Not Examined Life / Modern Gadfly

I think that the non examined life is still worth living.  I don't think that every little aspect of our lives should be dissected and thought about for every single thing we do.  There are certain times where it is important to think about and examine out lives very closely and carefully, like when choosing a college, career, marriage, where to live, etc.  If we spend our whole lives worry about whether to examine every little thing, then we could be wasting important moments because of our focus on examining life so much.  In all, some things should be examined, but some little decisions we can brush over.

I think that a modern Socrates is David Letterman.  His talk show has been going on for almost 30 years now and he has always featured provocative material, although with a humorous aspect. When dealing with politicians or even celebrities he pokes fun at their ideas or thoughts that seem to not benefit the American people, and even on an event like 9/11 he got really serious and had a very motivating monolouge directed towards Al-Queda

Eulogy

Gordon Bentley was born in Chicago on May 31, 1995.  He first lived in the Wrightwood neighborhood until he moved to Old Irving Park in 1997.  He attended Lasalle Languave Academy from 2000 to 2009 where he took Italian as a second language.  While at LaSalle, he liked to read A LOT of books and never had videogames growing up. He has a passion for music and a music library (digital and vinyl) that is constantly growing. Gordon was raised Jewish and he had his Bar-Mitzvah in seventh grade in 2008, but after that gravitated to being more non-religious.  He began high school at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in 2009, where he played sports for the boys 16" Softball team in the fall, and did Volleyball and Lacrosse in the spring.  During his summers he would work at Phantom Lake YMCA Camp in Mukwonago, Wisconsin.  He went to this camp for 8 years and in 2012 finished the Staff Development Program.  In school he liked English and History classes the best and continued to take Italian through his junior year. Gordon never liked math of any sort but some Science interests him such as aerospace or outserpace.  He is interesed in many colleges including the University of Michigan, UW-Madison, the University of Illinois, NYU, Boston University, Colombia Univserity, Harvard University, and more.  He has always been a Democrat or a liberal, but not through parental or other influence pushed upon him through school, etc. but through reading political artlices and watching the news and finding out his values and morals.  He wanted to vote for Barack Obama in 2012 but unfortunately doesn't turn 18 until May, so he'll have to wait until 2014 to vote in an election.  His future plans are unknown, but is more interested in the fields of buisness, economics, politics or even government.