ipl-logo

Be Nice To The Environment By Enock Maregesi

364 Words2 Pages

“Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.” This is one of my favorite quotes by Enock Maregesi because it summarizes what I aspire to be. When I graduate high school in the next year and a half, I would like to attend a Texas university and become an environmental engineer. On my mind are Texas State University and A&M. Currently, I am taking the classes I believe will help me follow this career, such as AP Physics, Pre-AP pre-calculus, and engineering design at the Center for Careers and Technical Education. I am a member of the National Honor Society at my school, and I volunteer at school and at my community. I am also a member of my school’s theatre club. We put

Show More
Related

  • The Perils Of Indifference By Ellie Wiesel

    936 Words  | 4 Pages

    What is the right thing to do? Ellie Wiesel believes people should do the right thing, but more importantly these should choose a side. Indifference is worse than anger, rage, and hatred as Ellie said, “Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem, a great symphony, have done something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses”(Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference). With indifference people are only punishing the victim and helping to achieve the goal of the unrighteous.

    Read More

  • 'Battling Bad Science' By Ben Goldacre

    182 Words  | 1 Pages

    In the Ted talk on "Battling Bad Science", the speaker Ben Goldacre tackles the lack of critical analysis by the public of scientific claims by debunking popular medical claims and exposing methods of borderline falsifying evidence behind claims. Science is a unique subject varying from all others in many rights, particularly when it comes to the critical analysis of its claims by the general public. Unlike politics, law, history, etc., science is given huge leeway to make uncontested claims by the public, where as in other fields their claims are scrutinized before being accepted. On the contrary, people willingly expect dodgy “scientific” claims which often contradict themselves.

    Read More

  • The Good Earth By Wang Lung And His Wife O-Lan

    1341 Words  | 6 Pages

    Hard Work Hard work is something everybody should give into what they do. The amount of effort given puts a great impact on the result. A lot of effort really makes a difference. However, there are times when even though hard work is done, the results still do not go as planned.

    Read More

  • Steven Pinker's The Better Angels Of Our Nature

    644 Words  | 3 Pages

    In Chapter 4, of The Better Angels of our Nature, Steven Pinker illustrates how ideas such as good sense and science have helped aid in the historical revolution that has led us to react to extreme violence and torture with horror. According to Pinker, the Humanitarian Revolution was “propelled by ideas, by explicit arguments that institutionalized violence ought to be minimized or abolished, and some of it was propelled by a change in sensibilities” (133). He claims that this period is where “people began to sympathize with more of their fellow humans”(133) and shifted from “valuing souls to valuing lives”(143). Pinker states that the Civilizing Process that precisely proceeded the Humanitarian Revolution was a time where a physical repulsion came about and credits “moral repulsion,” characterized

    Read More

  • Margaret Mead's Quote Analysis

    517 Words  | 3 Pages

    My quote is by Margaret Mead, which states the following: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has”. I choose this particular quote because, I feel that it is up to everybody to have an impact on how the world can change, in order to be a better place to live. People working together can get a lot accomplish, whereas people not working together cannot accomplish a lot.

    Read More

  • Comparing Lord Of The Flies, The Giver, And The Wave

    473 Words  | 2 Pages

    “In this world, your conduct affects not only you but the conduct of other people as well.” “Letter to Susan” Margaret Banning. Some people debate whether your actions can affect others. I believe that you set an example for others and are responsible for the actions of others. Throughout my three years in middle school, I read many books that had a similar theme.

    Read More

  • All The Light We Cannot See By Antony Doerr

    216 Words  | 1 Pages

    All the Light We cannot see is a two plot novel written by the American author Antony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Doerr’s compelling novel revolves around its two main characters: Marie-Laure, a sixteen year old blind girl who lived with his father in Paris, and Werner, an orphaned Nazi youth who lived with his sister at Germany. The story of Werner and Marie-Laure are two sides of a same coin because Doerr tells the story simultaneously. The story is set against the back drop of both Germany and France, prior to and during the German occupation of France.

