I am an American
My lifelong pursuit to follow in my hero's footsteps has made life fun, exhilarating and worth living.
As a sociologist I have been able to be a cultivator, entrepreneur,, mathematician, electrician, accountant, project creator, project administrator, business administrator, marketing director, business man, electrical engineer, military measures student, political scientist, statistician, community leader, history buff, relationship building for life and personal discovery student, artist, economist, chemist, advanced applied psychology master, public speaker, technologist, publisher, master of countless ceremonies, chamber of commerce's member, numerous study groups participant, learning curve focus groups, analytical sciences, salesman, government representative by popular vote US, dual citizen US and Canada, patriot, numerous quest achievement awards, Declaration Award winner presented by US Congress 1976 Bicentennial Commission, Man of the Year awards in American Business 2X, professional adventurer, skier, married, volunteer, writer/author, producer, air personality, entertainer, and more.
I think from birth the choices were mine. I got to decide what language would be the strongest for me to express myself in. French for me today has captured my American heritage and has been my most recent passion. Today more than ever we need people to understand the production side of the formula so to perpetuate our own wealth. I represent 350 years of production and if that represents a great deal. Today we have advanced to a level you might know as being able to communicate in a world wide environment. The next level means that you believe in the same things my legacy inherits for our future. We must produce to be productive I say.
11 Generations is a whole lot for anybody outside the capital city of Quebec to understand the connection and I know very few people who can make the same claim but those I know I love and trust. From my 1659 stock I feel more than ever that the leaders must find solutions realistic and beneficial to all like the ones my grand fathers would agree with. We need more of a win win solution oriented leadership approach to solving our problems. Our pace has evolved to a level worth noting and our knowledge of the world has only just begun. As a sociologist my only responsibility is to live the experiences I have and anticipate the next by realizing my thoughts and dreams. If no other says it than it is I that says that there is nothing faster than thought because it is infinitely fast.
The best part of being a sociologist is that I choose the next reality for myself. The person I have most to thank for my happiness and self understanding is my grandmothers. Today my wife Lo is the most favorite person in my life and I thank God every day for the blessing of my family and friends. I believe we will succeed if we drink more beer than champagne. I believe the next generation lucky and fortunate to inherit this generations advancements in communication and understanding of ourselves if we allow ourselves the freedom to do so. My lifelong pursuit to follow in my hero's footsteps has made life fun, exhilarating and worth living. I am an American and I am Mike.
My short story
My name is Mike and I am a 11th generation American representative for my family.
It happened a long time ago. The time was right for a European to step forward and be the first to America to represent his family and business associates. The discovery of America made a new world possible for the strong spirited Jean Mathieu to accept an invitation to represent himself and a group of merchants in a pioneering role as an American land owner and businessman. The step onto new soil September 8, 1659 made Jean a happy man. Immediately following his safe journey to the new world Jean proved to be of invaluable asset in the wildest and most challenging experience possible in any time period of history.
Today's world presents similar challenges in that the experiences possible then are still possible today. Can you imagine my surprise when I discovered from an early age that there is nothing faster than thought and that being a sociologist opens many doors. It was my grandmother who informed me of my legacy. She carefully taught me the ways of old and so a sociologist I was born. What continues to be part of our American heritage is the wonder in experience knowing that the original plan thought of by our early ancestors is still working.
Back then Jean had little time to worry about being bored so he laid out a grand plan for himself that would be realised by him and for long after he was gone. What the times dictated was the successes in the three elements of survival that were the main ingredients needed to build a new world. The world Jean imagined to live in and that succeed him is the world we are all still working on and that is a world safe and free of the restraints placed on the human spirit by oppression, dictatorships or something more evil like slavery.
Some people I know feel like I do and feel we are in a period of human evolution. I know that the technological factor in our world of communication and abilities to provide a safe place have advanced us closer to the answers that are possible when there is a unity in motion and the realization of a best practice to advance to the next levels of communication the tools we will need to arrive 11 generations from now. As a sociologist I must express a connection to our space and time that allows us the opportunity to reflect forward the hopes and wishes of the ones we have followed.
People in general in America can be complacent so government and our military are still our continued lifeline to being free peoples all over and be assured that politics is still a very local thing. In sociology there is a constant factor in economics that states the prosperity proportions are greater for those who produce a product needed by all. I personally still like agriculture and technology as my top interest today. Jean imagined in 1659 that our present life might be easier than his was and so it is isn't it?
