The Crucible Assignment
The Crucible -- Anticipatory Activity
Pick one of the statements on your anticipation guide. Write a response of two paragraphs or more explaining why you have the belief you do.
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Pick one of the statements on your anticipation guide. Write a response of two paragraphs or more explaining why you have the belief you do.
Remember, only post with your first name and last initial
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That which doesn't destroy us only makes us stronger. This statement is the one that stood out to me. Saying that something that doesn't destroy us will make us stronger, is a motivator. It may help someone become a better person. This statement is really important to me because it helps me get through the hard times.
Now this is not talking about physical but emotional. We never know what life can bring us. But whatever it is, it will make us become better people.
A person is innocent until proven guilty. This is a statement that I believe, because you can't say that someone is guilty just cause you want to. You in reallity would have to find evidence to prove them guilty. This statement would give people to motivation in my opinion to make better choices, because their is always a way to make someone guilty for their doing. So that would make every person innocent until they were proven guilty. This statement is one that just stood out to me that is why I chose it. So if a person is innocent until proven guilty. That would make this statement a true statement.
A person is innocent until proven guilty. This is a statement that I believe, because you can't say that someone is guilty just cause you want to. You in reallity would have to find evidence to prove them guilty. This statement would give people to motivation in my opinion to make better choices, because their is always a way to make someone guilty for their doing. So that would make every person innocent until they were proven guilty. This statement is one that just stood out to me that is why I chose it. So if a person is innocent until proven guilty. That would make this statement a true statement.
It's more difficult to forgive yourself if the person you have hurt doesn't forgive you. This statement really stood out to me, because its true. If you hurt someone to point where they wont forgive you, then how are you suppose to forgive yourself. The guilt of what you have done will never leave. So you'll be thinking about it alll the time unless this person forgives for what you have done. Then when this happens not everthing is ok, but it's better.
It's more difficult to forgive yourself if the peroson you have hurt doesn't forgive you. I believe in this 100% because if you do not mend the bridge that you have burned with someone that you have hurt then they will never be able to forgive. It's not easy for people to forgive themselves if the person they have hurt is not ok because the person who have hurt them didn't ask for forgiveness or didn't try and fix things and make it right. People can not let go easily if the person who did the hurting and cause the persons pain and not apologized for doing wrong to a person for what ever reason they thought was necessary. When people cause damage in someone else's life and is not willing to make it right that person could live their life miserable because they will not be able to forgive themselves because the person who was in pain did not forgive them. The damage you cause wether it be great or small must be fixed because you are responsible for leaving the invisible scars on that person they have hurt.
The difference between right and wrong is clear. Everyone should know the difference between right and wrong once the hit high school. I know I do. Even when I make bad choices I think about it first and still do them anyway. The reason for that is because half the time I already know what will happen.
So thats why I am strongly into that. If you don't know the difference by high school. Then something is really wrong with you. This kinda goes back to my paper for the I.R.P. how everyone commits a sin. lol
The difference between right and wrong can be clear, but most of the time it is not clear. This is because doing what's right and what's right for you or a friend can be two different things. For example, if someone stole a couple of dollars from you and you tell then you'll become known as a snitch. But if you don't, then you let some person take something that isn't theirs.
Another thing that is hard to decide is if you should tell or not on your friend if friend is a cutter. If you tell someone, then you are destroying a friendship and they won't talk to you again. But if you tell then you could save their life, so what do you do?
Do you save a life and hurt a close friend, or do you not tell anyone amd cost your friend their life? This is one of the reasons why I believe that the difference between right and wrong is not always clear.
It is better to die for what you believe in rather than to lie to save your life. I would rather die for what I believed in rather than to lie about my beliefs to continue living. If someone asked if I believed in the same thing that they did and I didn’t, I would let them know. I would do the same even in a threatening situation. Too many people become cowardice just to live another day, but how could someone lie about their beliefs and live with their decision after that? My conscience would never give me peace.
Telling someone you believe something that you don’t really believe in is wrong because you shouldn’t compromise your beliefs to please someone else. Fabricating lies to get out of a situation takes no bravery. Standing up for how you truly feel, even if it does cost you your life, takes true courage, even if you are scared out of your wits.
That which doesn't destroy us makes us stronger. I have mixed feelings about this statement. Many things do not destroy us. Many things do not change us, and some make us weaker as opposed to gaining strength. Making what stronger is not defined in this statement. Whether it's dealing with a situation that strengthens our mind or our actual physical strength. A mind can be destroyed before a body.
For example. A person can be part of a horrible car accident, and be physically disabled and in a wheel chair for the rest of their life. Mentally they may be stronger, and have a different, and possibly more positive outlook on life. But physically they would be weaker, handicapped in a wheel chair and not having the ability to walk.
This statement can be both true and false. Depending on the how the words stronger and destroyed are used.
