Project Description.
This project was about adolescence. We started by studying theories about adolescence and how people develop morally through their life and the different stages of thought process. Are final project for this unit we Interviewed important people in are lives about their lives and adolescence. We then took those interviews and wrote an essay about those people to show what the function of adolescence was in are society and how adolescence impacts your whole life. We paired these essays with portraits that show who the person we interviewed is. Either as they were when they were an adolescent or as they are currently.
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Rob Kolter
By Phillip Kolter
Can people change? Can a person truly change and become a different person? I would have to say yes, I do believe someone can change. But i don’t think it can happen through will power, or just belief that you can change. Change happens when your going through life and something unexpected happens. You may be a paramedic in denver and then wham your in seminary school in atlanta.
A great example is my dad. In my dad's adolescent years he was “an asshole”. He did a whole bunch of things he shouldn’t have done but he did them because the consequences were less severe than they are today. He was born in Ohio but moved to Colorado when he was young. From an early age he was rock climbing and camping. At thirteen he was recruited for a mountain search and rescue team and by fifteen him and other people his age would be out rappelling and running search and rescue missions in the backcountry. My dad stated that “ those are some of the best memories of my life and one of my fondest memories is having to do a high angle evacuation in red rocks park during a Joan Baez concert when I was fifteen years old”. In his adolescence he kept people away, his main priority was himself and his own personal gain.
My dad's first job was working for his father and ran a printing press.” The one thing I learned is to never work for your father. It put a strain on are relationship because there was no boundary between work and home.” He then was a paramedic for several years at denver then he decided to go back to college. He started at a junior college in denver. Two of his teachers suggested him to pursue a journalism degree at the University of Missouri, so he did. That lead him to documenting the Missouri National Guard building a road in Honduras. One of the days he was down there he spend a day with the commanding officer of the unit, and one of the things they did was picking up the officers laundry from a local woman who was doing his laundry. “ They lived in a small one room building with a dirt floor and a thatched roof that if it were a jail cell in america the prisoners would say that if it was unconstitutionally too small and yet this family of six lived in there.” He came home from that thinking about poverty and disparity. He went to a friend of his and told him what he had observed and how he was disturbed by it. His friend went over and opened up a bible to mathew 25. “Whenever you this, to the least of these my brothers you do to me.” From that point on, that was the root of his belief. That was the time where is morality changed his ideals change. From there on he believed that we are on this earth to help others who are less fortunate that we are called upon to be kind to strangers to visit those who are sick.
Because of these experiences he had changed. and because of his experiences he not only let people close to him but he when to help those. After Getting a degree in Journalism he went to seminary school and became a minister for many years. Until he was kicked out of the church for “being too liberal”. After that he had a job fall in his lap where he started fixing computers and he's been that since. He had a massive shift he went from an asshole whose main goal was himself and how he can have the most fun to a man with strong morals and good ethics.
Today because of his experiences he’s different from when he was an adolescent. “ My priorities aren’t myself anymore, their my family and what's best for them. I learned that we are here to help the world and the people around us and not just live but live together.” My dad’s experiences are the core to his belief. From “an asshole” to god loving hippie, I’d say that's a pretty big change
By Phillip Kolter
Can people change? Can a person truly change and become a different person? I would have to say yes, I do believe someone can change. But i don’t think it can happen through will power, or just belief that you can change. Change happens when your going through life and something unexpected happens. You may be a paramedic in denver and then wham your in seminary school in atlanta.
A great example is my dad. In my dad's adolescent years he was “an asshole”. He did a whole bunch of things he shouldn’t have done but he did them because the consequences were less severe than they are today. He was born in Ohio but moved to Colorado when he was young. From an early age he was rock climbing and camping. At thirteen he was recruited for a mountain search and rescue team and by fifteen him and other people his age would be out rappelling and running search and rescue missions in the backcountry. My dad stated that “ those are some of the best memories of my life and one of my fondest memories is having to do a high angle evacuation in red rocks park during a Joan Baez concert when I was fifteen years old”. In his adolescence he kept people away, his main priority was himself and his own personal gain.
My dad's first job was working for his father and ran a printing press.” The one thing I learned is to never work for your father. It put a strain on are relationship because there was no boundary between work and home.” He then was a paramedic for several years at denver then he decided to go back to college. He started at a junior college in denver. Two of his teachers suggested him to pursue a journalism degree at the University of Missouri, so he did. That lead him to documenting the Missouri National Guard building a road in Honduras. One of the days he was down there he spend a day with the commanding officer of the unit, and one of the things they did was picking up the officers laundry from a local woman who was doing his laundry. “ They lived in a small one room building with a dirt floor and a thatched roof that if it were a jail cell in america the prisoners would say that if it was unconstitutionally too small and yet this family of six lived in there.” He came home from that thinking about poverty and disparity. He went to a friend of his and told him what he had observed and how he was disturbed by it. His friend went over and opened up a bible to mathew 25. “Whenever you this, to the least of these my brothers you do to me.” From that point on, that was the root of his belief. That was the time where is morality changed his ideals change. From there on he believed that we are on this earth to help others who are less fortunate that we are called upon to be kind to strangers to visit those who are sick.
Because of these experiences he had changed. and because of his experiences he not only let people close to him but he when to help those. After Getting a degree in Journalism he went to seminary school and became a minister for many years. Until he was kicked out of the church for “being too liberal”. After that he had a job fall in his lap where he started fixing computers and he's been that since. He had a massive shift he went from an asshole whose main goal was himself and how he can have the most fun to a man with strong morals and good ethics.
Today because of his experiences he’s different from when he was an adolescent. “ My priorities aren’t myself anymore, their my family and what's best for them. I learned that we are here to help the world and the people around us and not just live but live together.” My dad’s experiences are the core to his belief. From “an asshole” to god loving hippie, I’d say that's a pretty big change