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Spring High School
Newville,
Pennsylvania
Teacher: Mrs. D. Whitmoyer
Today’s Society and The Future
By Kelli Carter
Grade 12
The role of
personal responsibility in improving the quality of life in our communities today could
have a broad range of meaning. It can range from hate, crime, helping others, becoming a
community and community involvement and just by being a friend.
With the
world today hate is the main cause of problems. You have the beatings, writing on others
property, arson, the racism remarks and just the plain harassment. If people would step up
and assume the role of being wrong, then most of these problems would not occur.
Today’s world needs more support groups and more lessons taught to them at a much
younger age. Schools are just covering the basics and when a violent crime does occur,
they just brush it off. Why not ask the students how they would have handled the
situation? Or ways to prevent the violent crime? Or why do the students believe the hate
was related. By just becoming involved in the community helps stop the trouble. More
community events can help this by organizing community fairs or projects. By stopping the
hate which leads to violence the society can be saved.
Violence can
be anything. Killing, raping, beating, car jacking, robbery and many other things are just
the reasons why violence is controlling the society. Where are the stiffer punishments? Or
better yet let the accused know and see what they did to someone else’s life?
Today’s guilty parties do not realize how much one family can be effecting by their
little act of violence or maybe just because they wanted to have fun. The community needs
to pull together and see how many lives could be changed if the violence would stop. Kids
today are afraid to go to school just because kids want to have fun and get even with
things outside of school and destroy the school. The teachers and administrators need to
step it up and take care of these children before they get out of school. Teaching them
self-esteem will be the biggest key to success.
By helping
others within the community makes not only the community stronger but makes you as a
person stronger. Helping just does not mean every once in a while; it means all the time.
Teaching children how to play a sport takes dedication and patience. The children see that
when an adult puts time and effort into something then maybe they should too. Special
Olympics are one of the best ways to help not just the everyday students but the students
who normally don’t get a lot of attention. These students know when someone comes to
help and these students respect you more as person then everyday students do. Friendships
can be found and made for a lifetime.
Friendship
does not always mean you have known the person for a long time or that you can tell a
person everything about you. A friendship is something you cherish or are willing to be
honest with. You can make friendships with anyone as long as you can be honest and willing
to help when in needed. When you see an accident and stop and help the victim. The usual
outcome of the act of kindness begins a newfound friendship. Friendships can often be
found within community involvement.
When a
community has grown to become a family, the community can be a much more positive
environment. Communities who hold community fairs, parties, parades, or just a social; the
community pulls together. Once the whole community takes part the children will realize
this is what life is to be not with violence. Helping the less fortunate or helping
someone during hard times will make communities today stronger. Having things for the
children to do during the summer rather then getting in trouble will help. Just by having
the parents support during all sports activities or other activities can make a positive
impact. Parents need to encourage their children to become involved and make friends who
will make their later years a success.
Communities
just need to look into the future with a positive note rather then a negative one. Once a
child or an adult see negative is grows on them too. Communities can be saved today
through work and effort the society will be a new society by the end of the next
generation.
Answers To Questions Re: Required
Reading
1. How does
society invest in marriage in the USA and in Manus?
The USA support either married or not married and gives money no matter what the
home life situation is. Manus supports and encourages more towards helping if married and
would rather back-married couples.
2.Interview
10 married people.
22 years and
first “Be open and honest with each other and support is the main key to a good
marriage”
17 years and
first “Have fun with the marriage and don’t make it a job”
10 years and
first “Make the women happy and things will be good”
3 years and
second “If things aren’t working don’t force them to work move on”
7 years and
first “Enjoy having someone know you through everything and every move you make”
15 years and
second “Things can always be better the second time around”
17 years and
first “Enjoy each other and don’t let go of the past”
2 years and
second “Make yourself happy not others”
50 years and
first “Make the best out of yourself and out of your life”
29 years and
first “Marriage is a commitment and make it one”
3. According
to Richard Eckersley, what should our collective goal be?
Doing the
little things in life can make a bigger outcome in the future.
4. Write a
worthy goal for you local community.
Help
each other through all time no matte if a friend or an enemy.
5. Comment
on the excerpts from “Tomorrow’s Child.”
The
statement proves children are looking and needing for a mother figure in their lives.
6. How does
the fact the USA is a democracy makes lawyers particularly helpful, according to Kathleen
Sulllivan? How does our diversity, wealth and size make lawyers particularly helpful?
Democracy the lawyers help counsel and plan
conflicts future and take them too higher level.
Diversity-
respect all kinds of races
Wealth-
they worry about health issues
Size-
they not only support high numbered societies
7. 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?
Punitive-
because it is known by all and not about settling with one person.
8. Briefly
describe three ways society would benefit from the coming retirement of baby boomers,
according to the required reading.
They start
up their own businesses
They offer
services to others having families
Will start
elderly care facilitates
9. Evaluate
the likelihood of President Clinton’s anti-poverty program making a real impact. Give
at least three reasons.
I
believe it isn’t very useful because all it is is by giving them money, which
doesn’t mean they will do anything with the money. The three reasons are:
1.25% tax credit
2. Variety of institutions
3. More help for CDFI
10. Name
three things Truett Cathy and Tom Lewis have in common.
Both wanted
to help their own families be better
They both
received scholarships
They both
had no family support during their childhood.