That which doesn't destroy us only makes us stronger. I agree with this statement because i believe that it is true. When i read this statement, it reminded me of how we learn from our mistakes. By making a mistake, we can learn from it and avoid repeating it. If something doesn't destroy us, then we can learn from it. By learning from it we can avoid it.
But we can't always avoid it, even if we learned something from it. I guess you could say fear could be an example for this statement. Fear can keep us from doing many things. By facing our fear, we are taking a chance. That chance can help us overcome that fear, making us stronger. We all struggle through life, the farther we get the stronger we become.
That which does not destroy us only makes us stronger, this statement stuck out in my head significanly. I've had many experience which apply to this statment, such as taking honors classes my freshman year.I thought that it would hurt me so bad,but really it only prepared me for this year.
Another reason why this topic stood out in my mind was because, in my opinion, it is so true. In the cases of many people, such as police in training or soldiers. I hear a tactic that they use is to break the trainees down to there weakest poin in which they are about to break. This tactic does not kill them it only helps and prepares them. So it doesn't kill them but only makes them better
The difference between right and wrong is somtimes clear but not all the time. Some people say that they know the difference very clearly ,but if put in a situation they would 80% of time not know the answer and panic. For example what if a freind commited a crime and you know about it what would you do? Your choices are either to tell the police and your freind would be punished or you keep it a secret and if he/she got caught then you would be considered an acomplis and punished too. What would you choose your freindship or doing the right thing?
The difference between right and wrong being clear is debatable. The answer may differ between person to person which proves that no one really knows if it is clear or not.
That which doesn't destroy us only makes us stronger. I believe this with all my heart. I have had some pretty hard things i've had to deal with and it did nothing but make me stronger.
I believe that people should not have regrets because it probably made them stronger in the end. If your going through something hard and it doesn't hurt you, im sure it helped you.
It is more difficult to forgive yourself if the person you have hurt doesn't forgive you. I believe this statement is true because when you hurt someone you care about, either unknowingly or intentionally, it hurts both parties. Once you realize you've hurt them, you feel like crap and all you want them to do is forgive you.
You want to make things right with them, but sometimes it's too late. If you hurt them bad enough, they may never forgive you. If they don't forgive you, no matter how hard you try, you beat yourself up about it untill they do forgive you. This statement means alot to me because I know I've hurt people that I really care about and I still can't forgive myself for it. I keep blaming myself, because one certain person won't listen to me when I say I'm sorry. It really hurts, but you just have to deal with it sometimes.
I agree with Kirstin completely. She really spoke from the heart, and everything she said was completely true. Good job Kirstin!!
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I strongly belive in "It is better to die for what you belive in rather to lie to save your life." This really stood out to me because people these days lie too much. They dont stand up for what they truly belive in, but they just go ahead and lie or agree to something that their actually against.
People should stand up for what they belive in. Even though they might be standing alone, they should still fight for it. Even though it may cost them their life. I'd rather die for what i belive in instead of just lie to save my life! I dont want to live my life a lie, just cause it was going to save my life.
A person is innocent until proven guilty. I believe this because if it wasnt true then doesnt that make everyone guilty? I mean if you dont have to prove it then you could just be like well i think that it was rachel r so therefore it must have been her, and any other suspect in a case is guilty like if they find a foot print of a shoe and notice that the neighbor has that same shoe they are going to arrest him? no they have to make sure that the shoe size matches and they have to have more evidence because the nighbor could have just went to borrow some sugar earlier that day.
The statement.. That which doesnt destroy us only makes us better, is so true. If you go through something and you come out not on top but your alive and your a better person thats betetr than
going through something and letting it take over your life and destroy it. I believe that I were to go through something that I couldn't handle the way I would get passed it is by thinking to myself 24/7 this is only goign to make me a better and stronger person because I knoe its not going to kill me at all. Only you can determine hoe your going to comeout of something. If you think from day one oh I cant do this then your not going to be able to survive cause everytime something bad happens your going to say that and give up everytime !
I didn't know if we could write about more than one thing but I am going to anyways. lol Its harder to forgive yourself if the person you hurt hasnt forgave you yet. I mean you can forgive yourself but your not going to let it go until that person you hurt forgives you all the way. Like me and my other lol have been going through alot and on homecoming I lied to get away fron her and go party with me friends, She found out about that and now i feel horrible. I wish I could take it all back but I cant and she hasnt forgave me yet so now Im feeling horrible and making myself feel even worst cause she hasnt forgave me and Im ready to put it all in the past cause I know it really hurt her and now i have to wait until she forgives me so i can forgive myself. lol
That which doesn't destroy us makes us stronger is the statment that struck a cord for me. That statement is to true. Every struggle that we go through either makes us or breaks us ; we break under the pressure or the strain and stand through it b=ecoming a better person than what we had been before. Things that happen in your life define you. The instances where you're pushed to the brink and forced to see what you can and can't do is when you're true character becomes apparent. In my case it's extremly fitting because of all that i've ben through with my ilness, it was life threating, and as dramtic as it sounds, i could have died from it. But here I am today, better, stronger, and more alive than before. My situation didn't kill me ; it made me stronger
"The difference between right and wrong is clear."
