Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Excellence
Cody Goslar
4/29/08
Excellent-ness
Excellence is derived from the word excel and to excel is to advance in one area of expertise. You see I feel that excellence is just a word to symbolize how well someone does anything to me personally if I had to say that anything at all had achieved excellence I would say the human race. You see the human race and everyone who can read this is a form of excellence our ability to adapt and to adjust to all the situations we have been put though since our existence on this planet is unimaginably excellent, say I were to put a man in an arena or large coliseum if you will, and have him battle a creature with claws and razor sharp teeth, imagine if you will a human battling a tiger, now at first glance most people would obviously choose the tiger, but because of the human mind and its wit and cunning it may make a spear or a weapon of some sort and use its environment to somehow over come this beast, how amazing is it to think that long long ago “cave men” took down gigantic creatures over the size of elephants and not just collected the meat but learned to use every single piece of the animal to help in its survival, this is excellence, to start with nothing and become something great at least we used to be a great example of excellence, up until we created war… In war we do nothing but destroy the enemy.
We waste so much time and effort that could be used on something more valued through out the entire world such as a cure for disease or the ability to run vehicles off of something that will not destroy our planet and all of its majesty , but instead we waste our lives with killing each other and using our resources to destroy one another without trying to straighten things out amongst one another.
I mean look at the continent of Africa its had civilizations on it longer than any other place in the world, but instead of working together to create something excellent or beautiful the decided to destroy one another over something as miniscule as land. Entire genocides have been accomplished just because of a personal grudge between two cultures.
Some may argue that by defeating the opposing army is that not showing that you resign in excellence over the other culture? Well yes but this is where we go back to the fact that everyone has a different opinion of excellence it shows that excellence is a state of mind a thought an opinion. Therefore just as last time I leave my essay as the question what is Excellence is a definable object but more of an opinion, there is no definite definition and so I leave you, goodbye, farewell and thanks for all the fish.
4/29/08
Excellent-ness
Excellence is derived from the word excel and to excel is to advance in one area of expertise. You see I feel that excellence is just a word to symbolize how well someone does anything to me personally if I had to say that anything at all had achieved excellence I would say the human race. You see the human race and everyone who can read this is a form of excellence our ability to adapt and to adjust to all the situations we have been put though since our existence on this planet is unimaginably excellent, say I were to put a man in an arena or large coliseum if you will, and have him battle a creature with claws and razor sharp teeth, imagine if you will a human battling a tiger, now at first glance most people would obviously choose the tiger, but because of the human mind and its wit and cunning it may make a spear or a weapon of some sort and use its environment to somehow over come this beast, how amazing is it to think that long long ago “cave men” took down gigantic creatures over the size of elephants and not just collected the meat but learned to use every single piece of the animal to help in its survival, this is excellence, to start with nothing and become something great at least we used to be a great example of excellence, up until we created war… In war we do nothing but destroy the enemy.
We waste so much time and effort that could be used on something more valued through out the entire world such as a cure for disease or the ability to run vehicles off of something that will not destroy our planet and all of its majesty , but instead we waste our lives with killing each other and using our resources to destroy one another without trying to straighten things out amongst one another.
I mean look at the continent of Africa its had civilizations on it longer than any other place in the world, but instead of working together to create something excellent or beautiful the decided to destroy one another over something as miniscule as land. Entire genocides have been accomplished just because of a personal grudge between two cultures.
Some may argue that by defeating the opposing army is that not showing that you resign in excellence over the other culture? Well yes but this is where we go back to the fact that everyone has a different opinion of excellence it shows that excellence is a state of mind a thought an opinion. Therefore just as last time I leave my essay as the question what is Excellence is a definable object but more of an opinion, there is no definite definition and so I leave you, goodbye, farewell and thanks for all the fish.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Education
The question I am required to answer is simply this "What is Education?" And according to the dictionary "ed·u·ca·tion–noun
1.the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2.the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession. 3.a degree, level, or kind of schooling: a university education. 4.the result produced by instruction, training, or study: to show one's education. 5.the science or art of teaching; pedagogic."
But that seems to me like a lot to read and think about so simply I am going to answer that this question is ridiculous for the reasoning that Education is anything you think in a greater manner of. Riding a bike to simply breathing your always learning farther in the way of what you’re doing.
You see education is just being alive, when you’re alive you can absorb the world around you. You learn what colors are and what scares you, you learn about what your first kiss is like you learn about everything. Even if you were alive and surrounded by nothing you would still wonder and develop theories about why your here, why your alive. Just simple things like that are education.
