Desire for a Goal

 

Lorain County Community College
1005 North Abbe Road Elyria, OH
Elyria, OH 44035
June 31, 2013

 
Daham Meslat
Early College High School
Elyria, OH 44035

 
Dear Daham Meslat:

 

Education is a key component in achieving goals. Without it, someone cannot accomplish much and your life might not turn out the way you hope it would. Education allows someone to pursue their goals and dreams they have set for themselves. Sometimes on the journey of success, someone may encounter obstacles or setbacks that prevent them from reaching their goals. Depending on how strong someone’s desire is to achieve their goals and dreams, they may allow these setbacks to hold them back. It all depends on if the person has enough desire to overcome such obstacles.

 

Goals and dreams can never become reality without hard work. The time and dedication that is spent working towards goals and dreams will increase the chances that they come true. Long hours must be spent studying to be educated in the career path that someone wishes to pursue. Those long hours that are spent studying, will show that someone has the desire and dedication to pursue their goals and dreams. Someone may ask, “Why are long hours required and what is the point to studying?” Both those questions can be answered with one word and that is “Knowledge.” Knowledge of something determines if someone knows enough about certain subject to pursue that subject as a career. One of my favorite sayings I have hears is, “The more you know, the faster you can go.” This saying holds true to what it says. Indeed, the more someone knows, the faster they will be on their way to what they desire.

 

As I have previously mentioned, in order for a dream or goal to become reality, action must be taken. The best action that can be taken is studying, for it is what provides someone with the knowledge they need to succeed. There may be times when an obstacle presents itself, but that must not stop someone in pursuing a goal or dream. A goal and a dream are just a desire, but not reality until action is taken by the person who desires success. Never let any obstacle prevent or stop the journey to success.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Daham meslat  

To Forgive

I look back and think

What if I just let it go

I look back and think

What if I had not told you no

 

I look back and think

Why did I turn you away

I look back and think

It could have ended a different way

 

I look back and think

Could forgivness have been the way

I look back and think

Could I have forgived you and caused you to stay

 

 

 

 

 

 



Love and Compassion

 Love and compassion play a very essential role in the human experience. The only question is why do these two factors play such an important role? The three main reasons for the importance of these two factors is they builds trust, happiness, and good communication. Trust is not something that is just given, but rather earned through determination or devotion to an important factor. Trust is not built over night, but rather through a period time. To trust someone is to be able to know that they will are willing to take responsibility when they are called upon or entrusted with a task. To trust someone is to be able to know they will be there when you require them to be. Trust is a strong factor in the process of developing love and showing compassion for someone or something you have in your life.

 Happiness is the second important factor in building love and compassion. How is Happiness achieved? Everyone achieves happiness a different way, but in the context of love and compassion it means to know that you will have someone there for you to make you happy when you are feeling depressed or someone there to help you achieve success. Happiness also means a person will have someone there for them even in the worst of times.

 Communication is extremely important into building the stage of love or compassion. Communication will help you tell any information that a person will need to know, which leads me back to my point of trust. Knowing you can tell someone a personal matter and trusting them leads to the stage of love or compassion in the human experience. Communication is all about being able to tell and entrust someone with what has been told to them and knowing they can do the same. This is why communication is important.


 

Rejection

Who Takes Responsibility?

 In a situation where something bad were to occur and I was involved, while knowing others were involved, I think responsibility should be taken by all. For example, if I helped someone else take something from someone, I believe I should take some responsibility. I believe this because I do not believe it would be fair to claim that I am the sole person responsible behind the situation, while knowing that someone else was involved. Even if it means that that person may no longer be friends with me, I still feel it is only fair if both of us were to take responsibility for the action that has been committed, if it involves both of us. How I determine if I should take responsibility is that if I am involved in the action and caused some kind of contribution towards making the action occur, then I will take some responsibility. In a situation where, I see the action happening and I am not involved, I do not believe that I should take the responsibility, unless I know I could have done something to stop it. This is how I am able to know if I should claim responsibility or not.

The Cloning Project

 A project I spent a great deal of time on was a video project I did with my friend Tyler. The idea of the video was that I am cloned and I show up everywhere he goes. We gathered the equipment necessary and we went to work. We had many shots were we had to be extremely precise and these were the parts of the film were the cloning would happen. After this was done, we used a program call Adobe After Effects to edit our video. There was one scene in which I was walking past myself and we had to make it look like I was not going through myself. So what happened is that we had to mask around my body. Masking is the process of making parts in a video that are not required to be removed. So by masking around my body I was able to remove this. This was the most difficult part of the project because it took about thirty minutes. In the end, the final product was a success and I had a good time filming.

Explorers Through The Ages

  Through the ages, many people have traveled the world in different ways. In the earlier ages, people traveled through ships to reach their destination. On these travels, people would face some difficulties. An example could be storms that occurred while they were sailing. A historical figure I like to recall when thinking of  travel in the earlier ages is Christopher Columbus. He made an important contribution by discovering America. As time progressed, people began to build more advanced ship structures and flying through planes. The better the ship, the farther people could go and discover new areas of the world. This led to new discoveries and helpful material that is used today. For example, by exploring, people have discovered plants that cure certain illnesses. These plants could only exist in one environment, so people had to go and explore in order to find them.

  Every person has different reasons for exploring, but I believe they all have similar goals they hope to achieve on their explorations. On their explorations, they want to discover new information they can share with the world about a certain area and what positives it can hold. These discoveries could interest others to also go and discover new information about the unknown in the world. These discoveries could lead to new cures and materials from the native species that have been discovered on the island. Not only this, but people can learn in what kind of conditions certain aspects of the environment grow in in order, so that they may grow it in their own home country. The common goal of all people that go to discover or devote themselves to solving the unknown , in my opinion, are to gain knowledge. Knowledge is a key aspect in a society trying to advance in life. This is why people devote themselves to finding or learning about the unknown.

  With devotion to discover the unknown comes sacrifice. If you are leaving your home to discover the unknown, you are leaving behind your family and friends. An expedition into the unknown does not have a set date on how long it will take until a return back home. So, a person will not know how long they are going to be away from their friends and family. Another sacrifice would be leaving behind their life. They would be missing out on special events in their life, such as birthdays and holidays. Instead of these activities, they would be spending much time  dedicated to studying and gathering information. Discovering the unknown has negatives, as mentioned, but I believe that gaining knowledge can help overcome that.