September Post Reading

Post Reading

“When the noose gets tight around somebody’s neck, they’re liable to say anything to save their own skin.”  This quote is very easy to relate to. This happens in everyday life. People lie to help themselves. This is one of the most selfish things a person can do. Sometimes people put others in their situation by lying about them just to save themselves. People in school do this all the time. Like when someone blames someone else for something they did and then that person gets in trouble. Sometimes people do this just to get other people into trouble. Say someone tells a teacher that you stole something of theirs or that you skipped in the lunch line , then you get in trouble and they might get your item or they might get ahead of you in line because they lied. These are the type of selfish things people do.

      This relates to the book as well. In the book when Marcus is caught and arrested Eddy is off getting his scholarship and trying not to get caught and saying things to keep the heat off of him. He let his best friend get in trouble instead of him just because he didn't wanna fess up to it. This is really selfish or him. But it reflects his humanity and how people are in real life. This is just like how people put themselves before others to survive. In a situation of life or death, or in this case, prison or freedom, people will choose themselves over others. They will lie and cheat and maybe even kill to keep themselves out of trouble.

        This also relates to our human nature essays. I said that people are evil, this adds to that fact. There are people who will send people to jail maybe even for life just to keep themselves out of trouble. And it makes it even worse that half of these people lie about people close to them to stay out of the trouble that they put themselves into and in most cases it is no other person's fault that they did this, and the people they lie about half of the time have nothing to do with the situation.

       Another example is corrupt police officers. Officers of the law that plant evidence on people or on crime scenes to justify their warrants and suspicions and end up sending these people to prison. Or people who make false claims about others and get then sent to jail until it is found out that this is untrue.

    This is a very powerful quote that can apply to both real life and the book. I think that everyone can relate to it.

Human Nature Essay

Human Nature Essay

Ever since the dawn of time humans have been born with the ability to be evil but not the ability to be good. There are those who are able to keep their hatred and evil under control. Some people even turn that into good. People like firefighters, police officers and soldiers. People who donate to charity and help eachother out.

There are those who let their evil run loose. According to http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie.html over 150,000 people are in jail for murder. And over 146,000 for assaulting someone. These people are the definition of evil. “Profoundly immoral and malevolent.” This is the definition of evil. And it fits these people. These people throw away their morals and don’t think. They attack people for no reason and end up killing them. There are people I didn’t mention who are locked up like people convicted for robbery, or burglary or even gun smuggling. These people do not care. This is the evil that is in them.

There are those who turn their evil into good. These people are the ones who protect against the evil in the world. For example poverty is one. People who fight against it like the Red Cross, who build houses. Or people who donate to poverty stricken people. The people like Police and Soldiers protect against evil overseas and on the homefront. Police even though some of them are evil, protect the good. They keep the evil from corrupting the good. They stop people from doing something that is evil as well. Soldiers protect people overseas from the evil over there corrupting them.

This is like in The Lord Of The Flies. In the book there is a good power and and evil power. The good being Ralph’s group and the bad being Jack’s group. Ralph tried his best to keep people from going over to the evil and side and joining Jack, but just like in real life he couldn’t stop them. They ended up joining evil out of temptation and lust for survival. They ended up killing people to survive. This is how everyone is. In a  situation of survival people will do anything to survive, steal, and even kill to survive. This also relates to Night. People were killing for food. And even stealing food from their dying relatives and murdering young boys and old men just so that they could survive.

People have always been like this. Trying to do anything to further things. This is the evil we are all born with. There is no denying this. Humans are evil.

Pre-Reading Black and White

Pre-Reading Black And White

I want people to remember me as a good person. I don’t want people to remember me for anything bad like many people will be remembered. I feel like the best way to be remembered is for you to be remembered as someone who made change, and as someone who was an all around good guy. I want to be remembered as the guy who got people off the streets. I want to help homeless people. I think everyone could help them in some way, I want to have everyone help their fellow humans and get them into a financially stable state. I hope that I am actually able to make a change in the way that people regard homeless people. Some people think that they are bums, and that they should just get jobs. Some people base their hate on this idea . But the reality is that it is very hard for these people to get jobs. People deny them work simply because they are homeless. People who send hate towards homeless people are the people who make it harder for them to get out of their situation and into a better more financially stable one. This is why some homeless people are on the streets, it is because the people who think like this make it harder for them to get jobs. Homeless people deserve a chance, they deserve it just like any other human. The only way that we could fix this is by loving our fellow humans and helping each other out. I believe it could happen. Martin Luther King, Jr. was able to reach his goals for equality for the races, it looked as if it was against all odds but he pulled it off. This is how I want to be remembered. I want to be like Mr. King. He alone has inspired me to do this. This will be the fight against poverty, and the only way I can end poverty is by having everyone learn to love each other just like Mr. King did. This would be one of the greatest ways to be remembered. I think it would be great to be remembered as someone who is a role model and an iconic person. I want people to learn about me during history class about how I sparked a movement to fight against poverty. This, is how I would like to be remembered.

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