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What I Learned In Boating School

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What I learned in Boating School is. A famous quote from a cartoon show is how students generally tend to think when they look back at what they have learned in their classes for the year. Now, general when students look back that what they’ve learned they judge mean by the what grades they got or the important facts that they remember after all is said and done. Yet, with the year wrapping up on my Great Literature of the World. I feel the need to look back on not exactly what I remember from the readings but what I learned about the world or myself from what I have read. After reading through some of Montaigne’s essay’s I’ve come to look at the world a little differently, one of the essays I really like that he wrote was his essay “On Fear” where he talks about how in war even a soldier’s fear can get the better of him “changing a flock of sheep into a squadron of knights in amours”. I just really like the exampled his used it paint a very n ice picture and it was true. We all have moments of fear and see things or think scary situations when we are afraid” …show more content…

I couldn’t really figure out how what Montaigne was writing about related to my modern life. Like I’ve never been shot by an arquebus and had an out of body experience. Yet, from that essay I did learn why one should not fear death. Death is just the end of one chapter and the being of another as I always looked at death. So that is why I try ad live my life to best that I can. Not foolishly and taking unnecessary risk but just going on through my life trying my best not afraid of death. One of the main goals I had set for this semester was that I would pass all my class as this is my first semester at USF and I want to start my GPA out right. Sadly, I know that I didn’t always work my hardest when it came to this class, but, I know I should

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