What do you need in life to be happy? What aspects of your life do you value most? What principles guide your behavior? If you are asked to do something, what determines whether or not you do it?
What I need to be happy in life is having my family close by me and my friends also right close by. Without friends I would not have very much to do. Without family I would not have anything at all, I would not be anything. Aspects I value the most are the things I have been given from friends, family. I appreciate and care for everything given to me and I always give and return back to whoever gave something to me. Principles that guide my behavior are trust and respect mainly. For me having trust in people is more securing for me so I know who I can go to if I ever have trouble with anything or need help with something of some sort. Having respect for oneself and knowing how you want to be treated will dictate how you think and treat others. Like the saying treat others how you want to be treated. Well respect can go the same way and can have a huge impact on a lot of people counting yourself and how they and you can feel. Not just towards them but also about yourself.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Book 3 Blog 1
Does freedom exclude responsibility? Do laws, severely enforced, promote responsibility?
I believe freedom does not exclude responsibility because there are many men and women who choose to fight to protect us to even have freedom. Of course there are the laws that keep people from having complete freedom of what they want to do. Everyone has responsibilities in order to maintain a freedom type state. If everyone just did what they wanted and forgot about responsibilities there would be no freedom because there would have to be a constant force to keep everyone under control. The people would think they have all the freedoms in the world but right behind them would be a force to keep everything in order. Laws that are severely enforced would promote responsibility because everyone would be worried if they screwed up they would face a consequence but that would take a lot of time and money for laws to be enforced severely. The people would have to watch what they do or just to make sure they were not caught in the act or afterwards if they did something wrong. It is the constant fear or thought of being caught is what would make people think responsibly.
I believe freedom does not exclude responsibility because there are many men and women who choose to fight to protect us to even have freedom. Of course there are the laws that keep people from having complete freedom of what they want to do. Everyone has responsibilities in order to maintain a freedom type state. If everyone just did what they wanted and forgot about responsibilities there would be no freedom because there would have to be a constant force to keep everyone under control. The people would think they have all the freedoms in the world but right behind them would be a force to keep everything in order. Laws that are severely enforced would promote responsibility because everyone would be worried if they screwed up they would face a consequence but that would take a lot of time and money for laws to be enforced severely. The people would have to watch what they do or just to make sure they were not caught in the act or afterwards if they did something wrong. It is the constant fear or thought of being caught is what would make people think responsibly.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Book 2 Blog 2
Do you try to be accepted by your peers and model your dress, tastes, and forms of expressions to fit in?
I do not try to be accepted by my peers by how I dress, my tastes, or any form of expression. By growing up and knowing a huge majority of my peers around me since I was little it is not a huge deal to try and fit in at all. It is not something that anyone of us or anyone new around here has to worry about. Everyone will have their opinion and judgments of one another but in the end it does not matter. I especially do not care about the way I dress and what I am interested in effect how I fit in around my peers. If they do not like it then they have to deal with it or else move on to somewhere else. As I said before it is not a huge deal though. Plus, being in Rugby it is a small community and somewhat a everyone knows everyone kind of community it is easy to adjust to new styles and change around us. I wear what I want to wear and I take pride in what I am interested in. Nobody will have a huge impact on that because I know what I am comfortable with and what I want to expand into.
I do not try to be accepted by my peers by how I dress, my tastes, or any form of expression. By growing up and knowing a huge majority of my peers around me since I was little it is not a huge deal to try and fit in at all. It is not something that anyone of us or anyone new around here has to worry about. Everyone will have their opinion and judgments of one another but in the end it does not matter. I especially do not care about the way I dress and what I am interested in effect how I fit in around my peers. If they do not like it then they have to deal with it or else move on to somewhere else. As I said before it is not a huge deal though. Plus, being in Rugby it is a small community and somewhat a everyone knows everyone kind of community it is easy to adjust to new styles and change around us. I wear what I want to wear and I take pride in what I am interested in. Nobody will have a huge impact on that because I know what I am comfortable with and what I want to expand into.
