Carneca The Younger Legacy Summary

Legacy to me means, after you die what people think of you. It means every little thought someone had in their mind when you died. It means what people will always remember you by. I want my legacy to inspire others and make them feel like sometimes the only thing you can do is give kindness. I also think quirkiness can be a great legacy too. To me, kindness and quirkiness is the key to life.

Family. What is it? According to dictionary.com it states a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. In the documentary This is Life, (starring Vincent Chou) he tells us about how he leaves his family behind in order to go to America and earn a living. From this example it implies that people go to the USA , most of the time to help their families, to feed them and give them things that they want. The documentary Which Way Home talks about how little kids want to be able to help their family members. To support them, to feed them, and to have opportunities, like education. Young kids who are going to the USA at this age are expecting something good. To benefit themselves and his or her family, but when they get to the USA it is nothing as they expected it to be. From this statement people count on this unreliable lie that you can do anything when you get to the US, but they are wrong when they finally get there. In the documentary Immigration Battle we see that children that have lost their parents from the law that was passed for illegal immigrants coming into the states. The children who have lost their parents explicitly tell the crowd how they feel about this unethical law. Most of America is made up of immigrants why does the government do this to families? Family, it can make you do crazy things in life just to help them, just like Lourdes

The individual will have given a meaning to their life and will be able to share their experiences, offering a kind of mentorship to younger generations.

ntroduction: Family is an integral part of many American’s lives it shapes how we grew up, how we interconnect with society, and how we choose to live our lives. “The American Family” by Stephanie Coontz is an essay comparing the way of the family from several points in time to show what changes have come about for better or worse. Her points may be biased and in order to seek confirmation of her points, the memories of individuals who have lived through the longer span of time will provide incite as to whether others agree with her. I have conducted such an interview with my grandparents Linda Jolliffe, being 70, and Earl Jolliffe, being 73. By reading Coontz’s essay aloud I was able to record and analyze their thoughts and opinions from their perspective, and compare theirs with mine while taking a look into why bias has such an effect when writing.

We are all selfish no matter how hard we try to deny it. I learned this by listening to the speech “This is Water”, by David Foster Wallace. In the speech, Wallace discusses that if we actually think about what we think about, then we can make our lives better. He also talks about how the exact same experience means two different things to two different people based on their beliefs. Another thing he talks about is that we are all self-centered and tend to interpret life just thinking about ourselves. I completely agree with Wallace’s ideas of people being self-centered and also that people give different meanings to the exact same thing, because they make sense and also because that is how we all think, but no one wants to accept it.

Kingsolver expresses that each family has an opportunity to be happy and blossom, despite how many members of the family they have or who they grow up with. “The sooner we let go of the fairy tale of families functioning perfectly in isolation, the better we embrace the relief of the community,” (Kingsolver

A key factor in human nature is for people to be selfish and it is

Good morning 7D and Mr McLaren today i will be presenting my research data and start analyzing and compare which of my to suburbs are more liveable. In this task I was given Carina it is a suburb in Brisbane with a population of 11025 and is 4.5km big its exact location is 27.4858° S, 153.1000° E the other suburb is yet again located in Brisbane it is Everton park, Everton Park has a population of 8862 and is 4.2km in size after conducting my investigation I have found that Carina is more liveable i have discovered this by looking at the Economical, Environmental and Social factors of

The Legacy chapter from The Gift of Years; Growing Older Gracefully, starts with a powerful quote from the Roman Philosopher, Seneca, “Nothing is more dishonorable than the old, heavy with years who have no other evidence of having lived long except age.” (Chittister, pg.215). This sentence carries not just a statement of the importance of our legacy, but a challenge to examine whether we fall into this “dishonorable” category of having done nothing with our lives and if so, a challenge to change. The author begins by defining the difference between a property based, monetary legacy and a legacy defined by how we touch the world and lives of others. In society today, we are surrounded by material temptations of fancy cars, houses, electronics,

Throughout human history, people often tend to contemplate what their purpose in life is. While some people live life oblivious, others feel as if they need to make a difference in society during their lifetime. Those who want to make a difference want to leave a legacy in which they will be remembered throughout history. Only a few have been able to leave a legacy, which last for more than hundreds of years such as Plato or William Shakespeare. As the world spins and times passes by, everything that once had lived slowly turns into dust. Basically the only thing that remains are the memories and the impact you had towards others. In the novel of The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, Nikki who is the main character in the novel, feels that

I define family by a group of people that communicate on regular basic, care for each other, and love each other unconditionally. I think that I was able to construct that definition when I realized that my “relatives” weren’t related to me at all. And then realized I talk to the people who I was related to all more than the people who were considered “blood”. I’ve never been to a family house where I have considered them perfect, every family has their personal issues as well as their own strength.

The life that I have chosen to live should be used as a future reference to others. I want people to look back on my life and utilize every mistake and accomplishment that I have made as a guide to their success. We all make mistakes because we are all human. Humans are perfectly imperfect. In order for people to learn from your mistakes, you need to be able to recognize a mistake when you have made one. In the future, people can look back on your failures and use them to their advantage as inspiration to generate more sophisticated decisions. The achievements we make in our life reassure the ideas of others and strengthen their mindsets so they believe that they can achieve anything. The legacy that I intend to leave behind should encourage and inspire people to follow in my footsteps, but to correct my mistakes so they can live up to their full potential and be the best version of themselves in order to achieve their

The article addressed here is the last chapter and the afterword in the book by Joan Chittister- The Gift of Years, Growing Older Gracefully. The article explores what legacy is, its characteristics, and why it is so important to consider one’s legacy. But not legacy in the way it has been historically considered. Such as simply striving to be remembered or to leave our mark in the world. Rather the author raises legacy to an inevitable part of our being.

There are many ways that I want to be remembered and many lives that I hope to affect in my life. There are also many goals I have that I hope I accomplish during my lifetime. Many people leave a legacy, which is a way that someone is remembered.

Selfishness surrounds us in everything we do because it is human nature to be selfish. Without selfishness we would not be able to take care of ourselves and ensure that we are fed and all our needs are fulfilled. Many people and the surrounding environment suffer because of selfishness but without it the reality