Where Do We Get New Ideas?

Everyone has a mind of their own and comes up with different new ideas. New ideas mostly come through deep thoughts of people’s minds. New ideas can come from many different things such as nature, your daily life, what you experience, media and many more. In humanities class, we mostly write and think. Therefore, most of our new ideas come from our deep and thorough thoughts. When you are given a question or a subject to think about, you refer to what you have experienced before. From here you can expand your memories to bigger categories and develop your thoughts. This can help you create a new idea. These are examples of how new ideas can be born in our humanities learning environment. But if we refer to our whole school community, there are other ways we think of new ideas. In our school community, there used to be a lot of meetings discussing for improvement of ISKL’s society. Since there are people who have been in the school for a long period of time and some who are new, they will have different opinions about the school and how to make the community better. And if we think of a bigger community like the nation and/or world, there would be countless new ideas to come. As we all known, the major source to new ideas is nature, such as mountains, hills, trees, sun, moon, sky, stars and more! From what’s originally there, you can develop them to create something new. New ideas can also come from our daily life. If there are some uncomfortable things surrounding our home or other places, we can draw new ideas to make things a better situation. As pointed the above, we can create new ideas from many things in our environment. However, the most important factor of new ideas is our attitude. Our enthusiastic, positive and creative way of thinking for our human life is the most.

My Favorite Story-What Makes a Good Story?

As I look over our short story unit, my favorite short story was “Thank You, “Ma’m.” Mostly, I like this story because of the author’s message-theme. The theme is how believing in others may change them since they will want to maintain/earn respect. I agree with this theme. I believe that teaching people what is right and wrong requires to be done wisely. Instead of scolding them for what they have done wrong, you could teach them how to be right. This theme of respect and compassion is portrayed in the short story through the protagonist, Mrs. Luella Bates washing Jones. Based on the story, she is a religious woman with confidence and a sweet heart. She shows trust, belief and respect towards a poor boy, Roger. However when they first meet in the exposition, the boy tries to steal Luella’s purse. Therefore the rising action makes the reader have tension when Luella simply picks up the boy and screams at him. You may be curious of her next action. Will she hurt the boy? Why is she dragging him home? However, the author releases the tension through the resolution. Resolution is that she brings Roger home, makes him wash his face and feeds him supper. She even understands his want to buy something and gives him ten dollars to buy himself some blue suede shoes. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones treats the boy Roger with kindness, which wraps up the whole theme of compassion and respect. Through this story, I can realize how sometimes in life, we may face difficulties. At those times we can try to understand each other and help each other to succeed in life.