The Family in America Today

The world that we live into today, it is hard to define "The American Family." We have so many different types of families and house holds out there today, its unlike anything that the world has ever seen thus far, and there is no right or wrong. You can not tell someone the way they live is wrong. It is the life they were given and their opportunity to do what they want with it. Everyone finds meaning in different matters, and we all have purpose for different causes. So we all have to learn to appeciate the different ways of life just like accepting different cultures and races and religions. Now I know there is a picture of the common American Family, which is a loving family of a mother and a father and siblings and a dog, with a nice house and cars. Everyone knows the comfortable middle class family. But this is not the norm of society anymore. So we must be open to the 20th century family. The American culture norm is changing and we all need to be open to this new movement in our world.

Diversity in our Society

Diversity is a gift, not an issue. When looking at our society, we are lucky to have such a mixture of people and cultures. We come in contact with many different types of people on a day to day bases which is such a great privalige. It provides us with so much extra knowledge of another cultures, and hopefully people are open enough to appeciate the opportunity that we have in our society and can learn from everyone. Another important thing is that we enjoy this experiences so freely. In other cultures coming in contact with other cultures and social classes is not allowed, so they miss out on all the wonderful opportunities that we have. Thats why we need to be so grateful of this blessing. It is something that we all should treasure, because we have the access to learn something that school and books can not teach us first hand. We can walk around our campus and learn so much, just by interacting with someone of a different race or gender or religion. It truly is as wonderful thing that we all should embrace and welcome.
Then on the other hand there are some many people in our country that do not welcome this opportunity and hold grudges and prejudges ways that are very sad, by eliminating a race or gender or religion because they view it as a meaningless or wrong thing that does not benefit their lives in anyway. Which is sad but is their view, because of some prior happening or occurance between them and a different race or religion that went wrong. Although for the most part I believe that the world is a good place with many good people in it that are grateful for the diversity they experience and I hope that this feeling only grows further and strengthens our country as the years go on.

Colin Lacey's Ideas for Research Topic

When thinking of a research topic, a lot comes to mind, but I will form a paper based around my major, Health and Physical Education. I will try looking at the increasing obesity rate among specific age groups and what is being done about it. I will also analysis how the overweight and obese children of today are effected health wise. I can also illustrate what can be done to prevent this illness and disease from growing and becoming an epidemic. I will focus much of my thought into this topic because this is my major, which will soon hopefully become my career. This is an issue that can not be solved in a short amount of time. It takes much time and dedication over a long period of time, but with the right knowledge and information this crisis can be overcome.

About Me.. First Post for Research Writing

My Name is Colin Lacey and live in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I was born and raised in Harrisburg along with my twin brother, who currently attends Drexel University in Philadelphia. I am a Sophmore at IUP, and a Health and Physical Education Major. I truly enjoy this major and being a part of this university. I also am a transfer student, I previously attended Lock Haven University, but found out shortly that was not the school for me. So I transfered to IUP and have been enjoying everyday. I am much more motivated to work harder and to do more things, because of the positive environment that this campus presents. The positives at IUP are vast and I believe that it makes a huge difference in the students, because I know that I am much happier and open to do new things. I already am a person that is open and flexible, but IUP helps illustrate this for me. It allows me to be spontaneous and outgoing, which I love because I feel as though it makes me much more of a well rounded person and more interesting to others.
I believe that life is good and that everyone should take advantage of the opportunites that are presented to them in life because you never know where that door may lead. So take every opportunity as if it may be your only one. Treat every situation with professionalism and respect and watch the positive results roll in. This is just a bit of some of my theories and philosophies, and as more time in class comes about, I would like to continue my sharing my thoughts.

Fast Writing Page 5... Research Writing

When looking back on the history of my writing career and what was asked of me, was a lot of journal writing. Very informal and personal wirting, writing that reflected ones personal thoughts and feelings on a respective topic of educational or daily life. Although when advancing to a higher grade levels, more constructed and thought out writing was necessary. The completetion of research reports and detailed reflection papers where required. For the most part I never found the writing to be too complicated or difficult, it was just finding the correct information to write about and conveying the information in a way the was understandable and capable of teaching others through my writing. There were many times when I enjoyed writing and sharing my life experiences and spreading the knowledge that I have to others. Writing had always been one of my favorite subjects in school and I viewed writing as a way of expression and passion, because this is where I could voice my opinion. Writing has always been a positive thing for me and I believe it alwyas will. I would like to continue to stay on top of my writing skills, so that I can improve my writing and my research skills, which will hopefully make the whole process run smoother and my writing can become great in detail and more proper. This will take time and dedication but with practice, all should be capable of improvement.