Get Organized: A tribute to Aristotle

The project that laid before me was to organize me closet. This, well, was not going to be an easy feat. The aftermath of an atomic bomb could be equivalent to the mess that stood behind those doors. I was hesitant at first to actually do this. I thought about just writing the response and not doing anything but, after some reflection, I realized that cleaning the chaos would be for the better.

It took some time to pull myself to start the retrieval. I always seem to clean a mess by making a bigger one. I pulled out the junk that was at the bottom of my closet and and organized it into clothes, garbage, and stuff that needed to leave. This step took some time but was fairly simple and was done with ease.

Then I removed the junk off the shelves. I knew my clothes on hangers were fine where they were so I didn't need to organize them. The amount of stuff that was on top in my closet was much more then I thought. I found a whole bunch of camping and climbing equipment that I thought I had lost. I then again organized between needed things and unnecessary goods. The objects that I wanted to keep I rearranged and put back in groups of likeness. Books with books. Games with games. Climbing and scouting equipment all together.

In the long run it didn't take that much time at all. The clothes, which made up most of the mess, were put into the laundry to be washed later, into the hand-me-down bin (every year my family sends clothes that I can't fit into anymore to family friends children) or they are cut into rags. I cleaned it up and it looks super nice. I even had extra time to organize my hangers.

From this I realized that if you don't think about the work and just do it it goes by faster than if you worry and let is consume your mind.

An Inconvenient Truth: We Are Not Equal

  It has been drilled into us before pre-k. All man has been created equal and is equal amongst each other. But is that really the case? Are we all equal? Because I don't think we are.

   

  As living organisms there is variation from parent to child. New mutations and new genetics. As they said in first grade, "Everyone is unique. Just like a snowflake". Well that got me thinking. If everyone is unique how can we be equal. Yes, like the snowflakes, we are all human but we have differences. No two people learn information the exactly the same way. As studies have shown there is better ways of learning but everyone is unique. People also have different learning speeds and comprehensive abilities. So no two people are equal on an curriculum standpoint. 

  Under the premise of education there also needs to be consideration for the what kind of education the students receive. Some communities don't have good school systems. It is not always their fault but it causes inequality. 

  Communities that are different has vast diversity among the people. How can anyone say that a korean american immigrant is equal to a white suburban child? It just isn't real.

EQUALITY DOES NOT MEAN EQUAL

  I do firmly believe that everyone should have the same rights and opportunities to succeed in the world. That there should be no discrimination due to race, color, creed, sexuality, family history, or genetics. The fact that we need equality is that people are not equal.

   The inconvenient truth of this world is that people aren't equal. Students should stop being taught that everyone is equal because that statement is a big fat lie. Instead, students should learn about others differences. They should be educated about the world and how people range in culture and belief. If people are taught about why people are different they are more willing to stand up and unite for equal opportunity.

Because the world we live in vastly colored and so unbelievably diverse. Even though we are not all equal. We should still uphold the ideas that everyone deserves that chance. 

Connection: Socrates and Test Tube Babies

   For about twenty-five hundred years Socrates has been claimed to be one of the worlds greatest philosophers. Her is the base of all questioning and the real start of the "What is Humanity" movement. His interesting questioning process led him to be renounded for challenging the status quo. His challenging of what is thought to be right and what should be looked deeper at.   Socrates appears in our classes novel Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. He is the bases for the main character, Sophie, to understand how little we know as people and knowing that we know little makes us wise. He is a explorative tool that can open a world to new possibilities by trying to understand what is out there.
   Recently, a huge push in scientific research has brought the attention of genetic engineering into the inner circle of daily science. This new, profound, way of making life is challenging the current views of many ethics. Now, you may be saying "what does socrates have to do with gentic engineering" but the truth is, he has everything to do with it.
   He is the push. The looking forward of new life. Test tube babies are a new creation that can limit disease and perfect humanity. It can accelerate learing and reshape humanity. However, like all things in science, ethics is apart of the decisions. Socrates always challenged what was known. And, at the root of it, that is what science is. There is the continuos test of pushing boundaries and making new limits. Socrates would challenged why create new life? Is there consequences? Does it lose humanity?
   But wouldn't he also ask why not? Wouldn't he try to find the answers for the good in it? He would look to learn about why people want this science. Why people would want better children.
   It may seem like a stretch to compare the insanity of one man twenty-five hundred years ago to a radical new science of current day, but they're both closely intertwined in the nature of what is to become of science in the future.