Class Discussion

For the class discussion we have chosen to work on stress. Stress is a big component to high school and college students being depressed. During my high school years, I haves seen my friends being stressed about school work, not only by the amount of homework and amount of time they spend on homework but also tests, SATs, state tests, etc. Becuase of children retrieving stress so early, it might be cause that they are unable to handle stress easily as what our parents or elders think about.
I personally see that homework can be a good factor in learning but depending on the time I think there is too much time spent on homework. I remember spending too much time on homework, and work on more time on homework than spending on studying for tests.
With time spent on homework too much can cause more stress, therefore not enough time to relieve stress or learn how to cope with stress.
I mean seriously, I think most high schoolers were spending a lot of time on homework, barely spent time for studying. I remember having some of my friends feeling overly depressed about school and studies outside of school. I think that adults are pushing children too fast into becoming adults, as if they want students to hurry up and become adults. Children don't fully become mature until they are 25 years old. So what is for the children who go to college at age 18 and start working at age 22 years old. We are immediately placed into a community, a society and treated as an adult. I am not completely going against the society to place us as adults but sometimes i feel as if they're pushing us too much.

family

For the draft paper we need to finish after break, personally I wasn't up for the essay about Family. although it seems easy to write about family, I personally have an opinion about writing family.

I personally find writing about family is hard, it might be just the fact that I don't really have anything that big of an opinion about family. Personally I would have find it easier if we have chosen other options.
So personally I do have personal ideas about family but I wasn't so sure on how I would like to  portray it out. I thought about it over and noticed about the usage of smartphones in school. wherever i go i see someone using their smartphones So i thought of writing about the usages of devices and how it changes from the family interaction back in the past till now. 

Richmond Art Museum

Today I have went to the Art museum in Richmond for my Art Class, there I saw a lot of different types of arts. There was this one painting I thought that connected to my English class. There was a sculpture of a woman but not just a woman it was a woman who had a sincere face, beads around her body but as you go lower at the hip area there is a box instead of a hip and inside is a woman’s pelvis bone. And below that was a drawer and inside that drawer was a bead heart. I thought it symbolized a womanhood, possibly a mother, giving birth, and loving the child. After read the The Heart Defended I could see the connection a lot, a child needs their mother and motherhood is to love their children no matter what. I was drawn to the sculpture by it’s realistic look of a woman, she had real hair from the artist, her skin looked as if they were real, she had a slight tint of possible smile on her face. I strongly felt that this sculpture was to have an emphasis on motherhood and I guess the role as a mother.