Bob Dog

1) How old are you? How might your age affect both what you know and your attitude toward gaining knowledge?

Age is a measurement of the time since something is created. I was born sixteen years ago, therefore I am sixteen years old. My age affects what I know because time I have been able to spend gaining experience in the world.

My relatively young age makes me more inclined to to actively gain knowledge as the average life expectancy for humans is currently about 79 years in the US and the more knowledge a person knows the more likely they are to achieve their goals. As a result, until I decide that I am at an age where I won’t need to actively gain knowledge to accomplish my goals, I’m going to actively attain the knowledge that I believe will help me accomplish my goals.

Unfortunately, because of my young age I lack the experience of being on my own and not depending on my parents for survival. As a result, the idea living without the support of my parents seems challenging because I don’t know the outcome that would most likely occur. For example, I don’t want to go to an out-of-state college because the idea of living without the advantages of living in a house rather than a dorm, like privacy and food, seem daunting because the only experience I have ever had where I lived away from my parents was when I went on a 5-day field trip when I was 11 years-old. This lack of experience makes me less inclined to go to a out-of-state college because I have yet to develop confidence in my ability to independently survive.

2) What is your mother tongue what other languages do you speak? How might our particular languages affect your knowledge?

Mother tongue is a term used to refer to a person’s native or first language. L...

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...so understands the viewpoints of immigrants that are in danger of having to leave America, although she had never been in any real danger of having to leave because she was a legal citizen, but she knew many people who were not so fortunate. My father grew up in Washington DC in the 1960s around strong racial discrimination. Because of his surroundings, when my father took a trip to Ethiopia, he was able to greatly appreciate the lack of discrimination based on the color of skin, something that my mother most likely doesn’t because it has never been an issue to her growing up.

Sometimes the differences between my parent’s mindsets contribute to my indecisiveness. Because I can usually see both sides of an argument, it is often hard for me to pick one side. For example, I have trouble picking sides on arguments that have anything to deal with fairness and justice.