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~ shourovsayed ~ Leave a comment

Graham Stephan is an american Youtube personality who mainly makes educational and financial type videos. He has been a big inspiration of mine because of the many things he has accomplished throughout the years. He started his career as a real estate agent, when he got denied from college. Unlike some people, he did not let that stop him from achieving greatness and that is something I admire a lot from him. From his humble beginnings, living in a working class family to the millionaire lifestyle, he has always stayed true to himself, he didn’t let fame or anything go to his head. Instead he decided he wanted to inspire the younger generation by teaching them how to save money and how to become someone successful via his videos.This is the type of people I would consider inspirational because they have had a major impact on people by spreading their knowledge and trying to help other people succeed in life.

In my opinion, for someone to be considered inspirational ,they have to have certain qualities like spreading a good message, trying to make the world a better place, someone that people would look up to and think that one day i too will become like them. In short, Graham Stephan is someone that has inspired me because he has motivated me and has taught me a lot of valuable lessons in life.

Blog 1: An Egalitarian in Maycomb County

~ kyliasu ~ 3 Comments

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—” “Sir?” “—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

Atticus Finch

Atticus Finch is a fictional character from a classic book called To Kill a Mockingbird. First of all, the story took place in a fictional county of Maycomb in Alabama during The Great Depression. As most of us know, back in the 1930s, there was a lot of known issues which may even exist nowadays such as the inequality between men and women, and the conflicts between the white and black people. Despite being well-off, Atticus had never judge a person by their color or social status.

As I read the book, Atticus taught me a lot of lessons that I will value forever. One of those is the very definition of courage. Most of us mistook courage for stereotypical behaviors for men such as aggression, sexuality and even physical strength which, for Atticus, is the complete opposite. He believes that true courage is when you know it’s painful to live through it, yet you live it through anyways. In other words, It’s the power to persist through difficult times. I was pretty touched back then, because I actually am not a big reader and I had to read this book for my English class (I was reading the whole book the day before the exam). Another lesson learnt was to be sympathetic and understanding. In the book, Atticus has two children. He always preaches them to never ever hold grudges to anyone, but to understand that all people have both bad and good qualities. We, like any other human, do all sort of mistakes and we should all try to understand each other. Do you guys now understand why I am so inspired by this man? In fact, he is not the only character that taught me lots of morals and proper values. Most of the characters from the book did.

Summarizing my thoughts about Atticus Finch, he is the type of man who stays calm during hard times and I believe that he is a man of wisdom and I do think that if there’s more people who has the same (or almost) mindset as him, our world would be a much better place and I guess war won’t even exist. I think that a man can be considered inspirational if they are very passionate about what they do and being trustworthy. Where as, Atticus was able to share his passion to me, which I hopefully am gonna be able to spread too! Anyways! I think I’m making this too long. If not yet done, I do hope that you guys read this amazing book and learn just as much as I did. The book is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Kyle Supapo, signing off~

Blog 1

~ avendanoadrian ~ 1 Comment

The man who inspires me is my grandfather on my dad’s side. He was a lawyer in the Philippines. He inspires me because me because he acheived something many would wish they could acheive. He finished his schooling and was educated. He was well disciplined and was well respected. I learned in school that people who get an education are people who have the potential to run a country. I saw this as something to strive for, getting an education, I mean. I want to finish school as he did. I want my grandchildren to look up to their grandparents and say “Yeah, my grandparents are awesome!!” or something, right? I hope they carry on the tradition of being somebody who seeks greatness. The possibility was there, I realized.

I think that, to be inspirational, is to make others want to follow their dreams. You would think similarly to the person you admire, knowing that they want nothing but the best for you.

I don’t know much about my grandfather.But what I do know is that, I won’t dissapoint him.

BLOG 1 : selfless love <3

~ sherrin 😜 ~ 2 Comments

Hey what’s up guys! 

Doing this assignment made me realize that I don’t really have that much man figure in my life. I assume that most students in this class have a father or siblings. Welp, in my life I got neither (lol). I basically live only with my mom and her sister. That having being said, when asked what man you consider inspirational, I don’t know who to pick than someone famous. But I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to write about a person that I do not have any personal connections with. Therefore, the man that I find inspirational to me was one of the oldest members in my church, who I consider to be until now the manly figure to me. Ralph was born in 1924!!! YUP that long ago, in Japan and due to war and political issues in that country, he and his family took the boat and travelled here to Canada. I remembered him talking about how hard and overwhelming the travel was. He talks a lot actually about how time passed to fast and how technology is growing immensely than he imagined. But yeah, he talks about all the adventures he did before getting old. He was never rich nor poor, but he was super content of what he did for himself, his family, and our church. And that is why I find him inspirational. Despite, the war and sadness of leaving his home country, he never showed his pain. He always kept going in life because at least he got a family, a church, friends, and me. Ralph is kind of hard headed because like he always said “I’ve been here longer than you, I know the ways”. However, he is also super funny and kind. He’s the type of person to give while not expecting something is return, which in today’s day not so many people can do that. Right?

Anyway, before I bore you, for me being inspirational is having an impact in someone’s life. Being valued. Being seen as someone who puts people first before them. And that is what Ralph is all about. Being inspirational starts by little things. Yes, he didn’t change the world or created things, but he was someone with great knowledge and someone full of life. Writing this brings to such memories. Ralph would come in my house every Thursday after his day to see the kids in my house (my mom have a daycare) and he would be so happy. Every time I see that smile my heart gets warm. In all, what he brought to me and my family was nothing but happiness and laugher because that is what matters to us. Anyway, back in 2016 is when things went south and he unfortunately died at the age of 92. He was nothing like you would’ve imagined because at that age he was still driving, drinking beer, and never wore glasses. I hope I become like him when I get older…

May he finds rest and more happiness in heaven… 

xo, Sherrin