Digital Voices

Tyler’s “This I Believe” podcast
The Importance of Family

by Tyler

I believe in family, I believe that you family is always there for you when you need them most. A lot of kids I see these days are very disrespectful to their parents and other family members and what they don’t realize is that if it wasn’t for your parents you wouldn’t have a roof over your head. Even some of my friends are disrespectful to their parents and I always yell at them when they yell at their parents. Family, I believe, is about being there for each other no matter what and dealing with the things that get at you. Sure sometimes your parents or Aunt or Uncle or your Mom’s boyfriend, will yell at you about things that you might think are not the big of a deal, for example, falling grades, not taking out the trash, not cleaning your room, or not shutting off your fan in you room, but if they didn’t care about you why would they say anything at all? Wouldn’t they just tell you to do whatever you want if they didn’t care? I myself though that my parents were just out to keep me locked up in my house, when the real reason for them keeping me in the house was that I disobeyed them and talked back. I now believe I have grown much closer to my family over the past year and have opened my eyes to what they are always yelling at me about, it all finally got through my head and now I can rightfully say my grades have improved, my relationship with my family is much better, there’s less fighting, and they trust me more to do things that I would normally never be able to do. My description for family may be a little rough but it’s what I believe in. I believe that Family is just being with the ones you love. I believe that love is being with your family. I believe that family is love. This I Believe.

I understand that Podcasting can make giving out speeches a lot easier and more convenient. I understand that Podcasting is an easier way to get your word out to the rest of the community and world. It also gives you a feel for the speech, what I mean by this is, the person giving the speech could be using a different tone of voice instead of just a dull tone. What I noticed about the technology, in our school, is that the computers may not want to let you listen to a speech on NPR, if that’s the problem I just read the essay. I listened to the “We are all different in our own ways” essay. I selected this piece because I to also believe that we are all different in our own ways and just like Joshua the kid who wrote the essay says, “If we were all the same the world would be extremely dull” I second that statement. What stood out to me about the essay was that it was made by someone with beliefs like mine and by a freshman, also he is from Michigan. What aspects are most memorable was when his teacher told him he has a disease and he told her, “So what? Do you know that Godzilla’s suit weighs 188 pounds?” What’s effective about the piece is that it draws you in somewhat and some people can actually relate to his words. I noticed the introduction to his speech told you his belief. The introduction really made me want to listen to his speech but I can’t because of the computer. What was Interesting about his introduction was that it was very informational about his topic.

Hello Mrs. Reed and everyone else how are you all?