Book 2 Blog 1
Is Winston sane or Insane?
I believe Winston is sane because for one he does not agree with what is going on as in how Big Brother has completely taken over the people and their minds. Though he works in the Ministry of Truth and he is the one who rewrites the past and other documents he thinks about how things use to be before Big Brother came. This alone would get him in huge trouble and have severe consequences but Winston has these moments where he believes that how things are now are not how they were in the past. In the society in the book he is looked at as insane because that is how the tortures further in the book want him to believe that his thought process is wrong and that he should be thinking that how Big Brother wants all people to think that he should be that way also. I say Winston is sane because he has came to a sense that what is going on around him with all the false truth basically, and all the lying it just is not right and he wants a change. He expects the proles to eventually come to an understanding that they are the change that is needed to turn things around in Oceania society.
I believe Winston is sane because for one he does not agree with what is going on as in how Big Brother has completely taken over the people and their minds. Though he works in the Ministry of Truth and he is the one who rewrites the past and other documents he thinks about how things use to be before Big Brother came. This alone would get him in huge trouble and have severe consequences but Winston has these moments where he believes that how things are now are not how they were in the past. In the society in the book he is looked at as insane because that is how the tortures further in the book want him to believe that his thought process is wrong and that he should be thinking that how Big Brother wants all people to think that he should be that way also. I say Winston is sane because he has came to a sense that what is going on around him with all the false truth basically, and all the lying it just is not right and he wants a change. He expects the proles to eventually come to an understanding that they are the change that is needed to turn things around in Oceania society.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Book 1 Blog 2
Can citizens learn to worship or love a tyrant or only to fear him or her?
I feel that it depends on how the tyrant is as a person and how much of a hold they have over the people. For instance, North Korea leader Kim Jung Uh basically has his people brainwashed into thinking that what they have is all good and the everyone else is against them accept for those that are on there side. Mainly though I feel that most people would learn to worship a tyrant because they have the rule and say how things will be done and any punishments that would go along those going against him or her. If the people were to love a tyrant I would say it is because he or she manipulates the people in the fact to tell them lies to make them believe he or she is a strong force. Worship would be easiest for people who do not care much for the tyrant because they could just go through the motions of showing their commitment to the leader and just go on with their lives. Plus, if the people go along with what the rules are nothing will happen as long as they follow the rules.
Monday, April 25, 2016
Book 1 Blog 1
Do you believe a totalitarian society could exist in the United States? Why or why not?
I do not believe that a totalitarian society could exist because the fact that the United States has such a diverse population of people. Knowing that I do not believe it would be easy to have someone in charge try to control everything from people's beliefs all the way down to family. With a huge population it would take a while for totalitarianism to spread and to even catch on with people without force. The Thought Police and there ability to basically take anyone away just based on what they think. I do not think many people would like the fact of someone having the power to just take someone away because they are just guessing pretty much that they are thinking against Big Brother or whatever major figure is in power. Also we have been in a democracy for a huge part of U.S. history. Other than the fact that we had to fight against a tyrant of England to allow our freedom. With the history of fighting against the country that settled america (England) to gain our freedom and so I believe the people here already would not agree with a totalitarian society.
I do not believe that a totalitarian society could exist because the fact that the United States has such a diverse population of people. Knowing that I do not believe it would be easy to have someone in charge try to control everything from people's beliefs all the way down to family. With a huge population it would take a while for totalitarianism to spread and to even catch on with people without force. The Thought Police and there ability to basically take anyone away just based on what they think. I do not think many people would like the fact of someone having the power to just take someone away because they are just guessing pretty much that they are thinking against Big Brother or whatever major figure is in power. Also we have been in a democracy for a huge part of U.S. history. Other than the fact that we had to fight against a tyrant of England to allow our freedom. With the history of fighting against the country that settled america (England) to gain our freedom and so I believe the people here already would not agree with a totalitarian society.
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