hw 54 test results

ENTP - "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population.

Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

i like the results of this test. i feel like they are pretty accurate but it is not completely accurate. i think that when i saw the paper in class with the letters i sort of changed from entp to intp. i felt moer comfortable with those results rather than thwe ones the survey got me.

hw 55 research question

my question, is how do we determine who we love, and do we determine love based on the way that we love ourselves?
http://www.wikihow.com/Define-Love
http://www.0800-horoscope.com/compatibility.php
http://www.csulb.edu/~tstevens/h53accep.htm
http://www.4therapy.com/consumer/conditions/article/9326/113/What+is+Real+Love%3F

1. this article is about what love is. They say that love is hard to define because there are an infinite amount of ways to love.
2. this article was about data about love and different types of love compatibilities. i think this can be useful to my question. it also shows horoscopes and i wonder if those work.
3. this shows how to be comfortable with yourself and it seems reliable
4.the last article is about what love is and how to approach it. i will be using this in my paper

hw 53

the survey was very interesting. even though i did not take it due to the fact that i was absent, i thoughtthat the survey results and questions were very interesting. the question that i thought was interesting was the question, " are you afraid of death?" this question was interesting to me. about almost 40 percent of people said yes. about 30 percent said no. i thought this was interesting. these differences and answers can be analyzed for multiple things. Such as, the people who are afraid, why are they scared? is it because they havent been around death as much, or is it because they dont think about it so when they think about it, they become scared. or even that they feel that they are too young to die. this is the exact opposite of what the people who answered no may feel like. Maybe they have been around death too much, or maybe they feel that they have seen all that life has to offer so now it i time to move on. whatever the case may be, my answer to this question will be that i have no answer. i feel that i cannot answer this question. I feel that i have not experienced a life that i can be happy with, so that i why i would be afraid of death. On the other hand, death is a part of our existence, everything has to die, so why be scared when it is bound to happen. Also i feel that death shouldnt be scary because life is scarier. i cant answer this question until i have grown up and lived a better life. so i think for the people who can answer this question, they are one step ahead of me. for the people who are afraid, i think they need to sit and think about their life and then once they do that, i feel that they will become wiser in the way they live which will lessen their fears of death. for the people who answered no. They are sort of more mature and i feel like they have actually thought about death and i feel that they will be the ones to live more freely because the biggest threat to people is death, but if youre not afraid of it, then you dont have to live scared. But for now, ill just stay in between.

i think that a similarity to these serveys are that the one that we creathed had results of a large group. there were 2 basic options, but ours werent strictly yes and no. we had yes but, no but, answers to pick from. a difference is that ours did not distinguish the men from women. Our survey had a calculation of a total that was not based on gender. These surveys both asked very touchy wuestions that had people think for a while, which is what makes a survey a good survey i think. The results were also both surpriseing to me and probably other readers as well.

hw 57

HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?

This has been a question that i have thought about for a long time now. a couple times through my da, i think about why im doing this and will me doing anything in life matter when im dead? People struggle in life to be successful bcause then they will be happy. Sometimes success just brings on unhappiness. All the time we waste trying to become successfull could have been spent doing other things. Things worth while. If people spent more time thinking about the bigger questions in life instead of living in a box, i think people will become wiser and will live better lives. I think people are afraid to think ofthis question about how they are suppose to live because it often brings up the idea of death and people really dont like to touch on the topic of death. I understand that people are afraid of death but we are all going to face it.

LOVE

i think that love is hard to find, it cant be found without a lot of thinking on your part. love is something that should last a lifetime, because then its not love but a strong liking. It is hard to find love this day and age because people are so diverse, and when you think you found it, there is something else to love so love to me is something i dont think i can find untl i live longer and experience more.

