When I was a kid, I was always interested in many different things but what really caught my attention was looking at all new different types of vehicles and wondered what the future would look like. I can ask many questions about how the future would look, but the answer can never be determined. It is one of those things that you just have to wait and find out for yourself. I will forever have this question and be curious to find out the answer. There are many entrepreneurs or designers that have created things that has the potential to change or shape our future. For example, Elon Musk who created tesla has shaped most cars nowadays. The tesla cars have changed the car industry, for example, because of tesla car companies are finding ways to make their cars drive on their own or how Tesla’s have a huge screen to watch Netflix on it, so cars are evolving and trying to one up it by putting TVs into the cars. If cars are starting to have TVs this makes me question what else are cars going to have in the future, some cars even have built in refrigerators for keeping drinks cool. I feel like schools are so stuck on us needing to learn about the past history that they don’t mention the new things that can shape our future. Every year my curiosity has grown more and more because not only in cars and vehicles, but also in other things like clothing and buildings that has new designs and innovations that may not look like what we are used to. This makes me question, if things are looking futuristic now then how will things look like in a couple more years? This is why I have been interested in what the future would look like.
Author: Jacob B
Homework 2.1
I think that when James Baldwin says “the world is larger” he is referring to how longer and larger people lives are then what people think it is. What I mean by this is that a lot of stuff goes on around the world and some people need to know what is happening. In the article James Baldwin talks about the dangers and the real stuff happening in today’s world. In the article it states, “Now if I were a teacher in this school, or any Negro school, and I was dealing with Negro children, who were in my care only a few hours of every day and would then return to their homes and to the streets, children who have an apprehension of their future which with every hour grows grimmer and darker, I would try to teach them – I would try to make them know ā that those streets, those houses, those dangers, those agonies by which they are surrounded, are criminal.” This shows that James wants to teach real life things and tell the truth and what he really thinks to the children. James Baldwin believes that teachers are not teaching students things that they should know because he says, ” It would seem to me that when a child is born, if Iām the childās parent, it is my obligation and my high duty to civilize that child.” He starts the second paragraph of the article by saying “Since I am talking to schoolteachers and I am not a teacher myself, and in some ways am fairly easily intimidated, I beg you to let me leave that and go back to what I think to be the entire purpose of education in the first place.” by saying this he believes that teachers aren’t teaching students what they really need to be taught, and this is what I think James Baldwin means when he says ” the world is larger”.
Homework d.1
I can reflect to some parts of the article. For example, in the beginning of the article George didn’t want to mail clothes from India to the United States because it was going to be a big hassle. I can relate to him because there have been times when I refuse to do things at the moment and let it sit till later. I would never procrastinate for a very long time though. I found it crazy to hear that “EachĀ year, Americans waste hundreds of millions
of dollars because they donāt file their taxes on time.” that’s a very huge number that actually surprises me. I feel like procrastination is a very common thing that everyone does. What gets irritating is when its done for a very long time and stuff never gets done. In the text it states “the first step to dealing with procrastination isnāt admitting that you have a problem. Itās admitting that your āyouās have a problem.” which I think is not always necessarily true. For example the author says “When I was writing this piece, for instance, I had to take my car into the shop, I had to take two unanticipated trips, a family member fell ill, and so on.” So basically being a procrastinator doesn’t always mean your lazy or the problem, You can also be very busy with other things like the situation the author was in. In the article it also talks about how procrastination can lead to more bad situations. In the article it says “When he took charge of the Union army, McClellan was considered a military genius, but he soon became famous for his chronic hesitancy. In 1862, despite an excellent opportunity to take Richmond from Robert E. Leeās men, with another Union army attacking in a pincer move, he dillydallied, convinced that he was blocked by hordes of Confederate soldiers, and missed his chance.” This part of the article shows that McClellan had a lack of confidence.
