Week 2 Question 5

I am my biggest influence in right now. I know what I want and I don’t let other people deter me from what I want. I have always been determined and I don’t give up easily when it comes to my goals. For me I don’t let others set my goals anymore I follow the decisions that I make for myself. I think that sometimes I am my own best guide through life. I feel that I know what my purpose in life is and I try to strive to be what I called to do. I don’t think that I will ever stop being my biggest influence, because sometimes when people look to others for what you should do they are led astray.

Week 2 Question 4

My life’s goals are to receive my PhD. before I am 30 and to use a lot of my free time to counsel at risk youth. This is a passion of mine, because I want to effect a positive change in the lives of our future generations. Those two things are my passion and I don’t want to change either one of them. The only thing that I could see affecting my goals are children. I don’t plan on having any children until I am at least thirty so that I am finished with school and I can dedicate more time to my family.

Week 2 Question 3

I can’t really think of any moral dilemmas that I have had. I really try hard to live my life with the belief that I will treat other people the way I want to be treated. I work really hard at that because there are often times that people will do things to me that I don’t like and it is so easy to do those same things back to them. My life’s motto is to keep it positive and never let the bad things get you down. I believe that when you live that way you will prosper in everything you do. When you let the negative things, become positives you have a better outlook on life.

Week 2 Question 2

Question 2My family plays a hands off role in whether I succeed in school. The two most important people in my life are my mother and my grand mother. They have given me all of the tools that I will need to succed in life and in school. Neither of them every put pressure on me about school or my grades, but I know that they want see me do well in life. I know that without the two of them being the silent driving forces in my life I would have given up along time ago. They constantly remind me to take all that the world has to off and never give up.

Week 2 Question

My life when I began college is very different from my life now. When I first began college I was naïve about live and the way the world really works. I didn’t really care about college or getting and education and the only reason that I went was because my mother would not let me take a year off. On the other hand I am now working on my Master’s degree and hope to come back to get my Phd. I have grown a lot over those 6 years and I am now a better and more prepared person than I use to be.

week1 question 5

I think that today double speak is used more often than ever. I feel this way because there are so many technical ways for a person to get over on another person. The one situation that I can think of that this is most often used in when you buy purchase something. I know that the salesperson will tell you some things that are not true to get you to purchase their merchandise. They might led a person to believe that they are getting one thing when it is really another. However I have found that if you are an informed buyer then you are less likely to be tricked by double.
I am not sure if there are times when double speak is necessary, but I know that sometimes it is easier. I know that sometimes that some people do not handle the truth very well and prefer to be told things in a certain way so they can be appeased. So I guess that it depends on who you are dealing with.

week 1 question 4

question 4

My biggest fear is that I won’t reach my full potential in life. I have spent a lot of my time sabotaging myself and I know that this is because of my fear of failure. I know that the only way I can be who I am suppose to be is to not let the possibilities of failure rule my life, but sometimes I rather not try. I think that I sometimes give up because the possibility of failing won’t be there if I don’t try. I know that that does not seem rational, because if I don’t try I won’t know what I can accomplish. In recent years I have tried to force myself to do things that are out of the ordinary for me. I have some anxiety issues so I try to control that while still forcing myself to be more outgoing and try new things. I try not to let my anxiety issues rule my life, but it is harder to do that when the pressure of life and expectations increase.

week 1 question 3

My grandmother is my role model. Flora Lee Bradford Scruggs has worked hard her whole life and she has never depended on another person to achieve her personal goals. My grandmother was born October 27, 1934 in Madison, Al and she is the eldest of four children. My grandmother did not go any further than grade school and during the winter she did not go to school, because she had to walk there. While she was a child she only received one pair of shoes a year, so she knows what it is like to have little to nothing. Until my mother was eleven my grandmother chopped cotton to make a living while she also cleaned houses.
The reason that my grandmother is my role model is, because she has beaten the odds. My grandmother worked as a lunchroom worker for 29 years at West Madison School. The home that she purchased stared out with only two rooms for her and her two children. Those rooms were the kitchen and a living room. While working in the lunchroom she managed to pay for her own home and make additions to the same home, by adding two bedrooms and a bathroom.
My grandmother is everything I want and hope to be. I pray that I have inherited some of her courage and strength to preserve in life. My grandmother is the best blessing that God could have bestowed upon me and my life would not be what it is without her. She is my gift from God.

week1 question 1

I have not written anything creative in several years. I use to write poems all of the time but lately I have not had the energy or the emotion to write anything. I don’t know why it doesn’t come as easy as it use to. I have poems that I wrote years ago and I don’t remember writing or where the thoughts come from. It is sort of like I go into a zone and all these organized thoughts come pouring out. Later I can go back and read what I wrote and I am amazed at the feeling and emotion that I put into what I wrote. Currently the only writing I do is in my private journal.
I think that I have several weaknesses that I could work on. When I write I have so many things that I want to say and I don’t know how to get it all out. I also don’t know how to relay my thoughts in a way that makes sense to the reader. I feel like I know what I want to say, but there are so many things that I want to say and I don’t know what to leave out. I also want to learn how to organize my sentences so that the structure is grammatically correct.
I think that my only strength is that I can come up with some valid points, but the way I see them in my head is not the way they come out on paper.