Not long after Jeans arrival to America he was called on by the masses to take a long march against the foes of the period. In 1661 a group of 600 civilians and 600 army regulars took to the wilderness in chase of a generations old menace to the peaceful existence of the indigenous people and new arrivals from France to this great land. This march leads the brave souls to Lake Champlain where the menace originated. The time was winter and the march extremely difficult. Not a man was lost in that show of force and it started a period of peace and friendship lasting to this day with our neighbours. It wasn't until 1759 when another major menacing force reared its ugly head. This time it was from England whose greed made another peace necessary.
On the Plains of Abraham we defended our rights and although we lost that battle we did win the war. The outcome was again realised and in 1774 the brave and the strong of the day accepted the charter that spelled out the terms from the king of England that dictated our freedom to keep our lands, our language and our religion. Americans we still are and to this day Quebec is a model of what our forefathers intended our world to look like and I hope that in 350 years from now we can say the same thing.
We will all marvel at the communication change in the way we light our streets using a forensically designed integrated long life electronic LED bulb set to be distributed in massive numbers by 2012 in North America. The impact of production from Canada and the US considered American made has significantly improved our leadership opportunities in production of a single light bulb. The phenomena of building the production infrastructure by measurable outcomes in this one example of a light bulb is mind boggling in its impact to our American way of life. Just thinking of some of my American hero's allows me the opportunity to think ahead like they must have when the need for safety and security proved to be the right move in inventing something still considered a must in today's world back then. Tomorrow we will need the very same things except what I see is being made right here and in our own back yard and far more versatile. Gone are the things made in another universe or worst yet a place where the people are exploited and freedoms are suppressed to profit just a few. Gone in our future is strife and hardships that no one wishes to experience. I would like to think that our planet will eventually catch up to the ideals provided by the liberty we have today as Americans.
Jean thought far ahead and in fact farther than me when he legated a right to continue in his footsteps should freedoms survives the test of time as it has. Needless to say a great deal has happened since those early pioneering days when the early Americans paved the way for us to walk in their very footsteps. Fortunate am I to have made the pilgrimage in 2009 when on September 8 I stepped off the boat from France, walked up to the high ground and took my first look as to what Jean had gotten himself into back in those early days. Jean was a strong and brave 21 year old then and to his pleasure we have survived the voyage and have accepted the work ahead.
One must ask the questions of a sociologist that would include interpretations connecting our society's perceptions and readiness to make such a dramatic impact in our sense of security. Lighting our streets better, more economically, reliably and given the opportunity to provide jobs in all aspects that a producing product provides is an opportunity America has again. Technology advances when the needs find solutions that adapt our best scientific minds to a real world acceptance by authoritative and most often overwhelming evidence so to create and produce the solutions possible. This technology is inevitable due to the global 3E factors already in motion and an accepted fact universally recognized is that we need to feel secure from threats trying to limit our freedoms.
What happens next has been carefully planned so that we benefit the most from a single infrastructure need to change a light bulb. Amazing is the sequence of events that must take place in order to build this new light bulb and provide us with a new communication tool. As a sociologist and as part of a continuing education project it was my task to help in a discovery of the state of readiness from our community leaders to launch a major product proven to be far superior to the century old incandescent bulb. In my 170 community study it was revealed that the educational efforts from a multitude of independent sources attempting to capitalize the new technology have awakened a need to know more and to do more.
Many community leaders I meet with were all but ready to make the change over but needed to know more before investing in a technology considered new and how they would pay for it was still unknown. What was needed was a set of reliable measures and standards not yet published. City engineers I have recently worked with are now able to tap the wealth of information and access the new tools designed to make the change effective from a more global concern than from a local one. All this is possible due to collaborations between government, research and development, private enterprise and the realization of good planning from many sectors of our producing society. Our new street light will cost us nothing but the communications and connections will be a matter of choice individually. The question still remains on the table as we as individuals can and will choose our own level of safety. Do you know what the question is?
Jean in 1659 was a simple tradesman who had the opportunity to think for himself and build his own world as he saw fit to build it. He also had to defend his rights early on in 1661. Imagine yourself as the same tradesman today and the opportunity to think you could be piloting a craft servicing any of the thousands of satellites circling our globe. Our technology will demand of you the job of keeping this infrastructure in good order and will demand of you a tradesperson to make the upgrades as they come along. If you are in the trades today this will be yet another avenue for you to play in should you demonstrate the talent to be trusted with our safety?
A sociologist looks at the momentum being created in any situation and makes the connections to our real world. The outcome of any movement or moment cannot be completely predicted and in this case the inevitable will happen due to the overwhelming forces at work that make the change possible. The additional opportunities involving our American production capabilities are being thought of and the steps remaining are steps being realized in our aluminum, optics, robotics and electronics industries that are at present gearing up to make major employment opportunities in the technical fields of several sciences and the manufacturing jobs will be plentiful in short order. Every electrician, mechanic, technician and public planning department will soon be provided with a precise schedule of deployment revolving around a 2012 dateline.
