Every day in this class, we talk about open minds and free spirits in some way. Or how a writer writes
in a free spirited kind of way. But most of the people in our class fully understand what that means.
I don't. I know the idea of free spirits and open mindedness but to actually make it happen in my life
seems to be a bit of a struggle for me. I would like to be able to do it and involve it into my life in all
aspects but I just don't know how.
I have two jobs, I take care of my little brother, and I have school work. How can I just put that stuff
'aside' and feel free? How can I think that I have no big worries or stresses?
Stress is something those people may not even have. But is that even possible? Can someone really not have stresses?! Doesn't stress naturally come with everyday life? Or could that just be me?
Or instead of just stress, maybe worries. Don't worries happen in everyone's life at least once? Or instead of the negative everyday things in life and it actually be the effect of situations one has been put in
in life. Can that be the cause of a closed mind?
I feel that although someone has a closed mind, it's not necessarily a bad thing. In class I feel like we have
talked about numerous ways to open it up: writing, drawing, crafts, movies, music and anything else not mentioned above.
Open minds=Creativity. Being creative to me, means being able to look at all perspectives
and add a little bit of something into a whole creation. No matter what creation is made. Creativity is
being open to new ideas from other creations or from other people. My main train of thought
that this class has helped me with is, now I know how to be more open minded or at least learn
to work for it.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Blogging Around
Ashley AOctober 11, 2012 5:30 PM To Isana's Born into Brothels.
I love how you pointed out how not many people, if any, actually ever think about the children born into these horrible places. I know I never even thought about it. I for some reason just figured that they were taken away to a better place or something from a dream. I wouldn't think that the children would be called nasty, horrible names and treated like dirt. These kids don't know what freedom is and they maybe never will unless these organizations and programs and a continuous that they see.
Ashley AOctober 11, 2012 5:35 PM To Samy Rhee's Best of the Week.
I LOOOOVE absolutely everything about this post. I love how instead of the word being conformity, you chose consumerism! I thought that was very original and something that falls into conformity but nobody really talks about this perspective of it. And I love how you're talking about how society has lost sight of being actually unique although it's what we have grown up with talking about with our parents. Everyone wants to be unique but in todays society, how possible is that?
Friday, October 5, 2012
It Matters: Divergent Thinking for the upcoming election of 2012
So let me start off by sharing that I do not want this to be 'Candidate bashing' of the Obama vs. Romney
Presidential Election. But in class we are talking about linear thinking versus divergent thinking. This
idea struck me as something I think even the big politicians need to learn the differences and the benefits and the downsides to these two types of thought processes. First, I think it's important for middle schools to college to adulthood should learn these types. Why? Well because education has been flipped into a way that now, imagination and creativity seem to have been sucked right out of the curriculum. We have been 'trained' to no longer look beyond what we're told and taught and just accept things the way they are. But how the crap are we supposed to support a presidential candidate if they don't know how to think of all possible outcomes and solutions to one big, huge, problem in the country? There should be no second thought about if the candidate, when faced with a sudden obstacle, can decide the best choice out of a few and then proceed forward. Not only is it important for schools to stop teaching only convergent thinking, but even divergent thinking is important in adult lives as well. Maybe more so than in childhood?
Presidential Election. But in class we are talking about linear thinking versus divergent thinking. This
idea struck me as something I think even the big politicians need to learn the differences and the benefits and the downsides to these two types of thought processes. First, I think it's important for middle schools to college to adulthood should learn these types. Why? Well because education has been flipped into a way that now, imagination and creativity seem to have been sucked right out of the curriculum. We have been 'trained' to no longer look beyond what we're told and taught and just accept things the way they are. But how the crap are we supposed to support a presidential candidate if they don't know how to think of all possible outcomes and solutions to one big, huge, problem in the country? There should be no second thought about if the candidate, when faced with a sudden obstacle, can decide the best choice out of a few and then proceed forward. Not only is it important for schools to stop teaching only convergent thinking, but even divergent thinking is important in adult lives as well. Maybe more so than in childhood?
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