Once again I found it helpful reading the blogs and understanding how my classmates write. Just with this one assignment I have learned a ton and think it was a great Idea for Josh to create this anthology. I realized that alot of these were about the way you people wear and do things to fit in. i could relate to these very well because my first essay had very similar ideas.
In Corys essay he talked about how governments are very important and work better than self organizing colonies. It made me think about how important governments are in protecting us along with many other things. I agree with him complletley that governtment and leaders are important. Lane Preston- Graham wrote about how people care about their looks so much now days. he mentioned things like high heels and how they hurt womens feet but they wear them anyway. He then went on to talk about how the president used to be picked not on his appearance but by means of what he had to say on the radio. Now days it seems people care so much about the way something looks and buy things strictly by what they look like and not on their function.I really Enjoyed reading Stephanie Ogdens blod because it was really similar to my first essay named the fear to not appear. She talked about how people care greatly about the way they look and the appearance of their property. Stephanie mentioned at the end of her essay that the true path to hapiness is through you freinds and family and not the amount of money or materials you own.
I thought it was interesting how Chelsie stevens explained how a luxury is something really important to you or somehting expensive. before reading this statement by her I just always saw luxuries as somehting expensive but after she put it like that I agreed totally. I found will callanders essay named life is a gift to be very interesting. I could relate to it easily because I have known many people with talents that threw them away. In high school some of our best players were eliminated from the basketball and football teams because of drugs grades or just something they chose to do instead. When someone would get an Minor in possesion they would be booted off the team. One of my good friends probably one of the best athletes in our grade was kicked off the team because of poor grades in school and skipping too much. he easily made the team always and it was a shame when the school lost him. My freshman year in high school I ran cross country and was not all that motivated by it. My parents wanted me to do it more than I did. They said I needed to do a sport to to keep out of trouble. After battling with them I took the next two years off sports and did my own things. My parents were dissapointed and to prove to them I was not lazy I had been secretly running up untill almost my senior year. I would ususally run twice a day and was ready to prove them wrong my senior year. Just before school started I decided to jump off a dangerous cliff. Sure enough I did not make the jump and landed on a rock 20 feet below starting another 50 foot cliff. The idea was to jump the whole distance without hitting the oujut but I broke my leg and obviously ended my plan to run cross country senior year. The movie Will mentioned friday night lights made me think of that occurance.
this is a picture of rienhold messner in the center and conrad anker on the left who lives here in bozeman and has accomplished many adventurous feats as well.
this is the rupal face of nanga parbat in the himalayas first ascended by reinhold and his brother near the top an avalanche took his brothers life and reinhold barely made it off the mountain alive.
Sir Ernest Shackelton.
