Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present?

I strongly believe that memories help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present. The very essence of an individual depends on their experiences and the memories of those experiences. A person without memories is like a bird that must learn to fly each time it takes off from its nest and learning through failure every time.

Memories are obviously necessary for people to learn from their past. Without memory insight could not last for more than an instant, and humanity would be doomed to repeat its mistakes indefinitely. But, while most memories are useful, some can develop into obstacles. Memories of traumatic events can often inconvenience the person, who will change one’s behavior to avoid thinking about these events. The most damaging memories of all are the ones that are misunderstood. The ones when the person learns a lesson they are better off, not learning and doesn’t even know it.

At birth, a baby knows nothing about the world, one has just entered. Everything is new for the baby. The baby must learn to recognize his mother, father, siblings and relatives, to differentiate between hot and cold, to get his parents’ attention when required, and to sleep at night. As the baby grows up, one learns to crawl, and to say ‘Mommy’ and ‘Daddy’. Throughout one’s life, from childhood to adulthood, one must learn about the world around him through ones own experiences. For example, if one falls by taking a long step while walking, the next time one will remember to take short cut way, and steady steps. Therefore, he learns by trial and error throughout one’s life and his memories help one to develop mentally, physically and emotionally.

In conclusion, our memories are what define us and how we perceive the world. Without the memories of past experiences, we wouldn’t be able to progress successfully in our life’s endeavors.

Live to Work or Work to Live

Money is not everything that makes up one’s life; happiness is what gives people reason to live. Having a job with a desire is the key to have people wanting to wake up every morning happily go to work. Without an interest, the natural for working is completely for the money. Although money can buy people everything they worth, but it can not buy happiness.

Even if one earns a lot of money in a job that they do not like, they will not be successful. Earning lot money does not matter at all. What matters is if one enjoys the job. If one is not interested in the job, one might end up doing a bad job. Then one will start to hate it, because one will have to face it everyday for the rest of one’s life. No matter how much money one earns, it is all about passion and interest. Money does not always bring happiness to your daily life.

If one find a job, one really likes, one will want to wake up in the morning happily and will be ready to go to work. For instance, my friend’s parents wanted him to be a doctor in his future job. He tried to take courses, but gave him too much pressure. Then he finally dropped the course. He figured that medicine was not his interest. His real interest is to major in English. He loves English that he writes a poem everyday. As a major in the English language, he learns more facts and shares have knowledge with others. He proves that choosing a path that is meaningful is the goal to happiness and a better life.

In conclusion, living to work is what truly brings happiness to everyone. Having a passionate job that keeps you active, will make your future better. Money will not be enough to keep you interested. A job that brings happiness with help one succeeds.

Do We Need Adversity To Help Us Discover Who We Are?

Everyone has to try their best in life to get what they want in return. I think that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity to help discover who we are. Without adversity in life, we will not feel what is significant to us, and what we really want in life. Going through numerous hardships is what turned me into the person I am now. I feel it’s the challenges in life that make us look at and evaluate things. When things go easy, I think people tend to roll with it and it’s easy to take things for granted.

Realizing that even if I had all the things I wanted in the world, my parents could give me; I would turn out to be really dependent and reliant on my parents. I would not know the feeling of earning the things I want with my own hands. Before, I would always ask my parents for money whenever I needed money to hang out. But when I had a summer job, and I earned my first paycheck, I felt really great. I felt really proud of myself because I used my own abilities to earn everything I wanted. That was the first and actual time I did not have to rely on my parents. If I did not experience the first time of actually earning something on my own, I would have probably still end up relying on my parents until now.

Sometimes one has to travel a journey that forces one to take paths that stray off the main roadway. I believe it is these stray paths that are often unexpected and difficult. That make us stronger and give us the will to forge ahead in order to get ourselves back onto the main roadway in the journey of life.

While life can be difficult with some events that are unimaginable and maybe even beyond belief, looking back, as a person who one highly look up. Even though something may not be fun at the time and very challenging, the wonder of discovery and success in the end makes it worth it. It is from challenges that strength emerges.

