Most of all I do not like patriotism very much because I have some negative associations with it. It reminds me of flags‚ war and football. I have to think about people being proud and admiring their country – sometimes in a quite naive way. I do not think that pride is completely bad. Pride is good for one’s self-esteem and so is patriotism. Pride is alright if it improves the own self-perception. But I don’t like it as soon as pride makes people look down on others. This is arrogance. Sadly
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Some people think that restricting certain things such as smoking and driving certain cars that can increase pollution for the sake of other people’s health is a restriction to our freedom‚ these people say that is their health and they should be allowed to. However when we analyze this actions we end up realising that said “freedom” is not really worth risking our health or even our lives. We focus so much on the negative that we forget the positive outcome not only to society but for ourselves
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Social skills are essential for long-term accomplishment. According to Howard Gardner‚ it is the ability to understand and manage one’s own emotional state and the ability to understand and respond to other people. Difficulties with social skills‚ and deficits in social skills are found in different degrees across abilities as well as disabilities. Difficulty managing one’s own emotional state‚ especially or aggression in response to frustration is common in children with disabilities. Children
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No More Boomerang by Kath Walker explores the struggles that the Aboriginal people had to face while adapting to the white way of living. The poem describes the difference between the life of an Aboriginal before and after the British colonization of Australia and how it is slowly changing for the worse and how their traditions and values are being replaced by the Western civilization and the white way of living. The emotions that are conveyed in the poem are of hatred and fearfulness towards the
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What does freedom mean to me? Freedom means the knowledge of knowing your rights‚ your personal freedom that nobody can ever take away from you. Freedom means being able to have an opinion without it being judged. Freedom means not being restricted or held down from trying to accomplish your dreams. Freedom is a right that every human being deserves‚ yet people around the world are being stripped of that right‚ being forced into a religion or being forced to do things that they may not want to
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is no single answer sufficient for defining it. Every day work is related or dependent upon the religion and spiritual belief. Moreover‚ study of religion helps in growing our understanding and knowledge of human practices. Reflection: What does the word Religion mean to me? The word religion itself is a vast concept regarding beliefs of people. It is a wider area of study where one has much place to describe. Everyone is following a particular religious belief. It is the idea to make a person follow
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What is Conditional Positive Regard? What effect does it have on personality development? a. Conditional Positive Regard is when a person must meet conditions of worth in order to receive affection/acceptance‚ or when affection/acceptance is only given out in certain circumstances. This requires people to meet certain preconditions or requirements. It is the opposite of Unconditional Positive regard‚ which provides affection and acceptance with no strings attached. Conditional Positive Regard can
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What does being poor mean to you? A family or person is considered to be poor based on the standards by the country that he lives in. A man might think of himself as poor if he is without the things he feels he needs to survive. A person who continuously doesn’t have food to eat or is homeless would be someone others would view as being poor. Someone could be observed as a poor person if he smells bad or has bad hygiene. As far as I’m concerned‚ these all are material poverty. Material poverty is
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Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. - Jonah 1 - The story of the Prophet Jonah is a flaming lesson that illustrates what happens when we put God second. God commanded Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh and cry against the people’s
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What Trust and Respect mean and how it should be earned Respect as defined by the ARMY values is defined as‚ “treat people as they should be treated” I believe that this is true but that there is more to it than that. Respect to me is about doing what is asked of you without back talk or argument‚ talking to someone as they should be talked to i.e. if someone is in a greater position than you treat them as such (stand at parade rest‚ etc.) Respect is a very important quality that we are taught
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