certain activities. Memories often deteriorate over time, and we remember enjoyable events as being better than they actually were. Negative experiences frequently diminish over the years. It is our job to remember our childhood just as it was and when we grow up it is important that we realize that both the past and the present have positive and negative elements. It is the combination of these events and perspectives that make us who we are.
Monday, May 6, 2013
The Value of Learning
A school education can give you the potential to one day achieve a great job, or before that, to go to a good college. Even though schools can give you a valulable education, schools don't give you"street smarts". Schools can't teach common sense. They do an excellent job of testing IQ and maximizing a student's academic potential, but they don't teach or test EI. EI stands for emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the capacity to perceive emotions and to enhance thinking using the perception of the emotions involved. Emotions shape our everyday lives and may determine our actions for the day, or how we go about relating to those around us. It is one thing to get a good job, but it is completely different to be able to successfully keep that job. The most valuable lessons we could learn is how to interact with the world around us in a healthy way. Unfortunately that's not the focus of traditional education today.
By the way, here is the writing prompt I was telling you about. It would probably be helpful for you to have that. Here it is. Just click on the text. Click here. HERE!
By the way, here is the writing prompt I was telling you about. It would probably be helpful for you to have that. Here it is. Just click on the text. Click here. HERE!
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