Carrollton High School
Carrolton, Ohio
Teacher: Carol Wilking

 

 

 

 

Personal Responsibility

By Marc Keyser

Grade- 12

                                                                                                                       

Defined in Webster’s Twenty-first Century Dictionary, responsibility means ‘An obligation’ to obligate is to bind oneself with a duty. Everyone in today’s society has personal responsibilities within their community.  Being a good role model to the upcoming generation is one example of personal responsibilities a member in a community must have. Educating oneself and working within the community are also obligations a member of  the community must have.  Members of today’s society have many personal responsibilities to improve the quality of life in their communities.

 

Being a good role model is one of  the most important responsibilities a person within a community can have.  Everyone is a role model, either in a good sense or a bad sense.  Role models influence the community’s youth dramatically.  When a community’s youth see a good role model, it influences them to strive for honesty and perfection in the community. In return, when the young grow to be good role models, they too will have a great impact on the upcoming generations and so on and so forth. Bad role models can have very damaging effects on a community.  They influence the young to do bad things such as stealing and lying.  This sometimes will pass down from generation to generation.  Teachers, athletic coaches, parents, and most anybody in the community are role models.  Family members and relatives have the most direct influence on oneself.  Most, but not all parents, teach their children to be good individuals.  Friends also have a major impact on one’s life.  One’s friends can have a good or a bad effect on someone.  They can push one to do good things or they can push one to do bad things.  Pushing one to do good things is referred to as positive peer pressure, but pushing one to do bad things is referred to as negative peer pressure.  Coaches and teachers also are good role models.  Coaches teach their athletes discipline and self-respect.  Teachers teach their students to strive for excellence in all aspects of life.  Police officers influence people to abide by the law and maintain order in the community.  Role models have a definite impact on today’s youth.

 

Getting involved in the community will increase the quality of life in one’s community.  There are many areas in which to participate in one’s community to improve the quality of life such as senior citizen groups, youth groups, church, education, etc.  Being positive and putting forth effort shows others you care and also provides a sense of self-worth. Being active in one’s community also makes one aware of negative activities, which may arise, and possibly be stopped before they become a problem for the community.  A community can only achieve this from individuals by providing services such as education, law enforcement, and good political leaders.  When these things are provided, everyone within the community responds.  People work together with a positive attitude.  A strong community, even when one of these services fail, pulls together and resolves the problem.  That is why it is important to remain active within the community.

 

Persons of every age, within a community, play an important role. Young adults coming out of high school are setting examples for the younger members of the community, and are also learning life lessons from the older members of the community.  Therefore, all generations should learn from and respect one another.  Respect is something that is lacking in most communities that have a lot of problems.  Being active in the community also improves the quality of life by providing individualistic ideas.  Everyone is different from one another so life does not become boring and monotonous.

 

Safety is a big issue within a community.  Reporting people and problem areas to local law enforcement improves safety.  Helping to educate others with safety issues can also improve a community. Cooperation with law enforcement and fire officials is also very important.  This sets a good example for others within a community.

 

Our environment is important and must be kept as clean as possible especially in rural areas.  Rural areas have fewer people living in them and littering can become a big problem.  All members of a community must try to follow state and federal guidelines for pollution controls.

 

 In summary, the obligation to improve the quality of life within a community is to provide good role models, by avoiding negative peer pressure and providing positive peer pressure. Everyone must help educate from generation to generation, and remember to respect one another during the process.  Everyone must cooperate with local government and law officials and remain positive.  Through all this we must also remember our environment, which is also part of where we live, so it is still here for the next generations to come.  The quality of life is what each individual makes of it and shares with other individuals in the community.  Everyone can improve the quality of life with little effort by being respectful, honest, educated, and concerned. The benefits to help improve the quality of life within a community are a sense of personal satisfaction in knowing that helping not only oneself and family, but everyone who lives within the community.

 

Answers To Questions

 

1.Marriages cost a lot of money to put together.  In the US, we invest in marriage with money. In Manus, the invest in marriages with there possessions such as pigs and oil.

 

2.Been married 17 years for the first time. Says being equal is important.

Been married 35 years for the first time. Says show mutual respect.

Been married 37 years for the second time. Says always communicate.

Been married 63 years for the second time. Says care for each other.

Been married 3 years for the second time. Says get married for the right reasons.

Been married 19 years for the first time. Says work a lot.

Been married 5 years for the first time.  Says meet the right person.

Been married 17 years for the second time.  Says love each other.

Been married 15 years for the first time.  Says have mutual goals set.

Been married 1 year for the first time.  Says have a long engagement.

 

3. The goal should be to dematerialize society without reducing quality of life.

 

4. A worthy goal for my community would be to come together and expand.

 

5. First excerpt - Divorce has traumatic effects on the relationship of child and parent.

    Second excerpt - The economic status of family may determine how a child may develop.

 

6. Lawyers create, find, interpret, adapt, apply, and enforce rules and principles to human relationships.  They create contracts to regulate and anticipate disputes among individuals and entities.

 

7. Neither is the answer.  Education and counseling reforming are the answer.

 

8. A start up of new businesses.

Highly competitive business.

The retiree entrepreneurs will offer services to the new generation.

 

9. President Clinton’s anti-poverty program will not have a real impact because 1.) This would be a first for the national government. 2.) Many

government propaganda does not make it. 3.) Loans to the poor will not be granted.

 

10. They both wanted to help children who lived in poverty.

They never gave up under the circumstances.

They both confronted their fears.