Can Anger Ever Produce Positive Results?

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Prompt: When we witness an injustice or the violation of a principle, anger can give us the courage to act, not react. Productive anger can be a guide to appropriate, powerful, and healing action. All the political and social movements of our time are rooted in anger, including the struggle against apartheid, the fight for civil rights, and many environmental and animal protection initiatives. The founders of these movements experienced healthy anger against conditions they considered to be unjust and unacceptable. —Adapted from The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Anger, by JANE MIDDELTON-MOZ, LISA TENER, AND PEACO TODD (Health Communications, 2004) Assignment: Can anger be used for positive results? Organize and compose an essay that establishes your viewpoint on this issue. Substantiate it with examples and evidence derived from what you have read, studied, experienced, or observed. ESSAY: Can anger ever produce positive results? The lives of some very famous people indicate that it can. Anger can promote creativity. In the case of Mrs. Nancy Edison, Thomas Edison's mother, it caused her to find a better solution to her son's inadequate schooling. In other cases, like that of Picasso, anger was the spark behind one of his greatest works of art, a mural whose meaning still resonates strongly today. American inventor Thomas Edison has been described as more responsible than anyone else for creating the modern world. In his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, he invented the phonograph, made the electric light bulb, and started the motion picture industry. However, his success had nothing to do with his schooling. In fact, the young Edison attended school for just three months—when his inattention and constant questioning caused his teacher to say he was slow, his mother removed him from the school. Nancy Edison taught her son at home, encouraging

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