Martin Malik
Mrs. Leonard
Period 8
12/19/12
Twitter/ Facebook Restriction Over the course of an entire week of restrictions, a lesson of efficiency has surely been learned. Some of the hardest things to do in life are to push yourself to reach a goal, or in other words, rely on yourself. One of the most common problems any high school teenager encompasses is procrastination. There has to be a way to deal with this, and although my solution is not an easy way, it is a liable solution to the problem. This solution is no other than restraining the use of any materials that pose a distraction from doing schoolwork. In order to accomplish this task, the two most distracting things on the computer, Twitter and Facebook, were to be wiped away. Social networking is one of the main causes of procrastination, which is why it is so important to be put away. Finding a good approach to this problem is key, my Twitter and Facebook passwords were to be given to a trusted person and changed by him/her in order to restrain the use, at the same time not deleting the account completely. In order to suppress the stress caused by loads of homework in high school, an alternative approach to accomplishing the tasks at hand was necessary. Many people thought the act of restraining the use of social networking was absurd. However, it did seem to work well and minimized time spent working on homework. Not only that, it allowed for there to be more time to accomplish other tasks (such as studying), and have the willingness to do them. After people heard about this act, they believed they could never be capable of accomplishing such a thing, but after a few nights, it was finally working. “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse” (Emerson 1). By making this statement, Emerson states how a person must eventually make a change for him/her self, in order for it to benefit their life. This project is a major indicator of transcendentalist movements particularly because it portrays how self reliance is about trusting yourself and going beyond what you can reach. In an excerpt from Emerson’s, “Self-Reliance”, he wrote about accepting places in society people have been given and defeats that may be encountered. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events” (Emerson