Describe a time when you had to make a difficult decision. What did you do? How did you choose?

A time when I had to make a difficult decision would be when I was a kid. I and my sister went into my families' car. At that time I was probably only 2-4 years of age, and my sister was probably around the age of 3-5. Well, it was a beautiful day and we were having a cultural activity so there were a lot of people over. Yeah my parent's partied and had a lot of fun, meanwhile, me and my older sister were crawling into the two front seats of a 87 blue Toyota Corolla. The driver side was occupied by me and the passenger was occupied by my sister. We both were having as much fun as my family and relatives were having as well. I was holding the steering wheel and turning it left to right as if you would be driving regularly because I had seen my dad do it before and I had the thought that I wanted to be just like my dad. Then the stupidest thing came up and it was my sister having no idea what she was doing, released the E-brake (emergency brake) and the car started rolling. Our driveway was pretty steep so it rolled quickly. I mean I was a little kid so even if it rolled slowly, it seemed hell fast for me. The next thing I new, she had already did super-man or woman out of the car from the passenger side. At the moment the car had picked up too much speed so I didn't know what to do. Then I thought to myself, what the fuck am I going to do. I thought quickly and the result that came was for me to jump out the same exact way as my sister did, but through the driver side. I hesitated as I jumped and the seat belt caught my leg. Now that was a hard decision for me to make. If you want to know more then or the end result of my decision making then don't hesitate to ask.

If you had the power to change the law, what law(s) would you change? Why?

If I had the power to change the law, I wouldn't know what to change at all. I would just do what I think are right and I do not know what that just might be. Maybe I would have to have all of the people to decide that for me because from my point of view, the people should be the one's who make the law and not just put it on one person. If it was me, I would want to be the one who agrees with the stronger part of the group; on the other hand, if I had something to say about it, I wouldn't want to know about what law is being changed because if I did, and when I start to argue about something, I usually go overboard on my part of action. I'm usually scared of myself when I start to argue because when I start I don't stop until my point is understood even though I might be wrong, I don't give a fuck. So I just pretend like I understand people when they talk about other people or what's right and what's wrong and many other aspects just so that they get done talking about it and leave me alone. Sometimes they notice my doing and they say things like, "Thank you for listening or I just had to say it to get it off my mind." Sometimes usually they come and talk to me about those things because they are looking for advices or suggestions and I just tell them whatever to get it off their mind. It's like putting something new into their system, so that it can lead them into a different direction. But the only law I have in mind is that I would change is the law that allows people to bare arms; such as, having gun's or any type's of weapon at all. There's always your fist to deal with problems.

Describe your dream vacation. Use as much detail as possible.

My dream vacation would be to travel to a place far away from civilization and just enjoy the relaxation of having a calm and quiet environment. Pretty much like the picture you see on the right. Enjoying nature you could say, but instead of actually moving to a place exactly like the one in the picture, it would just be more like moving to a place like that within your mind or thoughts. When you think about it, it does give you a calm, collected feeling and relaxation as if you were really out on a vacation. But to be honest, my dream vacation would be going on a real vacation as well as going to vacatons inside my head too. Having the biggest sigh of relief. Maybe even enjoying the mixed feeling of danger and happiness, while exploring the vast mountains of the wilderness. Always having the thought of not knowing what to be expected of encountering when climbing up a side of a cliff, or just having danger on your conscious. Maybe sit on the edge of the dock and do some fishing. Skip some rocks on the surface of the lake and do some boat riding. After that go hunting for some squirrels or whatever's out there for me to shoot at. Then just come back to the log cabin and cook it for dinner and then sleep afterwards. Probably just do the same thing over and over because I like the thought of just having a certain quantity of thing's to do so I wouldn't have so much on my mind and just stick to a few thing's. Doing a lot of stuff at one time causes confusion and frustration which I don't like very much.

Reading Reaction #2: When Words Get in the Way

In a paragraph, explain what Clarke means when he says that, in America, the language seems to make him feel as if he is "looking reversed." Include incident's Clarke describes when he discovers a word means something quite different from what he thought it did.

