Blog #1

When writing, what most worries me most is the purpose of the assigned the paper. If I am just given busy work, I feel like it wastes the time of everyone who is involved.  The contributing factor is the teacher who works from eight to three, just the get a paycheck. Writing is an art form, not just a mobile to get a passing grade or a day's pay. Teachers should nurture a student's writing, as every important revolution of the past thousand years has started with some hot-head who could not keep his or her pen still. Imagine the world without John Locke or Voltaire. Without them, the United States of America would look very different, if existent at all, and as a result, the rest of the world would follow. If an eighteen year old Locke was given an assignment to run out the bell, how would he respond to it? He could very well become uninterested or annoyed with writing. Fortunately, his teachers were the most prestigious in England, and we got the resultant John Locke and his ideals. While composing, I cannot help but feel distracted by the possibility that my work has in no way improved from the following year. I want to write with a purpose, write to improve, not to fill a teacher's wallet. Essays and assignments need to serve its writer and its audience, and that could be anything. Whether it's to topple a dictatorship, or to tell readers to never watch The Amazing Spiderman 2, write with a purpose.