blog # 35

Blog 35

The purpose of this paper is to relate to my audience.  I don’t want my audience to think that I feel that I’m above them, or that I am nothing similar to them.  After a viewer reads my paper, they will understand that we’re all in a similar situation and that it’s ok to feel stressed out due to the pressure of your parents.  I want someone to read my article and think, this girl knows exactly how I am feeling right now and that maybe it’s ok to feel stressed out an maybe a little over whelmed.  Also I want people to fell calmer after reading this, hopefully they will notice that there are solutions to this feeling of stress and pressure.  When my paper is finished, I hope to offer up a few techniques to dealing with stress.  I hope that my readers will read these techniques and take them seriously so that they can cope with the pressures they have been put under too.  Not only is article for other people’s purposes, but also for myself.  I feel constant pressure daily to perform well in school, and this article can be an outlet for my feelings.  Overall, I would like y paper to be instructive and helpful to not only myself, but also the audience that this goes out to.   I hope that my article will be published so that maybe, some stressed out OSU freshman will read this article and know that there are other people in this world who are feeling the same way as them.

blog # 34

I’d like to present myself as someone taking a serious stance on this because to me, this is no joking matter.  I will be using 1^st and 3^rd person because I feel it is necessary so that I can share my own personal experienced with the reader.  I don’t thin I’ll be joking much in this paper, but if the opportunity arises, I may crack a joke.  I will begin writing…

In today’s world, life is harder than it used to be.  One has to be smarter, more experienced and more qualified than ever before.  The expectations for our generations has changed so drastically in the last couple of years that it’s scary to think what the next generation will be expected to do

            Over the course of history, children and parents were similar: boys did the same profession as their father, girls were homemakers, everyone had the same level of education, etc.  The rate of change between generations was very gradual up until only about 50 years ago.   In the 1950s, a college education was not necessary to a happy ending.  My own grandfather never went to college  and earned an income by being a butcher, policeman, councilman and also an agent at Allstate.  At the time, all of those positions did not require a college education, with the exception of a few of those professions, college educations or some kind of higher education is needed for those professions today. 

blog # 33

Blog 33

My story and topic is very relevant.  Every student at the Ohio State University has been placed under tremendous amounts of stress in order to get into this great college.  No doubt, every student had to buckle down in high school and perform really well in order to achieve a high GPA and perform well on the ACT  or SAT.  Whether the pressure was placed on the student via the parents, grandparents, family members, teachers, principals, or advisors, the student had to have been encouraged from some type of adult figure.  Every student today has felt that, compared to their parent’s generation, the standards have risen.  When my father was in college, going to Ohio State wasn’t a very high achievement.  Now, however, getting into Ohio State and graduating from Ohio State is an accomplishment and achievement.  Using that example exclusively, the standards have risen drastically.  When my father went to Ohio State, the required minimum GPA was a 2.0.  Now however, the average accepted GPA is a 3.8 or higher.  Ohio State is working hard to raise their standards, and they’re not the only ones.  Nationwide, colleges and universities are working to make their university better than the rest.  As a result, the standard for everything has risen.  This causes competition to increase.  Even today, college graduates have no leg up against the competition because a majority of the people applying for the job are in the same boat.  As a result, the world is becoming more and more competitive.

blog # 32

Back in the 1950s roughly 5% of people had a Bachelor’s degree.  Now however,  27.2% of the population has a Bachelor’s degree.  In the 1950s  Master’s degrees and PhD’s were virtually unheard of.  Today,  8.9% of people have earned a Master’s degree and 3% of people have earned a PhD.  Those numbers have been creeping up steadily in the last few years.  It’s obvious that the world is being forced into higher education.  If one decided not to go to college, they’re pretty much saying that they are prepared to work 10 times harder to make less money.  Without a college education, one is subject to a lifetime of physical labor and that can cause premature death because it’s so stressful.  Technology has made the younger generations work harder.  Due to recent developments in biology, and technology (like computers, calculators, and the internet) teachers are expecting more from their students than ever before.  For example, when my father was in college, there wasn’t much known about biology, but since then scientists have done more research on bacteria, germs and genes and now, in a Bio 101 class, I was expected to know a lot more about biology than my father ever was. 

