A wise person named Thomas Hobbes once said, ”Curiosity is the lust of the mind”. Many people don’t realize the reason that we actually ask,”why”, we just do it out of curiosity. You will never learn without inquisitiveness and inquiry. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, many examples of asking “why” benefit the characters at times, but can also get them into trouble, simply because it goes against their society. Asking why is very important.…
Because believe it or not, I do not know everything! I know…
But few of us can remember when or where we heard it first, or even when we first realized that such inexplicable questions existed.” When I read this, I thought, “Oh crap, she’s right.” I cannot remember hearing this conundrum, but I can always remember knowing that it was some problem that no one could figure out. When I became aware that this conundrum was a question that led to many other unanswered questions, I realized, the unanswered problem was one among many problems that I have accepted as not having answers. This is the point where I began to understand that…
Asking “why” is a powerful question. It forces people to think deep. It forces you to tear back the layers and get a better understanding of what it all means. Asking “why” seems easy enough. It’s just a little word, after all.…
1: Everyone in this world wants an explanation, explanation for your acts, explanation for your very being. I can't explain. My minds a hurricane, as riveting as that may seem, Im a prisoner of this vicious cycle of highs, and lows.…
Teagan Hawes Bend 3: Comparative Essay Mrs. McManus (pd. 9) You most likely have heard the phrase, “Even Albert Einstein asked questions”. This is because naturally, everyone asks questions when they’re curious about something. Sometimes, they even change the way they normally act because of their curiosity. This is what happens in the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and the myth “Pandora’s Box” retold by Louis Untermeyer.…
With no books around, people don’t ask questions. They tend to be content with not knowing because they don’t know better. Bradbury tells us that an uninquiring mind is unfruitful in progressing humanity in a better direction by the sentence dictation. To the speaker in this quote, inquiring is viewed as not satisfying and even dangerous. Bradbury wants to think what this type of mentality would accomplish, which is nothing.…
What is my Social Identity? My social identity is begins with my deep family roots in my hometown of Riverview, New Brunswick. My upbringing was centered on my family, I take pride in the fact that I was raised in the same home my father was raised. Staying connected with my small-town family roots has left me humble and modest.…
When I think about the boy who I was growing up, the young adult I am today, and the man I plan to be in the forthcoming years, one aspect of my life stands out to me far more radiantly than anything else: my culture, my skin, my identity as a Bangladeshi-American. There aren't many clubs or organization for Bangladeshi Americans such as myself. Make no mistake, there are certainly events for Bangladeshis living in the United states, many that I have attended due to various entreaties from my parents. These are event where the only language spoken is one that I barely speak (Bengali), the only music conversed about is that which I don't listen to or understand, and the only events discussed happen in another country that I have spent only a…
To find the root cause, the previous answer becomes the next statement, and “why” is asked again. The idea is that if “why” is asked five times, the fifth answer will be the root cause. Using this technique, the root cause of why I will pursue pharmacy as my career will be revealed. Why will I pursue pharmacy as my career? I am choosing pharmacy because I possess the skills that a person needs to excel above and beyond the expectations of an average pharmacist.…
For most students, the moment the bell rings for summer, they never speak to their teachers again. Usually this applies to me as well, but last year, it didn't. Ms. Dirmeyer, my 7th grade Language Arts teacher, still keeps in touch with me, even though she’s not my teacher anymore. She takes interest in my writing, and has done several things to help me improve. Ms. Dirmeyer sends me emails with writing tips, along with worksheets directed towards improving my writing.…
Whether we know it or not in this modern society we are writers everyday of our lives. These interactions shape not only how we communicate but how we write as well. Personally, I have been shaped by the influence of both other writers I have known and those I have only read the creations of. Those same influences contributed to both my writing style in the classroom and to my identity as a writer. I spent a lot of my childhood with my nose deep in fiction novels at near by libraries.…
Bad things happen in our life everyday, and we are often left with the question of why? Why did this happen? Why me? I get chronic migraines quite often, and there are an amount of times when I am sitting there in an unimaginable amount of pain, wondering why me. Then also at times I am able to sit there…
Like every child, I went through the ubiquitous “why” stage where I posed this question even to the smallest, most mundane events of life. Filled with genuine curiosity and fascination, I desired to understand the ornate workings of the world. Unlike the majority of children, however, I did not lose this fervor and drive to find answers. This inquisitiveness laid the foundation for my interest in research work. Growing up, my family placed a tremendous emphasis on health, fitness, and nutrition.…
My style of writing is in chronological order describing events that occurred from my parents getting a divorce to now. The use of a narrative is not to receive pity for my past but to be taken seriously and praised for the individual I am now. With their divorce came motivation after my younger half-sister was born, to become a person in the medical field that specializes in helping infants and children. As a daughter of a broken family hardships in my life began my determination to do something with my life and do what my parents never did, which was continue their education past high school. Having new obstacles reach my path I was shown a different side of the intelligent, loving person that I am.…