The Significance of Water in My Life

1.There are several unique examples of water in my life. Water is defined as culture and the way it affects our behaviors. An example of water in my life is school. I've gone to school my whole life, it surrounds me, and sometimes I don't notice it, because it's a daily routine. Just as culture surrounds us humans is to how water surrounds fish. The culture that we live in around the Stevenson area is to perform to your best abilities to achieve greatness. School affects my behavior greatly, because I take my grades seriously, as in other cultures, people may not care about there grades and just drop out of school, and get involved in crime. So different cultures around the globe view school differently. In the Stevenson High School District, your grades are the most important, and you are pressured to do well. If we do good enough in school, we will go to college. This is the college mindset in our culture, that everyone is going to leave high school and go straight to college, and become successful. This is the culture that we live in. But, in other cultures, their view on schooling is different than ours. For example, in some foreign countries, after a certain amount of years in school, you may just be thrown out into the real world either working a low paying job or joining the military, rather than going to college. As where in our culture, we go to college. School is a good example of water in my life, and depending on your culture, you will view the world differently.
2. As I am surrounded by water, I am able to navigate through water by looking at the different cultures around me, and studying their culture, and then trying to understand my culture. This is challenging, because when you look at your own culture and who you are, it is hard to figure out. This is because you are like a fish in the water trying to figure out the significance of water to you. Culture is a humans water. To behaviorally adjust to the cultural forces going around me, I stay open-minded to new ideas, but I also have to keep my morals in my mind and not go against them. I also think for myself and not let other people influence my decisions. I try new things, but if I do not agree with what I'm doing, then I won't do it again. An example of staying open-minded but not going against your morals would be if I was peer pressured into doing something illegal, and I was thinking of doing it, I am staying open minded. But if it is against my morals, which it would be because it is illegal, then I won't participate because I don't agree with it and its against my cultural behavior.
3. Personal values that I embrace are Education and Choice. I embrace education because it is the foundation to success. I have to stay in school and get good grades in order follow my career plan for the future. I also embrace choice because I am in control of my life. I can make any choices I want to to direct my life path. Both Education and Choice will lead me to happiness. An example of how I embrace Educaton is that I am planning on going to college, from getting good grades 1-12th, and trying me best. An example of how people embrace choice would be portrayed in the movie Tuesday's With Morrie. The main character(I forget his name-The Journalist) see's on the news that his college professor is dying from a disease. At first he is hesitant to see Morrie. But after his first visit, he is amazed by all the good talks him and Morrie will have to come. So therefore, because of the American value of choice, The Journalist was sad before he met up with Morrie, but when he finally took that first step to seeing him, he lived a happy life, and understood what life was all about because of Morrie's words of wisdom on life to him. The last example of choice is assisted suicide. It is hard to believe that in the world we are living in today, it is legal for a doctor to help kill you. So if I was faced with a decision like this I would decide to keep living unpeacefully because nothing beats life. I would not want to have someone help kill me, even if I would die more peacefully, because I don't want to take the easy way out. If my personal values are different than those of America's values, than I will adjust them through America's trends and traditions, so then my values may change over time, because I may change them here and there.