Personal philosophy

      Through out my 17 years of life so far, I've come to believe at this moment to live your life. Your bound to make mistakes on the way, but don't let your mistakes keep you from living your life. Rather than sitting at home, enjoy it while you can. All through middle school to now, I look back at how I was before and think, "Wow, I've really changed over the years. I've sure have made a lot of stupid mistakes in the past. The beginning of my sophomore year, I became really close friends with a girl almost everyone disliked. I actually got to know her and she wasn't as bad as everyone thought she was. Eventually we became the best of friends. Finishing each other's sentences to sending each other derp pictures. We were constantly going to each other's houses and telling each other everything. By the end of sophomore year, towards the beginning of summer, we started to drift apart. For some unknown reason I still don't know to this day. We got into a huge fight over the summer about how she thought I've changed and she didn't like it. How I was never there for her anymore. I was literally always there for her, which was total bullshit. Our texts turned into one word replies, our bios on instagram changed. All of a sudden, I've heard things how she's been going around telling people my secrets. I honestly couldn't believe what I was hearing. But apparently it was true.  I was lost without my best friend beside me. She left when I needed her most. We weren't friends for a good 8 months. I was filled with so much hatred and resentment towards her that I fell into a depression. And every time I saw her, I felt like punching her from afar. For a couple of months, I went a little "boy crazy." I couldn't sleep, or focus on school. I smiled when I needed too, just to put on a show. I cried a lot, I was always alone. And in between those times, I’ve made a lot of mistakes that I really regret now. My best friend now, she tried to help me through it at the time, but I wouldn't budge. I was too stubborn to care about anything. Finally, during the socal trip, I realized something. I realized that there was no point in holding a grudge against my ex BFF. Yeah, she kind of ruined my reputation, but for me, I don't care what others think of me. I realized that she's only human and we all aren't perfect. We all make mistakes and  we can learn from them. Whether if it takes hours, days or months. I've learned that being depressed and not focusing on school for a better future was a disappointment.  It really isn’t worth it. It will mess you up, but with the right people there helping you lead the way, you will be able to move on with your life. Maybe not exactly forgiving, but being the bigger person and moving on from your mistakes and theirs. I've learned to forgive but never forgetting. To always live life to the fullest. I’ve also learned not to depend on people too much. People will come and go, those who are your real friends will stay. You know who your real friends are by the way they treat you or how often they are there for you. Trust is a big word. And is always taken advantage of. I now know to not trust so easily, but don’t let your fears of trusting someone take over for the rest of your life. Keep guarded, but not so much to the point when you’re shutting everyone out of your life and will be alone. 

Assignment D ch13

"Grandpa seemed to be struggling; all his muscles twitched. and suddenly he jarred as though under a heavy blow. he lay still and his breath was stopped." (138)

 This quote impacted me heavily because my great grandpa passed away from a stroke as well. it hit me hard because before he moved back to the hilippines, he was also a stubborn man like tom's grandpa and always wanted things to go his way. But at the same time, my great grandpa was a caring man. He always took care of me and my cousins when we were younger and taught us from right and wrong.

assignment A ch 17

                        The Rules of the Camping Society

1) The right of privacy in the tent

2) The right to keep the past black hidden in their heart

3) The right to talk and listen

4) The right to refuse help or accept it

 5) The right to offer help or decline it

6) The right of son to court or daughter to be courted

7) The right of hungry to be fed

8) The right of the pregnant and sick to transcend all other rights

9) The right to intrude upon privacy

10) The right of adultery, theft and murder

11) The right of seduction or rape





In these camping societies, the people there have to learn how to share because of how low on supplies of food and other necessities. Everyone has to get along and even though the rules aren't said, there are specific rules that are needed to follow. One rule would be 'The right of privacy in the tent.' Since there are a lot of people in these camps, you have to respect others privacy when needed. For them to either to change or just wanting alone time to themselves. Respect their privacy and knock before you enter. Another rule would be 'the right of hungry to be fed. As i said before, there are many people in the camps, so they have a right to eat something if they were staring to death. These camping societies are a community, so they have to help each other out, but at the same tim, respecting their wishes of whatever they need or want at the moment.

Assignment H ch 12

Faith is all the farmers have in this section, that and the clothes on their back. It leads back to self reliance because the faith that these people have are in themselves, having faith to want to keep going. Steinbeck's message about faith here is that you should have faith in yourself to want to be motivated in keep going. Believing in yourself. Don't rely on others, but on your faith. Even though it's the only thing they can rely on besides the people with them. But he wants you to not depend on those people, rather than yourself. Some of the farmers don't have faith, but regained their faith from when they saw the opportunity to going to California for something bigger and better. On page 122, faith is shown when the farmers cars break down on highway 66, and have to go and get a new tire. But the people who sell them, raised the prices the more desperate the farmers became. But the farmers had faith, and waited on the side till a nice truck driver came and picked them up and feed them and gave them a ride.

Assignment D ch 7

Ch 7 is all about cars and how the sales men bargin to sell their cars. When they get new cars, they automatically sell them. They don't wait for something better to come up. They take advantage of the situation and usually bargin with their customers. www.web.bryant.edu/ 

Assignment G Ch 1-10

G) "The bank--the monster has to have profits all the time. I can't wait. It'll die. No, the taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size." 32

The banks have more interest in the money that the farmers make instead of the interest of having the people there. They would rather just get rid of people who can't make profits and find someone who can. All they care about is the money. This quote is saying how if the farmers can't make crops, they won't have money. And if they don't have money, the bankers won't make any profits from their land. This is a conflict in the novel because their are lots of people who want land to grow crops in order to make some money. But sometimes the year they try to make crops won't be a good year, then they won't have money.

"No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses. (36)

The farmers need to have some emotion towards the land. Have some love or passion wilhile farming. Have faith that their crops will grow that year. The men is tractors to make their crops. Machines. Not hand made. But when their crops go wrong that year, they have nothing to eat. So they eat someone else's crops. 

Assignment I ch 1-10

I) CH 1-10

 The biblical connections through the book and from what I know is different. From the book, it talks about how the Holy Spirit is the human spirit. Men and women are the spirit. From what I know is that our spirit is God. Believing in god. The significance of the the connections is that before in the 1930s, believing for the Holy Spirit is yourself. Now a days, you believe in god. God will always be there for you. We can understand from these connections of how it's different from what you believe in from now and in the 1930s. Jesus is your savior instead of man and woman.