Blog post #4

Rejection

Responsibility is shown and defined in daily ways at my age. Perhaps one way most teens can relate to this would be bullying or regular high school drama. Let's set up a similar scenario to what occurs in a typical 2013 high school. A girl, Becky, says some harsh things about one of her classmates, Susie, on a social media website. One of their other classmates, Jackie, sees it and tells the girl. Susie goes to confront Becky and decides to use harsh words and violence. Both Becky and Susie get expelled. Does Jackie have any responsibility in this? All she did was make Susie aware of what was being said, right? Wrong. I feel that Jackie would be just as responsible because if she would have not told, it would have not escalated. But also, Becky is responsible because of what she said. The responsibility of ones self has to come from the fear of convictions. If someone does something they know is not right, they should take responsibility for it and not let other people get blamed.

Projects..

When I become presented with an important project, personal or academic, I always find a way to complete the project to the best of my ability. Last summer I was a "Rising Star"/ intern at Mercy Regional. It was a responsibility and a project for me to be able to wake up every day at 6 a.m. during my summer break, sit through meetings, get along with my co-workers, take notes, and watch surgeries. Since I was so young and oblivious to all of this, it took me a little while to get a fully comprehend certain things that happen within the hospital. One specific project within this internship was to broadcast Mercy's breast cancer survivors in a “dance-off”, hospital vs. hospital. They assigned it to us and we did it to the best of our ability. The Rising Stars had to go to Crushers stadium and get the whole audience to do a routine dance. Some of the most difficult aspects of this event would have to be; getting money to make all of this happen, passing out information, and getting everybody enthused about it. The result of this project was making our cancer survivors realize that they are not alone, and the hospital they got treated at is and will always be behind them 100%. I believe it helped a lot of women to realize that Mercy is not just a business, but a family. It helped the community spotlight and recognize people who have been through so much. Overall, to me anything that helps liberate others is worth all of my time and dedication.

People have explored what they believe is the unknown since the beginning of time. People have not only discovered the unknown from visiting places, but from experimenting certain things relating to technology. From Christopher Columbus to Bill Gates you can see how many years of incoming discoveries there have been and are left. I personally would not devote my whole life to something that I am not %90 sure about and have faith in. I would have to make sure whatever I was spending my life on is valuable and not a waste of my time. Individual’s become devoted to this type of work because they find a topic/concept that interest them, come up with an approach to it, and then embark on it with all the faith they have. Quite exceptional things have came out of these explorations and I suppose horrid things have became of them as well.