Week 2 Personal Blog Post

Cultures around the world tend to share many common traits. Most cultures value family, health, and some sort of religion. Of course, to some, certain things are more important than others. I find the way the American culture has evolved to be very interesting. American's seem to put a huge emphasis on money and power.
Over the summer i traveled to the eastern hemisphere. One of the few things that reminded me of America was the war. Other than that i couldn't help but notice the attitude the people of the various cultures i visited possessed. No matter what the family was the most important aspects of their lives. The only people you would find working every day were the people struggling to move their family to safer living conditions, or in some cases, America. Businesses close over weekends for people to spend time with their families and go to church. Unlike the dont talk to strangers policy in America, the natives were always quite friendly with me, even when they could tell i was an American.
Families wish to migrate to America. They know the U.S. as the land of oppurtunity. It is incredibley difficult to get a Visa to travel to the United States. What these foreigners do not know is the discrimination and difficult path they must endure just to get by in this western land. They don't realize how hard life can be for Americans. How easily they forget what really is important in life when money blinds their values. But is it that Americans are vein or that we are smart and making for a better future for their family and for the country?

Week 1 Personal Blog

While surfing on myspace i surprisingly started to think about my homework. I remembered, "GOD! I have to make a blog. What's he even trying to teach us with this? What am i going to write? Everyones gonna think i sound like an idiot." So i stopped to think for a minute. I then began to realize that eportfolios could change the entire college application and education experience. Along with Scott i also envisioned the eportfolio trend taking its place over the next decade as an efficient way of displaying work and letting others know what's beyond that which meets the eye. If college applicants had an area to show what type of person they are and what makes them different from another applicant, it could drasticly change the way universities accepted people. Also, if college students had another area upon which their writing could be judged with less restrictions it could change the teaching styles of many professors to teach students how to be more socially educated as well as intellectually advanced. I am very excited to see how my eportfolio turns out and what becomes of the system. Who knows? Maybe it will even take over myspace. Haha.