Good Results from Lehrer’s Heart Attack

In English I'm learning about Jim Lehrer.  So I had the assignment of writing about the pros to his heart attack he had...  ALLONS-Y!!!

Good Results from Lehrer’s Heart Attack

Lehrer gained quite a bit of wisdom while recovering from his heart attack.  In fact, because of his experience, Lehrer was able to give advice to people about researching whether or not any of their families have had any past heart attacks.  Because of that, he was able to save a few people’s lives because they took his advice.  When they felt their chest start to hurt, the victims were able to rush to the hospital before anything serious happened.  For instance, one lady felt her chest start to hurt.  She immediately rushed to the hospital and actually collapsed right in front of the reception desk.  The doctors were able to save her life because she had acted so quickly.  In addition to teaching people about heart attack risk, he was able to make a bucket list of things he wanted to do.  When he was in his twenties, he collected his father’s old bus signs.  Now he had time to collect an entire arrangement of different bus signs.   This was something he did not have time to do while he was working as a reporter.

Stories of My Life: Autobiography

Sooooooooooo I was given the prompt of writing down three stories I could potentially write about in my autobiography (if I ever write one)...  ALLONS-Y!!!

Since the day I first learned how to talk I always wanted a brother or a sister so whenever I got the chance to say the prayer I’d ask for one.  Anyways, that process continued on and on until I was nine and a half years old.  As you could probably guess, I was beginning to loose hope that I was EVER going to have a brother or sister.  But one magical day a miracle happened…  WE ADOPTED A LITTLE BABY GIRL!!!  And the next year we adopted a baby boy!!!

A few years later I became a middle school student.  Back then, my I-Q was about knee-high to a grasshopper and I had no concept of what an attention span was.  My mother, being concerned of my well being, was kind enough to homeschool me for middle school.  I may have been a bit lonely but at least when I finished, my I-Q had become HUCH larger.  In fact, the grasshopper was now knee-high to my I-Q and not the other way around.

I got smarter as I homeschool but my loneliness skyrocketed.  So, I turned to a writing site called FanFiction for comfort.  FanFiction is a site in which you can write stories about your fandom.  While on that site I made quite a few friends.  Pretty soon one of the writers and I became so close that we started skyping, emailing, and face-booking one another.  We always talked about meeting in real life some day.  Just this summer our wish came true.  I flew out to visit my online friend; to say I was nervous was an understatement!  Fortunately, my family came with me, it conforted me to know I had support.  My penpal and I became best friends in the week we spent together.  In fact, when I left I cried the most I’d ever cried in my life!  I missed my new friend so much!   My penpal and I still talk to each other non-stop.  In fact, we’re already planning our next visit already and are already planning out everything we're going to do.  We've been trying to schedule it so that maybe we could spend more than just a week together.

Online Schooling isn't bad for Society... Will it Put Teachers Out of Work

Let's just pretend that everyone decided to do online schooling for this prompt thingy...  ALLONS-Y!

Online schooling is not bad for society; though it will put teachers out of classroom work.  The good thing about online schooling is that you can choose your curriculum, and a teacher you can connect and maybe even relate to too make the subjects more interesting and bearable.  Also, there is the amazing feeling of working in the comfort of your own home.  Lastly, you can re-watch or re-read parts of the lesson that didn’t make sense.

Now like I said, online schooling will put teachers out of their classroom work.  One solution to this is that teachers make their own online curriculum.  Teachers don’t have to worry about being fired or teaching what the government wants them to teach because they get to teach what they think is best.  Though in this case, only the best teachers will succeed.  Kids like finding teachers who make a super boring and lame subject interesting because they can learn it and remember what they’ve learned while enjoying it as well.

One of the best parts of using online classes is that you can work in the comfort of you own home.  Who doesn’t dream about working on classes that have somehow become interesting while sitting on a comfortable couch sipping their favorite beverage?

Last but not least it is so very helpful when you’re using an online curriculum because you can re-read or re-watch any and all parts a lesson that don’t make sense to you unlike in a regular classroom where you listen and hopefully you remember what the teacher says.

So yes, maybe a few teachers would loose their jobs but they can go into other fields of work.  Not only that but children will be able to pick and choose curriculums and teachers according to their needs while being able to learn in the comfort of their home and have the ability to re-read and watch anything that doesn’t make sense to them.

The Family Government

The Family Government

The family is a form of government.  It has all five characteristics that a government needs to even be considered a form of government: sovereignty, authority(hierarchy), law, sanctions, and succession.

The family government has sovereignty.  The parent or guardian is person in charge and is responsible for the children or other members of the family.  Families have the right to exclude others from entering their home or becoming a part of the family.

The family has a sense of authority; the other members report to the one in charge (parent, guardian, etc…).  This isn’t something one member can do, but the whole family needs to have some type or form of self-government to establish some kind of peace throughout the household.

The family needs to have law (rules).  In other words, the family needs rules to live by.  Without this major component, a household is utter chaos because no one would know what the boundaries are or the consequences for their decisions.

Also, the family imposes sanctions to reward those who obey the rules set before them and discipline those who don’t obey.  This also keeps order in the home because then members realize what they get if they obey and disobey.

And last but not least, the family must have succession to thrive.  One member might decide not to have kids, which brings up the risk of the family name dying out.  Perhaps that person has siblings, which then brings the likelihood of the family name continuing for more than one generation down, the process is continuous and is forever lasting.

Is the Family a Legitimate Form of Government?

Heh, heh...  Hi guys!  So I am now starting to use this blog to post all my school assignments.  So sorry if it's super-duper boring...  I don't like boring stuff...

So, here is the first one:

Is the Family a Legitimate Form of Government?

The family is indeed a legitimate form of government.  It acts as a sort of sovereignty as it does fit the requirements to be one.  The family expects obedience from its members.  The parents are the ones in charge making the rules.  Parents also set up sanctions, there are consequences for when the members obey or disobey.

Families are established by oath (marriage), which is enforceable by the courts in a church or state.  These give both positive and negative sanctions for the family to endure.  Some of the many positive sanctions are: financial support, emotional support in times of need, allows education, and is enabled inheritance.  In contrast, the negative sanctions include: the discipline of children and the exclusion of invaders such as: violence, theft, slander, and fraud.

Since a family acts a sort of sovereignty, members have to ask the questions: how can we settle disputes regularly?  How can boundaries be established?  How can sanctions be made fair? And finally, how can predictability (consistency) be maintained?

Families can settle disputes peacefully if they give one another emotional support.  Parents and their children establish boundaries and consequences.  If they do so and are consistent in keeping those boundaries and sanctions, they gain a sort of predictability.