Significant roles of life

I was kind of excited when Sal was saying to sit in circle and something to do about groups. I like what we did in class that he told to write about different groups we fit in like friend, family, school, religious,etc. I love to do that because we are doing kind of same thing in English like different roles of us in different groups. We did the same thing first we write down the different groups. After, we wrote what's our role in particular group? When everybody is finish, Sal ask students different questions about important about our groups. Like why do we pick family as a major groups. who we are and explain to class. It was very nice conversation and I learned a lot from other students like how they chose their role and why? Also, some pick family, some friends, school, religion,etc. So, this is very interesting to me that how people are connected to different people in their life. This is one way to get to know each other, learn something new and think about what should be our next step to do something good about our self. For me, I choose family because they had been supported through my life, make good decisions, try to teach me a good lessons about life and they struggle for me. I would say family is most important for me and I think everybody us too. First time I came to USA 2 years ago it was very hard for me to communicate with different people, hard to make friends, try to learn more English, get to know each other etc. I go to temple mostly every Sunday and teach American born Indian kids about what is Indian culture and teach them out native language. How to write and read. This is very good experience ever I had.

Second most important thing was that we divided into two different groups in class today was Black vs. colorful. We have to write about why they other groups were colorful clothes. People from my groups came up with good ideas like weather, fashion, they woke up early,etc. But from the different group they were being rude to us means we wear black because we are down in life, we look Skinner, devil and some quoted like that show us how they thing about ours. we learn something about In-out groups. Students always think different about opposite groups was kind of harmful. Also, I would say about I think does not matter what you wear because sometimes people think about their race, ethnicity, and thinking. However, I don't like that to separate from other people. Easy to forgot things but nothing is hard to remember. some people even does not care just seat there and do nothing. But from this is very bad that people does not do well in this activity.

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Blizard Ruined Chicago

First of all, I would say about F-227 this is great story that I read. I would not eat the people just because try to survive in difficult situation. Sometimes, I thought how would you eat a person or animal(meat)? In my whole life I never ever had chicken, meat, or even eggs. Because if you think about it if you kill animal and eat their meat, that is so disgusting to me. I think they should use any other way to survive. This is against my culture, and my views to eat dead body of person. One time, in India, I was stuck on the traffic for 3 days just because of lot of rain like here is snow. We were going to religious place, and on our way there was lot of rain and all Lake water came to the ground so, water was everywhere on the road. we stuck there for 3 days we could not move or talk to someone because of heavy rain. Cellphone does not work but still we survive through. Like we seat on the car, we just drink, some snacks. Anyways, let think about spit. Like when we did activity like Sal pick one volunteer to spit on the spoon, and after few minutes he said swallow it back but it was gross. In class, everybody thought spitting is gross but I think that's not when Sal was giving examples. That means we just thought different kind of thinking on different situation. Just like baseball player, and even in my country people play cricket, and they spit a lot nobody cares so much like here. So, from this I would said in different country or region people think different about spitting.

Let me tell you, I never ever thought that Stevenson give 2 snow days this is very amazing. I been here in USA for 2 years, and I was shocked by this 20 inch snow. After school on Tuesday, I went to home and I went to subway for work. Everything went well but when I was coming back I got stuck in parking lot because lot of snow under my car. I try to get out of it but it does not work well. After, I call police to help him he came but it doesn't work out well. I was angry, and put my car there and I call my cousin to pick me up. I put my car there for 2 days and got my car yesterday. It was crazy experience for me. Even though, my cousin was coming back from job in Wednesday morning in snow he got stuck on road, he call me for help, and I went outside and snow was higher than my thighs. Also, in the afternoon, my all neighbors came outside. and we all shovel the snow together. We enjoy to work out together. This is kind of get to know each other, try to help someone and communicate. But this snow I will never forgot. This is very crazy days for me. But everything went well and I would say nothing is hard to survive but nothing is easy to get.

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Social Imagination and Mindfulness

Social imagination that allows us to understand and predict other people behavior, like how they talk, make sense of abstract ideas, and to imagine situation outside our immediately daily routine. I would say this is matter on where people are from and how they live, their lifestyle, thinking, ideas, etc. It all depends on social imagination. In class, story of Gladwell writes that Stewart Wolf discovered that for men over 65, the death rate from heart disease in Roseto was roughly half that of the United States as a whole. The people in this society were healthier not because of their diet or location, but because of where they lived and who they were living with. The close-knit community in this town established strong, human bonds. It shows how these people were the sum of their communities, rather than their own individual actions and decisions. So from this i would say social imagination depends on how people live, where they from, relationship with others. when wolf was researching the people who lived in Roseto, Wolf was able to find statistical data on the claim that this society was healthier because it functioned more as a group-oriented society and less of an individual-oriented society. lot of things going around in school, outside of school, at job,and it is hard to communicate to people around as it is really hard when they all from different countries and way they live life. it is hard when all people around as are different then we talked. When having a sociological imagination, you are able to analyze situations and people more carefully. You can become more wise and learn that not every one is like you.

