Brennan's+Reflection

Reflections

Each student will build their own page for the purpose of Reflection. This is because when two students are using the same page at the same time the page will not save properly.

Each week for 10 weeks you will need to make a reflection about your experiences. Each reflection is expected to at least 200 words in length.

The topic or questions you are asked to reflect on at listed below. Copy these questions to your individual reflection page.

Week 1 What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? The best piece of advice I have ever received would be live the life you love, so you can love the life you live. I believe this is one of the best advice someone has every told me, because if you don’t do what you like in life you will never love your life. This helped me a lot with finding out I want to do with my life in the present and what I want to do in the future for work and a job. I got told this saying be my neighbor who has these wonderful words of wisdom tattooed on his arm, he did follow this and now he is traveling with his band on tour and he certainly living the life he lives. This quote means to me that you should do what you want and live your life to the fullest, it helps me push through the hard times and forget about the past and look in to the future. This is good advice for people who are not quite enjoying there life and this might help them push though the hard times and make then good. I personally love this saying and I believe it is one of the best pieces of advice I have ever been told.

Week 2 What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did? Personally I believe if one person threw a piece of trash on the ground it would not have a massive effect depending on the size of the rubbish and what the rubbish actually was. Then just because someone saw that person trough a piece of trash on the ground they might think to themselves its ok what the worst that could happen so then it could be like a butterfly effect. Then if everyone was inconsiderate then all of the things we take for granted including clean air and clean water would be polluted. Then as a resold there would be a large increase of people becoming sick from drinking the water or even be simply breathing in the air. This is just the two main major effect of to much pollution but also another major effect would be loss of animal life and plantation throughout the entire world. This is what I believe would happen if one person threw a piece of rubbish on the ground, and that would not have a huge effect but it could lead to something that could effect our planet initially.

Week 3 What would you do if you saw a friend cheating - report it, confront the friend or nothing - and why? I would confront that friend and ask him why he thought he needed to cheat, and if he was having trouble because he is a good friend I would offer to help him study. I would do the best I could do to help him, but is it continued I would have no choice but to report it to a teacher.

What do you think courage means? To me courage means to stand up for what is right. I believe courage has a lot to do with bravery. There are many forms of courage for example: the courage to stand up for what you believe is right or the courage to stand up for someone weather it be a friend or someone you see getting a hard time by other people.

What do you think makes a good friend? I believe there is many different ways to be a good friend to someone, but to me the main one is a good friend must always stand up for his mate. As an example if one friend was being bullied if the other person was a true mate he would try to help stop the fight or try and work things out.

Week 4 What is your most indispensable possession and why? To me my most important possession would be my IPod. In my life music players a huge role to the way I have a look out on life. Also I not only use my IPod for music but also for communication over the internet. Without my IPod I would feel left out and without music everything would be dull and boring for me. I can honestly say I use my IPod for at least one hour every day. I always use music for a range of things such as relaxing, getting pumped up and even to just listen to when I get board on the holidays or at home. On my IPod I have a range of different types of music for all different reasons. When I listen to my IPod everything going through my mind goes, it makes me feel peacefully and relaxed. As I have an IPod touch another huge part of my IPod is the apps and games I have brought. Games are a great way to calm down after a hard day at school, plus with the large range of games from the app store there are games for everyone no matter what your interests.

Week 5 What do you think about people polluting the environment? Personally I am strongly against people polluting the environment, Pollution can be on a small scale but pollution can also be on a world scale that effects not only us but also the animals, air and the environment. Air pollution is mainly caused though the exhaust of cars and the burning of fossil fuels mainly through factories, also water pollution is the result of industrial waste. Everybody knows that pollution is harmful and a serious problem for us and the environment but generally people do not care. Most people today think that it shouldn't be their problem but someone else will take care of it. Nature has its own way of balancing things but if we go against nature by increasing CO2 levels in air by burning fuels we are the ones that will have to pay for it through dirty air or water. All forms of pollution can be sickning and even deathly if their is too much as an example, if water is polluted the fish inside the water would get sick and the drinking water will be dirty, after that fish is caught to become our meal, we could become very sick or even die of eating fish polluted.