            In today’s world, kids are held to the same behavioral expectations as their parents but are held to different educational expectations.   Children are expected to behave the same they’ve been expected to behave since the 1950s, yet are required to have 10 more stress on their lives? How is that possible for kids not to react differently.  

blog # 31

Blog 31

In today’s world, life is harder than it used to be.  One has to be smarter, more experienced and more qualified than ever before.  The expectations for our generations has changed so drastically in the last couple of years that it’s scary to think what the next generation will be expected to do

            Over the course of history, children and parents were similar: boys did the same profession as their father, girls were homemakers, everyone had the same level of education, etc.  The rate of change between generations was very gradual up until only about 50 years ago.   In the 1950s, a college education was not necessary to a happy ending.  My own grandfather never went to college  and earned an income by being a butcher, policeman, councilman and also an agent at Allstate.  At the time, all of those positions did not require a college education, with the exception of a few of those professions, college educations or some kind of higher education is needed for those professions today. 

            Then, after the 1950s, the next generation in the 1970s (which would account for my father), had rapidly shifting expectations.  At the time, everyone was getting a Bachelor’s degree because it was expected.  Again, society had changed so that at least some sort of higher education was required to succeed.  Again, society changed so that the following generation (our current generation…us) now need to get higher than a Bachelor’s degree.  Children today all across America are expected to go through 20-30 years of college to b, what...comfortable?

            How is this far? Even with these degrees, kids aren’t even guaranteed a steady income.  A long time ago, any type of higher education was respected and a privilege but today it’s expected and hardly even appreciated.  

blog # 29

For my article, I used “Leaders or Cheaters: Steroids of the Brain,” written by Carlton Stine.  He states that use of Aderall without a prescription has increased by 35% on college campuses across America.  I believe that Aderall isn’t a bad thing when it’s prescribed for you, but when someone uses it illegally, I feel that that is cheating.  Those who are prescribed Aderall are prescribed it becsase they literally can’t focus and find it difficult to even feel motivated to do school work.  When they are prescribed it by doctors, they are given reasonable amounts, so that they can live a normal student life.  With Aderall, ADHD patients can focus for hours and accomplish what they need to accomplish in order to maintain good grades.  Without the prescription, ADHD students would likely perform less and maybe even drop out.  Those are the pros of the drug, the cons are the heightened state of happiness it puts you in, the acceleration of your heart beat, and also the depression it sends you into when you come off the drug.  All of these effects can be monitored if the dose of the prescription is correct, and that is why going to a doctor regularly is important.  But students who acquire it illegally most likely have the wrong dose, most often higher doses which increase the symptoms described earlier.  It is dangerous to overuse this drug because over time it can cause heart problems.  I think this is where the real danger of the drug  comes into play because young, healthy students are overdosing on this drug because they do not know their own dose.  I think the only way to remedy this is to have doctors be more careful who they prescribe to and also the government should monitor the drug by keeping track of the medications prescribed to each person.

blog # 28

For my blog, I chose the article “Taylor Swift: Combating Typical, Scandalous Celebrity Behavior,” by Katie Huston.  The article is basically saying that Tayor Swift is a better song-writer than people might have given her credit for. By analyzing the song “Fifteen,” by her, the author of the article talks about Taylor’s ulterior motives.  According to Hurston, Taylor is telling her audience that at 15 you don’t know what you’re going to be, and that you shouldn’t rush growing up, like the other teen celebritites, like Lindsey Lohan and Miley Cyrus are encouraging.  Because of this assessment, Hurst says that Taylor is different than most sing/song writers because she is trying to keep teenagers young while they still can be instead of trying to grow up too fast.  Swift doesn’t completely ignore the stresses of the teenage years, she simply states that there are more important things that will happen to you in the future and that it doesn’t  matter if you date the most popular football player, because it’s not going to define you.  I also like how Hurst mentioned that celebrities today don’t exhibit kind, caring, intelligent personalities.  She said that celebrities are now focused solely on being attractive to the opposite sex.  This argument is very timely because Taylor Swift is popular right now, and she will be popular for a while because he career is just beginning.  I find her argument compelling because I am getting sick of Miley Cyrus and Lindsey Lohan and the bad examples they are setting for kids today.  And it is relevant because bad role models are becoming more and more of a problem.  As technology increases, so does exposure to the media at a younger age.  It is important now more than ever that children and teens have a good role model to look up to.