Social Mindfulness- For social mindfulness, seems to convey that people act a different way with each other based on where they were born, and what time period they grew up in. The mindfulness of it all is to understand that everything is linked and to be aware that not only do one's surroundings affect the person but the person has an effect on everyone, everything around them. I would say how people think about world as a whole because when i am thinking about that how can people live without some sociology like they have to think certain things like interact with certain groups. Their different roles in life. Also, I think about future that what should be happen in future. Like, right now we are suffering lot of problems around us. We see how people react with others but when we think about mindfulness or sociology we might get good solution. With my life, since I was in 1st grade I used to interact with people that are different then me or different on their thinking and how they live. I born in India but I want to connect to or see different people from different area or time period , and I want to talk with them. My parents always told me to do somethings different for life. Sometimes they said,"If you involve more with others, that way you learn somethings from other that around world." I want my life to be great for my parents because they are the only one who supported me during my life in every problems. humans can change society by their thinking, how they involve with other people, their thoughts, etc. i am thinking about world is going to change in few years because we heard lot of different problems around world going on.

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Silence is friend of God

Today, I found something new in Sal class is we start class with silence. He came and said let's get started and he sit on corner of the class. Also, he did not say anything and whole class was looking at him to say something, because from 1st grade we learn that teacher always in front of the class and we listen them what they said. But for Sal class i was feel very awkward and thinking about he say something. Some classmates said "what's up" and start introduce them self but still there was silent, i feel very awkward that time. The one quote by Mother Teressa, “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.” This is very truth that nature like trees, flowers , grows in silence. But this is not awkward because this is true, when we are in class in Sal was sitting in the back of the room and whole class in silent that was very awkward. Everyone in the class basically just looked around and didn't know what to do. It was almost as if the other kids were talking all at once but nothing was being said. If you could hear what they were all thinking it would have been extremely loud and would drown out the silence. I had the same experience in India when i was in school and teacher came to class and did not say anything for whole class period, i thought this is very awkward when teacher didn't say anything first day of the school. Also, after few minutes he said take out the books and read from it. So, i thought why do we do that? That was very awkward that what can we do? It was the first day of the class. I thought that is the same thing happen in Sal class. So from this class we learn something new because from the beginning of the school we learn come to class on time, listen the teachers instruction, do homework on time in like that. Something that similar happened to me in the class like this silence.

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Purpose and meaning of life

Who am I? This is very good question that we thought we can answer by our self but this is hard to find about our self that who we are? I would say overall i m good person, very friendly, good student, always positive, thinking good always, try to help someone in bad situation or in trouble. I am senior in high school, and I want to be engineer. I am new in USA because I just came here 2 years ago from India. I finish my 10th grade in India, and I got an award in my native language; I got first number in whole state. I had very hard time learning English and try to understand American people like how they talk to other people. However, last year I got an award in school about best effort in English. I had encourage by lot of people in school, and they taught me lot of good things.I came to USA for my bright future and want to get good job to get more money. Therefore, I live with my parents and my uncle-aunt in USA.
Biggest influence in my life is from my parents that i have to work hard in USA because they live here for me. Also, they have lot of hopes for me that i will work hard, and get a good job after college. They always thought me good things what should i do? That makes me more influence in my life that i have to work hard no matter what. In addition, my school teachers influence me lot by like never ever give up. Always, try something to do something new. they have lot of high expectation about me.
My goals are getting in good college, get good job, try to help my parents, and become a good engineer. My goals for future are getting new home, business, and some money spending in charity. Goals is not like what you think that what we are going to do, but we have to work hard to achieve that goals. Purpose of my life is that try to be a good to everyone, help people in any situation, learn something new about different people, culture and world. Also, live a good life that does not mean you live a good life but try to help someone, be friendly, honest, and respectful to other people and that people talk about you after you died. That means you had a good life and you purpose are becoming successful. Another purpose of my life is praying to God, obey my parents, listen all people when they give a advice. So, overall i would say do something that makes your life smooth, easy, and successful.
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