Everything changed from then on, name, birthdays and most of all the identity that would get me lost in this world. The character of the name shows who you are. I was shy, quiet and scared of life and people. I needed someone who would love me and protect me during my child hood years. The reason that my adoptive family that gave me a new name, was that it was a new begging of my life, a new fresh start, and looking back I would understand what they wanted me to have that I didn’t have as a child.
The second poem “Shine, Perishing Republic” by Robinson Jeffers mostly resembles my attitude towards America right now. I do believe that the government is trying to do anything possible to gain more power even if it means ruining or destroying the environment and society. I feel like the government pretends to actually care about our well-being but we're brainwashed to actually think that. I really don't understand how people can actually do whatever it is they want to do even if it isn't right just to make themselves happy and to have a good time. This era is actually really messed up, it seems like there isn't any structure with our society that everyone is just going with the flow of what's “in”.
He used to say, “learn to die, and you'll learn to live.” That if you strip away all the “stuff” and focus on the essentials, you see everything around you differently. Over the past 14 weeks, I have learned from Morrie, many valuable lessons that we tend to forget as we live our daily lives. Morrie was a strong believer in disregarding popular culture, and living life on our own terms. He used to say, “ sometimes you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own.“ He always told us that society shouldn't be allowed to determine what values you want to follow, choose for yourself.
Although their still young, I aint even know who’s teaching who at the lessons here, I know I’m the authority figure for them when Mr. Atticus is gone, and without me who knows how them children would be acting. But as much as they need me, I need them. Everyday, Scout and Jem show me something new in this world. Something that is not racist, sexist, or bias in anyway. But something pure and simple.
Yet to many Thoreau is a hero that nobody listened to. He is truly a hero by the way he did things. His beliefs were like no other, yet people never gave him a chance to speak. Even today, after we have seen historical events that were influenced by Thoreau, we still see him as crazy. Thoreau wanted peace.
Without perseverance, comes no solution. The importance of SOB’s efforts is really the main idea behind it all. If we don’t exercise our rights by protesting for a just cause, they will be taken for granted and taken away. The importance of protests is somewhat diminished as time goes by because we can’t march to better healthcare or cause civil disobedience to change the budget deficit. We need to conduct meetings and propose a plan
If justice is conceived of as being about what individuals would choose were they unaware of who they are (Singer) then people would surely chose an impartial universalist approach to redistributive justice as advocated by Singer if they did not know whether they were a citizen of the USA or Europe. Singer believes that governments give priority to their citizens over the far more urgent and desperate needs of those further away. I believe Singer is right about this because, in most cases the governments don’t give much thought about helping kids with disabilities as much as they do to war or raising tuitions rates like the U.K just
But, Sonny’s brother is the one that went through the major change. He started out not really knowing anything about his brother’s new life. He had a kind of negative outlook about everything going on. He even thought that his brother’s music dreams were a little out there. He didn’t really have any understanding on Sonny.
Citizens should be encouraged to embrace their citizenship, and not merely as a duty, but as a meaningful opportunity to participate in their own government for the sake of common good and in building the culture of life. In addition, it is an exercise of significant individual power. Now, most Americans will tell you that our politicians have all the power, but I disagree. Although it is true that our politicians do make the laws, here in the United States of America, the people have the authority. If an individual does not vote, then that individual cannot argue or comment on the outcome of what our politicians do.
Despite such rapid development of human beings and extensive globalization, our view towards people who are different from us still remains narrow and conservative. Whether to socially accept and recognize them has been the biggest dilemma of the year, but the primary question is: why do we decide and judge whether to accept them or not? Why should the homosexual people, as a minority, deny their individuality in order to fit into the American society, just because of their personal preference? The matter of homosexuality is just like the fact that someone has really big eyes or short height. It is as impossible to change, and doesn’t have to be changed.