Week 6 How do you feel when you do something wrong? When I do something wrong or even bad I mostly get a sinking feeling in my chest depending on how bad it was. If I do something very bad I normally feel sick to the stomach, personally it depends on what I have done or for what reason. Normally when I do something wrong I do feel bad but I am never sad for very long, but also I normally am not always just sad when I do something wrong. When I do something wrong I have a feeling of mixed emotions weather they be sadness, anger or disappointment.

How do you feel when you do something that is very good? When I do something very good I normally feel on top of the world, I try to do good things as much as I can so I can also feel good about myself weather it be doing something nice for someone I know or even someone I don't know, or I also feel good when I do something good to make a difference witch I have the great experience of doing as one of the senate members for Saint Marys campus teaching people about how to respect the environment. I love the feeling I get when I do something good every time.

Week 7 I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because... If I could create only one new law in Australia to be made it would be that there should a fine for littering. As a result of this many less people would litter, therefore our environment would be much more cleaner and healthier. We should all not litter even if there is no law, as humans we should respect the planet but I believe that creating a law about it would lead everyone to pick up rubbish or not even litter in the first place. This would not only help our environment but it could also create more truism in certain parts of Australia. This new law would go to making Australia beautiful again as I was before all this pollution from litter to the burning of fossil fuels creating land, air and even water pollution in Australia and even in the world, because we all know that with all kinds of pollution no matter were it starts it can travel all around the world. This would be just one my laws that I would create also it would be the most important to me.

Week 8 When you are angry, how do you look? I am sometimes angry for many things, mainly I am angry when I get into a fight (verbal) with someone in my family or even someone I know like a friend from school or football. When I am angry most on the time I have a big frown on my face and I also I may have a very serious face on.

When are you happiest? I am mostly always happy, I feel happy when I do something good for myself or for someone else. Being happy is my most favorite feeling, I always try to do things that could make me happy even if it is only for a little while.

When have you felt lonely? I very rarely feel lonely but when I do it makes me feel sad that I am alone with no one to talk to. Every body will feel lonely at sometime in their life it is just a part of being human. Feeling lonely is one of the feeling I hate to have the most.

When do you feel proud? I feel proud when I do anything good to help someone or when I get a good mark on my report and on a test. This is a great feeling to have for anyone, this is a good feeling that you sometimes need to work hard for.

Week 9 Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? One of the quality I dislike about myself would be that I can sometimes be a little childish, its not all of the time but sometimes it can affect not only me but also my friends. I may act a bit silly at times but that is just a part of me. Although I can act a bit childish I know when to be mature and be serious, but I prefer to find the balance between childish and serious. In this balance I can just relax and have a good time with my friends at school or at home. This quality as it is bad can also have its upsides though, in the way that I find it easy to have a good time with friends. Also though as a downside I can sometimes go a little to far (but I do this on rarely). This is not the only thing I dislike but it is certainly on of the top things I dislike most about myself. This is a funny thing about me as it can have both its upsides and downsides affecting any different parts of my life.

Week 10 Why do you think prejudice exists in the world? Reflection Yes it does, I strongly believe prejudice does exist throughout the world today and that it always will be in our world. Prejudice can affect many things in our world today from politics, law and also sporting events. The main well known form of prejudice that I know of and that I believe most Australians would think of is the favorite of football teams by umpires in the Australian football league (AFL umpires). Also another major form of prejudice is in the jury in the court of law not only in Australia but also in places all over the world. Personally I believe that prejudice is very unfair towards anyone included in the topic. Prejudice to me is basically just people being unfair for one side of the balance just for their own selfish reasons. People sometimes mistake an opium for being prejudice, people like to have an opinion but then again people hate to be called prejudiced. This can sometimes make people unsure weather so speak their mind or not. It is hard most times not to be prejudice because most people are naturally influenced by what they already know.