http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso Just another Blog.lsc.edu weblog Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:54:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en -Traveling is a great experience, even though I haven't gone too far from my hometown. -I will soon be traveling to Mexico where I will get to experience first hand what travel is really about. -I haven't had the full effect of a traveling experience , but soon it will definately happen. http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/12/10/thesis-for-travel/ Chelsea Swenson Steve Dalager College Comp. 11/26/07 Race There was once a boy in my class named Chris Turner. He was darker skinned, but he wasn’t black. I think he may have been Native American. He was classified as one of the more nerdy or outcastish kids in my grade. He was adopted by one of ... http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/12/10/race/ "We must remember that intelligence is not enough.  Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education.  The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.  The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the ... http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/11/28/the-purpose-of-education/ "There is an innocence to the assumption that one expects(even deserves) a better grade simply by begging for it." I thought this quote was really good because I have seen the people that do this at my school. I think it is so annoying how people just sit there and do ... http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/11/28/18/ I thought this story was going to be all about the old days.  I started to read it and got to like the second page and I was totally wrong.  It actually surprised me a little bit.  It started talking about his sons and his friends fighting the war in ... http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/11/13/a-war-for-us-fought-by-them/ "This was my first really big step toward self-degradation.  when I endured all of that pain, literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man's hair.  I had joined that multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believing that the black people ... http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/11/08/my-first-conk/ I'm thinking that maybe this lady's breaks went out.  I really think that she saw this huge boat in front of her because it is light outside.  There are stopper things by where the people are standing, that is another reason why I think her brakes went out.  The lady ... http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/11/05/crash/ My partner is someone very close to me.  Her name is Tracy Swenson.  She would be my mom.  I would do a grandparent, but as I explained in the last blog entry I don't have any left. My mom has three kids and a husband.  She has two boys and ... http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/10/29/my-partner/ Well for me this is going to be a tough post.  I never really got to know my grandparents because they all past away early in my lifetime.  My dad's father died when I wasn't even born yet, so I couldn't really get to know a lot about him.  I can't ... http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/10/16/grandpas-and-grandmas/ "Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50% of what my mother says.  Some say they understand 80% to 90%.  Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese." I can relate to this right here.  When I am in Spanish class and our ... http://blog.lsc.edu/chswenso/2007/10/15/mother-tongue/