FAMILY

I feel that family is a necessity for people to grow up. wether that be ur original family,are a foster family. It is important for people to feel that they are wanted in this world. sometimes though it is good to get away from family as they become more and more controlling. Like this weekend i decided to walk to my grandma's house instead of take the car with my brothers and my mom. i felt free and i felt good because i felt alone and felt like an individual

FRIENDSHIP

friends are suppose to be a someone who you can trust to get your back in almost every situation. I feel like theres a difference between friends and aquaintances. I feel like if you are good friends with a person, it is natural to talk to them. Instead of someone who you grew distant from, because that just makes both people feel akward.

Ethnicites

People should have diverse friends. I know that i have some pretty different friends. some ae spanish and others are asian. We all seem to get along well with eachother and i guess it is because we all grew up in the same area. i feel that this race barrier that sme people like, should be abolished, because i feel that having different fiends, makes experiences better becuase you can see the different ways that people are raised and i feel that seeing this makes encountering more of that certain race a bit easier to cope with because they can remind you of your friend a litle bit.

hw 51 paper

School. We have all been there at some point in our lives. It has been something that we are forced to do and we are expected to do well with no problems, a bit of struggling, but thats it. What i was wondering is why school has to be such a threatening place to be at. We spend most of our lives at school learning about life. In certain places though, schools is a scary place. If you fail in school, u basically are starting on ur failing life. Why do schools have to threaten students with failure or with exams?

This question madwe me think about the school that i go to. usually we are not given test, unless we act bad, but is that really a beneficial strategy for a teacher to use. In my book "What are my rights?" there is a section in which the author speaks about school and how long someone has to go ands what happens if they do not go. The thing that did not stand out to me was how the author put a statistic chart showing salaries of muliple classes of people. You had the high school graduate, the college graduate , and the person who didnt graduate high school. The stats showed that these people who didnt graduate high school earned an average of 16,000 dollars per year, and that was for the male population of non highschool grads. The number for wonen was lower by about 5,000 dollars. This makes me think about the reasons why they couldnt graduate school. Did these people feel threatend to do good, and as soon as they began to fail, did they just give up? I think there is a fear factor in school that everyone goes through. In highschool this is very popular, and also high school is the place where people usually do drugs and experiment, is that how they can cope with their stress in school and in their outside lives? I think it is and it is an epidemic in America in which kids are getting lazier as there are advances ini the ways we live. Like what John Fanning stated about how soon schools won't need to be arounds, because of the computer age. This can relate to the idea of going to school and being miserable there, or taking classes online. The benefit for some kids is that school provides a social zone. This is common with about 99 percent of kids. But what an online school does, is that it creates a threat, and stress free area in which you learn in the comfortability of your own home.

In the book, there was an interesting facrt that stood out to me. It was this statement that in a colorado school, a person who wants to drop out has to sign a paper stating that they will not have the necessary skils to survive in the 21st century. This was crazy, but the crazy thing was that most kids dont sign this and their parents also have to be with them to. I think this is thew biggest threat. The school saying that you will not survive in the 21st century is kind of pushing the limit. There may be some times where you may struggle but will you be happier in the long run. Why do we have to live the way that is traditional and the way that everyone expects? it is like we are not living our own lives but the lives of people around us. The main part of this was that the kids dont sign it, but instead they take counseling in school to cope with passing and doing good. This threat in which basically tells you to sign your future away, was very interesting.

schools are always forcing us to do things and we have to learn these things or we wont be successful. This brings me to lisa delpit's point in that kids will probably be more involved if school was about the kids showing their artistic creativity. This would make schools more of a want for kids, instead of a need. Schools as an institution are sort of psycological rollercoasters that make you think and be scared, is this what the masterminds of controlling schools want to acheive. As long as we graduate, it doesnt matter how that school affected us. The threat of not survivng without at least a high school degree is very scary, especially now that everything is getting expensive and it is harder to live. soon it will be hard to survive unless you have a college degree, and not a jopb, but a career. I feel threats everyday i go to school. Its either i do good and get out of school on time, or i fail, and where failure will mean me being looked down on, i have no choice but to be miserable, as long as i pass, its all good

hw 50 readings

Gatto reading

I feel that Gatto and his ideas on school are very interesting. I think that i would actually like school more if there were more people who thought like Gatto did. Schools shouldn't be awful places, they should be interesting and keep u awake. The ways that gatto decides to teach may be able to keep more people interested in school while learning about the outside world around them. Gatto says that schools sort of trap a students mind and sort of their ability to be free in the world.

