Kindness

Kindness is always positive. You can receive or give kindness. Kindness is an action that is nice and makes you or someone else feel good. It could also be something that someone else does to you. In some situations, people might think they’re being kind to someone but really, they aren’t. If you give someone your math homework, you might think you’re helping your friend out because you’re helping them get their homework done but what you’re really not helping them at all. If they copy your work, they won’t understand the method or concept of the math and they won’t succeed with their grades.

Can kindness be negative? I feel that kindness is always positive. Shouldn’t kindness be from the heart? If someone forces you to be kind, I feel that it’s not your act of kindness. It’s the person who told you do it. Can kindness have faults? You might think that you’re being kind to someone but they might find your action insulting. Perhaps it’s just the thought that counts? If you WANT to be kind, then whatever you’re doing, must be kindness.

Today, while everyone was getting their makeup done for the play, people were getting really nervous and they were complaining that their make up looked horrible. I encouraged them and said they looked fine. I feel that’s an act of kindness because I was complimenting people and gave them confidence in themselves. I made them feel good and as stated before, kindness is all about goodness and positivity.

Learning Profiles: Profile D

Last year, Mr. Whiting came into our humanities class to help us figure out our learning profiles. I found out that I was a learning profile A. This year, he came again and I've discovered that my learning profile has changed since then.

To figure out my learning profile, we had to find out which hand, foot, eye and ear was dominant. Last year, everything was the right side. But this year, my hand changed to left hand dominant. Just that minor difference changed my learning profile to D.

With a learning profile D, I learn best by focusing on visual and auditory details meaning that I listen and look carefully at what I'm learning. Also, I learn by analyzing meaning I make sure to look at every detail in what I'm learning. I like to do things in an orderly fashion, opposed to doing things all over the place, randomly. I need to see and hear details in order to learn.

My learning profile shows that I'm a left brain dominant learner meaning I'm a logic learner, opposed to gestalt learner. Logic learners need to focus more on the big idea, which is what gestalt learners do. I also need to improve with my ability to think with more variety.

Since my left hand is dominant, (although I'm right handed), it is connected to the gestalt side of the brain which causes me to need to use my hands to learn. Another thing that might help is sitting in the back of the classroom where I can doodle without disturbing the rest of the class.

Although my learning profile recommends that I doodle, I find that doodling doesn't really help me. A lot of the time, I just have something in my hands to fidget around with. I like to be organized so I can learn efficiently. When I'm under stress, I might have difficulty to communicate details logically in a verbal or written way.

We Love Libraries!

Libraries are beautiful places. You get to read, use computers and research, all for free. If people took libraries away from us, many people wouldn't be able to do many things. A lot of people don't have access to books or internet in their homes so they go to the local library to do their research, work or homework. In the UK, many libraries are being shut down and people aren't pleased with that. People should be able to have access to free computers and books because some people may not be able to afford buying them themselves.

Books help people learn a lot and help people in life. Without books, students don't have access to a lot of information that they might need. Some schools might not be rich enough to have computers for their students. They might not even have their own library so they would have to go to a public library. If people close down the libraries, what would those unfortunate schools do?

In the UK, people found anonymous sculptures carved out of books as a protest towards the shutting down of libraries. A lot of people are unhappy with what people are doing and they are doing what they can to make themselves heard. This anonymous artist left the beautiful works of art everywhere around the library with tiny messages on them. They were very poetic and meaningful but the artist didn't take any credit for them.

I believe that people really need books and libraries not only for educational and work purposes but some people who really love reading, love the library and people can't just take it away from others. Some people who don't want to spend money on books for themselves go to the library to borrow them for free. People would have to spend a lot more money on books without the libraries and if people don't want to. They wouldn't be able to fulfill their crave for books without libraries.