The Course Of My Life

Fear holds back a person’s ability to commit to an event, a relationship, and contains one back from his or her dream. As a child, I dreaded boarding an airplane due to the altitude and the pressure closing one’s ears, a terrifying experience. In addition to my fear of airplanes, flights would absolutely bore me. Hence, my impatient reaction of shaking my leg in a fast paced, up-down motion, a nervous tick. Over the years, every time my parents announced a trip that required an airplane flight, the idea would horrify me. Nevertheless, the distinct moments I boarded airplanes, there were always hints of curiosity about the bird-shaped flying machine. How does this strange machinery work? How could an airplane be this frightening? That fear was the foundation of my commitment to aerospace engineering.

We all have a worldview, a set of lenses used to view all of life and reality. Our individual

From the time that we are born, we have different concepts or views that make up our own worldview. These views are shaped by our family and

Even though I knew the day would come, I couldn’t wait until my mother shouted, “Pack your bags! We’re going to Florida.” Right as we stepped foot on the airplane, my stomach had butterflies. I wasn’t sure if they were butterflies of excitement or butterflies of being a little too apprehensive about flying. Primarily before we got to Florida, we flew to Denver, Colorado. The flight took about one and a half hours. Soon after we boarded another airplane that took us to Florida. This flight took longer than the first, three to four hours. Concluding all the flying we landed at an airport

In the months, weeks, and eventually days leading up to my flight to Germany the panic was gnawing away at me. Despite the fact that this wasn’t the first time I was venturing out without my parents or even my first time on a plane, it was my first time for a myriad of other experiences in my life. My first international adventure, my first time living with a family that wasn’t my own, and my first time being surrounded by people speaking a different language; all of which began with a simple decision to cross the threshold between the jet bridge and the plane.

Many people would see travelling on long flights as dull, but they can be a chance to learn more about others and create lasting bonds.

You are in an airport waiting for your plane to arrive. You've never flown before, and are more terrified than you can ever remember being. Everyone has told you the supposedly comforting statistics - "millions of planes take off each day and there's only a handful of crashes," "flying is safer than driving." You know rationally that there is no reason to be so scared, but regardless your heart is racing, your palms are sweating, and you're light-headed. Simply the thought of being up in the air, out of control, makes you feel faint. Finally the flight attendant announces that your plane has arrived. But as all the other passengers line up to get onboard, you grab your luggage and walk straight out of the airport,

Simply putThere is not only one way to view anything, perspectives define our world as more than what it seems.

2. The cognitive perspective would be most helpful. The focus of this perspective is how people think, understand, and know about the world.

I remember the first time I flew in an airplane. My eight-year-old self looked out the window of the terminal I was taking off from, astounded by the large size of the vehicle. Worried, I thought to myself how could something that big fly with so many people? Yet, as the plane took off my worries became excitement. Not only was this my first flight, this was the event that marked the start of my new life, my takeoff from Vietnam to America.

In class we have been discussing the analogy of perspectives. A perspective is a way of seeing, also thought of as a ‘point of view’. This mental view or outlook can both enhance and constrain how we view the world in our own eyes. In the field of psychology and sociology there are many ways to perceive our world in which we live. No one perspective alone can define the world. Each perspective has its own distinctive strengths and blind spots. In class we have discussed different theories and analogies to better understand the complexity of perspectives.

This week we read about Worldviews, this is described as the way in which people interpret reality and events surrounding them. They can include images of themselves and how they see themselves in relation to the world. Worldviews are the way a culture is oriented towards humanity and deal with different topics such as: What is the purpose of life? What happens when we die? Why are we here on earth? Is there life after death? There are so many unanswered questions when it comes to worldviews that man is always trying to answer.

If you have a love for the sky and aviation is one of your interests, you're not deterred from being in charge of at times more than 100 lives, and you have a soft spot for exploring the world than becoming an airline pilot is for you. Airline pilots have one of the coolest, most exciting nerve racking jobs out there. My goal for this paper is to explain all about how to become an airline pilot, what it takes to become one, the facts about the job, and some pros and cons of being in the field. My interest in flying was harbored as a child during vacations, my mother is a flight attendant so we traveled often. Whenever entering an airplane I was at awe of the sheer number of controls in the cockpit and the

Perspective determines how a person will think about a community. A scholar, for example, has a bird’s eye view and therefore a broader scope of the community. So, scholars are more inclined to view the community as a separate entity from themselves. An individual member, on the other hand, has a worm’s eye perspective and naturally would think about the same place in a personal and attached manner. Evidence of how people think differently towards a community can be seen in the news, where both the scholar and member perspectives are shown.

OVERVIEW cultural and psychological assumptions. These assumptions constrain us, making our view of the world subjective, often distorting our thoughts and perceptions. They are like a “ double-edged sword” whereby they give meaning (validation) to our experiences, but at the same time skew our reality. Meaning perspectives operate as perceptual filters that organize the meaning of our experiences. When we come upon a new experience, our meaning perspectives act as a sieve through which each new experience is