Some small acts, maybe will change the country. In the magazine article “Forgotten Fruits”, the author who is named Rowan Jacobsen talks about on the Common Ground Country Fair, John Bunker put different types of apples on display. Then the author introduced a lot of information about apple’s history and also share about plan apples. Base on apples, author starts to tell about John Bunker’s story with apples. He talked about how John Bunker influenced by apples and how apples effect John Bunker.…
Class of 2022, it has been a wonderful three quarters. Remember at the beginning of the year, when we all had the Big Bear trip? Then, everyone was “stiff,” but now, we’re all settled into our daily middle school routine, and many events have passed already. Period 5 English, can you recall us realizing that everyone in The Giver was on drugs? Well, our class was pretty chaotic, and Ms. Gershenhorn had to bribe us to be quiet with the possibility of her doing the dab.…
The Giver? How would it feel not to have love? in the future a boy named jonas lived in a community called The Giver in The Giver community where no one knows anything about the outside world or past. The only one who knows anything is The giver,but the twelve ceremony, jonas becomes the new receiver memory.…
Would sameness be the best thing in today's society? In the novel, The Giver sameness seemed like the best thing for Jonas (the main character) and his community. How everyone lived the same life doing the same thing and having everything easily handed to them. After Jonas was assigned as the receiver, he eventually realized the reality of what was going on around him. The community he lived in, which could be referred to as a utopia, quickly turned into a dystopia where all feelings were to be suppressed and where everyone had to follow strict rules.…
Figuring out how to assemble further connections is essential for everybody. Connections regularly go under incredible weight and can end up noticeably delicate. In some cases they break.…
I am pursuing a liberal arts associates degree and will go on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in psychology therefore, would give me the opportunity to pursue a career in the social services field. I respect the reason why the social services program exists and I want to learn more about the social services program. One of the things that I am practically interested in is how the social service program benefits the child/children involved. The point of view that I will be taking is the safety of the child/children. My argument is that the social services program is in place for a…
i. From the Podcast, the organization called Heifer International was more epistemically responsible than GiveDirectly. ii. In regards to Heifer International, the knowledge that is being passed along to the people of the communities who are given the cows is very valuable. The use of that knowledge then turns into more active production of the milk that is needed by the people (Podcast, ¶¶156-162.) Concerning GiveDirectly, there is a light and dark side to the idea.…
I found Give and Take by Adam Grant to be a fascinating read. Although I’m sure we’ve all grouped our co-workers into similar categories, this book explores what it specifically means to be the “selfish” worker, or the “relentless giver” and who ends up ultimately succeeding in the end. Our previous notions of creating success with individual motivation, ability, and hard work has now been reconfigured into success that greatly depends on how we communicate and interact with other people. According to Adam, people are divided into three categories: the givers, the takers, and the matchers.…
Social services should be cut regardless of the status of our national debt. Social services are a form of socialism, are inefficient, and are one of the many ways in which the government massively oversteps it's jurisdictions. Even if our debt was $0.00, government provided social services should be completely deleted, permanently. Although many try to deny the facts, some left-wing politicians have admitted that social services constitute a form of socialism, and are a stepping stone to complete socialism.…
Imagine a world with an absence of individuality, war, and awareness of history managed by a committee called the Elders. This is an accurate depiction of the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry. Which when compared to our society the novel’s society appears very different, however there are many similarities as well. For instance both societies use history as a way to learn and as an example.…
There are many reason it would be a good idea to live in the community, even though not all things are pleasant such as the discipline wand and releasing those who fail, there are still many positive things in the community you can benefit from. I would want to live in the society from The Giver. The main reasons why it would be a good idea to live in the community from The Giver because there would be so many new experiences, multiple surprises, and you can have a perfect happy life. It would be such a new and interesting experience to live in such an opposite world. “ Who want to be the first tonight for feelings?…
By giving gifts to people in society, one can manipulate their position in society. Society tends to give a sense of indebtedness to others and maintaining status through these acts of gift giving and by doing so, one can move up or down social hierarchy. By offering gifts to those higher up in society and by reciprocating and maintaining these relationships, one can sustain themselves and their relationships in society. This can also be used, further, to put someone in debt and buy loyalty. By offering people gifts so large, they are then indebted to the donor and thus have fallen down the social hierarchy, where they are left with very little power.…
Random Act of Kindness #3 Sometime within the second week of November 2017, I did a Random Act of Kindness. It happened one morning while I was on the bus. How my bus system works is that I first get picked up at a bus stop near my house, then the bus goes to Hempfield High School to drop the students there.…
Altruism, exchange and stigma Within ourselves we have certain moral obligations. Feinberg (1980) outlines the following: 1. Indebtness: one feels obligated to owe something to another 2. Commitment: a duty owned to a third party 3.…
In conclusion, Modern society and The Giver's society…