You Gotta Think!
In life people have to make choices, in my life I have had to make
many, many choices. I think that my biggest decision or choice would be
my application and move to college. This would be considered the biggest
decision I have had to make in my life so far.
When your senior year in high school rolls around, most people
have to start thinking about what they want to do with their lives in the
next four years, and what will happen after those four years are done.
This was a time in my life when I had to make a choice about what I
was going to do. I knew that I wanted to do something that involved the
technology of computers and I thought I wanted to be an engineer. Well
that was a choice I made, and it was not exactly a choice I thought about
adequately. As it turns out engineering just wasn't what I was meant to do.
Some people would say that I made a bad decision, but I would
rather say that I made an unwise decision. Computer engineering (the
major that I choose first semester) was a lot more than I expected. I
ended up failing Physics, Calculus and Chemistry! In addition to that, I
was subject to separation from < > college. Well, now a decision really
had to be made; it was time for me to make a choice.
My parents told me to think about other colleges and to think
about other things to do instead of college, but I knew that < > was
right for me. They often suggested that I go to community college for a
semester or two and make sure that I was doing something that I wanted to
do. I had attended the community college in my area during my last year
in high school to take some extra courses, and I truly detested the place.
I really did not want to go anywhere but < >.
So I petitioned for readmission to a new department at< >. I
decided that I should focus my studies on something other than engineering,
because it was much more than I had expected, and it was flat out, too
Between 1800 and 1860 slavery in the American South had become a ‘peculiar institution’ during these times. Although it may have seemed that the worst was over when it came to slavery, it had just begun. The time gap within 1800 and 1860 had slavery at an all time high from what it looks like. As soon as the cotton production had become a long staple trade source it gave more reason for slavery to exist. Varieties of slavery were instituted as well, especially once international slave trading was banned in America after 1808, they had to think of a way to keep it going – which they did. Nonetheless, slavery in the American South had never declined; it may have just come to a halt for a long while, but during this time between 1800 and 1860, it shows it could have been at an all time high.
Slavery was a practice in many countries in the 17th and 18th centuries, but its effects in human history was unique to the United States. Many factors played a part in the existence of slavery in colonial America; the most noticeable was the effect that it had on the personal and financial growth of the people and the nation. Capitalism, individualism and racism were the utmost noticeable factors during this most controversial period in American history. Other factors, although less discussed throughout history, also contributed to the economic rise of early American economy, such as, plantationism and urbanization. Individually, these factors led to an enormous economic growth for the early American colonies, but collectively, it left a social gap that we are still trying to bridge today.
As I've grown older I've also grown wiser and I have realized that once I make a decision I have to deal with it. That every time I make a decision I will have to live with the fact that I chose what I chose. I would have did whatever I could have done so that if and when I made it home, I could have turned that decision into another learning experience.
The South was built politically, culturally, and economically on slavery. In the Antebellum South, the most important factor was not wealth but power. One theme of the Antebellum South was white supremacy and slavery ensured this through the control of labor which also worked as a system of racial adjustment and social order. Slave ownership elevated the status of the wealthy planters and this allowed the institution of slavery to be accepted due to the paternalistic culture of the South. This paternalistic master-slave relationship was important for slaveholders to maintain their power. The wealthy planters set the tone for the Southern society which maintained this idea of white supremacy through the exercising of hegemony. This infatuation
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We make choices every hour, every minute, and every second of our lives; whether big or small our choices are slowly putting us in the direction we choose or end up. Many of us do not realize what contributes to the choices we make and why it affects others the same way if affects us and because of this many authors and writers have written stories and articles about coming to terms with making a choice and how to better ourselves when it comes to decision-making for the future.