Blog 2: Critical Question Draft 1 and Free Write

 PART ONE: BRAINSTORMING

1.) Looking around my room, it's all black because my lights are off. I tend to write at night when I'm tired and can let go a little easier. I can see the faded mounds of clothing outline my floor. Never been cleanly about my clothes. The amount of clothes I have is enough but also never enough. Wearing something twice is my worst fear. Okay, maybe not wearing something twice, but wearing something twice while in company of others who have seen me wear the same outfit.

2.) What I thought about while showering probably had to do with how tired I was, or how people always overestimate the amount of shampoo they need to wash their hair. A quarter amount is enough for me, and I have decently long hair with a lot of layers.  Most of the excess shampoo ends up in between the cracks of your fingers anyway.

3.) When I was falling asleep last night, I was thinking about my next days events. From this time until this time I will run errands, oh make sure to set your alarms. Then from that point on I will go to class, I should probably check my alarm again to make sure I wrote AM instead of PM. Okay and then I will go to work, wait did I just check my alarm, did I put it on loud? When all my t’s were crossed and i’s dotted, I fell asleep. Check the alarm for good measure.

4.) that's a pretty hard question to answer. I have a difficulty picking favorites and anything usually, especially with interests. My favorite things to read about usually are historical, Nonfiction, or a super cliche and romantic comedy. I enjoyed all of my history courses in high school and my psychology course was extremely fun. Keeping in mind that the most fun I had, was in the Study and effort I put it in after class.

5.)I like to banter between ideas with my self to be honest. My parent, however, have always been proponents for knowing how to defend what you like, arguing, and sharing ideas. Sometimes with my parents it gets heated, because all of us are extremely competitive. The last argument was between my father and I about the over population of government organizations. Keep in mind, he is the head administrator for his federal division.

6.) Right now I am thinking about how tired I am. The truth is that I can’t help but to stay up later, I love to read at night, as well as talk to people on the phone because I'm a night person. It can be frustrating when I wake up exhausted, but I don't feel bad or have regret about it. I also am thinking about the fact that my uncle is leaving the priesthood after like 25 years. Why? What does that mean? He is the man that baptized me. I think it is extremely intriguing. How could someone have a vocation for so long, and then one day realize it isn't meant to be. It is truly mind boggling to me as well as hard for me to face, just because I only knew him in that way.

7.) My home community has all of my family in it. To be honest, I don't really grasp the question, but to the best of my ability I will answer it. My ideal community, I imagine the ocean, beach houses for all of my family just off the eastern shore. I imagine late night walking on the beach, and early morning sunsets. I imagine eating crab until the bay seasoning makes my lips sting. Swimming in the endless ocean, splashing around, and diving into incoming waves. This is my community, because I grew up going to big family reunions at the beach. That's what I pictured. My questions would be: Can a home be figurative? Why are we expected to love our families?


PART TWO: CRITICAL QUESTION
1.) I have a difficulty choosing topics to write about, just because I want to make sure it is the perfect one, or that I am choosing one, not too hard, not too easy. Listening to the ‘Worth’ podcast, I could only think about how our society is becoming more and more dependent on one another. Some say this is good, others not. The responsibility to help others by paying for their health care is a debate circulating around now. Question: In fellowship in the United States of America, are we responsible to take care of others or to help them have opportunity.

2.) I chose that question because my favorite things to talk about are economics, politics and theories. This seemingly simple question has many different circumstances that can apply. For example, the Constitution, our rights as American citizens, and our right to a pursuit of happiness in a way.

3.) This question to me has been circulating around the world for hundreds of years. The reasons why I chose it are the same as why it relates to me personally. It is a question that has one thousand opinions, has been debated through history. This kind of thing intrigues me. Questions that may or may not have a definite answer. I guess thats most things though. In my opinion grey’s exist in the world more often that blacks and whites.

4.) This question greatly influences the mentality of our generations, what is believed to be entitled to them, and the drastic effect it has on our country financially as well as generously. Because government money is circulated around in taxes, most government programs are paid with tax money. Tax money is given to the government by the people who live in the US. That id why this has to do with the United States.

5.) I could apply this question to any of my projects just because of how universal it is. Im especially looking forward to the second project because I get to observe a group of people and interview, and based on that and research, make my conclusions. The first project, I could focus the critical question on a more broader outlook. Make it more so about the tendency of humans to feel codependent and wanting what they cant have. Also focus on the tendency of humans to not be generous and caring. The third project seems very fun, this is something that will cater to my more creative side. Because I was in creative writing and AP literature at Pius X High School, we did multi-genre projects, which are similar to the third project. I love the idea of doing ‘real-life’ writing projects.

6.) My concerns for this course would probably be the work load. I am working at two other jobs during the summer, I go straight to a law firm after class. Because of my somewhat hectic schedule, I would want you to understand that I will work to the best of my ability to be on time and have quality product to give you.