Education can be whatever you think about because based on the knowledge you just learned you know next time how to react to that situation and maybe even then be educated farther, by learning what not to do next time, questions, questions are learning. Life is one big educational process in which you learn trust, betrayal, friendship, hate, love, you may learn that none of it matters and that when you die it wont matter anyways, you may take another route and realize that every day is special and live it to "the max" and enjoy everything you do, but no matter how you see the world your still being educated. In the movie "Dead Poets Society" The captain expressed how true education doesn’t come from a book it comes from the way you see the world and how you understand the things you see, someone can look at a river as in the short story of "Two Ways Of Seeing The River" and see just a large quantity of water moving down the stream, or someone can see something beautiful, or even in some cases they look for warnings of things to come or may not even see it at all, but the education in all of those views come from the experiences you have had throughout your life make the things you see seem better or worse than they actually are, someone who has eaten the same food they’re whole life like pizza, wont see it the same way as someone who gets it only on small occasion or how they ask whether a doctor see’s the girls blushing cheeks or if he’s examining the symptoms she may have in an Illness and wondering if she’s ok. Where do you leave your professional life if you do leave it at all? It’s all because you may have been educated to look for certain things that others wouldn’t even notice.
This is where we learn that sometimes one must put down they’re profession or personal beliefs in life if only for a little while in ability to control an influence not over only our own thoughts but how we influence others, or dictate others in the movie Dead Poets Society we learn that although a lot of things may seem right and ideals help people liberate themselves and others from the norm it must also sometimes be limited and that is education as well or atleast you must attempt for the right time as you would if you were going to ask a parent for a toy, you would not ask them if they were upset or angry, only if they seem bright n cheery.
In short, the question on education my friends is… Ridiculous.
Dead Poets Society. Dir. Peter Weir. Perf. Robin Williams. DVD. Touchstone Pictures, 1989.
Eiseley, Loren. The Hidden Teacher.
Malcolm X, and Alex Haley. How I Discovered Words: a Homemade Education.
Twain, Mark. Two Ways of Seeing the River.
1.the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2.the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession. 3.a degree, level, or kind of schooling: a university education. 4.the result produced by instruction, training, or study: to show one's education. 5.the science or art of teaching; pedagogic."
But that seems to me like a lot to read and think about so simply I am going to answer that this question is ridiculous for the reasoning that Education is anything you think in a greater manner of. Riding a bike to simply breathing your always learning farther in the way of what you’re doing.
You see education is just being alive, when you’re alive you can absorb the world around you. You learn what colors are and what scares you, you learn about what your first kiss is like you learn about everything. Even if you were alive and surrounded by nothing you would still wonder and develop theories about why your here, why your alive. Just simple things like that are education.
Education can be whatever you think about because based on the knowledge you just learned you know next time how to react to that situation and maybe even then be educated farther, by learning what not to do next time, questions, questions are learning. Life is one big educational process in which you learn trust, betrayal, friendship, hate, love, you may learn that none of it matters and that when you die it wont matter anyways, you may take another route and realize that every day is special and live it to "the max" and enjoy everything you do, but no matter how you see the world your still being educated. In the movie "Dead Poets Society" The captain expressed how true education doesn’t come from a book it comes from the way you see the world and how you understand the things you see, someone can look at a river as in the short story of "Two Ways Of Seeing The River" and see just a large quantity of water moving down the stream, or someone can see something beautiful, or even in some cases they look for warnings of things to come or may not even see it at all, but the education in all of those views come from the experiences you have had throughout your life make the things you see seem better or worse than they actually are, someone who has eaten the same food they’re whole life like pizza, wont see it the same way as someone who gets it only on small occasion or how they ask whether a doctor see’s the girls blushing cheeks or if he’s examining the symptoms she may have in an Illness and wondering if she’s ok. Where do you leave your professional life if you do leave it at all? It’s all because you may have been educated to look for certain things that others wouldn’t even notice.
This is where we learn that sometimes one must put down they’re profession or personal beliefs in life if only for a little while in ability to control an influence not over only our own thoughts but how we influence others, or dictate others in the movie Dead Poets Society we learn that although a lot of things may seem right and ideals help people liberate themselves and others from the norm it must also sometimes be limited and that is education as well or atleast you must attempt for the right time as you would if you were going to ask a parent for a toy, you would not ask them if they were upset or angry, only if they seem bright n cheery.
In short, the question on education my friends is… Ridiculous.
Dead Poets Society. Dir. Peter Weir. Perf. Robin Williams. DVD. Touchstone Pictures, 1989.
Eiseley, Loren. The Hidden Teacher.
Malcolm X, and Alex Haley. How I Discovered Words: a Homemade Education.
Twain, Mark. Two Ways of Seeing the River.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Pg. 97-98 Excercise 45+46
45.
- Objective- Get into minnesota west tech school and go into the wind power program to make a good amount of money so i can begin a secondary education in something i find fit.
- Job = Wind Technician - I would go from wind turbine to wind turbine that i was assigned to fix any current problems that are taking place in them that can not be controlled remotely from a computer
- Skills Required - The basic electronics degree and also you would need to be un-afraid of heights and be ok with traveling
- Skills currently - I currently have these skills as well as for what i may learn on job will be learned on job
46.
- Marshall Senior High, Marshall MN
- May, 2008
- bowling and dodge ball intimurals and graduating this year
- Saving for activities and skills
- Dodgeball and bowling intimurals
- The Marshall bowl, Shopko, Shweeps
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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