Clarke probably means that he never new that words he used had opposite or negative effects based on the meaning of whatevers in relation to those words. He never sought to think of the English-language in any other form except that it was just used for communication between one another. For example, he recalled a time when his neighbor called him "boy," he thought that the word boy was a common word that grown ups call young boy's by because back in his home country which was Jamaica, that word was used commonly. But his other neighbor which was an African-American and had a history with slavery told him that the word has it's root's in slavery. It was to be deemed derogatory when used by his white neighbor. So Clarke let his neighbor know about what he had heard and now knew. It made the neighbor realize that it was probably something wrong to be saying and he stopped referring Clarke by the word boy. At the end Clarke found out that he, the neighbor was from Hungary and was not yet accustomed to choosing his words according to historical context too.

How would you like to be remembered?

I would like to be remembered as being a person who knew right from wrong and as or like punisher that punished the bad that did wrong thing's to other people as well as to themselves ha,ha,ha. Just playing, but you'd never know. Who, whenever did something, did it for a good cause. Even under the circumstances that I even had to do bad thing's, that they were done for the best of everything and not just for one particular being or thing. And that I was a person who knew the right time to take these action's. And the end results are always good even if not perfect, they always tend to lead to a happy ending. A person who had a whole lot of determination and ambition in achieving goals that I had set for myself and even goals that other people had set for me. That I never stopped even when I had the least idea of what was needed to be done and what the situation was. Someone who made a whole lot of mistakes but at the end there's always someone there to help the situation out by correcting my mistakes. A person who feels lost but still making it through life even if I had done the stupidest thing's. A role model for people who has or is experiencing the same ideal thing. But all these thing's are thing's that I used to do or think I was doing until I made the mistake of doing it to the one's who had taught me, which was my family, friends, and all and any people that were around me. I was going overboard and now I feel stupid just thinking about what I did wrong. I've never been proven wrong before and after I've been proved wrong once by my brother I felt as if I'm a whole new person. That's why I say I feel lost because I don't know that new person.

What will life be like 20 years from now? What will you be doing?

To tell you the truth I can't really say what life would be like, twenty years from now because I can't predict the future of my life, the only thing I can do is have something planned out and hope that it turns out the way I want it to. But if I had to say what Twenty years from now would be like, I'd probably say that I would be a old man or sure feel like one. 'Cause what is the age where you would consider yourself as being old? Well, back to what I was saying earlier, with a wife and some kids and being one big happy family. The world would be living in the enviroment of safety. Not being afraid, scared, and just seeing one another as equals, minding there own business and doing there own thing. For me not to worry about my kids and hopefully by that time something phonomenal happens and my kids get really smart and knows how to take care of themself and there own problems so I wouldn't have to worry about them all the time. Being successful in achieving my long term goals but still trying to make sure everything is done perfectly. Hopefully by that time they have created new technologies that would allow people a easier life. Like flying cars or whatever to make traveling easier for everybody. But what can I say, these are things that I would want and not even the actual fact of my life twenty years from now. It's hard for me to say what life would be like twenty years from now because I see life as living every single day, one day at a time.

How has the world changed since you were a child? Are these changes good or bad?

To me the world has changed a lot from when I was a child. Everything, for example: the people I hang out with, social conversations based on the subjects, events to activities that I used to love doing and now not even thinking about them anymore. Just life itself has changed so much. Things don't seem like how they would be or when doing something theres no more feeling of liking or the sensation's of wanting to go at it anymore. To me I just say that I'm getting too old and this is the way I'm suppose to feel. But a part of me says that I'm wrong so now a days I just don't think about it at all. Or maybe it's just that I don't do the same thing's I used or would be doing if I were still a kid. I would say that all the changes that had happened so far are good and bad. Good because I know that I'm moving along in life and that thing's like this do happen and I know how to cope with it. Bad because it's the past times that were the funnest and I don't want to let that go either. But come to think of it thing's change all the time and most of the time you can't do anything to differ those changes. The way I see it the more you think about it and try to reverse or fight the changes in your life the more hurt and trouble your going to cause to yourself. Just don't let the changes around effect you.