The difference between wrong and right isnt always clear. If what you believe in helps you find your way, there are many sins that can lead you off course. With me being a Christian, i believe that satan can make the wrong way look so good that you pick it. The wrong choice just looks so good that its hard to say no.
Even if you dont have a religion that influences the choices you make, there is always selfish greed. we want and we want, and we stop wanting when we have enouph, and we never have enouph. its just human nature. We cant fight. were selfish, greed human beings, we want what we dont have, we look over things we do have.
Ariel, ive known her for a long time, and what she has said has summed up her whole life. we met in 6ht grade, and we became best friends. 6th grade was a horrible year for her, and i hope i made it better for her. Middle school was tough on her, and many others. I truly believe, from the botton of my heart, that if it wasnt for those obsticles, then she would not be the person she was today. That which doesn't destroy us only makes us stronger. that is a very powerful statement.
kaylee p,
just know that i love you and that YOU are the reason why im alive today.
:)
"It's more difficult to forgive yourself if the person you have hurt doesn't forgive you." I believe this statement is true because of, basically, guilt. Guilt can do the craziest things to us, and it drives a person even more crazy if the person that they hurt doesn't forgive you, because then the guilt just builds up. If you were to put yourself in the shoes of the person you hurt, then you would probably understand why they can't just turn the other cheek and forgive.
But I also don't understand what a person would possibly do to hurt someone so bad that they can't forgive someone. I'm talking about never ever ever ever ever ever forgiving them. Not like a two week period thangalang. I can't say that I've experienced this because there was a time when both myself, and the other person hurt each other A LOT. But strangely enough, we forgave each other without saying anything. One day we just started talking like we were friends again and it was really awkward cause the grudge between us lasted for about 2 or 3 years. But sometimes we can't always get lucky like that and expect for everything to be dandy again. It just teaches you to watch what you say, and your actions. Because the littlest thing can cause a big commotion.
"That which doesn't destroy us only makes us stronger." I strongly believe in this statement. Because i believe that fear is the biggest destroyer, and once you conquer your fears it makes you a stronger person. I also believe that once you have gotten through something hard in your life and you're still standing strong, it makes you a stronger person as a whole. Telling myself this statement over and over in my head boosts my self-confidence and helps me get through things I think I could never get through.
" The diffrence between right and wrong is clear"
In my opinion this is not true.Knowing whats right and whats wrong depends on the person. Somtimes doing the wrong thing might be bad for some people. But on the other hand might be right thing to do for others. The diffrence depends on the persons perspective.
For example, what if you see a vary poor family. You feel bad for this and you want to help. But you don't have enough money to help. But you come up with a good idea, and steal money from a rich person, and give it to the poor family.To the poor family you have done the wrong thing,but to the poor family you have done the right thing.
I Very much agree with Kristen S' comment on "a person is innocent until proven guilty." She has a very strong point in her statement. It's true when she said " if that wasn't true then doesn't that make everyone guilty?" Because when you blame something on someone else and they are acredited for it, that's just making you look good... especially when you were the one who did it. I believe that you should have to prove everything ans everyone who is put to blame because usually the person who is putting the blame on someone else is the one who did it. She had a very strong poing. Good job :)
I agree with kelsie g. When i was little i used to be scared of the dark. I used to sleep with the bathroom light on. But one time i needed to get my soccer ball from my basement, but the basement was so dark. If fear is the biggest destoryer, I became a stronger kid by conquring my fears. I no longer had to sleep with the bathroom light on.:)
who ever reads this is dumb
It is more difficult to forgive yourself if the person you have hurt doesn't forgive you. For me this statement is completely true. When you do something wrong to a friend and they cant forgive you for it it could totally ruin a friendship. Like, if you lied to your friend about something that may not seem so important to you but is to them and they dont forgive you, inside you will always feel the tenision between you two. Your conscious will always bother you because you will know that the whole situation could have been avoided if you would have just told them the truth.
I agree with Rachel T. because what may break us down for a time will make us stronger in the end. When you make a mistake you learn from it and dont make it again but for the time being it will hurt inside.
A person is innocent until proven guilty. I think this is the statement that i would most go by, and that its the one that really stood out to me. When you say that someone is guilty without knowing if they truely are, that could really hurt that person, and give them a bad reputation instantly. If you are considered innocent until proven guilty, then that at least gives the person more respect, since you arent saying they are truely guilty yet. If you claim they are guilty as soon as it happens, and it turns out there not, it could bring a bad reputation upon you, since you were so quick to jump to conclusions. Another thing, when you instantly incriminate someone, that could really mess up how they are treated, and it could cause them alot of emotional and physical pain.
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