Blog 9

            The three articles that we discuss in class were the two David Brooks articles and Barbra Graham’s article. I gained understanding concrete and abstract better, because I did not really a good understanding of those words. So after breaking down the three different articles.

            The most interesting connection that I had was when we talked about in David Brooks article, “The Epidemic of Worry” we talked about how different class of anxiety. For an example we talked about how a rich countries has more anxiety than poorer countries, because richer countries want more, they think that they need something and they do not want to miss out on there freedom. I did not realized that until we talked about it in class, because I did not think about how many times we think that we need something and we do not get it. We get upset if we do not get it or we just keep thinking about it. Another interesting connection that we discussed in class was in the other David Brooks article, “It’s Not About You.” When talked about how most people who graduate do not get married, they go job to job to find a better job each time to support themselves and they do not buy a house straight out of college. This connected to me because, not a lot of people do not get good jobs, buy a house and do not get married. For example when my cousins got out of college they went job to job, they did not get married and they did not buy a house.

            What was interesting to me was they way we broke down each article into pieces. By doing that it helped me better to understand each of the three articles. At first I really did not understand the David brooks article until we broke each one down. At first I thought it was going to be easy to compare the two different Brooks articles, and it was hard. But we were not able to compare the two different David Brooks articles as a class.

            Discussing with my classmates about the articles helped understand the articles. When we had trouble connecting the three articles we would help each other. Another reason is when we were in groups we would worked together we would get to here each other opinions on the articles, and we would help each other on the articles. Talking with my peers did help me understand concert and abstract better.