As a sociologist I must recognize the impact as phenomenal. I can compare this event in history to when Thomas Edison started production of the first light bulbs except the speed will be greatly accelerated. History has been kind to the light industry and so looking forward it can be said that history will likely repeat itself.
Passion for what one does as a sociologist is the motivating force that drives us to know more about ourselves. Understanding very little about allot can be said by most people who connect with the real world today through a world wide web. To influence our choice in consumption, safety and comfort a sociologist finds the common grounds that allow us to understand better our individual needs and discover the ways to break barriers through communication. My sociology has experienced a great many privileges afforded to those invited to participate and participate I did. I'm a tradesman from the start and I did graduate from Cheney a very capable person willing to grow in all the directions I wanted to.
I would not change a thing and I will make any and all changes that matter to me when it comes to my state of well being. The future is unknown to those who dare not think or wonder what it would be like to have ample opportunity to learn and to grow from. My connection as American is all I need today as it was good for those I follow and for those who thought it worth protecting. Being very proud of our good fortune as Americans is my simple message for the future of all trades people.
When it comes to opinions there is no shortage since everybody has one and the reason I say that is that I am influenced by a majority rules agenda a great deal like many people have been. I feel that we all have the right to expression in any form acceptable by the declaration of independence and the message sent to me today from Thomas Jefferson is that I accept the massage so that we all can share in the bounty of our forefathers. I write therefore I am.
There is no greater right than the right to liberty of free thought. The absolute freedom of speech is a metaphor for living on this earth as a free people. American Nirvana is only reached when one feels the spirit is united with the being when it comes to being American. The most gratifying place I have ever been is home and my home is America. Where you live I hope is like my place. As an American sociologist I think my place is grand and I will preserve it.
All my life I knew that there would be a day when I would have to choose what to say about all the experience of being me. It should come to good that the spoils can be considered a learning experience and should history continue to be kind then exploits of legacy are mine to share in all the splendour intended from our forefathers.
As far as I can remember I have felt safe and I thank Jean for starting it all for my personal connection to our life in America. No wonder since I was born far away from anywhere and close to nowhere anybody knows of. Where I was born few people are from and to this day I know but a few living to tell about the nature of where it is on planet Earth lots of space still exists. That's not to say that somehow I might meet some others and I hope I do.
The most influential experience of my life to date has got to be the Declaration award in 1977. There is no substitute for a genuine continuation of like goals than the one awarded me from a US senate resolution in 1976. I hold dear and near the American way of in pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
Where does one begin is a matter of the authors choice. To date I have been silent in my criticisms (I think I'll continue to be so). The place I found effective may be enjoyed by critics everywhere as a place lost in time. The time is the future in the here and now so lets all work together in like spirit to build from home the tools we need. As a sociologist it is my goal to connect to our future by the known ways most likely to continue influencing our choices. My American sociology is to place ourselves connected to our world. The best part of something I know to be true is that we are here because we want to be here.
I suppose it was in 1661 that connected me to today's ongoing struggles. That's how far back I go to for my military understanding of our need to be safe. My real time first exposure to that period was when I accepted the recruitment to advance best available technology in military science in 1976. There and then I gained a major fiduciary status I have shared with many teams. The very nature of America exists because we dare to dream a new world possible for all of us by protecting what we have. I have made my dreams possible for myself and so can you if you think you can! The only cost for me was a 30 year commitment to protect the knowledge and to keep it safe from our foes.
One of the most important things a sociologist contributes is the story as it was meant to be told. As a sociologist I have overcome many challenges to the modern day standards that validate the circumstances that inevitably prevail. Living in all of us is the ability to exceed and by exceeding we are rewarded through knowledge.
Helping people in need of a helping hand is an inherent trait of all societies including our own. The reward of saving a life is to know the depth of our individual generosity. How could it be possible that solutions to an age old problems are found? I am American sociologist Mike Mathieu who is here in life and blood representing way more than the 11th generation American family started by Jean.
Faith,
What is it and what does it mean? Since a requirement for this project is that we be open minded I've chosen to write to you in the language I am the strongest in. Because we really don't know much about each other I think it appropriate to share with you some of what I think and know about this business of light.
First of all I started working with LED's, optics and communication 34 years ago with US Military applications. I knew then that this day would come however it was never clear as to the when and whether I would live long enough to experience the rewards of the day. Commercial applications exploiting the research and development results from these important discoveries sometimes take a very long time (there is a great deal more to this story). Fact is I've been waiting a very long time and I for one can wait a little longer. American, Canadian Sociologist Mike Mathieu, AKA greenman
