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Sometimes, just sometimes, I missed my dad.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I missed my dad. There are moments in life where you would found yourself reminiscing about certain circumstances that happened in your past. You would feel various emotions, sometimes good, sometimes not. You would regret or cry. You'd wish you have done the other way, or you have done it better than what you did. You would realize how immature, naive or innocent you acted.

Analysis on Sociological Imagination

After the multiple comprehensions I did in reading the writings of C. Wright Mills, I summed up to an idea that people do not see how the changes in history affect them. I came up to the reason that to be able to know what is happening within an individual, he should be able to possess the quality of mind connoted by Mr. Mills – the Sociological Imagination – that will help him to use information and to develop a reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world.

Integration Paper in Sociology 1

Well, how could I start? From where? How long? How deep? What should I say? Am I capable of doing this paper? Anyway, I can say that I learned many things from this subject. Actually, I like this subject very much, not because it’s not like NatSci or Math or English that you have to solve formulas, equations or check the grammar but because it is something like evaluating yourself, your beliefs and opinions, weaknesses or strengths, vision and goals, glee or agony. Yes, I can say that the good thing here is that point of views can be presented and argued, and through the different sociological perspectives, arguments can be cleared, either accepted or rejected. Another great thing here is that I can have my self-reflections through the questions being discussed. That stuff is really very helpful because whenever I answer a question from that, I discover something about myself and I will star t to think and brainstorm with it. Our Sociology class, as a matter of fact, is a very ref