    Read More

  • Digging In By Robert Hastings

    436 Words  | 2 Pages

    Everyone has depression, but did you know on October 29, 1929 the whole US went into depression. People lost their jobs, people lost their homes and lot’s of other things. Every bits and piece was super valuable at that time. Some effects the Great Depression had on people at that time was people lost their money. In an article called Digging In by Robert Hastings a girl explains how importants every minute of light is.

    Read More

  • Dr Blake Ellis Impact On Education

    357 Words  | 2 Pages

    My professor and Phi Theta Kappa advisor, Dr. Blake Ellis, has had a tremendous impact on me. He is not only the most brilliant person I have ever met, but he is also extremely passionate about his career choice, education, and about living life to the fullest. I believe there are to many people who simply go through college only to obtain a degree. Sadly, I used to be one of those people. However, once I met Dr. Ellis, my view on my own educational journey changed completely, and for the better.

    Read More

  • Don T You Think It's Time To Start Thinking? By Northrop Frye

    398 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the essay, “Don't you think It's Time to Start Thinking?” by Northrop Frye, published in the Toronto Star in 1986, tells how Northrop Frye was concerned about how often students are expressing their ideas without articulate them. And for this reason, the author feels that they do not have any sense of language as a structure. At the same time it provide information about how students and people in general should start thinking. When I read the title of this essay, I thought that will be just about the way that students were thinking but not critically.

    Read More

  • Angie Bachmann's The Power Of Habit

    1164 Words  | 5 Pages

    We as human beings can create our own habits, and also have the will power and the responsibility to change them, and ourselves. In the book The Power of Habit, it tells a life event about a woman who by gambling lost everything she had. Angie Bachmann, a house wife found herself bored at home, and resulted in going to a casino to distract herself. Being at home, she felt unskilled and alone, so she decided to try the casino. Bachmann, however, found herself going every day to the casino and after a few months, she couldn’t stop.

    Read More

  • Nonmoral Nature By Stephen Jay Gould

    732 Words  | 3 Pages

    In his essay, “Nonmoral Nature”, Stephen Jay Gould examines nineteenth and twentieth natural theology and its explanation of the existence of evil in nature. Natural theology, as Gould puts it, is “the antiquated doctrine that attempted to infer God 's essence from the products of his creation”. Natural theologians believed that God displayed his benevolence through his creations and attempts to find an explanation for the events that occur in nature. Gould discusses this way of reasoning through the question: “If God is benevolent and the Creation displays his “power, wisdom and goodness,” then why are we surrounded with pain, suffering, and apparently senseless cruelty in the animal world?” By pain and suffering, Gould refers to the act of predation found in carnivorous species.

    Read More

  • Robert Waldinger's What Makes A Good Life

    268 Words  | 2 Pages

    Relationships play an important role in the quest for the “good life.” According to Robert Waldinger in What Makes a Good Life, “The feeling of loneliness can be toxic” and that those who feel lonely are “more likely to have declining health and memory at an early age.” People who experience these feelings won’t have the healthy and able body that they need in order to reach their “good life.” As Professor Watkins also said in lecture, no one reflects on their experiences in life and says, “Wow! I had a great and lonely life!” Although these people may be happy in specific moments of their life, they won’t be able to emotionally reach their “good life.”

    Read More

  • U-Fit Reflection

    1071 Words  | 5 Pages

    If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.” –Will Smith. If I could put my exact thoughts and life actions into a quote the one above would be just that. Something I truly believe in and live by is making another persons life better.

    Read More

  • Critical Analysis Of The World Is Too Much With Us By William Wordsworth

    737 Words  | 3 Pages

    In his timeless poem, “The World Is Too Much With Us”, William Wordsworth bemoans the state of the world and how people so ignore creation. Wordsworth was an English poet in the in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His childhood was a traumatic time as he moved from one place to another after the tragic death of his mother. As he grew older, so did his passion for poetry and he soon published in a magazine when he was only seventeen. Despite stains on his character, including a relationship out of marriage, he continues to be revered as one of the greatest poets from that period of history.

    Read More

More about Be Nice To The Environment By Enock Maregesi

Open Document