Purpose.

Our class attended a speaking last Tuesday by Mauricio Garcia, he spoke about his life story moving to America from El Savador and what he encountered. Although his story was very moving one part in particular really stood out to me, and that was when he was speaking about his purpose in life. Mr. Garcia told the class that if we really wanted to know our purpose in life we needed to start paying attention to circumstances happening around us. He spoke about a candy incident that really moved him to learn english. I am not sure why this really spoke to me, but I am very sure it meant something because I felt that register into my synapses' out of everything that he said. I started to think about it, and I realized that a lot of things happen to people that we just cannot explain. It may not make sense at the time, but when you think about it looking back, something clicks. In my personal belief, everything happens for a reason and life can only be understood backwards.

Journal Entry #3

The Digital Nation video that we watched last week really got me to thinking, social media is a great new aspect to technology that can keep us connected no matter what, however what comes about technology now? The clip of the new army expirence center got me to thinking, and how healthy is it for kids 13 + to be active in a video game that is said to be a " expirence of the army" ? They can see war but they dont understand it like soldiers do, it gives the kids a false interpretation of what this means. What if kids get roped into enlisting by the glory they seem to see depicted in these video games. I dont really agree with that, although it is stated on their website that  these men were not recruiters it seems like the perfect oppurtnity for a soldier to influence a civilian.

"Reality"

When you turn on the Telivison and scroll throught the channels you encounter such shows as " the Real Housewives of Alanta " " Jersey Shore " " Amish Mafia " and such. Unfortunatley these shows do not show much about reality. In fact they are nothing like real life at all. The shows that pollute modern day cable are rather sickening. For example shows like " Jersey Shore " embrace a life that is not exactley wholesome or even fathomable to most young adults. Girls and Guys in there twenties get paid to live in a beachfront house while they go to the gym, drink, party and make fools of themselfs. This portrayal of the life that so many teenagers strive for is not healthy to this society. Unfortunatley it has started to occur alot. Shows following after that get deeper and deeper into the lifes of many young teenagers and now even childern because anything is avalible on television. We can not stop these shows, but it is important to the younger generation not to fall into the traps of "living for the night". Where will that land you in 10 years exactly? Working dead end jobs? Still getting excited over times when every friday you can go and get drunk and act like you have no brain in your head? It is not healthy to glamourise such a lifestyle. It should be more about the type of sucess that you want to achieve in life instead of the kind of parties that you want to attend and the popularity you wish to achieve. Although nothing is wrong with having fun, it is not the most important and critical thing in life and reality T.V shows do a horrible job at displaying how people should live now a days. I dont agree with it at all and I believe that in order to get America back on to a decent track for another generation these shows really need to stop. Its not healthy for the modern day youth.