History...... Then & Now

I must say that times have not changed much in the aspect of politics. He was arguing that the most serious source of faction was the diversity of opinion in political life which leads to dispute over fundamental issues such as what regime or religion should be preferred. One serious source of faction today is healthcare and if we should make everyone have it. My personal take in this issue is that healthcare is something that everyone should have because you never know when you are going to need it. You may be healthy today but that does not mean you won’t get sick enough to where you might have to be hospitalized for something a little more serious than your common cold. I say if they make us buckle our seatbelts to prevent us from harming ourselves then they should make us get health insurance so that we can keep us from the dangers that are preventable. So I feel that even though these are two different aspect of the political world it still brings about the same amount of diversity. His political argument might have been over regime/religion and ours now is over healthcare. I feel that no matter what politics will always be divided. Now I don’t feel that by destroying the Liberty will make anything any better. He does make a valid point about how the liberties being essential to political life and Americans have been fighting for it since the American Revolution. The more I read his argument the more I had to agree with him on how you can’t create a society that is homogeneous in opinions and interests. This is still true today because everyone has different opinions and then you have the followers that just join the bandwagon because it sounds good. His next statement about majority faction being a problem because of popular sovereignty is preventing the minority faction from gaining power. This is so true no matter where you go in life. If the majority likes it then the majority wins. The minority is left to deal with the discussion that was made. Now sometimes you might have a time when the majority takes into consideration what the minority wants, but this is not something that happens all the time. Even though reading the No. 10 was hard for me to read I did understand it better when I seen how Wikipedia broke it down. It is funny how history repeats itself. What was happening back then when he wrote this is still prevalent in today’s society, just maybe in a different form. So I have to say that his argument still holds today. Even though I might change the way he says resolve some of the matters it is still true in what he said. I don’t think that politics is going anywhere any time soon so it is one of those things that we have to learn to live with. Destroying it will never happen so we must learn to make it work for the better of the people. This was a great eye opener on how history is still the same as it was back then.

Reflections

This is the last semester for me at J Sargeant Reynolds Community College and the most challenging. I must say that taking to online English courses and a biology course has put its amount of stress on my life. I have been in other online courses before through my journey in college but this semester has proven to be the most testing. I am working rather hard because I want to make this the end for me so that I can move on and attend Columbus State University in Columbus, GA. I visited this college this past weekend and fell in love with it. It is a small college with fewer than 10,000 students and a classroom size of about 25:1. This was one of the main factors that I liked about the college because I didn’t want to be just a number I wanted to be recognized by my professors. This has made me want to work hard so that I can achieve my goals and make it down there for the fall semester.
Now this English class has been like no other for me. This was my first semester taking an English course online and I have heard that it was a lot but now I can see with my own eyes. This class is a lot different because we are not using blackboard like I am use to. Then this is also my first time writing on a blog. The only other time that I have even heard about a blog is when celebrities talk about writing on their blog. So when I came to orientation and heard that we will be keeping our own blog I was surprised. Now that I have had a chance to use it a couple of times I can say that I like it and that it is fun to see my writings when I log in. I do have to say that I find myself going to blackboard and logging in to see my next week’s assignments before I realize that we have to use the professors’ site called weebly.
Week one took a lot of getting use to. I had to adjust to this whole new way of doing things and then I had to keep up in my other classes. The first assignment was kind of difficult for me because we had to write about “What is an American.” Even though I am an American and all I know is America it is still kind of hard to explain that. So I had to draw up my maps for this assignment. I wanted to really think about if I was coming to another country how I could learn from what someone would have told me in a letter. Once I was done with the maps and reflections I had to then put all that information into a paper. I must say that when I was done and had it posted on my blog I was happy with what I had produced. I can say that looking back on this assignment I was able to say that I feel that I gave it my all and that it was a good product of my writing ability. That week assignment gave me the confidence that I needed to continue on so that I can make it through the semester.
Then I was ready to move on to week two. Once it came and I read the assignment then I must say I was a little withdrawn. Once I got into the assignment though I have to say I feel like it came out great. This was a very emotional assignment once I got into it. It took me back to a place that I would not have wanted to go. I feel that this class makes me go to places and write about things that I would never have thought about, so I guess that is the great thing about this class.
The next week was one of those posts that I feel we all think about but really don’t write about. When we had to write about what living a full life meant to us I went into this mind set of how I always think about this question so now it’s time for me to write about it. When I was writing this post it brought me back to what I wanted to accomplish in life. I do admit that over the last couple of years I have strayed away from what I thought were the right plans for me. It made me think about how I needed to get back to business and be about me and my future. This to me makes living a full life meaningful. During these weeks I had to also keep up with the other assignments like posting to my committee and commenting on my other classmates work. Now this is not something that I like to do. When I read other people works I am not a person who critiques. I may have my opinion about things but I don’t like to tell people about their work. I understand that it is part of the class and that I have to do it, but it is not something that I like. I do try very hard to keep up with this part of the class. I want in the end to have an A for my final grade. I must say though that this is kind of hard being that I don’t know where I stand in this class as far as if I’m doing well or not.
Week four was one of my favorite weeks to write about. I loved how I wrote about the best me and how that is independent and strong. This was another one of those weeks that I had to get in touch with myself in order to post my blog. I feel that I am working towards my best me now and that I will stay focus. This post brought me back to myself and made me understand that I am not only being strong for me but for my family. I realize that I am a very strong person because through everything that life has brought me through I still maintained to keep my head up high and walk with pride. Now that I am revisiting these posts to do my reflection I have realized that I wrote about some great stuff. I guess it is best to always go back and reread some of the things that you have written before. You then come to realize how well or bad you did on the assignment.
Week five was something very controversial. I wrote about gay marriages. I don’t feel that this assignment was done right but I had to stick with what I had done. I do feel that this assignment did come out good once it was all done. So it was on to week six and seven that was put together. In this week I had to go back to the post that I put wrote in week five and post to my blog if it was fixable. Even though I feel that this topic is something like slavery and that over time it will come past I am not sure if it will be fixable any time soon.
Now we are on to week eight. This is where we are now and how this assignment came about. I feel that this class is very interesting and causes you to real certain places in your life that maybe you would never had gone. I feel that I am doing very well and this class and I am trying very hard to get the goal that I sat out to get in the being. That is the A. I feel that I keep up with every assignment, I give feedback to other people work and I bring myself to this place that allows me to put out great work. I am working very hard in this class to maintain my A and I know that when this class is over I will have reached my goal and be very happy. Then I can move on and graduate and attend Columbus State University where I want to get my masters in business. This is one of the best classes I have had and I am very happy I chose to take it and with Professor Brandon.