A Semester Overview

This semester has been a world wind of new experiences starting with the first assignment: “What is an American?” I really enjoyed this writing because all these years I thought I could answer this piece with no problems until it was right in front of my face. This assignment was fun because it made me think on a whole new level. Yes, I was born and raised an American so this should have came naturally to me, but it didn’t. I had to think about all the things that I felt was important to me to be an American. One example that I used in this blog post was that America was a place that dreams come to. I feel that this is so important because in many countries I hear that the reason they came to America was for opportunities. After really sitting and thinking about this topic it made me change the way I viewed the world and the people coming here. I am now more interested in learning about different countries and cultures and understanding them. This topic has shown me that even though I have always been an American it is a little harder than I thought to write about it and explain it to people who have never been here.
Another reading and topic that I enjoyed writing about was: “My sublime experience.” This time in the class made me tap into my more emotional state of being. I wrote about my aunt and her having cancer. This is such a soft topic to talk about and write about because it is something new to me and it is still happening to me. This was and still is an experience that nothing else in my life can take the place of. It may not seem to be a moment or time of greatness but to me I have come to realize that this turmoil that I am going through is making me realize how important family is and making me put things into perspective.
Another way that this class has helped me put things into perspective is with the assignments: “Virtues for living the good life,” and “The current social practices.” These two assignments were great writings for me because they help me think differently. The one with the virtues for living the good life was amazing. I can also tie into this the week that we had to write about living a full life.
These two topics to me now can go hand and hand.

I have had a busy semester and a lot of negative things have occurred in my life this semester and it has made me want to quit but after I started writing the thirteen virtues that I felt were important I realize that I have come too far from where I started from to give up now. Some of the virtues that I had in my blog that I hold onto now are: determination, commitment, strength, confidence and self-respect. These are important to me because I have to stay committed and determine to reach my goals, even when the road is rough.

The more that I look back now I realize how this class has helped me keep it together. It has shown me things that I might not would have seen if I didn’t take the time in this class to do so. It has also shown me how as a person I am growing and that I have a long road ahead that I have to keep moving towards. I am not sure if this class was meant to do this but it has been a great source of strength and confidence to me. God shows us things in strange ways and I have learned to keep my eyes open for me because they will come at any time.

This has been a melting pot of experience that I have learned from. I have also learned that history does just repeat itself. One example is the week we did the reading and writing about history. I chose to name my blog “History………..then and now because of the fact that the same things we are going through now, we have already been through before in history. We are just a new generation that is receiving it. It is funny how when things happen in the world we think that it is so new to us but really it isn’t. When I wrote my blog I chose to write about healthcare now and how people are getting made because of the new bill that will give everyone the chance to get health insurance. I feel that this is such a good thing because I work at a hospital and I see how things are when they come into the emergency room with no healthcare. People take for granted their health and feel that if they are healthy now then they won’t need the insurance. What they fail to realize is that tomorrow may bring something new and you may need to have health insurance just to be seen. So my argument is that even though I changed the way I looked at it that politics are not going anywhere. It is something that fuels this world.

So no matter what I thought about this class when I was signing up for the class went out the window when I did the first assignment. I knew that this class was going to be more intense and make we work harder to write. I felt that before this class I was an ok writing and interpreter. Now after taking this class and going through everything that this class has to offer I realize that I have a lot to learn and that I am not as deep of a thinker that I thought I was. So I enjoyed everything that I went through with this class and hope that I can have other professors who makes me think outside of the box and then be able to put it to words and then to paper.