GCC, English 101

9/4/2017

Students selected will pick a topic at the beginning of the week The students will then present their critical thinking on the topic the following class period (50 pts). The balance of the students will listen to their presentations without rebuttal. Again, using techniques from They Say, I Say, they will offer a written journal response of 1-2 paragraphs (sent to me by date required, 10 pts., placed as a comment on the appropriate area on the website djadamson.com: Late Comments will not be accepted.

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Savanna Nalbandian

9/13/2017 08:09:09 pm

Destiny and fate, while you can’t really have one without the other you can choose how you want your future to go. Destiny is events that will happen in someone’s future based off of the choices that they have made (fate) and are completely pliable to you and your decisions. I agree with the person who spoke of how fate is supposed to be an uncontrollable force but there are choices that you can make in your life that will lead to different paths. When faced with two choices the one that you end up picking can completely alter your future.

Yoselin Rodriguez

9/17/2017 10:01:38 am

Destiny and fate pay an everyday scene in our lives. I agree with my classmates when discussing destiny and how we choose our destiny based on our choices. While fate comes from above and he knows exactly when to join things or people. Fate and destiny's are something we can never run away from. When you make a decision based on the fate that catches up to you, depending whether you follow that fate or change it, it will lead to your own destiny. Both are uncontrollable due to the fact that no matter what you decide or what fate reaches you, you will end up where you belong.

Nancy Hanson

9/17/2017 02:04:26 pm

The question of how much we influence our own own destinies has been debated in philosophy and literature for centuries. My classmates felt that generally one does influence one's own destiny, and I agree with that idea. To expand on that idea a bit, when one is not a very capable, causative individual, and one fails to make something happen that he wanted to cause, it is easy to shift the blame for the failure onto some other source, such as Fate, God, the gods, or the position of the stars. On the other hand, when one is capable and causative, there can never be any question that one is in control of one's own destiny. If one is willing to work for what one wants, anything is possible.

Simon Sheen

9/17/2017 05:57:32 pm

I'm no philosopher but I think they go kinda go hand in hand, don't you think? Obviously every individual is in control of the choices they make to some degree, and yet if one was to shed light on the roots of the individual's upbringings, whether it be from an environmental, economical, religious, or educational viewpoint; the idea can also be argued that one's potential choices were to some degree predetermined by the different options that were made available to the individual by these influential elements. For the people that had the privilege of growing up in a first world country, we're fortunate enough to have more options with goals of promising futures whereas someone from a different region of the world might have been promised a future of inheriting the family trade which that individual would then pass on to the next generation; was their fate not somewhat predestined? I don't even know what I'm saying I think I'm talking out of my ass.

Tyler Newman

9/17/2017 10:30:21 pm

i believe that we shape our own destiny we make the path do the destiny we want. I feel like destiny is like a goal and we reach that goal and want to accomplish it and when we do we feel pure happiness. But lets say we don't reach that goal or destiny than fate plays a part of that. Its fate that this goal just wasn't mean to be its a sign from whoever we believe in.
Nobody can control our destiny we make that for ourselves. Faith is just something we cant control its gives us obstacles or paths and we just figure out how to use them and where to go from them.

Sandra Hernandez

9/17/2017 11:45:53 pm

My classmates believe that the choices we make shape our future, so we control our destiny. A student stated that an act of fate is a domino effect which I completely agree with. When a decision is made, the outcomes are solely based on that action. People often question this because they believe that our fate has already been written but, one simple choice can change our future. I believe that as long as we are confident with our decisions, we shouldn't worry about not being able to control our destiny.

Gohar Torosian

9/18/2017 02:25:47 am

Two of the speakers said we can control our destinies by how we act and react and that will better shape our faiths. One of the speakers mentioned the butterfly effect, we being the butterflies, and whatever we has an effect on not only is but everyone else in the world. I agree with all three speakers. We are the only ones who can control our destinies, every action has a reaction, it can be good or bad. The way we choose to live our lives also says a lot about our faith. If you know you're in the wrong you shouldn't be surprised by the consequences. If you do the right thing then good for you, your faith will look better than worse. Also, your actions don't only cause effect towards you but to everyone surrounding you. For example if you were to to something at someone they will obviously react and cause a scene which will most likely involve others they're with. Or if you help someone out they will probably be a bit happier than they were before.

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