On The Mind: Fear and Love

Well in class we talked about love and fear, but one thing I do not think we went into too much depth about was how they are motivatotors. We got a great explanation from a studnet that fear and love branched off into all other emotions. Like fear branches into Psycopathy, Antipathy, and Apathy. Love branches off into Empathy, Sympathy, and Theopathy. But we never really talked about how both love and fear are both the strongest motivators of all.

Fear as a motivation is maybe the strongest motivator and one may argue that fear is the only motivator. That fear combines all other motivators into one. But in my opinion love and fear are two different motivators. Fear moves some people to do extraordinary things, things people could not or would not normally do. For example fear of failing a class leads you to stay up, study, do homework and so on. Fear of a dog makes you run faster than you normally can. But why? To tell the truth I have no idea why. No one can be positive why. Why do we no why can we do things like keep our selvs awake or run that little bit faster to get away. Some maybe able to answer this question with religon or science but where di we know what is right.

Love maybe a motivation all alone. When you love someone you are motivated to impress that person, to make that person love you back, make youself better for your significant other is this not motivation? Motivation by way of love maybe the strongest. Although I do not believe that I have ever truely loved someone, love is a strong word. In my opinion I am not old enough to love. I do not think anyone my age is old enough for love although some may think they have loved what do they define love as? To talk about Romeo and Juliet who were around 13 or 14 were they old enough to love? I guess love is based on opinion but one thing people cannot argue that it is a motivator. What is your opinion? What is love? What about fear? What is the best motivator?

On my Mind: Knocking on A Door

Illegal imigration to the United States has always been a problem, but I never really thought about it until it came up in my history class. We debated the new Nebrasken immagration law, weather it was a good or bad law to make. Although at first I thought I would be on the anti side about the law it turnes out that I really believe that the law is fair. After the topic came up in our English class I decided to share my knowlege about the law with my peers and state my opininions. Also because this topic is on my mind.

The Nebrasken immigration law simply states that people in the state have to carry proof that they are American citizens and the police have the right to ask for proof of citizenship. This law has kicked up A LOT of controversy because people beleive that the copst that enforce this law will perdudice. There are a lot of different view points that come up in this argument but they keep on going back and forth. There is a single analige that sums up my view point.

This analige something like this: When someone knocks on the door of a house they are let in, this is very different than breaking through the window and entering. The knocking on the door resembles getting into America legally, breaking in the window is illegally. This sums up my opinion of this law. Two people could argue for hours over whats right and wrong but in the end the immigrants are illegal. By "breaking into" the country they are breaking the system and ruining chances of others to get in. Action must be taken

Immediately to remove them. What do you guys and girls think am I wrong. Is there something you can arguee with me about, because my team won the debate. haha. 

The Puritan Dream

Many people come to the United States Of America in hopes of fulfilling a dream they have. One thing most people that come to the United States have in common is that they wish for freedom. Many groups have come thought history for freedom. Two of the first and most recognized groups to come to the United States for this idea freedom are the Pilgrims and the Puritans, both coming to set up a community. Although the two groups are very  similar in why they came to America they took drastically different views in history. The Puritans have become one of the most hated groups in American history as the Pilgrims became known for thanksgiving and friendliness. Although the Puritans are hated in history they undoubtedly contributed to the American Dream.

The American Dream has many different meanings to different people, and everyone thinks about it in a different way. Today the dream is much different than when the the idea of the American Dream began, even though one can not say when it actually began. Many ideas contribute to the American Dream but the most important idea is the idea of freedom. This idea began in America when the Puritans came here for freedom of religion. One can say that the Puritans gave off the idea that there should be a dream, they wanted freedom to set up a community with freedom to believe in what they wanted. This thought that people should be able to believe in what they wanted to was their contribution to the American Dream.

When the Puritans tried to fulfill this dream they failed. Their ideas and morals got messed up and instead of making a compact small community, they spread and illegally took land from the Indians. This is the first reason they are so hated. They claimed to want to convert Indians when they actually killed them and took there land. They wanted religious freedom but made a set religion for their group. They adapted some of the ways of church that they claimed to be negative. They became hypocrites, and arrogant. They "not only made it difficult for the people who lived among them; they made it impossible for anyone to live alongside them". The Puritans landed in Mass Bay in 1630 and by the seventeenth century the original Puritan Dream no longer existed. " Their dream of a city upon a hill became an empire on a continent". So when the question, if they deserve there reputation in history, arises I say, yes they completely deserve what they got. Not only did they lie to everyone they killed innocent people. The Puritans did contribute to the basis of the American Dream but they came way to short of their dream of freedom. The only thing they did contribute was the idea they deserve no more credit than that.          

The Chammas Family and The American Dream

The American Dream can have different meanings to different people, but the basics of this dream are all similar. All the ideas of what this dream mean tie into self-improvement. No matter what, a "dream" is a wanting of something  (or somebody). The American dream combines many dreams to form a big dream that for some people is a necessity and others do not pay attention to it. The American dream has affected my family in many ways and only started about 20 years ago.

It was about 20 yeas ago that my father moved to America, and it was not easy for him. My father began working when he was around 12 and has worked every in his life since then. He worked with his father in roofing and tiling. After a few years when he was around 16 he moved to Kweit where he worked in anything he could find. After many difficult years of hard labor he finally got his green card and passport and was able to move to the United States, beginning his American Dream. It was not easy but my father learned English and began working. He finally bought his own Gas Station and on a trip back to Lebanon met my mother they got married. After returning to America as a new husband my parents began a family. First came my sister Wadad, then Marilyn, then me, then Tony, then Nancy and finally Jacob. In my opinion my father did in-fact Achieve his American dream because he has a Family, has a car, a job, a house, an income, friends, and most importantly life, liberty, and prosperity. 

My father began with little to nothing and he worked hard and grew as a person. He made a living in America and has set up for his children to do the same. He is strict when it comes to school and expects we do are best. With his help I am setting up to build my own American dream and progressing through it. My brothers and sisters do the same and one day we will to be setting up a dream for our children as the cycle of life continues and the meaning of tis American dream continues to change.