Friday, December 12, 2008
What Are The Benefits of Education in the Unites States?
There are many different benefits to attending school in the U.S.A. Life in America is 90% based off of education. If you are not educated then you most likely will not succeed. Being educated helps you to get a job, be safe, earn money, and so much more.
One of the benefits of just being able to get an education, compared to a country like Nicaragua, is that it is free. Technically you still have to pay through taxes, but the government assures us that everybody in the U.S.A can get a good education. In a country like Nicaragua, you have to pay for and work for an education. It is very expensive and most families cannot afford it. This means that they don't get and education.
Another benefit of education is being able to get a job. You need a job to make money. Otherwise you will end up on the streets with a very hard life. In order to have a job you need to know what to do and how to do it. You learn that at school. So not going to school could affect your well being for the rest of you life. This is why many people in Nicaragua barely have a piece of metal to live under. They simply can't afford an education.
Another other thing about an eduction in the United States of America is that it is better than in third world countries. We get to learn more and we get to use better techniques. We also get good learning supplies. Places like Nicaragua cannot afford good and up to date text books. This make getting a good education much harder. If you get an education here, then you can work almost anywhere you wan and do anything you want. You get an opportunity to make it big.
In Nicaragua you can't always do that. Their education is usually so poor that they can't work anywhere they want. They still have to make do with the jobs that they can get in Nicaragua. They don't get the education that lets them travel and make tons of money. It takes a lot more work to become successful. It is very hard.
We have it so lucky in the U.S.A. We get such a good chance at life and we take it for granted. Some of us ruin the opportunities that we have. We don't realize how easy we have it. We also don't realize the benefits that we have. We don't know how we can use the benefits and how they
One of the benefits of just being able to get an education, compared to a country like Nicaragua, is that it is free. Technically you still have to pay through taxes, but the government assures us that everybody in the U.S.A can get a good education. In a country like Nicaragua, you have to pay for and work for an education. It is very expensive and most families cannot afford it. This means that they don't get and education.
Another benefit of education is being able to get a job. You need a job to make money. Otherwise you will end up on the streets with a very hard life. In order to have a job you need to know what to do and how to do it. You learn that at school. So not going to school could affect your well being for the rest of you life. This is why many people in Nicaragua barely have a piece of metal to live under. They simply can't afford an education.
Another other thing about an eduction in the United States of America is that it is better than in third world countries. We get to learn more and we get to use better techniques. We also get good learning supplies. Places like Nicaragua cannot afford good and up to date text books. This make getting a good education much harder. If you get an education here, then you can work almost anywhere you wan and do anything you want. You get an opportunity to make it big.
In Nicaragua you can't always do that. Their education is usually so poor that they can't work anywhere they want. They still have to make do with the jobs that they can get in Nicaragua. They don't get the education that lets them travel and make tons of money. It takes a lot more work to become successful. It is very hard.
We have it so lucky in the U.S.A. We get such a good chance at life and we take it for granted. Some of us ruin the opportunities that we have. We don't realize how easy we have it. We also don't realize the benefits that we have. We don't know how we can use the benefits and how they
they will help us. It really is a shame. 
Thursday, December 4, 2008
What I Thought I Knew
I used to think that everyone in the world were friends. I thought that everyone was a good, happy, christian person like me. I soon learned, that wasn't how things were. I didn't really know much about wars and all of the hatred between so many races, countries, and religious groups. Wouldn't it be nice if there was rriendship and peace between all six billion people who inhabited this Earth.
When I was young, I didn't know about WW1. Even when I was five, I didn't know what ecactly was going on with the World Trade Centers and Iraq. Eventually I started learning avout different religions, such as Catholocism and Judaism. I guess I could say that there were no worries in the world for me.
The other thing that I have now learned about is how religion is involved a lot in most of the wars that happen. Conflict now seems huge to me. I started to learn about the religious bombings and shootings that have happened in the past. In my mind I was saying "what the heck would somebody do that for? what a bunch of idiots. Why can't they be good like me and my friends"? Then I learned about certain religions.
As it turns out, in some religions it is good to walk into places with a bomb strapped to your chest. Apparently, many people did need to die in the Twin Towers. At least that is what the people who ran a plane into them thought. Who would have thought that to be true? You start to learn about the devastation of war and how much some countries hate each other. I was saying "wait a minute, your telling me that people ran planes into those buildings and killed other people on purpose?" Sometime life is very hard and very unfair.
Now I know all of this stuff. In school I learn about the wars, religions, devstation, and permanent affects of what has happened. Plus, some wars were for the good or at least better. For example, the civil war stoped slavery. To me that is a definate positive. Now things seem much more real to me. Sometimes I might think, is it better for me to not know anything bad and never be worried or is is better for me to know everything and be worried at times? I sure don't know the answer.
When I was young, I didn't know about WW1. Even when I was five, I didn't know what ecactly was going on with the World Trade Centers and Iraq. Eventually I started learning avout different religions, such as Catholocism and Judaism. I guess I could say that there were no worries in the world for me.
The other thing that I have now learned about is how religion is involved a lot in most of the wars that happen. Conflict now seems huge to me. I started to learn about the religious bombings and shootings that have happened in the past. In my mind I was saying "what the heck would somebody do that for? what a bunch of idiots. Why can't they be good like me and my friends"? Then I learned about certain religions.
As it turns out, in some religions it is good to walk into places with a bomb strapped to your chest. Apparently, many people did need to die in the Twin Towers. At least that is what the people who ran a plane into them thought. Who would have thought that to be true? You start to learn about the devastation of war and how much some countries hate each other. I was saying "wait a minute, your telling me that people ran planes into those buildings and killed other people on purpose?" Sometime life is very hard and very unfair.
Now I know all of this stuff. In school I learn about the wars, religions, devstation, and permanent affects of what has happened. Plus, some wars were for the good or at least better. For example, the civil war stoped slavery. To me that is a definate positive. Now things seem much more real to me. Sometimes I might think, is it better for me to not know anything bad and never be worried or is is better for me to know everything and be worried at times? I sure don't know the answer.
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