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Criminal Justice Careers

1. What is the hardest part of finding a job in the field?
2. What is the hardest part of performing the job?
3. How was adjusting to the job? Why?
4. What job did you choose and why?
5. How has your job made you as a person?
6. What were the requirments to obtain your position?
7. What is one of the most rewarding things from the job?
8. What degree is needed to get a job in the field?
9. How many different positions are there in the field?

What Could Be More Interesting Than How The Mind Works?

Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist and an experimental psychologist. Language, behavior, and the development of human nature is what interested him most. As a student, Steven attended Harvard in 1976 which he received his Ph.D in psychology. Years later, he returned to become a professor at his old graduate school. As a child, Steven was smart and always had an interest in the human mind and how it worked. He grew up in a time where the concept of nature vs. nurture was highly talked about and often debated. Because of this unsolved concept, Steven was automatically drawn to finding answers. He hoped that by asking profound questions, he could find answers in a lab. He was so fascinated by the human brain that he wrote "How the Mind Works". He describes his written piece simply by saying that "its sheer audacity in trying to explain exactly that, how the mind works, between one pair of covers" (Pinker). Steven Pinker spent and devoted his time finding and researching ways to fully understand the complexity of the human brain. He furthered his education on the subject by coming up with his own theories that he backed up with information and facts he discovered along the way.

Like A Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUWjt2JAYWo

The video shows how people portray doing things "like a girl". It shows that it can be hurtful and demeaning. Girls do things like a girl simply because they are a girl.

The Summoned Self

“The Summoned Self” was an article that proposed that there are two ways to think about your life. The first they called the Well-Planned Life.  It is merely about finding your purpose in life when you are younger. Investing a lot of time young, so when you are older you know the path to follow and where your path will lead you to.  Once you come up with your purpose of life, you make the decisions of committing your time and the talents you possess. They had said, that most people with this view of life use near term accomplishments. It’s the more practical approach to life, knowing the outcomes, the costs, and the sources you will use to complete the purpose of life.

            The second way of thinking about life is called the Summoned Life. Life is to be explored, not put together. “Life isn’t a project to be completed; it is an unknowable landscape to be explored” (Brooks). They say with this way of life, you won’t truly understand concepts of life until you yourself have been through them or are engaged with them. People with this thinking style are more skeptical. They believe that one presentation can be applied to many other circumstances not just one.  The power of having different choices and options to make are the most important features of being human. You must ask yourself questions that are answered by observation and being aware not by planning and numbers. They believe that life comes to a point not when the choice is complete but when life evolves to a much larger purpose and cause.

            Both ways of life are helpful. “The first vision is more American. The second vision is more common elsewhere” (Brooks). However both visions of life are useful to each person when trying to live a considered life style.