Relatable

1. I dont believe the word "relatable" has sparked any new meaning, but instead it has been categorized in a different context. When people use the word relatable they usually mean that their past experiences can somewhat correlate with what they are reading or watching. Back then relatable was just a term for saying the story could be told or it could be connected to some other thing. Now it is used to directly connect meaning to something in your own life. In conclusion, no I dont believe the word relatable has become problematic. In fact it has been more commonly used than ever and now most of society tries to mimic that euphoria, or that strong dramatic feeling of being able to connect with someone, or something directly through past personal experience.

An Important Moment

When I think of the moment, the spinning never stops. I was a speed demon in high school, I loved fast cars, they truly were my passion. I could tell you anything about the mechanical details of a car, instead of applying that knowledge to a career, I applied it to optimizing the performance of my own vehicle. Showing off was a branch of my character back then, and when you have a screaming yellow convertible mustang with a V8 under the hood, it's quite easy to get carried away. December 1st, 2012 was the last day I ever street raced.
It was just two kids with souped up cars at an HEB stoplight. The exhaust of my mustang encumbered the air with eye watering fumes, while the car next to me slowly eased up beside. It was a cherry red red modified lexus with dark windows that witheld the identity of the driver. He inched forward more and more, pressuring me to pop the clutch on green. I remember the moment right before the light changed, I had this choice like a battle within my mind. The  reasonable part of my mind was clashing with the egotistical part, and when the light turned green my ego came out on top.
I popped the clutch and just remeber feeling the weight of head submerge into the headrest of my seat. The lexus shot ahead by almost 2 car lengths, at one point I was about to give up and have him enjoy his victory. My ego refused, I switched to 3rd and by then we were doing over a 100 miles an hour, and my car shot ahead. I switched lanes in front to assure my victory, and then everything slowed down. I was 100 ft from an intersection and a car turned right in front of me. In my mind at the moment, everything occured at a slow motion pace, and all the different possible outcomes were presented with enough time for me to react. I swerved my wheel just in time for me to dodge the inboud car, I thought I had it. The speed I was going was so fast my car couldnt handle the force on the back wheels, that it flung me into a spinning pandemonieum. The spinning in my head is so vivid, and the wheel of the car was jerking in such aggressive manners that if you tried to catch the wheel, it would snap your hand off in result. I let go of everything and I let fate do the rest. My car flew into oncoming traffic and hit 2 women head in a volvo head on. Fortunately, no one was injured except for minor cuts and bruises. The consequences and the lessons of that experience follow me to this day, court fees, community service, liscense suspension, points on your liscensce, and refusal to be insured for a motor vehicle. Its moments like these that throw your life into a directionless spinning chaos, that never stops.

This Is Water Q: #4

"This is Water" by Foster Wallace delivers the message of the reader having the choice in what is meaningful in life. In addition to that he supports his message with different theoretical statements such as "Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being foud out". These statements in my perspective are partially over exhaggerated and a little cynical and pessimistic. To support my opinion when he says "always on the verge of being found out" he refers to people with a high level of intellect worshipping the fact that they have such a gift, but in exchange society pressures them consistently. I dont believe this is always typically true, plenty of people are gifted with an extremely high level of intellect or a photographic memory, and they are well aware of it, and they display it proudly without feeling worried about their peers or family. Some are simply intellegent, aware of it, proud of it, and only want to focus on their endeavors to reach their goals. We all know that one person

Elizabeth Spelke Question #2

Elizabeth Spelke supports her claim that the brain starts as a "series of islands", which eventually develop bridges to one another therefore creating language and enabling the ability to link ideas and certain references to produce a complete thought. I believe her assesment of the brain is true, because in her research it is primarily focused on infants. Mainly due to their brains early development, which allows her team to assess and evaluate the infants brain function and how their intellectual capacity keeps proliferating. When she speaks of the child being able to identify spatial concepts such as "looking left of the blue wall" it is because of the childs natural geometric system of being able to distinguish left from right. The child learns left and right by relating those expressions to purely geometric representations. This therefore concludes that a child can link certain expressions to representations, like building a bridge from idea to idea, which then creates links in forming language. She also makes a reference to the rat sticking to the long hall on its left rather than its right, the rat is simply making small connections in its brain to develop more effiecent function. Unlike rats, humans are much more complex, and making these links to different ideas in our brains can be faster and much more advanced; Yet nature still supports  the idea of our brain connecting ideas link by link in order to grow and develop.