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While looking through my old blog posts, a reoccurring theme that kept popping up was the idea of competition and always becoming the best. I have always found this topic of the American goal, and what we want in our future very interesting. It is something that everyone can connect to, because no matter how wealthy a person is, everyone has a similar goal, and it's always to get more. No matter how wealthy one is, it's never good enough. There is always a better job they want, or a better education, etc.


This is an idea that was discussed extensively in our class, and that I reflected on a lot at home as well. One of my first blog posts, "Finding The Right School," focused on "The many choices we are given when choosing a college, as well as the competition involved in that." Being one of my first posts, it was not as developed as i would have made it now, and i didn't have any other sources, besides mentioning a Thoreau reading discussed in class. Though this post does relate to a larger theme in our country, outside sources were always and still are a struggle of mine while blogging. It is something that i continue to work on today, however i think i have improved a lot, and am now including other sources, articles, etc that relate to my post.


As the year progressed, I continued to write blog posts that connected to the competition we all experience in the US. Another that i wrote, called "What's Next?"once again brings up the topic of competition, but this time referencing the kindle, and when there is a limit on the technology invented, and "if we would ever take it too far." We always seem to need something better, which relates back to the idea of competition. Lastly, my most recent post, "Cometition and money - our main focus"once again focuses on reality shows, and how they are all about the competition. Throughout all of my posts, i think these 3 posts show my improvement the most, especially because they are on a topic i find very interesting.


The blog posts in between those three do not reflect my best work, mainly because they would just be about something i find on a news site, or something i hear about somewhere that are random. The ones about the goals we have as American's are the ones that i have the most knowledge on, and it therefore reflects in my writing. In the future, i hope to broaden the topics i blog about, but also make sure they are something i am very interested in, because those seem to show my best writing compared to the others.