On The Road to Hell

I turned in my first paper this morning, I feel like I either did very well or completely missed the point. The instructions were to write a critical analysis of Daniel Bell's book The Post Industrial Society. However, a number of classmates and I determined the real assignment was to pick a single aspect of the paper and just focus on that. It made a lot more sense, since in 8 pages you can't get very deep into one topic, let alone trying to cover many.

The next assignment is a case review of 'The Road to Hell'. Once again, I'm focusing on one single area of it and digging into it. My classmate and I discussed it last night and I was amazed how we focused on completely different areas. I think it's really interesting how we are writing about the same case study, but 90% of our paper will be unique.

I am starting to really get into a research area dealing with a lot of concepts important to me. My interests in the meaning of being and how that relates to motivation, management styles, etc... is leading me to explore dignity, self-efficacy, empowerment, etc... Eventually I will have to narrow down even more.

That's all for now, today I'm trying to focus on family time, so I can do more school work tonight and tomorrow. I'm spending 30+ hours a week on school, and juggling time is a major effort.