Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths" challenges us to think critically. Telling us to be prepared for the vastly differences in high school and college. Columbo challenges us to put ourselves in an El Salvadoran person's place as he reads the title of a book "Rereading America" and reminds us that The United States is not the only country in North America and it is the arrogance of we in the United States who take it for granted that it is the only country in North America. Something of which I can say with pride that I am not guilty. The fact that people do not know what North America includes is evidence of the dubious quality of our education system.
Columbo's example of cultural myths was very profound in "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethk. Which to today's generation, and probably rightfully so sounds like a perverted, abusive situation, turns out to me to be quite a sweet memory a boy has of his father. It took some critical thinking on my part to get over the afore mentioned.

Survey response

The survey was interesting. It asked very personal questions and I believe it will help out us students in the future. How is it helping us? Well if people have trouble with transportation or financially, PSU will prob make some adjustments to help out those who struggle getting on campus or to pay for transportation. This survey may also let PSU know and realize that maybe raising the tuition isnt a really great idea because we all know college is expensive. But again, laying out information from students will give a better understanding of students who attend it and how hard it may be just to be here twice a week, three times a week, or everyday of the week.

Plato

Plato
To reflect upon this reading, it has a lot to do with today’s society. Whether it’s through media or religions, we now today strive to live better. As an example such as Christians, they are wanted to be accepted to heaven. They want to live in a good environment after death. Christians fear the fact that they will be sent to hell rather than the peaceful heaven. Everyday people live with sin, sin sometime just come their way.
It is interesting to me how it explains in the story how if a man tried to struggle to get free it would just suffer more and it was a sin. It also explains how these drawing or paintings on the walls spoke to them and how you can see the shadow. The beliefs from these people through their religion allow them to suffer. In so many different aspects, if the prisoners were to look at the light they would become blind and not able to see they would look away. Therefore, to comfort themselves in the suffering pain in the cave, they imagine their own story with closed eyes. Here it quotes “I think that he would suffer than anything than entertain the false notions and live in this miserable manner.” These prisoners were actually never to see or experience the realities of the real world.

John Her