Ease is comfortable and we are accustomed to be. Unfortunately, this stagnate change and character development. Though adversity may place heavy strains on us, it is clearly a fundamental obstacle that we must overcome on the path to true self-discovery.

Do people learn who they are only when they are forced into action?

Heroes discover their strength ability to help others when they step up to a challenge. A challenge will help one improve oneself by taking an action. I believe that people discover who they really are and also discover what they really have by continuously challenging themselves.

When I was young, I thought running was very difficult because I would sweat, breathe hard, and get very tired. I didn't run after a while, until I reached middle school. P.E. required everyone to run and by then, I was forced to run everyday. As I started to run I felt like I was going to die. After a period of time, the training helped me a lot and I started to like running. Now, I don't have trouble with running. Instead, I have a desire for running. As long as one steps up to the challenge, anything can be done.

In order to improve oneself, there always must be a challenge. Without a challenge, one will stay the same for the rest of one's live. Competition is all over the world, which means that one must compete against another in order to achieve one's goal. Competition is always a challenge and to beat one another, one must step up to the challenge first. If one does not take action, then one will stay the same level and always let others win. With a challenge leading to competition, one will certainly find their strengths, and know what one can do better the next time.

Heroes take action to defeat their challenges. They turn their weaknesses into strengths with courage and the ability to strive for the best for oneself and others. I think that if I did not step up to my lack of running skills, then I would probably still have trouble running. Although, I was forced into action; I discovered that running was very easy for me after I was trained.

Tatum

Some examples will highlight the process. Several years ago one of my students conducted a research project investigating preschoolers’ conceptions of [4] Native Americans. Using children at a local day care center as her participants, she asked these three- and four-year-olds to draw a picture of a Native American. Most children were stumped by her request. They didn’t know what a Native American was. But when she rephrased the question and asked them to draw a picture of an Indian, they readily complied. Almost every picture included one central feature: feathers. In fact, many of them also included a weapon—a knife or tomahawk—and depicted the person in violent or aggressive terms.

This is how I annotate this by underlining the important things in this paragraph. Several years ago one of my students conducted a research project investigating preschoolers’ conceptions of [4] Native Americans. For this sentence, I wrote a question mark on top because why do they need to ask the preschoolers for answer when they don’t know anything about Native Americans. The sentence that is underline is that how do they know how to draw when they are at that age. I bold the word stumped because I don’t know the meaning of it. Well, I think the thing that I annotate is important because the main idea was about a research project and the preschooler. Also the word that I did not know what it means.

Match

Today was the tennis match against Acalanes High School in Lafayette. It was an away game. When we arrived in Lafayette, we saw Acalanes High tennis players warming up. We had to warm up because it can help us on the game by rallying. We were all focusing on the tennis game because we were kind of nervous but some of the people were not. The people that are not nervous, they just played it like rallying on the court. We are a team that supported each others.

During the match, we played different players because there were a lot of people in Acalanes High. First, we all started at the same time because there was enough court for us to play. We all had a partner to play double because everyone has to. After when we finished with the doubles, we can play single if we want to because it was just for fun. There were people that played single because some people wanted to experience how it's like. The others just wanted to have fun with their opponent. When I was finished playing doubles with my sister against the opponents. I went to the other court to see what happened if they are winning or not. When I saw Katherine and Kimberly playing the game, one of their opponent was so happy and enthusiasm. Katherine and Kimberly's opponent was not mad because they were trying their best on it. Finally Katherine and Kimberly won and Kim wanted to play single. She played against the person that was so enthusiasm. When they played each other, Kim won again and she was so happy about it.

Overall Alameda High won because we had 7 out of 5. We were happy about the winning points because we all did our best effort. After we finished the whole entire tennis, we left and went back to Alameda High School. In the van, we were discussing about the game and the enthusiasm person too. We were talking about the enthusiasm person because she was cheering on Kimberly while they are opponents. After that, we all went home because we were all tired of playing tennis in a hot weather.