LangBabies Per. 5

Passion. Courage. Conviction (not the word that means convicted of a crime). These words are largely subjective--which means everybody's definition will be based on their own experiences and personalities. That said,  I would like you to look them up before you answer this week's blog question. Once you do that, consider the following: 1) What is it in your own life, this life that you have been given, that you would die for?  Is it different than what you live for? 2)  What is your passion; what gives you courage; about what do you hold an unshakable conviction? After you have considered these two crucial questions it is then time to ask yourself where these notions came from, and when you first noticed them enough to have the awareness to answer this question--and of course, write about that as well.

We were supposed to start commenting this week, but the nature of this blog won't really allow for that UNLESS you have some helpful advice for your peers.  So, we will start the list for comments next week. OK, ladies and gentlemen. You have done it. Well, almost.  The year is 3/4 over-and even more than that for AP folks because your year ends sooner than everyone else's. So, now is the time for some introspective reflection.  And, while this is not the original blog idea (the words for the other idea I have aren't arranging themselves in my brain so I need more time with them), it is equally if not more important. As you answer the questions, I want you to keep you in mind: how you learn, what shuts down your learning, and what you can do or I can that will improve upon, and remedy those things. What do you know now that you didn't know on September 4? What kinds of things still give you fits because you can't seem to grasp the concept? What would you l...

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights .  ~Georg Hegel The other day, I had a conversation with an old friend from college. It was more of a spirited debate, actually, about the nature of good and evil, right and wrong etc. My world view, will, I'm quite sure, be of no surprise to you--I believe "good" is a matter of perspective and convenience,  and that "right" is determined by whoever has "the bigger gun" so to speak. (This is not a political world-view--meaning, regardless of the politics of the times, I always think this way). I don't know if I am right about this, but it seems to me that the good people of the world outweigh the bad. My perspective on this rarely shifts, and is also reinforced when tragedies such as the one in Parkland, FL, or Aurora, CO, or Newtown, Connecticut, or Ferguson, MO, or San Bernardino, CA, or Berlin Germany, Boston MA, Nice, France (I ...