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.
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