....Heres my 3 pages

Donny Miller
ENG 100
Like photography, we develop from our negatives. I believe that people learn about their lives from their low points. People can tell us over and over again not to do, or to do something but I believe we cannot truly learn until we experience something for ourselves. Accomplishment teaches us many things, however, failure teaches us so much more. It has been proven that memories are more vivid and can be stored longer if it is a traumatic experience. To some this may seem like a sad fact, yet I understand and accept that. I think that my failures have shaped who I am to this day. If everything went swimmingly in life I believe I would not know how to interact people, what is and is not socially acceptable, or how to handle negative situations. If we were never down in life we would never know what true happiness was.
I believe that because we do not get everything right away it helps us see what is good and what is not. This is seen with writing especially, the frustrations one feels at the beginning of an assignment teaches us that we need to work for the things we want. As well with writing first and second drafts help us see what we did wrong and how we can fix that for our final draft. This is similar to our lives in the sense that we make mistakes but when we realize they are wrong we can fix those mistakes and hopefully that realization will permanently affect our personalities. Yet, there still are some people who after their first and second draft do not change their paper and receive a bad grade. Yet, there are still some people who make the same mistakes over and over again but will not change. I am not saying that people need to change for others, what I am saying is that people need to change from themselves. If people learn from their mistakes it shows they are taking a proactive approach to their life because they are taking the negative in their life and turning them into beautiful pictures.
As people, we see how bright stars shine, and we are determined to shine brighter. Like I said earlier I believe we learn from accomplishments but I do not believe that we learn from our own accomplishments. I think that the accomplishments we learn best from are the accomplishments of others. If we see other people, especially people we look up to, undertaking in great things it inspires us to great things as well. When we see people who we admire doing great things it acts like the giant flames beneath a rocket and propels us up because people want to be like other people who they admire. We learn how and why to succeed by watching what the say and do.
This is not always a good thing though. Sometimes people, who are admired, are not worth being admired. Sometimes those people inspire the ones who look up to them to do things they should not. It is not a good thing when people idolize others who will not benefit their well being. This is something that is an issue in our society today because of how children, teens, and adults are worshiping celebrities who are drug addicts, or poor parents. This is unfortunate because a role model should be someone who is a person who possesses great strength, wisdom, and the power to help others. A role model should be a person who one learns how to make their life better from.
I believe the reason we learn is because we have a curiosity and because of a thirst for knowledge. This thirst is not only limited to people in school due to the fact that one can learn so many things outside of a school setting. However, it also does not exclude school because one can also learn very many things from being in school. Wherever someone may gain their knowledge, and whether or not they wanted to learn the information or not, the fact that they learned the information says so much about people. We can learn information even if we do not think we are learning or do not want to. Imagine how much we can learn when we want to learn, and when we care about knowledge. The reason people want to learn is because as cliché as it is, knowledge is power. The more someone knows about something the more the better they will do in that field. For example, I would not be studying English and taking so many English classes if I wanted to teach Math. Or a tow truck driver would not be picking people in their truck and driving them around as if they were a taxi cab driver. No matter what people who are going into their trade they are going to want to learn everything there is to know about that trade. That way when they are talking to people about their work they sound educated. As well, if someone knows very much about their trade it makes them more likely to get a job in that trade. If I wanted to teach English, I would not take a bunch of Math classes.
I have found that over the years, the way I have learned the best is from doing. I learned that especially when it comes to learning a language it is very easy to keep hearing, practicing, and speaking. When I learned Spanish the teacher made sure that she did not just cram vocabulary and grammar into our brains, but she made sure we were proactive in our learning. We would act out what the vocabulary meant that way would be able to remember the words that much better. Learning is a process that can be learned in many different ways to learn, there is no one right way and one wrong way to learn but there are many.