Freire reading

This was a bit hard to interpret but i think the clearest part was the part where he talks about how the teacher is the one in control. They know everything. He sort of relates his theories to the banking ideas and the way how we are what the teachers are depositing and to me that is like the teacher teaching us, to deposit means that we are sort of being put into situations and we need to sort of live in these situations until the the teacher takes us out

Delpit reading

Delpit sort of only approaches the African American society in schools. She focuses on kids who are less fortunate than the other people that surround them in school. I agree with her that by giving a student a test, you are not seeing their brilliance. A test is sort of an intimidating factor in which it is suppose to make you memorize things within a certain time frame, and then you have to dig it back up and apply it to what you are being asked to do. she feels that a great way to see brilliance is to let the children show you their creativity. Using the arts to show that a person really is smart and they just show it n a situation that they are comfortable with.

Mr Fanning

Fanning said that computers and the age of technology is making it tougher to keep kids interested. What really struck me as interesting was how he said that this computer age is taking away books and that he was told that liberal arts isn't important. Also how he said that computers are organized in a way in which you are not focused on reading one thing, but there are readings all over the screen and that is why we struggle to read texts when they are placed in front of us. Also how there may not be anymore schools in about 20 years because this computer age will eliminate schools so that you can get your degrees at home. He also said that we do not respect our education and everything that we are taught and we take it for granted. He said that liberal arts is the foundation to learning which i agree on because liberal arts is sort of the beginning to where we begin to deepen our understanding of the world.

hw 49

A. My personal contribution to the film was to be an extra and act all excited for the first day of school. i felt like the little parts that i probably will show up in, hopefully they will be good.

B. The message that i got from my section's movie was that even the authority figures have flaws and that sometimes the savior needs to be saved. I felt like our script was really a depressed script, considering that the savior was a drug addict who needed help to control his life. I felt like this was a depressing film.

C. My section's film could compare to the ones that we watched becuase, in a majority of these movies there is a savior. There is also a class full of kids wanting a change, or at least acting like they want a change. The big contrast was how the teacher was the weak one in this situation and there was only about one movie that i remember seeing that was like this, and that was Hamlet 2. This was similar to my movie because we both showed the authority figure as a mess, someone who was lost, and their only guidance came from their jobs, teaching kids. Whether that was from teaaching kids theater or philosophy.

D. I find this idea of salvation and schooling very interesting because it really depicts what we are like. We all think that wer want change, is it us who want that change or is it our parents trying to get that change so they can feel better about what their situation was like. Why is it that the place that many kids hate most, is the place where they are suppose to succeed in? This idea of finding a savior in school is very crazy to me because its like we really have no other people to help us out. we are always going to be alone and really when we are young, this is our chance to find that one persone that will help you out with what you are going through, its stange how schools always have that one person who majority of kids find as a savior. I guess it has something to do with relating to that person on a mental level, if you can impact that child with a story, then you have become like their guardian away from home, the little voice in their head saying, "well what would my teacher think about this?" I think these savior teachers are like programs in our heads that can run our lives. Our minds literally belong to our saviors at least for a part of our days, and maybe for a majority of our lives. Just like my 5th grade teacher was my savior. For little things like that she was spanish so i guess my mom and her could relate. She has seen crazy things throughout her life, so i guess by my teacher thelling my mom her storuies, she sort of became her savior and eventually mine. Was that why i bout the gift for her when i graduated? Was that my appreciation to her for shaping me up to live in this world. I really still try and make my 5th grade teacher proud iof me, even if i havent seen her in like 11 years, i sort of feel that if she was my savior, i have to succeed and be someone elses savior, or i will fail.