AT LAST! THE FINAL BLOG :)

The meaningful adulthood experience is the one I’m still going through. With my parents divorcing doesn’t feel like the end of the world. I’m grown enough to be mature about it, but it’s harder when you’re a teen understanding everything that’s happening and why. Being the oldest also puts a little bit of more weight on your shoulders, because you try to be the rock for your siblings. You feel like you’re stuck in the middle and trying not to pick sides. Having a fifteen year old brother and a seven year old sister is a blessing. It’s just frustrating hearing my little sister ask for her dad, and my brother being a typical boy not showing his emotions and just keeps to himself about everything. My parents were married fifteen years, almost sixteen. They decided to separate three weeks before December the 16th, which was their anniversary. So in November is when they broke it down to us, leaving us with the worst gift ever for Thanksgiving and Christmas.  It has been five months going on six, and I still can’t get used to it.  Home just isn’t the same. It’s not easy looking back and knowing our dad would come home around seven in the evening and when that time comes, the house remains silent. It’s definitely not easy knowing someone new most likely might come in the picture, even though my siblings and I know they could never be our parents. My father is actually a step dad, but he has raised me since I was two years of age. So, typically he is my father. The hardest thing to see is my brother act like nothing about this bothers him, and how he shows excitement when he gets to see our dad. Another thing is for my baby sister to act like she hates him for leaving, but her getting all happy when she actually sees him and doesn’t want to let go when it’s time to say goodbye.  

Nothing about this stands out due to the fact that divorce is everywhere and happens to half of us. It has changed me in many ways. Not that it has made me bitter, but it’s made me realize what I really want with my life. Nobody knows what is in store for you in the future. You just have to take it day by day and hope for the best and don’t live in the past. This experience has showed me it could be worse. At least my siblings and I still have both our parents physically and emotionally compared to other divorces. It has only made me a stronger person and to not take anything and anyone for granted. It has taught me the value of honesty, family, and much more. Holidays, summers, and vacations will be different due to splitting everything in half. Life will be much different from here on out. Not just me but everyone should just look for the positives instead of dwelling on the negatives.  Nothing is going to go good until all the bad is gone. “It’s only going to get worse before it gets better”-Anna Flores.

Me with my little brother and sister



Last Blog :D Well For City Dark Anyways :/

I use Greek mythology to compare, because when people hear of "myths" they automatically assume the Greeks with their constellations and stories. I compare how the Greeks used the night sky for dates, times, and guidance. They used the night skies for entertainment as well to share and teach the stories to their children to keep passing it down. 

The flow and direction I'm aiming for is how night skies were used then compared to now. I plan to give information about meanings, history, and opinions on what we as a whole should and need to do. Each generation that past from centuries ago slowly faded from nature as technology inventions were created. Some specific claims are how light pollution really does effect cities, how we lack the night sky ,and don't know much about it when we should know. 

In the essay Logos is arguing that we rely on technology way too much and don't have a sense of what a real sky is suppose to look like. We are always on the go, and never stop to enjoy natures beauty. Pathos is not as strongly expressed compared to logos, ethos, and kairos. The only emotion one would get from this essay is how light pollution really does damage our view from the night sky and how we need to change it because it would make a difference. Ethos is explaining how we know light pollution is wrong yet we still continue to do nothing about. Even though we know it is wrong we still do it for protection and the feeling of being secure. People feel safer walking to their cars, home, stores, etc. when there's more light. Kairos is pretty much expressed through out the entire essay, because we should be ashamed of how we don't know anything about it, because we're to busy going about our day. It's almost selfish to live life and not actually see life. 

The books I found have to do with the Greeks mythology. The two articles I found from Google Scholar is explaining technology from then to now and what we should do to change light pollution. The flow of the essay is pretty steady. It goes from what are myths to Greeks to Ian Cheney talking about night skies and how he grades them to the inventions that took us away from nature to light pollution blocking the nature and why we feel we don't need to know about the night skies. We feel we don't need to know what the Greeks did, because we have cell phones, clocks, and calendars to let us know everything. If we want entertainment we go to shows, movies, attractions, etc. We feel we don't need to look up at the sky and make shapes and stories up. 

 

Then To Now