Friday, May 30, 2008
Good Actions and Bad
It's a hard question, whether or not someone's good actions make up for their bad. I mean it should be a simple yes or no, but it's really not. I believe that it depends on the actions in question. Some goods things can make up for bad, if that person is really, truly sorry for what they did before. But if someone is just doing the good actions because they're are trying to make up for the bad, and they haven't really changed, then I don't really think it should cancel out the bad. But it depends on how bad it was. I mean, if it was like something as simple as someone stole a pack of gum once in their life and were perfect little angels the rest of the time-I think that would probably cancel it out. It's just complicted. Life is complicated, not everything is black and white, you have to look closer and think harder. Although some people are just bad by nature. No matter how many good deeds they may do, it will never change the type of person they are. But still, that's not how it is in all cases. Like I said, it's complicated. (Mrs. G.....Sorry this blog was kinda short....)
Bad actions/Good Actions and their Consequences and World Events
Good day to you all!
In Once and Future King there is a question brought up King Arthur. "Do you think you can stop the consequences of a bad action, by doing good ones afterward?" When he was 19 King Arthur did a horrible action at the behest of others who were fearful of Mordred's (his illegit son) possible future actions. (He sent babies in a ship to the sea, the ship sunk and babies were killed, but not Mordred.) For the remainder of his life King Arthur tried to 'make up' for that. Can someone make up for something they did wrong by doing good. People who lived great service-filled lives are sometimes found to have done horrible things at some point in their life, should their good actions 'count' and possible cross-out the bad? (I know we had a similar question awhile ago--have your thoughst changed as you have? You may also consider your researched topic person.)
Think about these issues while you review OAFK and TO. Think about these issues as you read your genocide books too!
Also, in the world right now there are several horrible natural disasters (research them if you don't know much about it--you ARE at a computer!!! ;-)). There was the cyclone that hit Myanmar/Burma and killed more than 130,000 people and left 2 million people homeless. There was the earthquake in China that killed more than 55,740 people, with another 24,960 missing and 292,481 injured. (Both of these numbers are from www.cnn.com 5/23/08.) What are your thoughts about people's responsibilty towards helping one another? Should people from other countries send aid to families in other countries or should we 'take care of our own' and let the rest of the world take care of themselves? (Other countries do send aid when we struggle-for example with Hurricane Katrina.) Should the United Nations be a stronger component for aid resources? I haven't noticed any student-(or staff) driven collection for people in these two countries in our own school. Should individuals donate and help through the Red Cross and churches, etc? Should governments send care packages, doctors and equipment? Are people tired of helping others? What would your policy be if you had the power and the money? Would you do something to help the universe? (Are you and do you want to tell about it?)
Enjoy the weekend!
V. Gaboury
Do you have a favorite quote (here or your own) and what does it mean to you?
**********You may write about any or all of these issues.*******************
"One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something..."
Henry David Thoreau, poet, writer, philosopher
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead, anthropologist
"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again..."
Mahatma Gandhi
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world..."
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die...”
Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady
"Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals, but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service..."
President William J. Clinton
"The magnitude of our social problems will require that all citizens and institutions make a commitment to volunteering as a way of life and as a primary opportunity to create needed change..."
The Late Governor of Michigan, George Romney
"You have to find some reason for living. You have to find something to believe in. And for it to work, it has to be larger than you, that you will discover that you are not enough to satisfy yourself..."
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo
Only a life lived for others is worth while
Albert Einstein (Youth, 1932)
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself
Ralph Waldo Emerson (essay: Compensation)
Be the change you wish to see in this world. - Mahatma Gandhi
"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
Henrik Ibsen (world renowned playwright)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You give but little when you give your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
"When you help someone up a hill, you're that much nearer the top yourself."
Anonymous
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."
Anonymous
Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
George Bush
"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."
--Horace Mann
"Service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life; not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals."
-Marian Wright Edelman, author The Measure of out Success: A Letter to My Children & Yours
"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got but others need your heart to love them. So, spread love everywhere you go."
~ Mother Teresa
"Not to know is bad, Not to want to know is worse, Not to hope is unthinkable, Not to care is unforgivable."
IBO people of Nigeria
- Educ - Robert Louis Stevenson
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
"You can't make footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to make buttprints in the sands of time?"
--Bob Moawad
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert F. Kennedy
In Once and Future King there is a question brought up King Arthur. "Do you think you can stop the consequences of a bad action, by doing good ones afterward?" When he was 19 King Arthur did a horrible action at the behest of others who were fearful of Mordred's (his illegit son) possible future actions. (He sent babies in a ship to the sea, the ship sunk and babies were killed, but not Mordred.) For the remainder of his life King Arthur tried to 'make up' for that. Can someone make up for something they did wrong by doing good. People who lived great service-filled lives are sometimes found to have done horrible things at some point in their life, should their good actions 'count' and possible cross-out the bad? (I know we had a similar question awhile ago--have your thoughst changed as you have? You may also consider your researched topic person.)
Think about these issues while you review OAFK and TO. Think about these issues as you read your genocide books too!
Also, in the world right now there are several horrible natural disasters (research them if you don't know much about it--you ARE at a computer!!! ;-)). There was the cyclone that hit Myanmar/Burma and killed more than 130,000 people and left 2 million people homeless. There was the earthquake in China that killed more than 55,740 people, with another 24,960 missing and 292,481 injured. (Both of these numbers are from www.cnn.com 5/23/08.) What are your thoughts about people's responsibilty towards helping one another? Should people from other countries send aid to families in other countries or should we 'take care of our own' and let the rest of the world take care of themselves? (Other countries do send aid when we struggle-for example with Hurricane Katrina.) Should the United Nations be a stronger component for aid resources? I haven't noticed any student-(or staff) driven collection for people in these two countries in our own school. Should individuals donate and help through the Red Cross and churches, etc? Should governments send care packages, doctors and equipment? Are people tired of helping others? What would your policy be if you had the power and the money? Would you do something to help the universe? (Are you and do you want to tell about it?)
Enjoy the weekend!
V. Gaboury
Do you have a favorite quote (here or your own) and what does it mean to you?
**********You may write about any or all of these issues.*******************
"One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something..."
Henry David Thoreau, poet, writer, philosopher
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead, anthropologist
"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again..."
Mahatma Gandhi
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world..."
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die...”
Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady
"Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals, but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service..."
President William J. Clinton
"The magnitude of our social problems will require that all citizens and institutions make a commitment to volunteering as a way of life and as a primary opportunity to create needed change..."
The Late Governor of Michigan, George Romney
"You have to find some reason for living. You have to find something to believe in. And for it to work, it has to be larger than you, that you will discover that you are not enough to satisfy yourself..."
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo
Only a life lived for others is worth while
Albert Einstein (Youth, 1932)
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself
Ralph Waldo Emerson (essay: Compensation)
Be the change you wish to see in this world. - Mahatma Gandhi
"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
Henrik Ibsen (world renowned playwright)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You give but little when you give your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
"When you help someone up a hill, you're that much nearer the top yourself."
Anonymous
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."
Anonymous
Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
George Bush
"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."
--Horace Mann
"Service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life; not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals."
-Marian Wright Edelman, author The Measure of out Success: A Letter to My Children & Yours
"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got but others need your heart to love them. So, spread love everywhere you go."
~ Mother Teresa
"Not to know is bad, Not to want to know is worse, Not to hope is unthinkable, Not to care is unforgivable."
IBO people of Nigeria
- Educ - Robert Louis Stevenson
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
"You can't make footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to make buttprints in the sands of time?"
--Bob Moawad
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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