Valley Springs High School
Valley Springs, Arkansas
Teacher: Lavina Grandon

                                                Karin Lin-Greenberg   

 

Improving the Quality of Life in Communities
By David White
Grade 12

771words

 

Due to the declining quality of life and decreased acceptance of personal responsibility in America today, the quality of life needs to be increased, and in order to do so the idea of personal responsibility needs to be reemphasized. Character and values are contributing factors to accepting personal responsibility. Partnership between all ages also contributes to the quality of life. To increase the quality of life, we must develop personal responsibility in order to infuse character and values and increase social interaction between all age groups.

 Developing personal responsibility is one way the quality of life can be raised. The recent crimes committed by juveniles are handled not only with the child being punished but also with the child’s parents being responsible. Without the support and obvious show of love to a children, they become unruly and try to do things that draw attention to themselves, which often leads to unmoral acts and sometimes as far as to committing crimes. The responsibility of parents is not only to give the three basic necessities of life but also to give support in whatever their children does. While aiding in the growth of their children, the parents should teach the children responsibilities for what they do and a slight responsibility for those around them.  This can help make better “the quality of social fabric”. Although many children have “responsibilities…different from…many…peers”, advice and interaction can come from personal responsibility.  With an infused sense of responsibility, children will not only make decisions for themselves but also influence the decisions of others around them. ”When the child of the Millennium begins to settle down” with a sense of personal responsibility they will pass of to their children. Then the quality of life can be improved throughout the future from having personal responsibility.

One of the contributing factors of having a good sense of personal responsibility is character. A person that has character and an aspect of personal responsibility tends to have deep qualities moral and ethical sense. People with character also carry with them a sense of honesty and fortitude that helps them to be confident in the choices that they make and the influence they have on other people. With a sense of honesty in a person’s character, the decisions that are made by and around the person are truthful ones. Along with truthful and confident decisions comes a clean and healthy felling that makes life and the lives of other people with character better. Another of the contributing factors of having a good aspect of personal responsibility and improving the quality of life is values. When a person has values, that person puts a degree of worth on the opinions, feelings, friendship, and trust of another person. Interaction with people with values and a sense of personal responsibility often gives an impression of outstanding self worth. This helps “humanity… overcome the obstacles and threats it faces” and creates, with society, a relationship of trust with itself. With more relationships between people that are healthy and trustful, everyday interaction can be more of a comfortable situation.  As the number of people with values spreads, so will the ability to rely of other people in society.  When the ability to help each other becomes an honor instead of an inconvenience, the quality of life can be improved. 

The final way the quality of life can be increased is with the idea of more social interaction among all ages. Throughout society it has been made common for people to separate each other from other classes of people. Instances where this is shown are not only the rich from the poor but also the old from the young, from day cares to retirement homes. Admiration can be shown that from more social interaction between age groups, attention can be given to people without purpose and goals. When older people interact with younger, more free-minded people, ideas and accomplishments of the experienced.  “The rewards of doing something worthy” are given to the retired and a goal is given to the young. With more social interaction between age groups like events that congratulate veterans and woman’s rights activists, the more spirited contributions con carry on into new causes. New causes will improve the quality of life through society by social interaction of all age groups.

Decreasing quality of life has caused separation and unhappiness throughout communities. For people and their surroundings the inset of character and values can help to raise the quality of living.  Social interaction can also improve the connection between all social classes and improves the quality of life

 

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Reference

Eckersley, R. (1999). Is life really getting better? The Futurist (January).

Hersch, P. (1998). A tribe apart. New York: Balantine Publishing Group.

Squires, P.(1999). A retiring nature.  Secure retirement (July/ August).

Wingert, P. (1998). I do, I do-maybe. Newsweek, 133(19), 58.

 

Answers To Questions For The Required Reading

Q1-How does society invest in marriage in the USA and in Manus?

A1-The United States society invests in the emotions they will have after, during, and before the process of marriage the feelings of happiness that improve the quality if life for them and those all around. Menus, on the other hand, invests in the marriage ceremony so the money can be paid back with interest.

Q2-Interview 10 married people. (No names.) State the length and number of each one’s marriages and a line or two of advice from each on haw to maintain a long, happy relationship.

A2-

#1-This couple has been married for 5 years.  This is the first marriage for both of them.  The advice is to be really concerned about the way the other feels.

  2-This couple has been married for 13 years.  This is the first marriage for both of them.  The advice is to wait until you are both ready to have kids before you do.

#3-This couple has been married for 20 years.  This is the second marriage for both of them.  The advice is to learn how to deal with minor problems and not let them get in the way.

#4-This couple has been married for 10 years.  This is the first marriage for both of them.  The advice is to respect and honor one another.

#5-This couple has been married for 25 years.  This is the first marriage for both of them.  The advice is to learn that you have to do without a lot of things when you get married.

#6-This couple has been married for 14 years.  This is the wife’s first and the husbands second marriage.  The advice is to Love, Honor, and Respect one another.

  #7-This couple has been married for 30 years.  This is the first marriage for both of them.  The advice is to deal with things in a nice fashion and don’t make to big of a deal out of it.

#8-This couple has been married for 7 years.  This is the first marriage for both of them.  The advice is to put the other person’s feelings first, always.

#9-This couple has been married for 18 years.  This is the first marriage for both of them. The advice is that you don’t always get what you want but you got to accept it.

  #10-This couple has been married for 25 years.  This is the first marriage for the both of them.  The advice is to not get jealous every time the other person is talking to an old friend.

  Q3- According to Richard Ecersley, what should our collective goal be?
A3-Our goal should be to dematerialize society without decreasing the quality of life.

  Q4-Write a worthy goal for your local community.
A4-The goal of my community should be to expand the interests of its citizens to all aspects of life by increasing the strength of education.

  Q5-Comment on the excerpts from “Tomorrow’s Child.”

A5-I personally don’t see the combined point of both of them but each one in its self makes solid discussion in themselves.

 Q6-How does the fact the USA is a democracy make lawyers particularly helpful, according Kathleen Sullivan?  How does our diversity, wealth and size make lawyers particularly helpful?

A6-Lawyers, day in and day out create, find, interpret, adapt, apply and enforce rules and principals that structure human relationships. Lawyers help to get the overall picture of the publics feelings on something, to represent it.

  Q7- Ms. Sullivan claims bad practices are changed either by regulations or punitive damages.  Which do you prefer and why?  Can you think of an alternative?

A7-Personally Punitive damages seem to be the best way for some one to absorb the real amount of cost.

  Q8-Briefly describe three ways society would benefit from the coming retirement of baby boomers, according to the required reading.

A8-With the retirement of the baby boomers the advice they hold within them can be shared more easily by there retirement better educated people can fill there position and there work can be improved.

  Q9-Evaluate the likelihood of President Clinton’s anti-poverty program making a real impact.  Give at least three reasons to back up your conclusions.

A9-The likelihood of it making a real impact is not really great, I don’t think. The statistics show that 35% of former welfare recipients can’t do simple task’s.  The second reason is that 41% couldn’t use a calculator to do simple problems. The third reason is that even if they were willing to work they might not be needed and they would give up.

  Q10-Name three things Truett Cathy and Tom Lewis have in common.

A10-Both of them are high up in a company and have many responsibilities.  Both of them have an interest in the education of the children of today.  And both of them educate the children in one way or another.