Joshua Gils Blog

  Describe an important decision you had to make.  How did you do it?  What information did you need, and how did you get it?  What determined the direction you eventually took? I don't recall any important decisions that I had to take that really affected me a whole lot.

  Why is it legal for businesses to put up all sorts of ugly signs, but graffiti is illegal? this is simple it is legal for businesses to put up signs because that's their property but most graffiti is done on other peoples property. 

  Today is your day! You find a lottery ticket-- THE lottery ticket. After Dr. Preston cashes it for you (you're too young and smart to play the lottery), you have $50 million. What will you do with it? if this were to actually happen the first thing I would do is buy some stuff for myself maybe some video games and after that i would share some of that money with my family maybe 700k per person and the rest I will save 

 What does it mean to "step over the line"?  (If this phrase isn't familiar to you, look it up.)  How do we know where the line is?  Is it different for different people or different situations?  What effect does stepping over the line have on conversations and relationships? What I think it means to "step over the line" is to break the rules. I don't think we know where the line is so we wouldn't know if its different for different people. maybe stepping over the line could break up your relationship in some way. 

 How do you explain your grades? Was your performance the result of your effort, the difficulty of the concepts, or something else?  Given what you know about what went well and what didn't, what can you improve for next time? I have a pretty solid grade in this class sitting at a nice and strong A+. What I think was the result of my grade was the amount of time I put into it. what I can improve for next time is the amount of effort I put into these.

  Do you notice a change in the season?  Does it seem like it's time for Halloween and Thanksgiving?  How do you feel about fall? I barely ever notice changes in seasons mostly between June and October I usually start to notice during November. No it doesn't seem like its time for any of those holidays really but I don't know why. I don't really like the fall not even thanksgiving that much and I know that thanksgiving will be a lot more different this year.

  Describe a time you thought of just the right thing to say to someone-- after the conversation was already over. this really doesn't happen to me in regular conversations more in arguments in which They say something that I know that I can counter-argue but cant think of the right words to say but Hours later I think of the PERFECT thing to say but by than the conversations already over 

The internet has become more interactive, but it has also become more isolated.  We can contribute to websites (like this one), but more and more people only "hang out" with others who share their opinions and politics.  How do you think this is affecting our society? the internet is a MASSIVE place with a lot of stuff from the good, the bad, and the weird. it is as easy as ever to get ahold of a computer for a very small price but it is even easier to get viruses/malware too, by going to different websites and suspicious URL links that you thought were harmless but could've easily taken your credit card passwords. But lets talk about social media one of the best places to have discussions with people and go viral doing "mostly" stupid things.  (i stayed up till 1:50 doing this listening to jolly rodger bay from super mario 64)

  When we're little kids we find all sorts of opportunities for creativity and fun. Why do so many of us do less of this as we get older?   I think the main reason that we start to do less as we get older is that things we once enjoyed are now boring and stale and we start to enjoy different things. For example, we all watched tv when we were younger and what we watched than is vastly different from what we watch now because we grow out of it cause it seems unappealing.

How do you meet people and build relationships? Offline? (Through school/classes, extracurricular activities, community organizations...) Online? (Through general social media like Instagram, FB, Snapchat, or forums of interest, or...) Have you made any new friends since the pandemic started? i usually made friends from school and since the pandemic it has gone harder to do it  

what I read from the first 10 pages of The things they carried was that the First lieutenant Jimmy Cross was in love with a girl named Martha who he wants to think she loves him but part of him thinks that she doesn't. He also wants to believe that she's a virgin but I highly doubt it because it also says that she's had a couple of boyfriends before. than he has his platoon of about 17 men and they used to draw sticks wit numbers between 1-17 and whoever got 17 was supposed crawl through the tunnel with a flashlight, and the lieutenants .45-caliber pistol. the rest would stay outside and act as security.

  Imagine that you are sitting at home one evening when you see a big spider walk across the floor in front of you. Do you ignore it, take it outside, smash it, or do something else? What information do you consider before you decide? Explain. if I ever saw a spider in front of me or in my room I would leave cause I'm scared of spiders. I think I might have arachnophobia.

 I'm choosing to read the book "The things they carried" by Tim O'Brien because it is a book that I have interest in for years now but never got the chance to read it. he book is mainly about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. 

 The music for today probably symbolized  a guy being dumped and forgotten by a women and I think the soul purpose of this song is to make me feel sad

 the presidential press conference is horrible, it was a complete mess. The president acted like an 8 year old and kept on talking over Biden for every moment he was speaking and he acts like people are gonna vote for him (which some are) but not much.

 There are no bad words, just bad people and people who make good words bad  an example I will use is when I ran into someone that believed that someone with the last name brown is immediately bad.