Chapter 5 : Philippine Values VALUES - Comes from the Latin word “valere”‚ which means to be strong or to be worth. -Those standards by which a group of society judges the desirability and importance of people‚ ideas‚ actions or objects. -shared conceptions of or beliefs in what are considered desirable or undesirable. - Something deserving of one’s best effort‚ something worth living for‚ and if need be worth dying for. DEFINITION OF VALUES - Enduring conception of the preferable which influences
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For my quarterly book assignment‚ I have chosen the selection‚ The Giver by Lois Lowry. The Reason I have chosen this wonderful selection is because I had read it once before as a child and really enjoyed it. I enjoyed this book because of its uniqueness. The Giver has such a different plot than any other book I have read before. I would definitely read it again and recommend it. The Giver is a book about a young boy named Jonas‚ who lives in a futuristic community. In his community they have eliminated
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The Giver seems to end unclear. Many people have different opinions and ideas on what happened to Jonas and Gabriel when they left the community. However‚ there is an end. Jonas followed the echoing‚ and that was when he suddenly saw it: the Elsewhere he had been looking for. Suddenly‚ all the memories began flooding into his mind‚ good and bad‚ all from the Giver. He felt that this was where he and Gabriel were summoned to. He didn’t know why‚ but it seemed right. He felt like this
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The Giver – Theme Essay Imagine never feeling anything at all. No happiness‚ no excitement‚ no nervousness nor anxiousness. You feel absolutely nothing. That’s what your life would be like without having feelings. Emotions give people’s life depth and meaning. The Giver teaches us that having emotions is important to not just living‚ but to feeling alive. Being able to feel love and joy adds more value to one’s life. The people who lived in Jonas’s community were unable to express any type
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The Giver Why is their society‚ in The Giver so different than ours? Their society is so different because they think that they can make their world perfect. We all know that no one is perfect so what makes it so different? In Lois Lowry’s book The Giver their family unit interacts with each other on a day-to-day basis and has both similarities and differences in our family unit which is better than theirs because ours does not have a limit of children‚ do not have required time shares‚ and we
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What is more valued - personal rights or the common good of the community? In The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry‚ a boy perfectly adapted to his unique community named Jonas begins to open his eyes‚ sees the reality of his world‚ and searches for the true values in life. In this community‚ the citizens want to live a simple‚ predetermined life and also strongly believe that they are living in a “perfect” society through the system of sameness which eliminates risks. However‚ they do not have any knowledge
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The book "The Giver" is about a world with people who are equal and Jonas‚ the protagonist‚ has something that other’s in the community don’t. The novel "The Giver" is a society that appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopia as the story goes on. As a result‚ it is clear to see that the society in the novel has many similarties and differences with our world today. The world we live in and the world they lived in both are controlled by people. In the novel "The Giver" The Cheif Of
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1230 Unit 5 Problem Set 1 Matching Complete the following exercise by matching the terms with their corresponding definitions. a. automated password guessing b. Windows authorization mechanism c. passwords plus smartcards d. stored in a digital certificate e. standard for smart card support f. decrypts data encrypted with a certificate g. firewall exceptions h. standard for fingerprint scanners and other devices i. potentially destructive software j. firewall rule requiring IPsec ___C____ 1. multifactor
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characters in Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” don’t have the option of choosing. Jonas‚ the protagonist of this book‚ followed the rules of his community without questioning anything‚ just like everyone else. Progressively‚ Jonas begins to see and experience events that transformed his outlook on his community; watching the twin’s realise‚ asking his parents if they loved him and experiencing pain. Originally‚ Jonas thought when people were ‘released’‚ (a term used in “The Giver” many times)‚ they were brought
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"The giver" takes place in a dystopian society where everything is regulated‚ no one does or says anything without the Council knowing; Their jobs‚ spouses‚ and children are all chosen for them‚ everything is on a schedule everyone is on a routine‚ get up go to work come home eat sleep repeat every single day. There is no time for recreation or anything of the sort. In some ways this is superior to our own society‚ perhaps it would be better to suppress certain emotions of the human psyche. We evolved
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