Matthew Dobbs
As a writer the best experience that had been presented to me was in my senior year. Given the chance to write a research paper on any subject. The topic chosen was Transcendentalism, this is the idea that material items such as money, clothes, and possessions are not as important then the human being themselves. Focusing on life and the people around you, instead of going to church they believe God is in nature not a building. Research papers are now one of my preferred styles of writing due to the success and ease with my senior experiences.
In high school the opportunity to learn sign language was given to the student body, luckily i was one of the few. The most interesting thing about sign language is that it is faster then actually talking. Your expressions and face is how you communicate, one sign can mean two things so depending on the topic being discuss determines witch meaning you are talking about. Some languages steer more interest then other for me, the next language I would like to try is spanish.
Some of my favorite books to read are about how to view thing differently for example “Into The Wild” is about how a young man is done with the way society focus on media, greed, and the American way and instead cuts himself off from his family and all people he did know to start a journey to Alaska, and on it how he learns that human connection and experienced being shared with one another are the essence of life witch we all need. Henry David Thru and his book “The Matter of Man” is another favorite. Thru touches on all topics of human ways and nature, how being happy is not about what you have but about who you are as a person and the relations you have with others.
What brought me to HSU was the people. How every one is down to earth and enjoys learning as much as experiencing new things. Botany is defiantly another reason why Humboldt had drawn my attention so much. Having a large option of majors for science and environmental study is something important, especially when we as human kind need to lean to live with our world not not deplete it.
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You like writing research papers? Me too. Well, the writing process is still a little long and arduous, but I enjoy analyzing things and synthesizing research in new ways. You will have the opportunity to flex your research muscles in this class, Matthew.
ReplyDeleteYou wrote something very interesting here that I had never thought of before. You wrote: "The most interesting thing about sign language is that it is faster then actually talking. Your expressions and face is how you communicate, one sign can mean two things so depending on the topic being discuss determines witch meaning you are talking about." That is so fascinating! It makes me wonder how much we communicate with our faces and gestures in auditory speech. But we tend to ignore all that we perceive that way-- or we call it "intuition" or "instinct." Like when we know "instinctively" that someone is lying, maybe we are just picking up on those other signals. This is very intriguing.