Dear Readers,
For those of you who check this blog regularly, thank you. Your support through my freshman year has been a blessing. However as I move onto my second year I hope to stay connected and I would like to try something different. Instead of blogs I will post videos via the iphone, that you can see on my youtube channel. I hope you will still be able to see how my experience here at Cal Poly is shaping the person I am becoming and how amazing technology can be to communicate ideas across the world.
Let me know if you have any trouble viewing the video's.
My video channel is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/giordanogianpaolo?feature=mhsn#p/u
Sincerely,
Jordan Gamble
P.S - I look forward to seeing your comments, reply's and thoughts on the videos.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Justice.
What does making justice a reality look like practically in your life?
Uncle Alan asked this great question last week when he followed up on my post on Martin Luther King, Jr. I was slightly uncertain when I first saw this question but have since had time to contemplate the matter and have come to some conclusion.
In my life here in College, there is much diversity, both in attitudes and actions. I have friends who are ultra intense - studying 20 hours + a day, INSANE! Then there are the type that hate anything mainstream. Those students often argue that the washed out, grading system is worthless and pointless. This has brought up an interesting point which I have discussed with friends and, although many agree that the public education system is full of problems, the general consensus has been: What else is there? It is one thing to go against the status qou but if one chooses such a life then how is it better then the present sistuation? So far as I know, no one has proposed a better solution, yet...
A totally separate sphere of discussion is relating to my own activities. Busy with homework, tests and Club activities, it is tough to find the time to dedicate to service, prayer or volunteering. Although I can only offer a few hours a week to things like this, I do look forward to summer camp- where I will be able to build up youth with strong values and service, character, and teamwork . I will be working with the bike shop and have already begun toning my skills in preparation for the summer. Yippee!
My room is much cleaner today but on sunday I couldn't even get to my bed!
Thats it for this today. I got some HW due tomorrow and lots of CNC work to do.
Check back soon to see more of me in the metal cutting action! Hope you all have a great day.
Sincerely,
Jordan Gamble
Uncle Alan asked this great question last week when he followed up on my post on Martin Luther King, Jr. I was slightly uncertain when I first saw this question but have since had time to contemplate the matter and have come to some conclusion.
In my life here in College, there is much diversity, both in attitudes and actions. I have friends who are ultra intense - studying 20 hours + a day, INSANE! Then there are the type that hate anything mainstream. Those students often argue that the washed out, grading system is worthless and pointless. This has brought up an interesting point which I have discussed with friends and, although many agree that the public education system is full of problems, the general consensus has been: What else is there? It is one thing to go against the status qou but if one chooses such a life then how is it better then the present sistuation? So far as I know, no one has proposed a better solution, yet...
A totally separate sphere of discussion is relating to my own activities. Busy with homework, tests and Club activities, it is tough to find the time to dedicate to service, prayer or volunteering. Although I can only offer a few hours a week to things like this, I do look forward to summer camp- where I will be able to build up youth with strong values and service, character, and teamwork . I will be working with the bike shop and have already begun toning my skills in preparation for the summer. Yippee!
My room is much cleaner today but on sunday I couldn't even get to my bed! Thats it for this today. I got some HW due tomorrow and lots of CNC work to do.
Check back soon to see more of me in the metal cutting action! Hope you all have a great day.
Sincerely,
Jordan Gamble
Monday, April 19, 2010
Greatest American Rhetoric : Martin Luther King, Jn
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
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