What About You?

As I was looking back through Huck Finn for the completion of my essay, and I kept somehow seeing the theme of nature vs. nurture come up, and it got me thinking about myself and which one impacted me more.  For me, I believe nature has made and will make and influence my life more than nurture. Why?

I feel this way because in life, it is you who must make decisions for yourself, not for others or based off of others.  So although I take what my parents say and try and teach me to do in good consideration, I will not follow their every belief blindly, which therefor puts me on the side of nature.  It seems almost illogical to follow nurture really.  Who is the one making decisions for each and every one of us?  Ourselves, we make our own decisions, so shouldn't that entitle us to the right to make them for our own reasons, and not for someone else's?  So for that reason I would say nature takes a toll on me more than nurture.  What about you? 

Jason and Huck

I just saw the new Friday the 13th movie with a few of my friends.  It is about a boy named Jason who drowned at camp.  The counselors did not save him, so his mom came and killed everyone and so on like every other slasher movie.  Then there was one girl left who ended up killing Jason's mom, and before she died she told Jason to kill everyone who ever came back there.  Of course he does and that is the movie, but what stood out to me was the whole idea of nurture vs. nature.  This movie was clearly a case of nurture taking over and having a greater impact than nature on the character.  In juxtaposition to Huck Finn, we see that nature has more of an impact on Huck than nurture.

With the movie Jason's mother was loving and cared for him, so when she died he followed her dying words and her guidelines blindly, but in Huck Finn his dad was abusive and far from loving, so Huck eventually pulled through the nurtured habits of his father and found his own.  This sort of brings up the idea that in terms of whether nature or nurture will impact a person more, the one doing the teaching and nurturing and their personality and actions effectively skews the answer to that question.

Global Climate Change: What's the Big Deal?

Of course, everyone knows about the whole global climate change crisis, and almost everyone would call it just that; a crisis.  I have done much research on this subject for a project last year, and I must admit, the earth's climate is rising in many places, as well as the ice caps beginning to melt.  So with all this in mind, it seems like common sense to stop and think for a second about how bad and catastrophic this could be, but it seems to me that people are simply uneducated about the subject and do not plan on becoming educated, so they believe whatever "seems" right.

The truth is that the infamous global climate change crisis is nothing but a romanticized ordeal.  People hear about the polar bears and the possible "global flooding" and jump to conclusions that this will be the end of the world and human race as we know it.  Here are a few facts for those people: one, even if the ice caps did melt, there are very few land masses that would even be affected the slightest, let alone a global flood.  Two, earth's average temperature has been higher than it is now multiple times in the past, for example, during the middle ages; I do not think knights were driving around in hummers and polluting the planet back then.  Three, the idea that the world is going to overheat, or just end in general due to our greenhouse gas emissions is completely illogical and an extremely radical connotation.

Now, I am not trying to persuade anybody or tell anybody what to think, but it is important to know that this is a romanticized issue in society.  There is absolutely no need for anyone to be pulling their hair out over this.  Honestly, I adore polar bears and think it is a good idea to cut down greenhouse gas emissions because it is an issue, just not as big of an issue as it is made to be.