Day 7: A Gentleman and a Scholar - The Duty of Life

Today, we will read from the text, Play the Man. 

The focus on on theology - the study of the nature of God and religious beliefs. While the goal is not to promote religion, you will examine the words of an author who discuss several tenets of manhood through religious and reading examples. For example, he pulls the following quote from 1 Corinthians 13:11

When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 

While reading the book, I was impressed by a description of Teddy Roosevelt. The author writes, "he played offense with his life, a hurry-up offense. It was like a two-minute drill every minute of every hour of every day." Roosevelt wasn't one to sit back and let life happen to him. 

The author also provides a compilation of quotes for two mediation stones on Roosevelt Island in Washington D.C.

Youth

I want to see you game boys, I want to see 

you brave and manly and I also want to

see you gentle and tender. Be practical

as well as generous in your ideas. Keep

your eyes on the stars but remember 

to keep your feet on the ground.

courageous hard work, self-mastery, 

and intelligent effort are all essential

to be successful in life. Alike for the

nation and the individual, 

the one indispensable requisite is character.

MANHOOD

A MAN'S USEFULNESS DEPENDS UPON HIS

LIVING UP THE HIS IDEALS INSOFAR AS HE CAN

IT IS HARD TO FAIL BUT IT IS WORSE

NEVER TO HAVE TRIED TO SUCCEED.

ALL DARING AND COURAGE, AND IRONED

ENDURANCE OF MISFORTUNE MAKE FOR A

FINER AND NOBLER TYPE OF MANHOOD.

ONLY THOSE ARE FIT TO LIVE WHO DO

NOT FEAR TO DIE, AND NONE ARE FIT 

TO DIE WHO HAVE SHRUNKEN FOR THE 

JOY OF LIFE AND THE DUTY OF LIFE.

Day 6: Building Capacity

Day 5: Building Capacity

Your power is in your politics. You can have a politics of stillness or a politics of motion. Today, we will discuss building capacity via Newton's Second Law of Motion.

Today's conversation is inspired by the text, The Jazz of Physics. 

The author writes that jazz and physics require some form of improvisation or acting or creating something without full preparation. 

Your topic for today is Avoiding Nothingness: Life as Improvisation to Support Others. 

    Life as Improvisation to support others

The problems Silence can cause for human development are plenty. Silence can be a problem because you have no say so in things or your thoughts are not being shared. Silence can be a problem because you are not communicating. Silence can be a problem because what if someone needs you to say something to them. Your silent can cause a lot of problems these are just a few I thought of. The power of improvisation and shaping the future are real powerful in a way. Because people improvise when they need or want something but got to work with what they got. That can play a big role in shaping the future because when people improvise sometimes they can create a new creation that can be useful for billions of people and can make the future a lot better. Every creation probably started of as someone just improvising . Newtons second law says Force equals mass times acceleration. The way I connected with that was like the amount of work(mass) put in will determine my acceleration and how my future(force) will be . I think silence can be good and bad. Sometimes is best to not speak sometimes is best to not speak. 

S1T

Avoiding nothingness: Life as improvisation to support others.

The murder rate keeps rising while everyone in the city watches in silence. Nobody really cares so they all stay quiet. Nothing is being done to better our future. We need more mentors for the children that are blinded. People fail to realize all we need is a little guidance. People break laws and don’t care until they face the consequences. I'm a nobody right now, but I will be somebody just like you turn nothing into something.

S2N

There is something . there will always be something. life is just like a plant but the only thing is we don’t need sun to arise. silence can go a long way. u need peace without it being noisey there will not be no peace. life not hard until u make it u can over come any obstacle in your way. u may have your up and downs but don’t let the down bring u down. keep doing you and keep moving forward .and also u can accomplish any thing u put your mind to. school should be on a kid mind so he or she can be educated.

S3P

Advoiding Nothingness: Life as improvisation to support others

Silence can be part of the problem for human development, refusing to act when you know something not right. It shows you not developed in the greater authority of taking charge of situations to prevent wrong or bad outcome. This relate to the Newton’s second Law of Motion, because if there’s no one to stand up and be the force of a situation, how could it accelerate? So therefore silence is a big problem for human development.

S4N

Avoiding nonthingness: lifeas in provastion to support others

Being quiet is not right for humanity. People need to stand up for those who can't. It is very sad to see people in the world tom wrong political we need to do more. A political voice is stronger than a single person.

S5N